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re: Can college baseball ever pass women's college basketball one day?
Posted on 2/19/24 at 12:24 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Posted on 2/19/24 at 12:24 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
College baseball is huge in the SEC and south/southeast in general and thats all the really matters to us.
The biggest issue facing college baseball nationally is simply the time it starts is way beyond any northern fans interest because their teams arent even playing at home generally speaking until sometime in March. They have to go weeks traveling out west and to southern locations just to play games. Hard to be a fan of a team when they cant even play at home for a month of the season to start every single season. As a by-product of that hardly any northern schools invest any money in college baseball, because why would you when you cant even get people to come to games for the first month of the season.
Of the Top 25 teams in NCAA tournament baseball appearances all time, only 2 of them come from northern teams. St. Johns who hasnt been to the NCAAT since after 2018 now. Minnesota who has only been to the NCAAT twice the last 12 years. So both those programs are relatively dead now on the national scene from the north. Michigan, UConn and maybe Notre Dame have more recent success getting in the NCAAT, but historically are pretty low on the totem pole for NCAA baseball still.
The biggest issue facing college baseball nationally is simply the time it starts is way beyond any northern fans interest because their teams arent even playing at home generally speaking until sometime in March. They have to go weeks traveling out west and to southern locations just to play games. Hard to be a fan of a team when they cant even play at home for a month of the season to start every single season. As a by-product of that hardly any northern schools invest any money in college baseball, because why would you when you cant even get people to come to games for the first month of the season.
Of the Top 25 teams in NCAA tournament baseball appearances all time, only 2 of them come from northern teams. St. Johns who hasnt been to the NCAAT since after 2018 now. Minnesota who has only been to the NCAAT twice the last 12 years. So both those programs are relatively dead now on the national scene from the north. Michigan, UConn and maybe Notre Dame have more recent success getting in the NCAAT, but historically are pretty low on the totem pole for NCAA baseball still.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 12:29 pm
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Posted on 2/19/24 at 2:05 pm to thunderbird1100
"College baseball is huge in northern Louisiana and Mississippi and metro Knoxville in general and thats all the really matters to us who live in northern Louisiana or Mississippi or metro Knoxville."
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