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In, not sure I want to be though. We'll see where the op takes it from here.

I am confused why OP seems to have Univ of Missouri items in the post when the series seem to list MLB teams?

I was being facetious

I read a good piece by Gabe of powermizzou about Mizzou baseball and I feel like it is spot on if you SEC folk were curious why Mizzou sucks at baseball. Below is part of the piece. I personally do not follow college ball at all but it has never really even ever been mentioned growing up in the KC area. It was Royals or Cardinals or nothing.

The Royals are looking good so far. Too early in the season to be to sure but there is a lot of hype starting to build in KC.

"When Mizzou moved to the SEC, everyone focused on how tough the move would be for football. That's certainly understandable. But I said at the time if Mizzou football was jumping into the deep end of the pool, Mizzou baseball was stepping off a cliff. Kentucky, Mizzou and Alabama are the only SEC teams not to have been to the College World Series since 2000 (Bama last went in 1999, Mizzou in 1964 and Kentucky never).

There are a multitude of reasons (recruiting base, geography, weather, history, etc) it's tough for Missouri in this league. But the main reason is very simple: Everyone else cares more.

This isn't an insult to the fans. Part of it is fans, sure, but I'm not trying to take shots at anyone. College baseball simply isn't a thing that is important at Mizzou.

Football obviously runs the show at every SEC school. But the key is, what's second? I'd argue at at least half the schools in the conference, it's baseball. Here are the schools I think care more about baseball than men's hoops: South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, LSU, Georgia, Vanderbilt. I think it's debatable at Florida, Auburn and maybe even Alabama. You look around the league and there are a lot of media corps covering every game, tweeting updates every inning. That's the expectation at most of the schools in the SEC. It just isn't and never really has been here.

I went back and looked at the 2007 Super Regional against Louisville. Missouri's three-game attendance for that series was 9459. That included two sellouts of 3630 and then a game three crowd of 2199 because it was played on a weekday afternoon if memory serves. So that was pretty good. It was as packed as Taylor Stadium has ever been. Ole Miss vs Mississippi State drew 10,500 fans on Sunday. For a regular season game in Starkville. I'm not blaming the fans. I'm not saying if more people showed up it would make the program better. But it's an illustration that it's just not a thing that's important to Mizzou fans. Baseball has a pocket of fans. Those that care really care. It's just not all that many, especially when you compare it to other teams in the league.

The buy in from the administration has never really been there either (getting the field turfed, which was something Steve Bieser wanted when he took the job, was a multi-year project, even though it could have been covered by pretty much any of the seven-figure checks that have come in for the new football facility this year alone). And I'm not blaming the administration either. Why spend more money and resources on something that your fans have told you they largely don't care that much about?

It's a tough deal. You can't win without spending money, but it doesn't make much sense to spend money when you aren't winning and probably aren't going to win. For now, if you can avoid negative headlines, be somewhat competitive and make the NCAA Tournament once every few years, that's probably good enough for Mizzou baseball. Whether that's good enough for each individual person is up to them, but it's pretty much been shown the realistic expectations aren't much higher than that for the program."

Gabe DeArmond
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