[Husker] PineTar and Aluminum Bats (fwd)

[Neal Smith]

I bet the bat companines provide a great deal to NU for the aluminum bats.  
 
Neal 
j j <jjj112665 at yahoo.com> wrote:
How often does NU buy new aluminum bats? Aluminum bats
will crack over time, this happened to three of ours
at last years state softball tournament. Also one of
the guys who used to play on our team had a cousin
that worked for Worth who told him that aluminum bats
only had so many hits in them before they start to
lose some of their pop do to the make up of the inside
of the bat. If there is any truth to that then I would
guess that NU goes through alot of bats in a year. The
bats that we had crack were not cheap $20 Wal-Mart
bats they all ranged in price from $200-$350 and of
them two were in their 3rd season of use and one in
its second. We only played between 25 and 30 games a
year so the oldest would equal about one season at NU
game wise. 



--- Jeff Volk wrote:

> Mike wrote:
> 
> >>I also question your math. 
> 
> >>115 MPH is 167 feet/second. The mound is 60'6"
> from the plate, so after 
> >>the pitch the pitcher is about 55 feet from the
> batter. It will take 
> >>.327 seconds for the ball to travel from the plate
> to the pitcher.
> 
> >>What are you basing that reaction time upon? 
> According to most research,
> >>a well-conditioned athlete has a reaction time of
> between .11 and .18 seconds.
> 
> My mistake - I was paraphrasing roughly from what I
> remember of the episode that I saw last night and
> should have stated as such. The HBO piece goes very
> in depth in regards to the mathematics - I suggest
> one watch the program if they want the full scope -
> including opinions of the bat manufacturers, the
> NCAA, the Consumer Product Safety Board and the
> parents of at least one player who was killed by a
> batted ball that struck him in the temple. 
> 
> >>It's interesting that aluminum bats were
> originally intended to save money,
> >>but have you actually priced them lately? A
> state-of-the-art aluminum
> >>bat can cost $300. 
> 
> At retail price a new high-tech aluminum bat runs
> upward of $300. By contrast, a new Louisville
> Slugger composite wood bat retails for around $80.
> While these are designed for greater durability, you
> are still going to have a splintered bat on many
> inside pitches - pitches that can result in hits
> with an aluminum bat. If a good hitter breaks even 4
> bats over the course of a season, which is not
> unreasonable, the cost is close to or about a wash.
> My guess however is that there are still economic
> advantages to aluminum, or given even the remote
> chance of a safety issue the NCAA would mandate a
> change. 
> 
> By no means am I an aluminum bat apologist. Coming
> from the viewpoint of my ex-scouting days, aluminum
> bats develop HORRIBLE habits in both hitters and
> pitchers. Hitters tend to open up to soon and
> develop "inside out" swings that actually result in
> less power and most pitchers never really learn to
> locate pitches inside. Nevermind how difficult it is
> for a scout to project the raw power and HR
> potential in a player when he switches from aluminum
> to wood. 
> 
> It isn't likely that aluminum bats are going to go
> away on the collegiate or even HS/Legion level
> anytime soon and sadly it will probably take a very
> public, gruesome and tragic event to occur before
> the NCAA really looks at the issue closely. 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jeffrey Volk
> 
> 
> 
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