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Speeding Up College Games

Infield08Infield081,000+ posts
The quote below is from http://www.doubleazone.com/
(The comment was made July 19)

Speeding up the game. At its meeting in Denver last week, the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee proposed several actions that would speed up the pace of collegiate games. Specifically, batters would have to keep one foot in the box during an at-bat, on-field meetings will be minimized and less time will be spent during pitching changes and between innings. The members of this committee include a number of coaches, so they obviously know the game of baseball. I never felt like our games in college dragged on too much, and I’d hate to see batters given automatic strikes for stepping out or coaches told they can’t talk to their players in the third inning. How many minutes can we possibly save each game?
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Dad04Dad045,000+ posts
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Originally posted by deemax:
wood bat, and less signs.


Thank you. Coaches calling pitches should be outlawed after junior varsity. Teach the pitcher and catcher how to play. Wait, actually they might already know how to play. Coaches like to tell umpires nobody came to watch umpires call a game. Some coaches should look in the mirror. For the record, jr's catchers call the game. Watching the catcher stare into the dugout for 5 or 10 seconds, 300 times a game, get old.
O Orlando1,000+ posts
Amen, Dad04.

Just as the dugout isn't the best place to umpire from, it's not the best place to guage what's working for the pitcher on the day, how far his stuff is breaking, where his leg is landing, whether or not the catcher is sticking the pitches, and any one of a number of other things that might factor in to the way the game is called.

If coach has a book on the hitters, he can share that with the battery. If these guys can study physics and international law while at college, they might just be able to remember that #23 likes the inside fast ball.

I asked my son if he were calling his games, BHD. "Mom", he said patiently, "this is the pro's".
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TPMTPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003
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Originally posted by Dad04:
Selling tickets and putting an entertaining product on the field is also a goal. Pitchers working fast and keeping fielders in the game wins games. If you can't drop training wheels by the time 90% of kids hang up the cleats, something is wrong.




Weekday night games are the worst. Long game, trip home on the bus arrive by 12-1 am, classes the next day and another game that night. All because the opposing coach wouldn't let the kids call their own game.

Seen too many coaches not give really good catchers/pitchers opportunities to do their own thing Frown

One important question, IMO, to ask when your catcher/pitcher is considering where to play... do they learn how to call their own game.
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