Conference realignment looks like a great deal for football, but currently lines up to be a net-negative for college baseball.
Pac-12 teams have won 29 College World Series titles, more than twice as many as the No. 2 conference, with longtime member USC leading the group with 12 championships on its own — more than all of the ACC’s members have combined. The conference may soon cease to exist, however, as eight of its 12 members have committed to leave for the Big Ten or Big 12 for the 2024-25 academic year, chasing shares of ever-bigger TV contracts.
There’s also the cost factor, and while these schools are all flush with TV cash, that money is for other sports far more than it is for baseball. For schools where baseball is a non-revenue sport, it could easily be at risk of cuts.
Finally, some schools have sustainability offices or other environmental initiatives that will have to respond to the increased carbon footprint of many of their athletics teams from more frequent and longer flights. Air travel accounts for about, and improvements in fuel efficiency for airplane engines have not kept up with increasing demand.
that promises carbon neutrality by 2025, and the school has offset all university-related air travel emissions since 2017. That just became more difficult and more expensive with these expanded conferences — those trees aren’t just going to plant themselves.There are possible remedies at hand, although as yet we have no indication from any conference what they might do with their baseball schedules.
Money has always ruled college sports, despite specious claims of “amateurism” and attempts from everyone from college coaches to the heads of the NCAA to distract us from how much money these student-athletes were generating for their institutions. Now it’s more out in the open, with bigger dollar figures to get our attention and NIL money making it clear just how valuable these athletes’ labor is to their schools.
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