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Post by bennyskid on Jun 30, 2018 12:39:31 GMT -8
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegebaseball/comments/8v2pr8/ratings_for_the_cws_finals_were_the_highest_since/
Who would have expected that? Oregon and Arkansas are not big-market states.
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Post by bill82 on Jun 30, 2018 16:10:38 GMT -8
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegebaseball/comments/8v2pr8/ratings_for_the_cws_finals_were_the_highest_since/
Who would have expected that? Oregon and Arkansas are not big-market states.
We do have to give the SEC credit for elevating the visibility and popularity of college baseball. Not sure why this series had a bump, but nice to see the increased popularity of baseball. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2018 16:18:58 GMT -8
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegebaseball/comments/8v2pr8/ratings_for_the_cws_finals_were_the_highest_since/
Who would have expected that? Oregon and Arkansas are not big-market states.
We do have to give the SEC credit for elevating the visibility and popularity of college baseball. Not sure why this series had a bump, but nice to see the increased popularity of baseball. ESPN knows which buttons to push to attract the uhh casual haters viewers. |
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Post by beavsaregood on Jun 30, 2018 19:26:58 GMT -8
I think the next thing is for the MLB to financially help college baseball, somehow. It's becoming a very major pipeline for the MLB, now. Colleges can only provide 11 or 12 scholarships?!
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Post by messi on Jun 30, 2018 20:56:50 GMT -8
I think the next thing is for the MLB to financially help college baseball, somehow. It's becoming a very major pipeline for the MLB, now. Colleges can only provide 11 or 12 scholarships?! Next season, the Royals and Tigers will play a game at TD Ameritrade two days before the start of the CWS. I would expect a national telecast for this event. |
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Post by Werebeaver on Jun 30, 2018 21:17:54 GMT -8
I think the next thing is for the MLB to financially help college baseball, somehow. It's becoming a very major pipeline for the MLB, now. Colleges can only provide 11 or 12 scholarships?! Just like the NFL and NBA financially help college football and basketball? Sorry but that's just a big LOL. At least baseball makes a major investment in player development via their minor league farm systems - something that can't be said of NFL or NBA. |
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Post by zeroposter on Jun 30, 2018 21:20:30 GMT -8
I think the next thing is for the MLB to financially help college baseball, somehow. It's becoming a very major pipeline for the MLB, now. Colleges can only provide 11 or 12 scholarships?! The obvious problem with the 11.7 scholarship limit is Title IX though a lot of D1 schools aren't at the limit. |
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Post by beavsaregood on Jul 1, 2018 3:19:49 GMT -8
I think the next thing is for the MLB to financially help college baseball, somehow. It's becoming a very major pipeline for the MLB, now. Colleges can only provide 11 or 12 scholarships?! Just like the NFL and NBA financially help college football and basketball? Sorry but that's just a big LOL. At least baseball makes a major investment in player development via their minor league farm systems - something that can't be said of NFL or NBA. College is the feeder to the NFL. Same with the NBA. The NBA now has that D or G League that they invest in? There is no issue in the number of scholarships a college team has to field a team. These two sports solely rely on colleges to provide all their talent. Currently, college is becoming the majority feeder to the MLB. The owners and management are tilting toward drafting more ready players from college. You are starting to see that on MLB rosters. With that, the MLB and NCAA need to do something to make it beneficial to play baseball at the collegiate level. You got 11.7 scholarships? That forces the poor HS kid to choose a different sport to get a full ride to college. It doesn't matter how small but MLB needs make an investment in college if they want to get the best college talent into their minor league system. College players are it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 5:33:24 GMT -8
Just like the NFL and NBA financially help college football and basketball? Sorry but that's just a big LOL. At least baseball makes a major investment in player development via their minor league farm systems - something that can't be said of NFL or NBA. College is the feeder to the NFL. Same with the NBA. The NBA now has that D or G League that they invest in? There is no issue in the number of scholarships a college team has to field a team. These two sports solely rely on colleges to provide all their talent. Currently, college is becoming the majority feeder to the MLB. The owners and management are tilting toward drafting more ready players from college. You are starting to see that on MLB rosters. With that, the MLB and NCAA need to do something to make it beneficial to play baseball at the collegiate level. You got 11.7 scholarships? That forces the poor HS kid to choose a different sport to get a full ride to college. It doesn't matter how small but MLB needs make an investment in college if they want to get the best college talent into their minor league system. College players are it. Of the 641 drafted players on major league Opening Day rosters this year, 61 percent were from four-year colleges. Iy is reaching that tipping point where the best prospects choose college so they can raise their value against the other best prospects. High school to minors will become a less viable route for all but the most elite pitching talent. Now that the aluminum bats more closely behave like MLB bats it is easier to project players making the leap to the bigs. Drafting players without college experience is becoming relatively higher risk. And unlike supporting a farm system and all the expense with that, mlb doesnt have to pay a dime for all this NCAA talent development. |
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Post by nexus73 on Jul 1, 2018 5:40:05 GMT -8
For a national ratiing, it means the CWS gets less than 1% of the USA population to watch it. The only saving grace in those numbers is that with niche markets being the thing for the 21st century, a couple million or so is enough to keep a show or an event on the air.
Oh well. there's not much love for college football bowl games either, especially the minor ones or when the CFP are at a bad date or time. That ensures single digit percentages for viewership. Even the Super Bowl only gets a third of the nation to check in. Mass markets are dead and even if we were not politically divided, we are culturally fractured.
For contrast, back in the second half of the Sixties, when the Boss Radio format totally dominated the airwaves. KISN, 910 AM, had 85% of the PDX radio market.
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