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Here's why college athletics is a "Big 2" endeavor

Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:42 pm
Posted by KCM0Tiger
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:42 pm
Football:
HS -> CFB -> NFL
Best players go CFB into NFL

Basketball:

HS -> CBB -> G-League/NBA
Best players go NCAA into NBA (G-League at worst)

Baseball:
HS -> Low-A/High A - College Baseball -> AA/AAA/MLB
Best players skip college to AA-ball or better

College baseball is great! But there's too many levels of baseball to consider it a major college sport.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
129991 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:43 pm to
Aluminum bat baseball csn never be considered major
Posted by KCM0Tiger
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2011
16257 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 7:45 pm to
quote:

Aluminum bat baseball csn never be considered major


Also a fair point
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
35223 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:03 pm to
I enjoy the timing of your post.
Posted by LsuTool
Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:04 pm to


Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:05 pm to
You’ll be shocked when you see how few HS players go directly pro. Also, many of the drafted don’t sign and come to college.

SEC Baseball > Single A Baseball

This is a bad post.
Posted by BigBro
Member since Jul 2021
17278 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:06 pm to
they are gonna win some games if they keep hanging around like they are with y’all right now.. I expected them to be worse
Posted by MtVernon
Member since Jul 2024
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Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:13 pm to
Tired of yankee Mizzou posters shitting on baseball.
Posted by psk_Vol
Nashville
Member since Jan 2012
4397 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:20 pm to
But college baseball is the place where Mizzou 2nd basemen can go on to become national championship winning head coaches at other SEC schools. It's a great sport
Posted by Che Boludo
Member since May 2009
20279 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:22 pm to
quote:

Here's why college athletics is a "Big 2" endeavor

Don't kid yourself. It's a Big 1 + 3 for the SEC (MENS shooty hoops, baseball and softball)

That said, if you like your school and like competitive sports, nothing wrong about cheering anything on from adaptive athletics to equestrian.

Healthy competition is good for the soul in all forms
Posted by psk_Vol
Nashville
Member since Jan 2012
4397 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:23 pm to
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Tired of yankee Mizzou posters shitting on baseball

I'd shite on baseball too if my program let the current best coach in the sport that graduated from Mizzou baseball/coached there as an assistant become an icon somewhere else in conference.
This post was edited on 3/15/25 at 8:35 pm
Posted by Freight Joker
Member since Aug 2019
3295 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:28 pm to
Am I high or are you insinuating baseball players have to go to Low A/High A before they can go to college?
Posted by KCM0Tiger
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2011
16257 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:30 pm to
You are high.
Posted by Freight Joker
Member since Aug 2019
3295 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:31 pm to
Either way. Post is retarded.
Posted by YankeeHandle
St. Louis
Member since Nov 2014
1615 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:33 pm to
quote:

College baseball is great! But there's too many levels of baseball to consider it a major college sport.


It could improve in the very near future because they are changing the scholarship numbers from 11.7 full scholarships to 34. With that and NIL I would expect college ball to pull in a lot more talent. At least at the D1 level. My hope is Mizzou starts ramping up support for the program now that there won't be all the scholarship shenanigans created by the 11.7 limit.
Posted by shinerfan
Duckworld(Earth-616)
Member since Sep 2009
25444 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 8:34 pm to
quote:

That said, if you like your school and like competitive sports, nothing wrong about cheering anything on from adaptive athletics to equestrian.



Some people need a really good reason for beer and bbq. I'm not one of those people. Tigers are on? frick yeah, call up the boys I'll ice down the beer.
Posted by WoodyOrnamental
Member since Sep 2021
1360 posts
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:05 pm to
This.
Posted by swinetime
Member since Apr 2013
5247 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 6:53 am to
To sum up Missouri sucks at baseball.

So they pretend not to try because their team is so awful it would be more embarrassing if someone found out they WERE trying.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
35223 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:05 am to
quote:

To sum up Missouri sucks at baseball. So they pretend not to try because their team is so awful it would be more embarrassing if someone found out they WERE trying


Exactly. Except for the fact that Missouri cares, but is their three posters with 7 profiles, each, that are telling the rant it is not relevant.

Oh, and the fact that happened riiiiight after they lost a sec series.

Their fans are fine. It’s the short fellas, in the secR…..they can’t reach those grapes and are actually telegraphing that it bothers them.


So predictable like clockwork.
Posted by UltimateHog
Oregon
Member since Dec 2011
67576 posts
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:10 am to
This used to be more accurate 10 years ago or so, but has shifted a lot in the last few years with college players being drafted higher and getting to the MLB a lot faster.
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