This article was originally published on Thursday, May 16, 2013 and is only presented for historical purposes. The information below may no longer be relevant or accurate.
Arizona has just four four-year colleges that have baseball programs, the sixth-fewest in the nation despite being 15th in population.
Chandler Seton Catholic coach Marty Maier has a solution, but admits it will never come to pass, and certainly not for the purpose of improving the college prospects of local baseball players. But in a perfect world, he’d see some of the more populous local community colleges — such as the 25,000-student Mesa Community College and the 16,000-student Gateway Community College — expanded to four-year schools.