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New Bat regulation for NCAA, but will this effect high school?
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I am sure the bat companies will make their bats for the college standard and leave it at that. Why make both types of bats?
I'm sure it will trickle down...the Bat rule in NCAA will not take effect until 2011,...giving enough time for it to be considered/approved by NFHS...
The No grandfathering clause sounds like another boom in the bat sales figures for the bat companies...
The No grandfathering clause sounds like another boom in the bat sales figures for the bat companies...
quote:Originally posted by piaa_ump:
I'm sure it will trickle down...the Bat rule in NCAA will not take effect until 2011,...giving enough time for it to be considered/approved by NFHS...
The No grandfathering clause sounds like another boom in the bat sales figures for the bat companies...
Agree on both points piaa_ump.
The 2011 date seems to be a ways off but with colleges having endorsment deals with bat companies, and the length of the production process, the time frame seems fair to all sides.
It may be a good time to speculate on some stock purchases. At least bat companies will have an idea what the future holds.
quote:We’ve seen some discrepancies that could allow manufacturers to maybe make a little more of a powerful bat. We just don’t want that to happen,” he said. “We don’t believe that’s happened, and the manufacturers have been with us every step of the way as we’ve refined the standards, so they’re well aware of what’s happening here and why we’re doing it
We’ve seen some discrepancies that could allow manufacturers to maybe make a little more of a powerful bat.
You don't say? Was the $400 sticker price a tip off? or the space aged alloys? The BESR testing is a joke
We don’t believe that’s happened
Oh... it's happend...open your eyes.
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=38459
Einsteins! All of them!
quote:The rules committee made the change in part because of NCAA Division I baseball statistics that indicate increased offensive performance, particularly in home runs and runs scored. The committee believes the rise is due, in part, to the kind of bats in use today.
Einsteins! All of them!
So, let me get this straight.
They currently have BESR.
They propose moving to BBCOR.
Seems to me this problem could be avoided entirely, if they switched back to WOOD.
They currently have BESR.
They propose moving to BBCOR.
Seems to me this problem could be avoided entirely, if they switched back to WOOD.
quote:Seems to me this problem could be avoided entirely, if they switched back to WOOD.
While my heart has always been pro wood, my business sense says returning exclusively to the trunk of the tree would be unduly penalizing the group that has developed products at the request of the baseball public. IMO, the best recourse is the path being followed, play with the technologies that addresses the safety issues, and satisfy, to an extent, the customer, the wood advocate, and the rule makers. Logic says you will never satisfy everyone.
Until metal bat weight is distributed to simulate wood, meaning barrel heavy, then these "authorities" will continue to fool themselves as well as the baseball public.
This is just another re-creation of the business cycle and assured future revenue streams for both the bat makers and the NCAA.
Too achieve the simulation of wood, the bats would have to be manufactured backwards. Space age thin walled handles and an anvil on the business end. That would be dangerous when the bat splits at the trademark and sends the barrel forward like a torpedo.
Metal is not wood and wood is not metal so its all a sham.
This is just another re-creation of the business cycle and assured future revenue streams for both the bat makers and the NCAA.
Too achieve the simulation of wood, the bats would have to be manufactured backwards. Space age thin walled handles and an anvil on the business end. That would be dangerous when the bat splits at the trademark and sends the barrel forward like a torpedo.
Metal is not wood and wood is not metal so its all a sham.
Yeah, if you change the standards every so often, everyone has to go buy a new bat, right?
But they usually do, anyway.
When metal bats first came out, it was all about durability and economy. It rapidly became about performance enhancement. So now a HS kid will buy a new $300 bat every few months.
"But Dad, it's got a dead spot in it ...."
But they usually do, anyway.
When metal bats first came out, it was all about durability and economy. It rapidly became about performance enhancement. So now a HS kid will buy a new $300 bat every few months.
"But Dad, it's got a dead spot in it ...."
NCAA bats--Fifteen years ago, a 'light at the end of the tunnel."
Baseball edging closer to nonwood-bat standard
NCAA News, p. 5, p. 18
4/21/93
"After eight years actually discussing a performance standard, I am pleased that there seems to a light at the end of the tunnel." [Hal Smeltzly, chair of the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee, p. 5.]
"The committee is very concerned about the capabilities of nonwood bat manufacturers to produce a new 'super bat.' This concern is compounded because of the new materials that are available to the manufacturers at present and materials that might be available in the future." [Smeltzly, p. 5]
"...a 1992 survey of college baseball coaches revealed that 71 % of the respondents believed that the nonwood bat performed at a higher level than in 1988." [p. 5]
"Most of the leading manufacturers...have argued that the performance level of the bat has not increased since 1988." [p.18]
http://web1.ncaa.org/web_video/NCAANewsArchive/1993/19930421.pdf
Baseball edging closer to nonwood-bat standard
NCAA News, p. 5, p. 18
4/21/93
"After eight years actually discussing a performance standard, I am pleased that there seems to a light at the end of the tunnel." [Hal Smeltzly, chair of the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee, p. 5.]
"The committee is very concerned about the capabilities of nonwood bat manufacturers to produce a new 'super bat.' This concern is compounded because of the new materials that are available to the manufacturers at present and materials that might be available in the future." [Smeltzly, p. 5]
"...a 1992 survey of college baseball coaches revealed that 71 % of the respondents believed that the nonwood bat performed at a higher level than in 1988." [p. 5]
"Most of the leading manufacturers...have argued that the performance level of the bat has not increased since 1988." [p.18]
http://web1.ncaa.org/web_video/NCAANewsArchive/1993/19930421.pdf
I'm sure the manufacturers will adjust in stride. You can take a look at www.baseballbatreviews.ruqqa.com for some useful information.
When it comes to bats, how many parents out there find themselves saying......
"Thank God my son is a pitcher"
"Thank God my son is a pitcher"
quote:Originally posted by TromblyBaseball:
When it comes to bats, how many parents out there find themselves saying......
"Thank God my son is a pitcher"
Ha! I wish. In HS many pitchers aren't restricted to the mound.
...and don't get me started about the DH abomination.
