Why is college baseball not more popular?

[BobOjedaFan]

College baseball isn't as important because the players don't go straight to the pros because you don't know who is the best yet. In basketball and football you can tell at 16.

Also for a big baseball fan the quality of game just isn't even close.

[Jack of Arcades]

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Outside of St. Louis does anyone not in the northeast even care about MLB? OTOH nobody in Boston/NY could possibly care less about college football, although when April comes around they pretend to have watched the Oregon offensive tackle.

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Um... yes?

Both LA teams are in the top 10, as well as San Francisco, Houston, and Chicago. Texas is #11.

[tdarko]

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Outside of St. Louis does anyone not in the northeast even care about MLB? OTOH nobody in Boston/NY could possibly care less about college football, although when April comes around they pretend to have watched the Oregon offensive tackle.

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Yea, and only black people in the inner city care about basketball too.

[bernie]

Oversaturation of that sports market.

MLB season goes on forever. 1 team has 162 games. That's more than any 2 teams from other prime sports combined.

I might rank college hockey right with college baseball as far as popularity. Nobody really cares about either.

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[kyleb]

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[TheNoodleMan]

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Weird statement, especially from a pitcher.

[SammyKid11]

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Oversaturation of that sports market.

MLB season goes on forever. 1 team has 162 games. That's more than any 2 teams from other prime sports combined.


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I hate to be a nit and I agree with your points...but, the Mavericks and Stars combined to play 164 games this past regular season.

[MicroBob]

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But in football and basketball the dude will probably be playing in the league that year and probably starting by the following year.

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I don't buy this arugment.
A lot of the fans of the big schools don't really care that much how great their players do after college.
Ohio State fans are Ohio State fans.

Mid-major schools who have very few players go on to the pros still have fairly popular football and basketball programs also.

[MicroBob]

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i almost feel like it's true. while obviously not at southern universities, college hockey is very big at schools like ND, Michigan, BU, BC, most of the Ivies, etc. If there's not more fans, there certainly seems to be more passion.

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picking a college-hockey nit:

If by 'ND' you meant North Dakota than you are 100% correct.
But I'm guessing you meant Notre Dame. Sure, they were #1 on the country for a stretch this year. But their facility is truly awful and I think it's pushing it to say that college-hockey is really popular there.
Compared with places like Michigan at least.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are pretty big-time in their hockey-programs of course.
Not really at Notre Dame imo.


Regarding which sport is 'more' popular.
I think more people watch the college baseball world-series than watch the college-hockey Frozen Four.

Some of the schools like Michigan do really well with extremely popular teams and fan loyalty.
But there are enough college-baseball programs in the south that have some loyal followings as well.

It's close.
But I'm thinking the nod has to go to college-baseball just on the greater interest in their championship as well as the total number of teams (not that many schools have hockey teams at the D1 level).

[MicroBob]

I also wanted to add that the post implying that there aren't many baseball fans outside of St. Louis or the northeast might be the dumbest thing I've ever read on 2+2.

This includes all the posts about the online-deal being rigged and even Gabbyyy's famous post in the zoo about someone beating his hand on a 1:2000 shot on a routine inside-straight draw or something.

I guess such attitudes about baseball might be fostered by the Yankee/Red Sox-centric coverage on Fox as well as ESPN.
But it's still an incredibly stupid thing to say.