College baseball should switch to wood bats

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Make the game more like traditional baseball.

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Have you not been watching the majors? The homeruns are on the rise in MLB also. They have adjusted the balls, and made more rules to make it more interesting. Traditional baseball is a thing of the past. Less fans pay to watch 2-1 games, than they would a 10-12 game. Even the way they teach hitting now is different than the way they taught how to hit 20 years ago. It’s all about dropping the bat head and lifting the ball. They don’t teach “level” swings and back elbow up as much.

Wooden bats would be too expensive for many programs that are already losing money. Just too many at bats for each bat, over the course of the preseason, season, & summer leagues.

Gusty performance by coil that inning

BS. Players at rec and highschool levels still teach their players to sit on their hack foot and line drive the ball straight down the field not just get under it.

High homerun numbers in the majors were a product of steroids not technique change taught imo.

College won't go to wooden bats because college players aren't good enough to put up exciting numbers that way.

Offense sells tickets, but defense wins big games.

Both football and baseball are definitely evolving though to put up better offense play because people have low attention spans nowadays with social media and all. But it's being done with ruke changes.

Like look at the QB numbers JD at LSU put up last year....does anyone actually believe he's that good? I don't and i think he will be merely average in the pros. He wouldn't put up anywhere near those numbers back in the days when teams were allowed to play real defense again.

Look what that watered down Bama defense did to him physically lol. Imagine him against a real prime Saban defense. I expect to see many more JDs in the near future though. Monster stats by average talents in the right system. This phenomenon first started to happen in the 90s and early 20,00s with sone hawaii QBs abd that goofy Oklahoma QB gor example who Florida feasted on the national championship game. System QBs whose numbers far exceed their actual abilities. Am not saying JD is trash by any means, but i don't think anyone here with a brain would choose him over someone like Cam or Tebow to lead their team for example or even Manzeil for that matter considering what he did to much better and harder hitting, less rule burdened Bama defenses than the one that nearly broke JD in half this year.


These newer generations get bored much easier than we do so everything including movies even have been adjusted to keep up with the market.

Are wood bats really that much more expensive then todays aluminum bats and it’s not like the wood bat companies wouldn’t cut teams a deal like they do with aluminum

Yep, it's basically softball, which is why most hits are home runs.