Baseball, UCLA Super Regional

[wheels002]

Michigan will play Texas Tech on Saturday at 2PM EST on ESPN

 

[wheels002]

Dang Michigan and Indiana (2013) are the only big ten schools to make the college World Series in the last 35 years.

This just shows how hard it is on the cold weather teams to compete in both baseball and softball. They have to play the majority of their games on the road especially to start the season. Michigan only gets roughly 30% of their games at home while warm weather teams get much more. Which means the warm weather teams have a better chance of hosting for the regionals and supers which makes their rods to the CWS or WCWS much easier.

 

[tinselwolverine]

This just shows how hard it is on the cold weather teams to compete in both baseball and softball. They have to play the majority of their games on the road especially to start the season. Michigan only gets roughly 30% of their games at home while warm weather teams get much more. Which means the warm weather teams have a better chance of hosting for the regionals and supers which makes their rods to the CWS or WCWS much easier.

Yeah boo hoo.

This isn?t news and nobody?s ?rods? have a better chance than Michigan?s rods going into the college World Series.

Warm weather schools have an advantage in EVERYTHING these days, not just the College World Series.

Our guys are there and they have the same one out of eight chance to win it all as anybody else.

 

[byco42]

Just be better than the other teams and you can go a long way in the NCAA Base-ball tournament.

 

[thewolverines24]

Warm weather schools have a huge advantage in recruiting. They are typically getting kids from their area who have grown up in a life of baseball. Some friends I had in Texas would play 30 games before my first baseball game when we were in high school. They get so much more playing time growing up it's ridiculous.

 

[byco42]

Warm weather schools have a huge advantage in recruiting. They are typically getting kids from their area who have grown up in a life of baseball. Some friends I had in Texas would play 30 games before my first baseball game when we were in high school. They get so much more playing time growing up it's ridiculous.

This has been the case since the 1970s.

 

[biggunsbob]

Seems like Erik Bakich is recruiting really well. Seems to go after athletes that can play ! Whatever that means. Wasn’t Brewer a football player also ?

 

[Michchamp]

This has been the case since the 1970s.

Why only then? It's been warmer closer to the Equator for billions of years.

 

[byco42]

Why only then? It's been warmer closer to the Equator for billions of years.

Because before then, the ball players in the Midwest and in Michigan especially were better and more numerous.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Why only then? It's been warmer closer to the Equator for billions of years.

Nobody knew this before 1970.

 

[TheVictors]

My friend's kid plays baseball in Orange County all year.

 

[Michchamp]

Because before then, the ball players in the Midwest and in Michigan especially were better and more numerous.

I've been thinking that with football's inevitable decline due to brain damage/CTE, more American kids nationwide will go back to playing baseball.

 

[Michchamp]

it is definitely more popular here in TX than it was in the midwest.

 

[byco42]

I've been thinking that with football's inevitable decline due to brain damage/CTE, more American kids nationwide will go back to playing baseball.

It's pretty much all we did from April to August, whether organized or pickup games we facilitated.

 

[TheVictors]

There was a paper from probably 10yrs ago that tied the general population migration out of the midwest, to largely the west, and the corresponding impact it had on football recruiting. Namely, a lot of the "football hotbeds" of an earlier generation are now in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado & California so that there is a talent drain because of overall migration.


Oh and lacrosse is hammering baseball in many youth markets, esp in the west.

 

[Michchamp]

It's pretty much all we did from April to August, whether organized or pickup games we facilitated.

I think urban sprawl probably played a factor as well...

In my neighborhood, on a good day, we'd have six kids, maybe 7, of relatively close ages, available to play. Trying to visit other neighborhoods meant biking on roads - no sidewalks were built because... freedom, I guess? - and so none of our parents allowed it.

Baseball was pretty much out of the question; we played a lot of 3 on 3 touch football or basketball.

 

[thewolverines24]

There was a paper from probably 10yrs ago that tied the general population migration out of the midwest, to largely the west, and the corresponding impact it had on football recruiting. Namely, a lot of the "football hotbeds" of an earlier generation are now in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado & California so that there is a talent drain because of overall migration.


Oh and lacrosse is hammering baseball in many youth markets, esp in the west.

Shitty weather is an unstoppable force!

 

[thewolverines24]

This has been the case since the 1970s.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I think urban sprawl probably played a factor as well...

In my neighborhood, on a good day, we'd have six kids, maybe 7, of relatively close ages, available to play. Trying to visit other neighborhoods meant biking on roads - no sidewalks were built because... freedom, I guess? - and so none of our parents allowed it.

Baseball was pretty much out of the question; we played a lot of 3 on 3 touch football or basketball.

4 on 4 Whiffle ball games. That's what we did. We also did the 4 on 4 basketball and football as well (on a cement road). Occasionally some street hockey. The same 8 every year.

 

[thewolverines24]

So Henry pitched the winner against UCLA with the flu and pneumonia. Pretty god damn impressive.