I think it is a terrible shame that UNH does not field a Division 1 baseball team to compete in the America East Conference. If you want to play division 1 ball in the state of New Hampshire, you better hit the books because Dartmouth is the only school.

New Hampshire is lucky to have a top tiered Division 2 conference like the NorthEast !0 represented by schools like SNHU and Franklin Pierce, but it's a shame we can't send homegrown athletes to UNH to compete.

If you take the crop of athletes from the past 6 years and send them to UNH to compete, not only do you field a competitive team, I believe you field one of the stronger teams in the North East and a team that consistently makes a run at the America East crown.

I just think it would be exciting to watch some of our own help UNH make a regional run rather than watch players from New Hampshire help out of state schools make regional runs. Not to mention it would create the opportunity for more kids to play at the D-1 level. It's too bad.

Agreed.

100% agreed. All part of the "NH Advantage".

All.........UNH baseball is sorely missed to be sure. It was discontinued when my son was there and was a great disappointment that he wasn't able to play. More importantly, he did get a great education from a fine institution.

I think when Title IX was passed in an effort to make college sports equal for men and women, in theory, it was a very positive thing. However, as a result, it makes it less likely that you can add a single sport for one gender. Schools have to balance the number of scholarships for both men and women, and it's unfortunately not as simple as just having the funds available to UNH to bring back the baseball team. You'd likely have to delete an existing male sport, and make sure that the scholarships were still equitable according to the Title IX ruling. The subject does come up from time to time, but it never goes anywhere due in part to the above. It's a shame.

Get rid of a Men's sport? Do they have S****r there? Seems simple enough.

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Get rid of a Men's sport? Do they have S****r there? Seems simple enough.

By S****r, if you mean what I call "Kickball", I'd be all for it.

Administrators use Title IX as an easy almost politically correct excuse. Baseball is eliminated for financial reasons. Forget scholly's for the time being. 12 s****r games v 50 baseball games - umpires & equipment, travel for single games v weekend series in a location 1 - 5 hours away. no weeklong trip v 10 day southern swing. minimal field maintenance v manicured infield. goal posts and balls v batting cages, bases, fences etc. jmo.

UVM also just cut its baseball program.

I don't care what sport they get rid of as long as they bring back Baseball.They could do away with Hockey if we can have another D-1 baseball team in New Hampshire. Just joking about the hockey thing, thought I better say that before some crazed Hockey fan looks me up and cross checks me at a Baseball game.

Here in New Hampshire this should be a great talking point. We have a thousand AAU programs but only one D1 baseball program which 99% of the high school students in New Hampshire can not get into the college. UNH should have baseball, Union Leader did an article a few years back and created a potential roster for UNH if all the top players who were currently playing D1 ball were to stay in state and go to UNH to play baseball, it was impressive, I believe Wilson, Fuld, Tupman, Klemm among many others were included.

an not to mention Showcase League coach Colin Lynch.

they have a club team there right is there ever any discussion about bringing the team back

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created a potential roster for UNH if all the top players who were currently playing D1 ball were to stay in state and go to UNH to play baseball, it was impressive

Top New England players aren't going to stay in cold weather if there's a warm weather option.

I'll disagree with that, while you won't get all of the best players not everyone is looking to head south or to warm weather, if there were more options.

The best players are not going to stay at UNH to play in cold weather in America East. They're going to head to the ACC or SEC. They would even look at the Big East to get out of the northern NE weather.

Maybe if you had said "In my opinon more of the best players may look to go too..." or "UNH would have a disadvantage going up against ACC or SEC schools based on climate.." that might be a good point. But its pretty ridiculous to think you can speak on behalf of "the best players" and say they "are not going to stay" What do you base this 100% rock solid fact on?

I guess it is impossible to think that a young man growing up in New Hampshire going to UNH games might have a dream of being a Wildcat? Or just ridiculous to think that based purely on location and the fact that UNH would likely be the first to hear of a top freshman or sophomore turning heads and could get them out to camps, clinics, or on campus at no cost at all that they might be able to build some excitement about being a Wildcat?

We should just assume that all the best players in New Hampshire just hate the cold and want to split? Impossible to consider that there might be something to be said for playing close to home in front of family and friends? You're probably right all the best players would leave because it's cold in New Hampshire and a tropical paradise in the ACC, I think I'll head down the road to BC and get some some sun.

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I think I'll head down the road to BC and get some some sun.

The weather is why BC will never be more than an average ACC team. I didn't see Esposito and Casili banging down BC's door over Vanderbilt. The two best recent prospects from Maine (Flaherty and Giobbi) headed for Vanderbilt. A third, Rogers would have gone to Miami if he hadn't signed.

BC attracts second tier New England prospects and third tier warm weather area prospects. Don't use Sanchez as an example. No one in the ACC or SEC other than BC was interested in him coming out of high school. He blossomed in college. I talked with the parent of a kid from down south at a BC game. I asked how he chose BC. The parent told me if he couldn't play down south in the ACC or SEC at least he could play against them.

You don't have to have a chip on your shoulder over New England weather. It is what it is and baseball programs can't change it. They have to deal with it.

We moved from southern California to the Mid-Atlantic area when the kids were little. When my daughter did a couple of college tours in the Boston area during the winter she asked me what the heck I was thinking when I moved the family from California. She played college softball in Florida.

RJM I have to disagree with the statement "Top New England players aren't going to stay in cold weather if there's a warm weather option." Some top players choose to stay in the Northeast because of family situation, financial, Academics, etc even with warm weather options. Sure everyone would love to play for LSU, Florida State, UNC, Rice, etc. but those schools are on a different level. URI, UCONN, BC all had multiple players drafted in 2009 (as high as the 60th pick overall).