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Posted on 5/25/25 at 1:05 pm to AICREB
quote:It is too cold for baseball in Columbus in Feb/Mar. I'm surprised more fans don't go to the games later on.
Of course they do. But, the weather in the south is more conducive to baseball.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 1:38 pm to SEC. 593
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The rest of the country also grows up playing youth baseball, so it doesn't really answer the question as to why Southeast is so passionate about the college sport.
If you build it, they will come. I'm Garl.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 2:28 pm to Serraneaux
Vitello’s still a pup at the big dogs table.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 2:30 pm to BuckI
70s - when ESPN carried college baseball when everyone else ignored it. Ron Polk at MSU
Posted on 5/25/25 at 2:52 pm to BuckI
Which is funny because even LSU loses money on baseball. 
Posted on 5/25/25 at 2:55 pm to BuckI
No one really gave a shite about Mississippi State and Ron Polk. The SEC woke up to baseball when Skip and LSU went on a tear.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 3:02 pm to BuckI
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When did the SEC baseball culture begin?
In the south, you get basically two MLB teams. The Astros and the Braves. When cable TV became more accessible, the Cubs. It was a hole in our fandom. As others have said, most fans spent the summer watching rec ball, or fishing. ESPN found a market in the south and it took off.
Florida is the outlier here because of all the MLB teams that winter there.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 4:03 pm to GoGators1995
quote:What is the NIL like?
Which is funny because even LSU loses money on baseball.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 4:09 pm to Tammany Tom
quote:Close. We hired DVH in 2003. Norm DeBriyn was the Johnny Appleseed of the program. He was responsible for those good years in the 70's and 80's you mentioned.
When Dave Van Horn left Nebraska for Arkansas in the early 90’s
I've always said Norm built it, DVH elevated it. From 1970 to now we've had 2 coaches.
This post was edited on 5/25/25 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 5/25/25 at 4:13 pm to BuckI
Skip pushed it into present day success!
Posted on 5/25/25 at 4:21 pm to SEC. 593
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The rest of the country also grows up playing youth baseball, so it doesn't really answer the question as to why Southeast is so passionate about the college sport.
Yes, I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that the southeast has a milder late winter/early spring weather which is conducive to both playing baseball and watching it.
Arizona and Arizona State drew huge crowds back in the day because it was 75 degrees in February and March.
SEC is able to do the same with the exception of maybe Lexington, KY and COMO. Norman is iffy due to extremes that time of year. I imagine Tennessee and Vandy get some weather... but the rest of the schools probably don't have to worry too much about cold weather keeping crowds away.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 7:03 pm to BuckI
It’s a southern thing. I wouldn’t know anything about it.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 8:31 pm to BuckI
Yeah baseball is huge man, since 2008 a team from the league has literally played in every CWS title game with the exception of 2016 and 2020 was canceled. The last 5 titles came out of the SEC with 5 different teams.
Posted on 5/25/25 at 9:38 pm to BuckI
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I had no idea you guys loved the game so much. While the following is not as large as football's, it seems just as passionate.
Ron Polk and Skip Bertman are responsible
Posted on 5/25/25 at 10:38 pm to BuckI
Here is how I explain it, baseball is hard to watch when you don’t really care, it’s just a hangout sport.
But when you care about every game because it’s your school, there is nothing better. Baseball becomes the finest spectator sport in the world when you’re dialed-in on a pitch by pitch basis.
Baseball season starts when football ends, it’s a perfect energy.
But when you care about every game because it’s your school, there is nothing better. Baseball becomes the finest spectator sport in the world when you’re dialed-in on a pitch by pitch basis.
Baseball season starts when football ends, it’s a perfect energy.
Posted on 5/26/25 at 12:33 am to BuckI
For me, knew or Brendon Larson back in the day before his time at LSU. 40 homeruns in 1997 was insane. Been a SEC baseball fan since.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 1:38 am to ukraine_rebel
From the late 60s to the late 80s it was a lot of USC and the Arizona schools. The balance definitely tipped east after 90.
Not really sure why other than maybe west of the Mississippi had had a head start on the kind of year round baseball they play all over the south now?
USC and Arizona State have been in long slumps.
California still produces a ton of MLB talent. Something like 20% of the US born players as of a few years ago. Maybe that’s the thing…they’re skipping college.
Not really sure why other than maybe west of the Mississippi had had a head start on the kind of year round baseball they play all over the south now?
USC and Arizona State have been in long slumps.
California still produces a ton of MLB talent. Something like 20% of the US born players as of a few years ago. Maybe that’s the thing…they’re skipping college.
This post was edited on 5/27/25 at 1:43 am
Posted on 5/27/25 at 3:35 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Late 70s-early 80s. When Skip was at LSU and Polk was at State
This.
Skip was building a dynasty starting in the 80's and Polk had star power at MS st with Clark and Palmero.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 6:19 am to ukraine_rebel
Probably before that honestly. If you’re just talking about the first championship, for the SEC then yea, maybe. Baseball has always been king of the south. My grandfather even used to talk about his dad and our whole family wanting to watch a young South Carolina kid named Shoeless Joe Jackson, and then my dad as a boy would do the same to listen to a young Alabamian named Henry Aaron. Football is big, no doubt, but baseball is where it’s at
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