re: Changes to baseball for 2021

The solution is pretty simple imo, and I’ve been screaming this to anyone who will listen for years. You can’t mess with women’s sports, the scholarships have to be subtracted from a men’s sport.

Here is what you do, you take 10 full scholarships from footballs total of 85, and add them to baseball so you would have:

(75) football scholarships
(21.7) baseball scholarships

I think this would be beneficial to both sports, and put the number if scholarships where they should be for each respective sport.

The benefits on the baseball side of thing are self explanatory.

On the football side of things, P5 programs could easily make 75 scholarships work, and it would raise the level of play across the board at the P5 level, and ever so slightly close the gap between traditional blue bloods and up and coming P5 schools.

I think it would cause teams to be more selective with who they sign, and also spread the wealth across the SEC. Every year there would be a handful of guys that would’ve normally signed with the Bama and LSU’s of the world, but instead ended up signing on with a MSU, Mizzou, Arkansas type program. Because some blue chips are falling to these programs, that means the lower end guys that MSU type school would’ve signed with 85, now would not have room. There would be a trickle down of talent, from the Bama’s of the world all the way down to the UAB’s of the world.

This easy fix would raise the level of play across the board in both sports, on multiple levels of play. Win-win for everybody but Saban, imo. No longer could he sign and stash high 4 star prospects in the dark corners of the Bama depth chart. Trickle down starts there.

I cant friggin wait for next year. It very well could be the most spectacular season of college baseball ever.

Also, Coach Mingione will eother put up or shut up. Kentucky will get back on track or get a new coach. I suspect the latter.