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How is this related to Clemson? The guy that proposed it is West Virginia's baseball coach. I know both Clemson and WV are terrible places to visit, but I'm missing the connection here.
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mazey gave us fits as 3 yr all acc player, then hd coach n charlietown & @
ecu........ remember the regionals n cola?
ecu........ remember the regionals n cola?
Not even sure why this is a good idea. I'm assuming you're not trying to shorten the season which move everything back a month. This means that the last month of conference play is played after classes end/graduation which would most likely result in decreased student attendance. This also means that the ball players have to remain at the university for that month, then depending on how well we do (cws ideally) they'd spend the last half of june and all of august in playoffs and @ CWS. They would then get a whole 2/3 weeks before they have to report back to school.
This doesn't even consider that those summer leagues these guys play in would go to crap or how the MLB draft would affect players mentality for the last month/month and a half.
Or the fact that June/July/August are insanely hot and average more rainfall than February or March. We'd be trading cold for thunderstorms and tornadoes.... does that make sense? And at least if a game or two gets bumped in Feb, there are 3/4 months left to reschedule.
I dunno, this whole move the season back has flared up because we've had two cold winters back to back and there's a select group of northern coaches who are crying foul and want more fairness in the sport.
For those that are fans of college baseball, it would get us through the dead of summer and closer to football season.
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its too cold in feb & if u ck around you'll find its been talked about for quite sometime & not just by " a select group of northern coaches". Ask chad or any baseball coach you might know for that matter.
for kids rec leagues, adult leagues and professionals, i agree. but not for student athletes. there is no other college sport that plays nearly as long into the summer as college baseball does already and there are some proposing to extend it another entire month?
the average high in february in columbia sc is 60 degrees, plenty warm to play more years than not. south carolina 'cold' is uncomfortable, bring a blanket. its preferable to having a heat stroke.
im by no means saying its ideal, i just think its way better than the alternative of shifting the season so that it ends at the end of july.... for all the reasons mentioned above (not just weather)
and yes, it is the 'northern coaches' who have made a big deal of it. the big 10 commish from minnesota is claiming that the schedule isnt fair to nothern schools http://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/2012-02-29/big-ten-mulling-summer-baseball
Are they playing too much baseball? Because these players do play in summer leagues. If they change the schedule everyone will be playing less baseball.
baseball is not meant to be played in freezing, or close to freezing temperatures. Fans wont show up and players risk injury. Holbrook touched on this the other day in an interview. When it is that cold, chances increase of a player getting injured.
So cancel those games when its just too cold and use the rest of the season to find a few dates for make up games. But lets not sit here and pretend that it doesn't get into the 70's and even 80s here in Columbia pretty regularly in February just because its been cold the past week or two.
Had we opened the season a week earlier this year, Feb 6,7,8, we would have had high's of 50, 65, and 71, plenty warm for baseball.
Moving the season farther into the summer seems to be asking for trouble with the strict SEC weekend time deadline and then trying to fit regionals in supers all in one weekend across the country in July. Not to mention Omaha in mid to late July.....the hottest month of the year.
Why does it make sense to put the SEC and NCAA tournaments square in the path of weather delays. There have been countless games interrupted in the middle of the game only to be resumed 4 hours later or even the next day. Neither pitchers are used again, momentum has changed, players feel of the game has changed....etc. And these are the most important games of the year. Thats what moving the baseball season back is going to do.
I'd much rather our game vs Northeastern in february get cancelled, made up by a game with unc-asheville on a tuesday in april than get jerked around our first game in omaha (eh'hm oklahoma 2010)
pepsicock
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probably why you dont see iowa in the cws. itd be a lot like our outdoor hockey season, dec 29th through january 18th.
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the regular season lasts more or less the same amount of time as football and basketball.
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