re: Would you rather your team win a natty in baseball or basketball?

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Also, yes, it is "remotely close" between basketball and baseball at Vandy, Arkansas, and MSU.

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Definitely not this year or the next few years for MSU.

Vandy won't be this year either, or Arkansas.

Arkansas cares plenty about basketball and will average 14K+ per game with an NIT team sure, but we'll also be #1-#2 in the nation in attendance for baseball at 8-9K+ per game average with many series having 11K a game so it's still pretty close given the disparity nationally.

If it wasn't for Mizzou drawing 1K a game in baseball and 12K or whatever in basketball, with how down the SEC is in hoops, very likely baseball could have outdrawn basketball this year.

UGA is a pretty decently big baseball school, right there with its basketball program if not above.

Sucks that you can't get into it for your own pleasure, it is major in this conference on par with basketball and above it at a lot of the schools mentioned. As a Florida fan I understand it though, between basketball and football, baseball really has no place there, you have a pretty terrible facility and even with your good teams the last few years don't draw squat and that prevents it from expanding at UF so I'd guess most UF fans are like you and don't care for baseball.

If you were a fan of a team that is a Top 10 or so program for many years drawing 10,000 fans for weekend games in minor league type stadiums with fantastic atmosphere's you'd have a different tune I bet but impossible to say.

The most fun all year on the SECRant is baseball season, and many would agree.

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This x 100. All of the best football players in the world who are 18-20 years old are playing college football. A good number of the best basketball players in the world from that age group are playing college basketball. For baseball, almost all of the best 18-20 year old baseball players in the world are playing minor league baseball. You're going to see a lot more talent on the field watching the Montgomery Biscuits play than the Auburn Tigers. The Birmingham Barons are significantly better than the Alabama Crimson Tide at baseball. If you want to see the best young talent, you won't get it watching college baseball.

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What you do get is a group of guys playing a sport solely because they love that sport. It's an honest and true sport.

I love minor league baseball as well though. I get more enjoyment out of watching college ball and minor league ball than I do watching the MLB.

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At this point I would probably trade a guaranteed football NC for just a legit crack at one in basketball (Final Four run).

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frick no. The quality of college basketball has been piss poor for the last 15 years or so with all of the kids jumping to the NBA as soon as they have the chance. You know college basketball is in bad shape when Butler is playing in back to back national championship games and the fourth best team from the CAA is making final four appearances. I wouldn't trade a college football national championship for ten final four appearances.

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Of the Top 10 in the MLB Draft last year 5 of the 10 were College players, 4 were HS players, 1 was from Puerto Rico.

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And if you look at the NFL draft, 10 out of the 10 players were college players. Then if you look at the 2012 NBA draft, 10 out of the 10 players taken were, you guessed it: college players.

Baseball is awesome. I'm a die-hard Mets fan ( ), and I generally prefer the sport to football (blasphemy, I know). But college baseball... Meh.

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And if you look at the NFL draft, 10 out of the 10 players were college players. Then if you look at the 2012 NBA draft, 10 out of the 10 players taken were, you guessed it: college players.

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Well no shite, those are the rules.

You can't skip college regardless of how good you are in any of the sports you just mentioned.

The only fair comparison would be to take college basketball/NBA when you could go straight from HS to the NBA, then I'd bet you are pretty damn even with College Baseball/Minors out of HS.

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LSU has 6 Baseball. I would love to see a basketball one year....

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This for me.
While I completely missed the first 2. First college baseball game ever to watch was the Warren Morris game. Don't remember too much about the next too. Was back in LA for 09.
I have seen baseball. I want to see basketball. 06 was like a tease.(Doesn't help I have ties to Memphis and VCU too)

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If your final is televised world wide and the other is on ESPN 2 the answer is obvious. When schools like UC Davis and Stony Brook are powerhouses and they use metal bats it is never a good sign.

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The amount of stupidity in the post made my eyes hurt.

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Anyone saying baseball is fricking retarded

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What the frick is up with these answers? It's a question based on opinion of whether you like watching baseball or basketball. How the frick is someone having a different opinion than you retarded? That's like me saying, if you're an LSU fan, you're fricking retarded.

Seeing as how that may be true for the most part, it's not a fair assumption.

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That's an easy answer, men's organs that is

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You can't skip college regardless of how good you are in any of the sports you just mentioned.

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Which means that the best, most talented players are playing college basketball and football. Not so for baseball.