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re: A chart illustrating just how unpopular College Baseball is
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:25 am to DaleDenton
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:25 am to DaleDenton
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Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in America.
Rugby > Lacrosse
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Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:27 am to constant cough
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Rugby > Lacrosse
Both are > baseball
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:29 am to TreyAnastasio
quote:Proving what? As usual, you made no point. You just talk out of your arse and then try to hide behind vague, trite responses.
And you keep proving it.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:30 am to abellsujr
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As a waterboy?
Broadcasting
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:30 am to gohogs141
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So you just don't like minor league baseball either.
I don't like minor league ball because i don't have any connections to it and the way they brand themselves is just really cheesy, but it's different rooting on the school you grew up with/your alma mater IMO
I worked for a minor league team in college and enjoyed it
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:32 am to abellsujr
I think the MLB missed the boat a little with college baseball.
NFL and CF have a pretty close relationship. If your a star in CF then you are already well known to all of the NFL crowd. Look at JFF and Cleveland. I have friends that are now browns fans, while also being fans of Texans/COwboys. It happens everywhere.
If Alabama baseball had a star like Mike Trout as an alum I would follow his career more. Especially if he led us to Omaha/national championship. MLB should have catered to that more. Instead they tell kids to skip college to play baseball year round. Maybe the NCAA has rules on year round baseball.
I think it is changing a lil bit tho. More college baseball on ESPN(MLB partner) allows more exposure to the game.
NFL and CF have a pretty close relationship. If your a star in CF then you are already well known to all of the NFL crowd. Look at JFF and Cleveland. I have friends that are now browns fans, while also being fans of Texans/COwboys. It happens everywhere.
If Alabama baseball had a star like Mike Trout as an alum I would follow his career more. Especially if he led us to Omaha/national championship. MLB should have catered to that more. Instead they tell kids to skip college to play baseball year round. Maybe the NCAA has rules on year round baseball.
I think it is changing a lil bit tho. More college baseball on ESPN(MLB partner) allows more exposure to the game.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:39 am to goldennugget
Yeah i mean i worked for Central Arkansas athletics the past few years and the southland championship game was more exciting to me than any Arkansas Travelers game I've been to. Knowing that as a small school, you're one game away from only your 2nd NCAAT appearance in school history was pretty cool. And that's a small time conference. There wasn't anything exciting to me about winning the Texas league first half or something...
I would much rather work for Arkansas than i would the huntsville backwoods mud rats filled with a bunch of random players. With college you know where the players come from and a lot of them are in-state and grew up rooting for the team.
It was cool getting to see Mike Trout play though
I would much rather work for Arkansas than i would the huntsville backwoods mud rats filled with a bunch of random players. With college you know where the players come from and a lot of them are in-state and grew up rooting for the team.
It was cool getting to see Mike Trout play though
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:45 am to goldennugget
Twice as many people watched the selection show as ND/Bama national title game?
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:46 am to goldennugget
quote:Good for you. You would think a broadcaster would have better things to do than come on a board filled with college baseball fans and act like an arse right before the CWS. College baseball loses money. So do a lot of college sports. If someone enjoys a sport that is not as popular, who gives a shite. Why do you care so much anyway? Why would a "broadcaster" give a damn what the ratings are in an unpopular sport? Unless he's a loser who is mad about his team not making it to the CWS and he wants to come on this board and try to rustle some jimmies. My bet, this is what it is. Once again you make a worthless thread. You should stick to "broadcasting". Although you probably suck at that, too. Which is why you got fired from TCU.
Broadcasting
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:52 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
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I think most people would admit that the reason they like it is that their team is good at it + baseball is extremely popular in the south. It's not an extremely exciting product especially with the dead bats.
It is sort of like college hockey I guess.
Great post.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:53 am to RandySavage
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Twice as many people watched the selection show as ND/Bama national title game?
Everyone knew that ND would get killed.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:02 pm to Pettifogger
There is to me, ONE, set-in-stone, hard fact why nationally, no one cares about college baseball like college football or basketball: THE BEST PLAYERS DON'T PLAY COLLEGE BASEBALL.
It's a fact. Why does everyone here (and NFL analysts), still fap to that 2011 Alabama-LSU football series? Because there was some obscene number of future NFL players on the field that day.
Without a doubt, Major League Baseball is the pinnacle of baseball on the planet. And every year, dozens of our nation, and the world's best talent, forgo going to college to start in the minors.
What if that translated to college football (hypothetically speaking, there was a minor league system in place)? Julio Jones? Sorry, Alabama. Leonard Fournette? Wouldn't even have to worry about that Junior year exodus, because he ain't coming.
College baseball is devoid of the highest talent of that age group. While there are CLEARLY awesome players still playing it, the Strausburg's, Harper's, Trout's, and Freeman's of the world aren't playing major college baseball. Without that guaranteed "we're watching the future stars" element, it will never be popular on a large scale.
It's a fact. Why does everyone here (and NFL analysts), still fap to that 2011 Alabama-LSU football series? Because there was some obscene number of future NFL players on the field that day.
Without a doubt, Major League Baseball is the pinnacle of baseball on the planet. And every year, dozens of our nation, and the world's best talent, forgo going to college to start in the minors.
What if that translated to college football (hypothetically speaking, there was a minor league system in place)? Julio Jones? Sorry, Alabama. Leonard Fournette? Wouldn't even have to worry about that Junior year exodus, because he ain't coming.
College baseball is devoid of the highest talent of that age group. While there are CLEARLY awesome players still playing it, the Strausburg's, Harper's, Trout's, and Freeman's of the world aren't playing major college baseball. Without that guaranteed "we're watching the future stars" element, it will never be popular on a large scale.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:06 pm to RandySavage
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Twice as many people watched the selection show as ND/Bama national title game?
Monday Nights on Cable don't do nearly as well as Sundays on Network TV.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:07 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
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Proving what? As usual, you made no point. You just talk out of your arse and then try to hide behind vague, trite responses.
No one likes baseball
Thats you, thats what you sound like
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:08 pm to abellsujr
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Good for you. You would think a broadcaster would have better things to do than come on a board filled with college baseball fans and act like an arse right before the CWS. College baseball loses money. So do a lot of college sports. If someone enjoys a sport that is not as popular, who gives a shite. Why do you care so much anyway? Why would a "broadcaster" give a damn what the ratings are in an unpopular sport? Unless he's a loser who is mad about his team not making it to the CWS and he wants to come on this board and try to rustle some jimmies. My bet, this is what it is. Once again you make a worthless thread. You should stick to "broadcasting". Although you probably suck at that, too. Which is why you got fired from TCU.
1. I am not a play by play broadcaster, I am in the broadcasting industry and for TCU athletics I was a producer.
2. My school is in the CWS and I could still care less
3. I didn't get fired from TCU. I relocated to Iowa because I got hired for a better television job up here with better pay.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:10 pm to VermilionTiger
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You're using quite possibly the worst year to make your case.
Look up 2009's rating
... and 2010 and 2011.
And doing it regionally because the Southeast and West Coast are both pretty college baseball crazy.
The big population bases in the Midwest and Northeast could care less about college baseball and it shows in their results on the field as well as their viewing habits.
College baseball is gaining ground in popularity, it's going to take some time. I remember as a kid you never saw college baseball on TV. But there were few college football or basketball games on either - not network telecasts. In the late sixties you started seeing local broadcasts, around here, of ACC basketball games. And I distinctively remember the very first college baseball game I can ever remember seeing broadcast around here, well, I didn't actually see it because I was a grown man by that time at the game but I know it was broadcast by a local station who covered it and that was the '75 CWS championship game SCAR vs Texas.
With more TV coverage the sport will grow in popularity over time. In baseball crazy states like SC, LA, TX and even California it is already very popular to watch on TV and ESPN knows it.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:11 pm to goldennugget
I take Bama softball more seriously than i do Bama baseball if that tells you anything.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:11 pm to goldennugget
quote:Nope.
1. I am not a play by play broadcaster, I am in the broadcasting industry and for TCU athletics I was a producer.
quote:Whats your school?
2. My school is in the CWS and I could still care less
quote:And Nope.
3. I didn't get fired from TCU. I relocated to Iowa because I got hired for a better television job up here with better pay.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:11 pm to scrooster
College baseball will never be any more popular than it is now. Its a dying sport in general.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 12:11 pm to ATLabama
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College baseball is devoid of the highest talent of that age group. While there are CLEARLY awesome players still playing it, the Strausburg's, Harper's, Trout's, and Freeman's of the world aren't playing major college baseball.
Strausburg and Harper both played college baseball.
I got to see guys like Craig Gentry, Cliff Lee, Drew Smyly and Dallas Keuchel before anyone even knew who they were
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