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re: How can you even make the case that college baseball is part of a "Big 3"?
Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:45 am to Monticello
Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:45 am to Monticello
nobody should GAF about baseball
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Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:46 am to Monticello
Honestly, Women's Hoops might be more widely followed than College Baseball.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:50 am to socraticsilence
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Honestly, Women's Hoops might be more widely followed than College Baseball.
Nope. College baseball is the third-most watched college sport, almost twice as much as the next-most watched, college hockey.
And it's a steep drop off after hockey.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:50 am to TigersOfGeauxld
the steep drop off actually happens after mens basketball
Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:54 am to AUCE05
College Baseball is the South and West's equivalent of College Hockey-- a regional sport with a passionate but ultimately minuscule following-- College Hockey is huge in the NE and Great Plains but no one cares in the South or West Coast-- College Baseball is viewed the exact same way for the same reason-- weather, if you can't stat your Baseball practice until April it's hard to compete, similarly if no one can afford to play hockey and your campus doesn't have a rink you're not going to care.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:08 pm to Manzielathon
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the steep drop off actually happens after mens basketball
Overall, yes. Basketball is generally played in bigger arenas than most baseball stadiums are. But there's several schools like LSU where baseball attendance is far ahead of basketball attendance.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:09 pm to Monticello
It's an LSU website?
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:09 pm to socraticsilence
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if you can't stat your Baseball practice until April it's hard to compete
Which is why many northern schools start their baseball season with a lot of road games in the south or west.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:14 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Which again is dumb if you want the sport to actually become popular and more than a regional concern-- Start the college baseball season in early April (right after March Madness) and finish it in Late August (right before College football) and way more people would care, especially if you banned metal bats entirely.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:16 pm to socraticsilence
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Which again is dumb if you want the sport to actually become popular and more than a regional concern-- Start the college baseball season in early April (right after March Madness) and finish it in Late August (right before College football) and way more people would care, especially if you banned metal bats entirely.
Which was what was proposed and shot down by the southern schools, as I said earlier. It really should be that way.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:17 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Nope. College baseball is the third-most watched college sport, almost twice as much as the next-most watched, college hockey.
whats the total attendance for NCAA baseball, just curious where you came up with your statment
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:18 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
I haven't been to Omaha, but isn't it being over Fathers Day one of the traditions of the CWS?
Eta: Also playing till mid August would give the players no summer break.
Eta: Also playing till mid August would give the players no summer break.
This post was edited on 4/8/14 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:20 pm to Monticello
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Consider nights like tonight. There truly is no way to compare the NCAA basketball tournament or the CFB playoff to any game of college baseball at any time. There is no Big 3, only a Big 2. And this is coming from a fan of a top 10 college baseball team.
I agree with you.
I think football, and basketball are way ahead of baseball. Think about the North, they looove basketball.
But I do love College Baseball especially at the SEC Mississippi ball parks.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:25 pm to NYCAuburn
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whats the total attendance for NCAA baseball, just curious where you came up with your statment
I just googled college sports by attendance. It actually came up in that old thread about when LSU baseball went over 400K attendance for the first time...something only Louisville, UK, and Syracuse have done in college basketball. LSU baseball has eclipsed 400K twice now, and look set to do it again this year.
We're not far from the time LSU baseball will eclipse 500k, something never done in either college sport, baseball or basketball. Total attendance was 476K last year...
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:26 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:29 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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I just googled college sports by attendance
so you made up the twice as watched number based upon LSU attendance?
Div 1 hockey brings in about 4-5 million a year in attendance
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:32 pm to NYCAuburn
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so you made up the twice as watched number based upon LSU attendance?
Didn't make up anything. Was just noting that's how the subject got brought up.
The most watched college hockey teams were Minnesota and North Dakota. Each had a total attendance of around 250K IIRC. And it was a pretty good drop after those two.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:33 pm to NYCAuburn
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so you made up the twice as watched number based upon LSU attendance?
He thinks it is a valid comparison to the 15 or so home games in basketball to the 45 or so home LSU baseball games.
Take the final four for example, over 80k showed up to watch each of the 3 games.
80K are not going to show up to watch the CWS final game...
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:36 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
That's kinda the point I saw too. I doubt New Hampshire cares one bit if Hockey is big 2, big 3 or whatever. I don't care about national pecking order...it's big here, real big.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:37 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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The most watched college hockey teams were Minnesota and North Dakota. Each had a total attendance of around 250K IIRC. And it was a pretty good drop after those two.
This was not your original statement.
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