re: Do college softball players do any conditioning at all?

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Don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is 100% truth. For years I've heard the argument that hitting a MLB pitcher is the hardest thing in sports and they cite batting average, which is dumb. The overwhelming majority of at bats have contact with the ball at least once. The difficult part is hitting the ball where there isn't a defender close enough to make a play. The rules of the game (number of defenders on the field) is what drives the lack of success in getting a "hit", not inability to make contact with the ball.

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Ive seen people who never held a bat in their hand reach pitches 70-80 mph in their first session.

I loved Pros versus Joes where they always claimed that hitting the ball is the toughest thing to do (and then none of the contestants failed to hit the ball... lol)

MLB players have an 80% success rate making contact with the pitch.
The very best pitchers in all of baseball have a whiff rate of 25% (75% success making contact from the hitter).

Baseball has the best journalists who like to tell yarns about the good ol days and provide anecdotes without any evidence. Lol. And the sheeple adopt and repeat it without understanding what a batting average even means.