56 Games kept and another week to be added to college baseball season?

First it was 56 games in 14 weeks, then 56 games in 13 weeks and now 56 games in 14 weeks is proposed.

I wonder if AD's are as worried about missed class time, as they are about pitching staffs crunched by roster limits and shorter seasons? Right back where we started.

Funny thing is, most people thought the extra week would be added on to the back end of the season, interfering with the start of summer ball. Now the whole reason for the uniform start date seems a bit watered down.

The issue is NOT that adding the extra week on the end of the season would interfere with summer ball...it would cost schools $$$...especially those who underfund baseball to begin with. Keep in mind...with the NCAA...its all about $$ and not about the kids.

There were 3 diferent proposals to handle the "unintended consequence" that players were missing more classes. [Perhaps unintended, but surely predictable!] Two of the proposals would have taken down the maximum number of games during the Championship segment to 52 games, and the third was adding a week at the beginning of the season. It does not appear that anyone actually proposed adding a week at the end of the season.

The beginning date for practice is moved from February 1 to "The Friday that is three weeks prior to the first permissible contest date for the championship segment."

The comment period expired with 15 supporting and 6 opposing. I suspect that means the Board of Directors will choose not to consider the proposal, and it will become final. If they do consider and reject the proposal, then a 90 day override period will begin, similar to what happened when the 33% minimum scholarship was changed to 25%.

So why didn't any conference suggest adding a week at the end of the regular season? Probably a number of reasons, but I wonder if TV contracts for CWS might be the real issue?

Board of directors just approved the extra week.

Personally I think this was the right thing to do - the schedule was a little too compact and the extra week will provide relief.

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Originally posted by 08Dad:
Board of directors just approved the extra week.

Personally I think this was the right thing to do - the schedule was a little too compact and the extra week will provide relief.

I do not have a dog in this fight any longer, but imho this was the right thing to do.

Glad to see it, hope it sticks.

It was a step in the wrong direction and tells us all that rather than attempt anything to level the playing field, the NCAA is about power brokering and not about fairness, or the student/athlete.

CPLZ,

Like that's something new...

Sad but true, the NCAA is rarely about the best thing for the student-athletes. Ever since scholarships were changed from 4 year to one year renewables, the truth has been out of the bottle. If you wait for the NCAA to do what's best for the kids, you'llwait a long long time.

I personally know one of the college presidents on the committee and he would never say that about the kids---they are all for them and their betterment