It probably helps you avoid several washouts/snow-outs every year, and with the way college baseball is scheduled, those games are almost impossible to make up after they're cancelled (weekday games, that is).

So, I certainly don't like it, but I guess at some point it makes sense for college ball. Never in the majors....and never did it make sense for ND football.

Materially detracts from the game experience. Texas's also is pretty ugly from what I recall.

With the football stadium along left field and asymmetrical outfield-- it's very cool setting

ND played Tulane in New Orleans a couple years ago, and everything is FieldTurf, with the exception of the pitcher's mound, which is dirt. It looks absolutely terrible.

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and to a lesser extent the home plate circle. It seem to me that it would be not too burdensome to at least maintain a nicely groomed dirt mound. When it's not being used, it is easy to protect from the elements and real dirt allows pitchers to get a real and consistent footing.