CLEMSON — Erik Bakich has long been a major proponent of pushing the college baseball season back.
In fact, he has been one of the head coaches leading the charge. Back in 2020, while still at Michigan and the baseball season was wiped out due to COVID, Bakich spent a couple of months doing what he called the “heavy lifting” on one of the proposals to push the season back. He did a deep dive into attendance numbers in an effort to back up his stance.
Why attendance numbers, you ask? Because, for Bakich, this isn’t about trying to avoid the cold weather routinely seen during the first few weeks of the season.