SMU baseball??

[smustatesman]

FC Dallas averages 15,000+ per game. I imagine our ticket prices are cheaper than theirs, our field is closer in and with some promotional effort we ought to average 4000-5000 for soccer. College soccer has more scoring, less faking, and we are an elite program. We are also in one of the top soccer conferences in the country. UConn, USF, UCF, SMU, Tulsa have all been top 25 programs in recent years.

The highest avg NCAA attendance is UC Santa Barbara at just over 5k. The next highest avg is 3200. Number 50 (we aren't in the top 50) in avg is at 700. How do you realistically see us becoming the number two most attended NCAA soccer team in the country; strong promotions?

Si senor. If we scholie more Latino players in Texas and south of the boarder; we could become the billete caliente, and become known as Methodista Univerdad del Sur Meridional in Latin America and around Dallas. Potro para arriba !

[smusic 00]

FC Dallas averages 15,000+ per game. I imagine our ticket prices are cheaper than theirs, our field is closer in and with some promotional effort we ought to average 4000-5000 for soccer. College soccer has more scoring, less faking, and we are an elite program. We are also in one of the top soccer conferences in the country. UConn, USF, UCF, SMU, Tulsa have all been top 25 programs in recent years.

The highest avg NCAA attendance is UC Santa Barbara at just over 5k. The next highest avg is 3200. Number 50 (we aren't in the top 50) in avg is at 700. How do you realistically see us becoming the number two most attended NCAA soccer team in the country; strong promotions?

Si senor. If we scholie more Latino players in Texas and south of the boarder; we could become the billete caliente, and become known as Methodista Univerdad del Sur Meridional in Latin America and around Dallas. Potro para arriba !

Number 2c lunch special, por favor.

[RGV Pony]

Con los works

[RebStang]

We actually had a team, and proved we would not support it.

The popularity of college baseball today is greater than it was in the mid-70's. As well, SMU has changed quite a bit since then!

Totally agree it has changed. Support overall is less than the past. When we had baseball, the Rangers came to town. Baseball enthusiasm was high. Still no more than 100 at the games.

Honestly, this is nonsensical when you actually look at the facts.

Every Super Regional game was televised on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU... every one of them. 10 years ago, they did whip around coverage and you might have caught 2 innings of any particular game.

This year, every game during the regionals was, at worst, on ESPN3 and they are planning to expand coverage next year.

Omaha, the city that hosts the real College World Series (not the softball one), build a new stadium... to host the College World Series. Sure, they have a minor league team but the reality is that the CWS was always the biggest draw at Rosenblatt and now TD Ameritrade Field.

Attendance is up nationwide. The top 5 in attendance (and, no, I don't think SMU would ever get to that level of support) are all seeing higher average attendance than ever before... LSU, Ole Miss, and South Carolina each spent close to $30 million on new or expanded facilities. Schools out west are building new ballparks or expanding existing ballparks. Baseball's popularity at the college level (outside the northeast and midwest) is at an all time high right now.

Oh, and cross town rivals TCU... yeah, they routinely pack a stadium that seats close to 5,000 and... yeah, they're going to the CWS, too... as is the first college program I ever supported, Ole Miss. Hotty Toddy.

[East Coast Mustang]

I'm a huge sports fan and I couldn't tell you who won the CWS last year. No one cares outside of the teams that are actually in it.

[PonySnob]

Aluminum bats...........


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[smusportspage]

No kidding. Hate that little league crap with Aluminum bats....play real baseball. Go with wood and you might have something.

[Junior]

No kidding. Hate that little league crap with Aluminum bats....play real baseball. Go with wood and you might have something.

this isn't Cape Cod. use aluminum.

[Junior]

No kidding. Hate that little league crap with Aluminum bats....play real baseball. Go with wood and you might have something.

this isn't Cape Cod. use aluminum.

and it's not even aluminum anymore. the best ones are made out of composites nowadays. probably some aluminum mixed it, though.

[smusportspage]

When the bat hits the ball it sure sounds aluminum. Whatever it is take it out and use wood. Play real baseball like the big boys.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Honestly, it's hard to watch more than a half an inning with that pinging sound.

[FroggieFever]

Honestly, it's hard to watch more than a half an inning with that pinging sound.

Have you watched a game this year? The bats were changed in the off season. It's now more of a "cluck" than a "ping."

[smusportspage]

Sorry still sounds like a ping. You can try to put lipstick on a pig.....

[PonySnob]

Honestly, it's hard to watch more than a half an inning with that pinging sound.

Have you watched a game this year? The bats were changed in the off season. It's now more of a "cluck" than a "ping."

Would love to see what David Ortiz would do hitting with a college bat............

[RebStang]

No kidding. Hate that little league crap with Aluminum bats....play real baseball. Go with wood and you might have something.

The BBCOR bats in use now combined with the raised seam balls actually have less pop than the pros. It's not the juiced up crap you might have seen in the 90s when teams were regularly hitting over 90 home runs in a 56 game season.

The interesting thing is that college baseball is going to the MLB ball next year. I've talked to a lot of people who are heavily involved in baseball (scouts and youth coaches) who all say that we'll see more home runs off of that ball than with the raised seam ball. What will be really interesting is that the classic "college" pitcher is about to be nerfed, big time... without those raised seams, the soft tossing lefy is going to be a thing of the past in college baseball because a guy that tops out at about 85mph won't be able to get any movement on his pitches without those raised seams.