jonriv wrote:Sure.....
Why follow ASA when your claim to fame is a more direct relationship with college and recruiting process. It would get rid of all the older and more questionable bats
I don't speak for PGF on this, or any other topic, but .......
The NCAA bat check process with highlighted bat lists and bat counts is an onerous process that would make the pregames a ridiculous process at the PGF Nationals. The NCAA process works there because 1) the big teams get free (or heavily discounted) bats, and the NCAA and NFCA only listen to the D1 coaches anyway, 2) with freely available team bats, Daddy can't scream about why
HIS bat can't be used, 3) travel ball coaches have to be more sensitive and responsive to Daddy's concerns than college coaches. The same arguments still happen at the JUCO level, though, where players try to use their own batss.
All that said, those in charge really can't change a rule midyear, when teams have already played in Qualifiers using the NFHS bat rule, absent an event that makes the change compelling. That doesn't make compression testing impossible; it would just require some equipment purchases (compression testing machines and the right kind of stamps) and a more extended "check-in" process to have bats approved before used in games.
A related side story. I was told, off the record, that a certain D2 player in the Southeast, one of the national leaders in home runs during the season, mysteriously had her (Daddy's) bat unavailable to be tested prior to the Region tournament her team played. She didn't hit any bombs that weekend, after hitting 5 in her conference tournament two weeks before. Anyone think that was a coincidence??