I can't really see how Nebraska would support this.

I can't really see how Nebraska would support this.

The signing deadline for the draft is the end of June. What happens when your college baseball team loses all of it's seniors to the draft halfway through the year?

There's not really any good scenario for college baseball in the northern US,

You always have the problem that as soon as the weather becomes suitable for playing baseball, the spring semester is about to end.

I doubt Big 10 schools lose many players to the draft, or at least not the big stars that MLB teams want to get their hands on as soon as possible.

I doubt Big 10 schools lose many players to the draft, or at least not the big stars that MLB teams want to get their hands on as soon as possible

The Big Ten is instead working on a proposal that would allow teams across the nation to play up to 14 non-conference games in the fall. The results of those fall games would carry over to the spring for consideration in the NCAA tournament selection process.

If this proposal caught on and other conferences joined in, perhaps some colleges that dropped baseball because of cold weather and the earlier school schedule (e.g. Wisconsin, Iowa State, Syracuse, Colorado) w

Fullerton and Long Beach are two of like four schools in the country where baseball is the dominant sport. You must be thinking of somewhere else.

The late start is done because the Minnesota State Fair is the last week of August and the grounds are next to the St. Paul campus. The city and the university didn't want to deal with the dual traffic loads of move-in and fairgoers.

College baseball is a blast. Cheap, great seats by the bushelful, scouts all around.

I believe Princeton and Harvard are the only large universities today that follow the old model of a September start, a January semester break and a June commencement.

Mike Emeigh, any shot major college baseball ever gets wood?

And look at Ohio State now! Not a single MLB draft pick last year.

farmers need their kids to help out at the fair or something

Speaking (in a purely unofficial capacity) as the assistant AD for media relations at UC Riverside, this kind of move would probably also wreak havoc with my staff, game day operations staff, athletic trainers, grounds crew workers. We also all rely quite a bit on student employees whose availability in the summer could be questionable.

Given that the Big 10 is irrelevant when it comes to college football now, I see they are trying the same policy in baseball.

I have no problem with this as a fan living in the Big Ten footprint. It's not like they're getting the top recruits or any other advantages under the current structure. In fact, the Big Ten schools should remove baseball from the NCAA entirely. Use wood bats, increase the number of scholarships, and schedule games against teams in the Midwest League.

Am I the only one that thinks the Big Ten is a decent conference? Its not a power conference in baseball by any means, but they typically send an at-large or two to the tourney every year and put teams in the Top 25 on a regular basis. Its not like they're the Summit League in basketball or anything. Its more like a decent mid-major like say the Missouri Valley in basketball. I don't get exactly what problem we're trying to fix with this drastic solution.