DI College Baseball Upset Over New Start Date
April 16th, 2008 - byFor the first time DI college baseball has a universal start date of February 22. Of course the programs in warm weather are unhappy because of weekday series and having to slam 52 games into 13 weeks. Also the northern school are upset and want an even later start date so they can play more home games. Some baseball experts are estimating as many as 20 DI schools might fold their program because of the pushed back start date. Most of these school are mid major northern programs because they no longer can open in the south with huge paydays. Schools will pay huge money as well as travel expenses to come down for a weekend series. These school bank on this money to off set the baseball budget. Baseball is a non-revenue sport and are often not fully funded.
