Question about # of players attending away games??

Div 1, conference games allow 28 players. Post season 25. The season 28 man roster may change but post season is a final roster.

Coaches can elect to take the entire rostered team to away non conference games.

I don't know about the other divisions.

When I was in school, the coach never took a pitcher what started the previous day.

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Originally posted by larrythompson:
When I was in school, the coach never took a pitcher what started the previous day.

Some coaches do that, many don't. I know that son travels whether he pitched the game before or not.

The lack of talent was so bad at one of the colleges I worked at (D-I), the new head coach that year started taking his 9 starters, a couple of extra pitchers, an extra catcher, and just in case player. His thought--"why take a player I have no intention of playing."

JT,
I find your post rather sad.
I think coaches bring players along, even if they don't play, to help give each other support and develop chemistry between one another while on the road. The non starters who will start someday, need the experience.
I can understand it being an economics issue, but not the above philosophy.

JMO

Ok...what if at the start..a team has 30-35 players? Do some of the players end up getting cut if they only roster 28? and is this the rule for every DI school? Thanks

You have a number of very good questions so let's try and answer several.
At the DIII level, teams travel based on conference rules and budget. In the SCAC, for instance, you can travel 23 to visiting games and 25 for the post season tournament. I think that is common number at the DIII level. For home games, every player suits up.
At DI, I think the Pac 10 allows 25 to travel and all players can suit for home games.
The programs that I know pretty well don't "cut" to get to 28. They will carry the players who can play. That might be 32-33. Again, they won't all travel but will be in uniform for most all home games. Hope this summary is helpful.

I think many schools find travel as an expensive overhead that may be an easy cut to a budget. In the first five weeks of last year my sons team who started in Chicago and went to Phoenix, Long Beach, Mississippi, Florida, and St Louis for weekend series, that was the pre-season schedule. In many cases some of those guys will end up red shirting by the end of the year. If stickwatcher is lurking maybe she can confirm this but I thought the potential redshirts split weekends up and in the end the roster was 24/25 for those initial away series. If you are a school on a pinching budget and you knock 3 or 4 heads off that travel bill the savings are significant over a month of games.

Infielddad is correct, very few schools will "cut" not to get to 28. Most likely anything over a certain amount will become redshirted players.
On any roster you will find redshirted players listed on the roster, just not the active. I know at sons school, every rostered player is given a uniform and is suited up for every home game and I do beleive all travel to local games.
A really good coach, if his budget allows, will bring as many players as possible. Sometimes everyone gets a chance to play at some point sometimes they don't. Good programs and good coaches make effective use of all their players as much as they can. The young freshman player may get a chance to play if the team is ahead, or the LH hitter subs for the RH hitter in certain situations. Pitchers who are weekday starters get a chance to throw an inning or two for practice or in place of their bullpen. What happens when the starter has to come out after an inning or two and the next pitcher can't get it done either? On sons team you need to have as many arms present as possible. How can a young pitcher learn to pitch away from home if he never travels?
How many get to actually go is up to specific conference rules and budgets.
You will find that most programs, big or small, who use this philosophy are usually winnig programs.
If my son has chosen to go to a school because he wants to be involved in bsaeball, I sure would expect him to be part of the team as much as possible.
I think this could be a very good question to ask during the recruiting process.

Weekend starting pitchers are sometimes left instead of traveling to away mid-week games, depending on school work pending, opponent, trip length etc.