NCAA softball is toast!

[Johnreilly]

Let's face it. Football, WITH FANS, isn't going to happen this year. Without those $, non rev women's sports like softball will be the first to go. Going forward, Softball will be club level in college. No scholarships and no recruiters. Our new reality.
What does this mean? Showcase and national tournaments will be a complete waste of money and "stay to play" is dead in the water.
Your club team is not going to be around next year so striving for HS state championships by competing year round with classmates, like football, will be the new norm.
This may be better in the long run because the club softball model was out of control, a money grab from top to bottom.

 

[_MIA_]

Let's face it. Football, WITH FANS, isn't going to happen this year. Without those $, non rev women's sports like softball will be the first to go. Going forward, Softball will be club level in college. No scholarships and no recruiters. Our new reality.
What does this mean? Showcase and national tournaments will be a complete waste of money and "stay to play" is dead in the water.
Your club team is not going to be around next year so striving for HS state championships by competing year round with classmates, like football, will be the new norm.
This may be better in the long run because the club softball model was out of control, a money grab from top to bottom.

 

[Rolling Hard]

How could you mistake an acorn for a stop sign?

 

[sluggers]

Your argument has one huge problem: Only a few schools make money from football.

The top schools (Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame, etc.) make a lot of money. The e top 25 teams make money on football. The other 4000 colleges and universities lose money on football.

 

[Rolling Hard]

Kind a like this part:
"What does this mean? Showcase and national tournaments will be a complete waste of money and "stay to play" is dead in the water....... club softball model was out of control, a money grab from top to bottom. "

 

[Johnreilly]

Funny video, but this is how it's going to be from now on, like it or not. The sport will have to adapt, which it will.

 

[The Man In Blue]

 

[Johnreilly]

Ok. Maybe you feel I'm wrong and sounding premature alarms. That's fair. Let's just revisit this post in 6 months.

 

[_MIA_]

Funny video, but this is how it's going to be from now on, like it or not. The sport will have to adapt, which it will.

It will be different for a few years but predicting the total demise of college softball is going a bit too far imo. Personally I wouldn't mind any sort of format change in club softball which reduces prices and makes it available to more kids in general.

 

[Johnreilly]

Your argument has one huge problem: Only a few schools make money from football.

The top schools (Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame, etc.) make a lot of money. The e top 25 teams make money on football. The other 4000 colleges and universities lose money on football.

Conference revenue sharing from those teams. D2 and 3 stands no chance.