[Getready]

I have read that NCAA D1 baseball is roughly equivalent in quality to AA minor league ball. But minor leaguers play more games so can improve faster. Another couple of mill for higher education wasted.
Would love to see the smart schools go high performance intramurals for sports, and get rid of useless classes and majors.(like music appreciation, film/digital story studies, gender studies,)...would save tons of money...

[MarvinStinson]

You equate music appreciation with gender studies.

Talk about a tin ear.

[MuttTheHoople]

College baseball is perhaps the last major intercollegiate sport that requires its players to be real student-athletes.

Some highly drafted players have forgone the pros, to play three years in college. Many of the baseball programs (especially in the SEC, Big 12, and Pac 12) have state-of-the-art facilities.

Not only that, Being on campus earning a degree, chasing college girls, and in the case of Mississippi State and other schools, playing in front of thousands of screaming fans- it sure beats long bus rides to games where you have a dozen people watching.