2024 college baseball/softball thread

Shouldn’t we have a 2025 thread by now?

 

It's not "UCLA's own stadium." They rent the land from the VA, a ways off-campus. This has been an issue for quite some time. The Bruins don't own it, so they haven't sunk real money into improving it. That's why one of the top programs on the West Coast (and in the nation not that long ago) plays at a glorified high school facility.

 

You're way off on UCLA not sinking money into it to improve it. They have been there almost forever. I played American Legion ball on that field in 1970 when it was awful. The resident PTSD patients used to come out and cheer and jeer us. There was a dank green wooden two-story "clubhouse" in the right field corner that was held together with spider webs and termite shit. Wooden, splintery bleachers. Look at the place now. Small capacity, but regular seating, a decent press box, batting cages behind the right field fence. The clubhouses are new and the green building is gone. It probably took 15 minutes to remove it. They have played host super regionals and they have a pretty strong alumni base.