Friday, April 26, 2013
College baseball on way to lowest scoring in 40 years, coaches call for livelier ball
(bigstory.ap.org)
Screw Lilly…we need the Jeff Ledbetter Fair Play Act of 2013!
Read More...College baseball is on pace to set a record for fewest home runs and a 40-year low for scoring and batting average. Now some coaches are calling for a livelier ball to bring the numbers back up.
The switch to toned-down metal bats in 2011 has led to an offensive decline greater than many expected.
“The game isn’t the same,” Clemson coach Jack Leggett said this week. “It’s not as exciting.”
Leggett is leading an effort to adopt ...
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1. Jeff Frances the Mute posted on May 03, 2012 at 10:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0I'm not sure how the scholarships will fit in with Title IX though. If MLB wants colleges to give out more baseball scholarships to men the universities are going to have to add more scholarships for women's sports to keep things "equal".
How about taking 10 of the 85 scholarships away from football and giving them to baseball? Do college football teams really need 85 players on scholarship (plus walk-ons)?
Finally. I can't get over the metal bats. That ping sound is not an easy adjustment.
Considering how a few teams, mostly from the SEC West, game the system so that they have something like 120 scholarship players to choose from, apparently they need more.
The North rules!
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