True, until recently, baseball student-athletes in the aggregate had sub-par academic performance, but improvement has been real and widespread in the last year. The sport can be expensive, especially for northern schools that must travel to fit in games at the beginning of the season. Athletics departments spend a lot on the sport without much of a revenue offset.
But making money is not what college athletics is supposed to be about. If that were the case, most schools would sponsor only football, men's basketball and perhaps one or two other sports. College athletics should be about providing opportunities for kids to participate and learn from their experience. Baseball is an important sport in this country's history, and it shouldn't disappear from American colleges and universities.
Can collegiate baseball be saved? How do we do it?