http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/college/2008/09/big-challenge/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:39:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/college/2008/09/big-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-19251 cymry999 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:07:55 +0000 http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/college/?p=677#comment-19251 This is a very good idea and one that should have been pursued all along. The cold weather schools can never change the weather. Penalizing schools with good weather for their good fortune in weather will only encourage quality recruits to join the big leagues rather than pursue an education. Or in other words only decrease the quality of college baseball while lessoning educational opportunities for many who will never make it in the big leagues and end up without an education to fall back on. All that and increased academic difficulty for those students who play just so that a few wealthy supporters of the Big Ten and Big East can have the possibility of seeing their teams be competitive in a warm weather sport. Playing in warm weather tournaments and challenges in warm weather cities was what Big Ten schools used to do with the excess revenue they produced from football, back in the day when the Big Ten was competitive and used to win National Champinoships in collegiate baseball. It's about time they returned to those successful tactics. This is a very good idea and one that should have been pursued all along. The cold weather schools can never change the weather. Penalizing schools with good weather for their good fortune in weather will only encourage quality recruits to join the big leagues rather than pursue an education. Or in other words only decrease the quality of college baseball while lessoning educational opportunities for many who will never make it in the big leagues and end up without an education to fall back on. All that and increased academic difficulty for those students who play just so that a few wealthy supporters of the Big Ten and Big East can have the possibility of seeing their teams be competitive in a warm weather sport. Playing in warm weather tournaments and challenges in warm weather cities was what Big Ten schools used to do with the excess revenue they produced from football, back in the day when the Big Ten was competitive and used to win National Champinoships in collegiate baseball. It’s about time they returned to those successful tactics.

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