From the Publisher
On our travels down south to watch college baseball in February and March, a major question among players, coaches, parents and administrators is: Why does the season start so early?

For the southern schools, it’s actually a fine time to play. For everyone else, baseball has become a winter sport. and is incredibly difficult (not to mention expensive). Everywhere you look, the southern teams are dominating the northern teams. The inequity in preparation time, on-field development, academic conflicts, and amount of home games vs. away games, is really difficult to defend.

Is it fun and exciting for the northern teams to get to travel to warm places? Yes. Does it get old always losing games that you might actually win later in the season? Yes.

Will moving back the start date at least two weeks be impactful? Yes. Can the money saved from not traveling so much more than compensate for the money schools would spend on allowing players to stay on campus longer after the semester ends? Yes.

Here’s to some common-sense reform for the college baseball calendar to come soon.