Hokieone,
One very bad, selfish and unappreciative person shouldn’t spoil an entire business. The guys sounds like a self involved tool but that is not the big picture problem here.
So, what is going on around the baseball ecosystem? We could probably come up with at least 10 significant trends in college baseball that is effecting summer college baseball. The college game is popular but other sports are growing quickly and are more popular. Let’s face it, baseball is looked at as an old person sport.
Let’s start with the college draft. Far fewer players drafted that may cause some changes in attitude. The NCAA changed their stance on NIL and athlete marketing. College athletes are competing for additional revenues. The NCAA has introduced a transfer portal. The Power 5 conferences are consolidating...fewer dollars available for those outside of the SEC, Big10 and ACC. Even MiLB is consolidating. All of these factors are economic at their core. People are coin operated and behavior has been modified to chase fewer dollars. It is not that shocking to me to see people get a case of the “me firsts” because that is what they’ve been economically conditioned to think.
JMO.