(05-15-2020 04:58 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote:  

(05-14-2020 11:50 AM)TheWoodenNickle Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 05:57 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 12:42 PM)emu steve Wrote:  Thought we discussed baseball in this thread but I don't see the posts.

Anyway, it appears that the MAC is going to a 30 game regular season. I don't know if that means there will or will not be those February games down South or if they will be cancelled.

It seems to me, lopping off the non-conference games (most?) and start 3 or 4 weeks later with games in the border states and then conference games makes sense to me.

https://emueagles.com/news/2020/5/12/gen...anges.aspx

Steve thanks for bringing up baseball. I see two options:

1) Get rid of the sport. Owchinko and Welch are heading south these days and quite frankly the cold spring weather deters me from attending games now. I love EMU baseball, it is why I enrolled 46 years ago, but it is what is.

2) Play half the season in the fall along with MLB and the other half in the spring. Plenty of time to load up on games in nice September and October weather in the Midwest without the travel costs south in February and March.

#2 is the way to go. Do NOT cut baseball. Cutting SB was bad enough.

There are an increasing number of indoor practice facilities in MI and the talent level of HS aged players in likewise increasing. The local players to field good teams are available.

Nickle I don't disagree, baseball talent is here and always has been. Actually Oestrike developed his teams in the summer Adray Appliance League after the MAC season. Probably a NCAA violation now.

You live in the same area I do. This would have been the last weekend of the MAC regular season and we could count the good baseball weather days on one hand to this point. Last year was similar if not worse.

The NCAA clearly needs to realize that their insistence on scheduling the College World Series in early June has reduced baseball to a Southern and Western sport only. OSU was the last cold weather state university to win the National Championship, 54 FREAKING YEARS AGO!

Jerry, have you been golfing with the UM baseball staff?

https://d1baseball.com/columns/premier-p...all-model/

D1 ball may be very different next year. I like a lot of these changes.