jkag89 said:
Postal said:
Okay, then pick 8 and have 8 teams at each site. It's what they do for the SEC tournament. School is out, people will still come to the games. Again the NCAA basketball tournament (mens and womens) spills over into the weekdays, and people still attend.
Why do you think having eight sites is going to mean t.u. is not going to host when it is not deserved? Before the the expansion from 48 to 64, there were eight six team tournaments and more often than not during the era of college ball there was a regional in Austin. Most of the time the sips deserved to host, but not always.
Baseball is not boundyball. Just because a certain model works well for basketball does not mean it will work for baseball. The regional bid systems works for baseball,, it is the second most profitable NCAA championship behind the men's basketball tournament which makes the lion share of its profit through TV rights not ticket sales.
As for why Omaha should get to host the CWS every year. First, the city does a tremendous job of hosting year in and year out. The cities residents often adopt the teams as their own especially those that make regular appearances. Second, the city made a big commitment to the event building a brand new ballpark to host the event. The event is synonymous with Omaha now. There are not chants of CWS when a team achieves a berth but chants of Omaha.
First, I'm sure I've said it before in your threads, but thanks for taking care of conference and regional scores on this forum. This forum is my fist and only stop to get caught up with that.
I gave an example on another response using Minute Maid as an example. I also mentioned that it is done at the SEC tournament in an outdoor Minor League Ballpark. In the Minute Maid example, A&M and Texas would be the 1 seed. Maybe it won't work out every year, but we would probably agree that at least one team from Texas would be worthy of a 1 seed each year. Maybe some years it's in Houston or Dallas, but it could also be in Dell Diamond or San Antonio. Even if Minute Maid hosted and the teams were Texas, Arkansas, SE Louisiana, Mizzou, Southern Miss, Memphis, Creighton, and New Mexico (all just examples) then there would still be 10,000 plus at the games, and not 35,000 if the teams were from TX, OK, LA, MS.
I agree baseball is not basketball. But I think this model is not truly maximizing exposure of college baseball. Just because it's not broken, doesn't mean it can't be tweaked. It is the second best, but really it's third. Football is king. You're also right in that basketball makes a lot of money through TV, but if the NCAA baseball could double it's cut by playing in a little bit bigger stadiums, then why not?
As for Omaha, it's also a minor league park that hosts 2 parallel brackets, and then plays a best of 3 on the end of that. But Omaha is not better than any other city. Any other city that hosted would also do a tremendous job. It's sweet that there are some folks in Omaha who like the SC Gamecocks, but I don't give a damn, and neither does even the most avid college baseball fan.