Big 10 probably isn't playing any sports this school year. Not playing football in the Fall means you also aren't playing basketball in the Fall, unless you want to look like complete hypocrites by playing an indoor sport that presents a greater risk of spreading covid during competition and practice than football. If they don't play football or basketball in the Fall, odds are that nothing gets played.96ags said:
I think the Big 10 potentially moving football is just further justification why adjusting the College baseball season to cater to northern schools is a bad idea.
They simply don't value the sport.
Except that it would move the last two conference series (often two very important series) to a date AFTER students leave campus.MaroonMack said:
It wouldn't hurt anything to move the start of the season back a week or two. As many here have noted, Olsen can feel mighty cold at times.
I don't know who we have on the schedule for non-conference games, but I'd be shocked if at least one of our previously panned non-conference opponents does not play baseball this year. I think a lot of the smaller schools are going to close down sports altogether for the year as they can't get by without football revenue, especially with the cost of doing testing on a regular basis. Given that, I expect a shorter season--maybe all conference games.MaroonMack said:
It wouldn't hurt anything to move the start of the season back a week or two. As many here have noted, Olsen can feel mighty cold at times.
Just because the SEC plays all 10 conference series in a row after non-conference is done, doesn't mean it always has to be that way. Maybe start the conference schedule a week earlier and play one of those weekends against a BDF, AAC or CUSA team. If there were a weekend with conference games where a few more seats were available in the upper deck (because of fewer students), it might encourage some folks who don't want to sit on the grass to attend. And there will be some students around who go to the game.96ags said:Except that it would move the last two conference series (often two very important series) to a date AFTER students leave campus.MaroonMack said:
It wouldn't hurt anything to move the start of the season back a week or two. As many here have noted, Olsen can feel mighty cold at times.
College baseball is better with students in the stands. Why would anyone want to exclude them?
But the environment would be completely different. There is no reason to try and REDUCE student attendance.MaroonMack said:Just because the SEC plays all 10 conference series in a row after non-conference is done, doesn't mean it always has to be that way. Maybe start the conference schedule a week earlier and play one of those weekends against a BDF, AAC or CUSA team. If there were a weekend with conference games where a few more seats were available in the upper deck (because of fewer students), it might encourage some folks who don't want to sit on the grass to attend. And there will be some students around who go to the game.96ags said:Except that it would move the last two conference series (often two very important series) to a date AFTER students leave campus.MaroonMack said:
It wouldn't hurt anything to move the start of the season back a week or two. As many here have noted, Olsen can feel mighty cold at times.
College baseball is better with students in the stands. Why would anyone want to exclude them?
As far as the other schools, Arkansas, State and LSU fill probably fill up any seats for a conference weekend when it's not cold regardless of whether the students are there.
MaroonMack said:
It wouldn't hurt anything to move the start of the season back a week or two. As many here have noted, Olsen can feel mighty cold at times.
There's also the fact that weather becomes a negative, as in too hot, very quickly once you get into June. Yes, people will suffer through the heat for post-season baseball, but just as many folks would skip a Sunday afternoon game against Missouri, when it's 98 degrees and 90% humidity in early June, as would skip a Sunday afternoon game against Missouri when it's 50 degrees with a 20 mph north wind in March.96ags said:Except that it would move the last two conference series (often two very important series) to a date AFTER students leave campus.MaroonMack said:
It wouldn't hurt anything to move the start of the season back a week or two. As many here have noted, Olsen can feel mighty cold at times.
College baseball is better with students in the stands. Why would anyone want to exclude them?
This is the biggest problem with the "New Baseball Model" and moving the season back a full month. I would only move it back a week or two, at most.twk said:
There's also the fact that weather becomes a negative, as in too hot, very quickly once you get into June. Yes, people will suffer through the heat for post-season baseball, but just as many folks would skip a Sunday afternoon game against Missouri, when it's 98 degrees and 90% humidity in early June, as would skip a Sunday afternoon game against Missouri when it's 50 degrees with a 20 mph north wind in March.
