Astros Announce 2016 Houston College Classic

[CajunEXPRESS]

I agree that baseball at Refineryville and UL are unique. Coach mentioned yesterday that there is a move afloat to move the start of college baseball to the 1st of April, not sure if it will gather enough momentum. If you look at the other two major sports football & basketball they mirror the pro season. He also said that of the major league players that were on the opening day roster only 12 had degrees. Baseball does not get the love in the media until after March Madness is over and if you do not if you do not start hot you never get the publicity. Again around here it is a different situation. Also it should help on the injuries from playing in the cold.

He felt it would be a big plus for us, what with young kids still in school for much of the season. But in reality for it to actually mean something for us attendance wise, we need a bigger platform.

[MelRock]

Thanks for info CajunJack.

[Cajunjeb]

I agree that baseball at Refineryville and UL are unique. Coach mentioned yesterday that there is a move afloat to move the start of college baseball to the 1st of April, not sure if it will gather enough momentum. If you look at the other two major sports football & basketball they mirror the pro season. He also said that of the major league players that were on the opening day roster only 12 had degrees. Baseball does not get the love in the media until after March Madness is over and if you do not if you do not start hot you never get the publicity. Again around here it is a different situation. Also it should help on the injuries from playing in the cold.

Good points. I am noticing an increase in the number of baseball games on TV and WatchESPN, so that's an improvement. But you and coach are correct. Until the conference tournaments are over, ESPN and the other alphabet channels will show basketball.

[Cajunjeb]

Rogers and Fitt discussed this a little bit in their weekly chat on Monday




Also some interesteing comments about us



http://www.d1baseball.com/chats/d1ba...-chat-march-9/

I looked at the SBC stats this morning. UL is top 5 or higher in most categories. 3rd in BA and 2nd in ERA. Interesting at the team that is 1st in ERA is Troy.

[MelRock]

He felt it would be a big plus for us, what with young kids still in school for much of the season. But in reality for it to actually mean something for us attendance wise, we need a bigger platform.

Yes, I forgot about that point also with the kids being in school. It is interesting I mentioned to Gary and Sallie that I thought they should move their games to 6 pm on the weekdays when they do not play a doubleheader with the men. I thought they could draw a larger audience with the school kids by games ending around 8 instead of 9. Volleyball should consider the same thing.

[BirdofParadise]

Actually we were 1-1 in the tournament (Beat Texas Tech, lost to TAMU).

And, the next batter was a kid Tony pulled off the bench. We didn't know him. But That Corey Coles kid turned out to be a decent player.