Prominent Coaches Debut Plan For A ‘New Model’ For College Baseball
Jul 01, 2020
4 minutes
By Teddy Cahill
A group of prominent coaches, led by Michigan’s Erik Bakich, has developed a detailed proposal to alter college baseball’s calendar in an effort to make the sport more financially stable. At the crux of the plan is a proposal to push the season back about a month, moving Opening Day from mid-February to the third weekend of March and the start of the NCAA Tournament to the end of June.
Similar plans to push the season back have been made over the years. This proposal is different, however, both in its scope—it makes a case from a financial, academic and student-welfare standpoint—and in its support. Whereas previous proposals were
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