running cws thread

[spnited]

Funny how colleges can pay football coaches $2 million but don't have a couple grand to spend on wood bats.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

oh, and buck, you're still dead to me

but spnited, most of those places where the football coaches make $2 mil, they bring in a lot more than that. baseball is still, for most places, a non-revenue sport

 

[micropolitan guy]

Supposedly LSU is offering its new coach a  $300,000 Easton contact (others far closer to the situation could confirm this). The top coaches make big money from the suppliers and don't want to end the gravy train.

Also, the manufacturers have threatened to sue the NCAA for restraint of trade if they force schools to go back to wood.

It would be very easy for the major-league teams to establish a wood bat endowment for college baseball. It would help them in the long run, with scouting/evaluation.

,

 

[buckweaver]

oh, and buck, you're still dead to me

but spnited, most of those places where the football coaches make $2 mil, they bring in a lot more than that. baseball is still, for most places, a non-revenue sport

Hoops,

That's where MLB comes into play, just as the NBA has in hoops and the NFL eventually will in football. It behooves the pro leagues to assist in the development of their future talent, plus there can be good money in it (which is more important, of course.) It just makes more sense for MLB and NCAA to get together on this. Plus, somebody's going to get killed. That's just inevitable.

Signed,
The Undead

 

[HoopsMcCann]

i don't disagree with it, but with easton being able to hand out $300,000 contracts, i don't see it happening

p.s. -- still dead

 

[Oscar Gamble]

2. ........it's no coincidence that one of easton's model of bats is called 'omaha'. since they don't have the majors to advertise tehir products, they have the cws and put money into college baseball for the exposure they don't get anywehre else. and, since most youth leagues and high school associations use aluminum, that's where the real money for bat makers is. they need to market their product somehow and college baseball is the best way. if they took away the bat money, many college baseball programs would be hurting.

"Omaha" and "Omaha XS" are models from Louisville Slugger, not Easton.  Not a big deal, but in the interest of getting the facts right.

Getting rid of aluminum bats in college ball is a great idea.  Pitchers don't throw the inside pitch in college due to aluminum bats.

 

 

[HoopsMcCann]

d'oh... my bad

it's not gonna happen until someone -- from a large school -- dies

 

[Oscar Gamble]

d'oh... my bad

it's not gonna happen until someone -- from a large school -- dies

Unfortunately, It not only takes a few deaths but a few successful lawsuits for just about any safety rules change in this country.

A few years ago, Frank Thomas, when he was with the White Sox, would fool around using an aluminum bat during batting practice.  You couldn't believe how hard and far he hit those balls.  It was quite a show.  Word got back to MLB about it and they made him stop using it during batting practice.

 

[buckweaver]

d'oh... my bad

it's not gonna happen until someone -- from a large school -- dies

I don't think there's a logical explanation for why that hasn't happened yet. And I dread the day that it does, because I don't want to feel vindicated for pushing for wooden bats for all these years.

But I agree with you -- until the money dries up, it ain't gonna change. Until someone dies.

Oh, and 3-0 Tech through four and a half.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

d
e
a
d

 

[Oscar Gamble]

d'oh... my bad

it's not gonna happen until someone -- from a large school -- dies

I don't think there's a logical explanation for why that hasn't happened yet. And I dread the day that it does, because I don't want to feel vindicated for pushing for wooden bats for all these years.

But I agree with you -- until the money dries up, it ain't gonna change. Until someone dies.

Oh, and 3-0 Tech through four and a half.

But the money won't dry up until someone dies and their family sues successfully.  All the major wood bat manufacturers also produce aluminum bats.  The money they charge for aluminum bats is getting crazy. The new 2007 Easton Stealth Bat [model # BCN4] sells for $380.  Bat manufacturers aren't really interested in selling wood bats when the buying public is willing to plunk down $300+ for an aluminum bat for their kid.  Only when injury lawsuits start hurting the manufacturers of aluminum bats will the money dry up.

 

[buckweaver]

My dream final: Dawgs vs. Jackets. (Really, it is. I'd die to see that one. And be completely and utterly torn. I loves me some Diamond Dogs, too.)

But I'll root for Tech just to spite you! ;D