No More Baseball

[Commercecomet24]

Screw up of epic proportions, I foresee a football bat level of stupidity coming on strong shore to shore.

You know it brother!

[HoopsDawg]

Crazy. Why not wait 2 weeks and then re-evaluate.

[msstate7]

Crazy. Why not wait 2 weeks and then re-evaluate.

I really don't think they give a crap about baseball and softball. Basketball is the killer

[The Federalist Engineer]

Crazy. Why not wait 2 weeks and then re-evaluate.

Totally stupid- could just pause for 4 weeks with a scheduled update in 2 weeks

[Homedawg]

Baseball schools won't be able to handle the scholarship demands of folks returning. There's too many bodies for 11.7 scholarships.

This is an epic cluster that the NCAA is going to have to spend considerable thought.

Considerable thought after making a hasty decision?? Ha. Maybe they would have been cancelled. But doing it now is beyond stupid.

[Commercecomet24]

Considerable thought after making a hasty decision?? Ha. Maybe they would have been cancelled. But doing it now is beyond stupid.

Yep couldn't agree more.

[LC Dawg]

Starkville's economy is about to be crushed. No baseball, no Super Bulldog Weekend, no Cotton District Festival (presumably), no students at least for a while.

[Liverpooldawg]

Starkville's economy is about to be crushed. No baseball, no Super Bulldog Weekend, no Cotton District Festival (presumably), no students at least for a while.

Every small college town in America will be.

[Weston M.]

Going to be a weird feeling having so little sports to talk about for the foreseeable future. Just an incredible turn of events. I propose a toast to all married men here on the board: Hopefully your wives will understand your grieving and will put out like never before over the next several weeks/months. Fingers crossed and good will to all.

[Bothrops]

Even if it doesn't last, the schedule is going to be shortened substantially and completely messed up.

[ZedFedder]

This is a cluster man.

[Coach34]

11.7 schollys for baseball is there because of Title IX. To give baseball more schollys one of 2 things has to happen:

A) Take schollys away from other men's sports or reduce a men's sport
B) Add scholarships to a women's sport or add more women's sports

[Dawgology]

11.7 schollys for baseball is there because of Title IX. To give baseball more schollys one of 2 things has to happen:

A) Take schollys away from other men's sports or reduce a men's sport
B) Add scholarships to a women's sport or add more women's sports

Just reduce football by 10.

[Quaoarsking]

11.7 schollys for baseball is there because of Title IX. To give baseball more schollys one of 2 things has to happen:

A) Take schollys away from other men's sports or reduce a men's sport
B) Add scholarships to a women's sport or add more women's sports

As previously stated, Title IX is a scapegoat. There's nothing that prevents the NCAA from saying "OK, you can now have 20 scholarships in baseball, and it's up to you to figure out how to stay in compliance with Title IX."

Very few athletic programs sponsor every sport, and outside the P5, most don't give the full scholarship allotment in their sports anyway. Therefore, expanding baseball scholarships would just lead to schools making the same decisions they already have to make.

[The Federalist Engineer]

Just reduce football by 10.

+1

[Commercecomet24]

As previously stated, Title IX is a scapegoat. There's nothing that prevents the NCAA from saying "OK, you can now have 20 scholarships in baseball, and it's up to you to figure out how to stay in compliance with Title IX."

Very few athletic programs sponsor every sport, and outside the P5, most don't give the full scholarship allotment in their sports anyway. Therefore, expanding baseball scholarships would just lead to schools making the same decisions they already have to make.

This!

[Todd4State]

11.7 schollys for baseball is there because of Title IX. To give baseball more schollys one of 2 things has to happen:

A) Take schollys away from other men's sports or reduce a men's sport
B) Add scholarships to a women's sport or add more women's sports

As previously stated, Title IX is a scapegoat. There's nothing that prevents the NCAA from saying "OK, you can now have 20 scholarships in baseball, and it's up to you to figure out how to stay in compliance with Title IX."

Very few athletic programs sponsor every sport, and outside the P5, most don't give the full scholarship allotment in their sports anyway. Therefore, expanding baseball scholarships would just lead to schools making the same decisions they already have to make.

College baseball's problem is the smaller schools like the Holy Cross's of the world that are against increasing the scholarship money because it hurts their ability to be competitive in baseball because they don't have the money to invest in it.

It would be like the FCS football teams and the FBS football teams being all in one conference and the Mississippi Valley State's voting against 85 scholarships and forcing everyone to have 50 because that's all that they can afford for example.

That's why I and others have been saying that college baseball needs to split into divisions like football does. You could have the SEC, ACC, Big 12, PAC 12, and maybe Big 10 and then some mid major conferences that have some decent programs that care about baseball like the American, C-USA, and Sun Belt and then maybe have Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach State join the PAC 12 as baseball only members and that would be a very viable collegiate baseball league. Teams have 30 full scholarships. No BS Vandy hardship scholarships.

[Offshore Dawg]

I have a feeling this won?t last...

Based on what.

[TNDawg35]

Based on what.

Because if it does last, I will be sad and I want to think positive... I had already taken off to take my daughter to the Memphis game on the 31st... I don?t want to miss that time with her...


Now if you will excuse me, I?m going to cry in my pillow...

[BuckyIsAB****]

They need to grant all the baseball players an extra year of eligibility. I guess no spring football practice either.

We are practicing in the spring. They report on the 22nd. Only difference maybe the game not being open to the public but I would bet that is open