I liked this quote (I will paraphrase) from the UT ND telecast yesterday
One of the beautiful things about college baseball is its imperfection. These kids are not professionals (many are only on partial scholarship), they make a lot of mistakes. And that is one thing that makes the sport so fun.
I will add that the pitching is not great, and there are more errors than you see even in AA ball, so almost no lead is completely safe, even in the late innings. Plus it is wildly unpredictable. The no. 1 overall seed has not won the title this century, and as often as not, has not even made it to Omaha. Contrast that to college football, where the top teams have so much talent they could probably hang with a really bad NFL team for a half, and the same 4 or 5 teams are in the BCS playoffs annually. Basketball is less predictable, but still you have a lot of usual suspects seeded 1 or 2 in a region every year, e.g., Kansas, UK, Duke, UNC, et al.
One of the beautiful things about college baseball is its imperfection. These kids are not professionals (many are only on partial scholarship), they make a lot of mistakes. And that is one thing that makes the sport so fun.
I will add that the pitching is not great, and there are more errors than you see even in AA ball, so almost no lead is completely safe, even in the late innings. Plus it is wildly unpredictable. The no. 1 overall seed has not won the title this century, and as often as not, has not even made it to Omaha. Contrast that to college football, where the top teams have so much talent they could probably hang with a really bad NFL team for a half, and the same 4 or 5 teams are in the BCS playoffs annually. Basketball is less predictable, but still you have a lot of usual suspects seeded 1 or 2 in a region every year, e.g., Kansas, UK, Duke, UNC, et al.