Why is college baseball not more popular?

[Triumph36]

microbob,

i meant north dakota

and i'm not sure there's the same kind of passion for college baseball at those schools like there is at those northern US colleges.

[kyleb]

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Well, I have been known to hit, too. In college I was a position player.

[MicroBob]

there's definitely not the same kind of passion for college-baseball at almost any school as there is for the hockey programs at the top dog hockey schools.
So that makes it tough to put one over the other.

The fanatical following at the top hockey programs is undeniable.
Michigan, MSU, Wisc, Minn, NoDak, BC, BU, UNH, Maine, Cornell.
And there's a very close 2nd tier of programs where I would include teams like Neb-Omaha, St. Cloud, Harvard perhaps??, Ohio State, etc.

Lots of these schools are getting anywhere from 5k-10k fans per game depending on the size of their arena.
And you just don't get that in college-baseball I don't think (I think LSU maye gets 3,500 or 4,000 a game but I might be wrong on that).

But you only have 60 or so D1 teams in total.
And many of those don't have such a huge following at all and are more comparable to a decent college-baseball following (Air Force, Mercyhurst, Ala-Huntsville, U-Mass Amherst and U-Mass Lowell, Ferris St, Lake Superior St, etc etc).

But when you get to the college world-series there are going to be a ton of baseball fans who don't normally give two hoots about college baseball who still watch the games and are interested.
Oregon St, Texas, LSU, FSU, Cal State Fullerton, Creighton, whoever. People still tend to watch the college world-series.

The number of people who watch the college hockey Frozen Four is much fewer I suspect.
People just don't care that much.
And they don't even have much coverage at all of the rounds before the semi-finals.


Thinking more about the fans in the north I guess I change my mind a little bit.
But because of the casual following of each sports' championships I still don't think you can put hockey as being more popular than baseball at the collegiate level.

Overall, I guess I just would call it a very difficult comparison at best.

[prohornblower]

Minors.

College baseball is nowhere near on-par with College basketball and Football.