As I sat at Coaches’ Stadium early Saturday morning, waiting for the game to begin, I noticed something. A lot of adults were in the stands but only a handful of Eastern students.

That really puzzled me. There were not many students taking advantage of such a new and beautiful stadium on a beautiful, warm day.

In an attempt to ask the students around campus about the baseball team, the initial response from each person was the same: “I don’t know anything about the baseball team.”

That was obvious.

But in an attempt to dig deeper about why students don’t know about the baseball team, more interesting answers came out.

From the students’ opinions, the responses are summed up in two words: Poor advertising.

“College baseball, in general, isn’t that big, and to be honest, I don’t think this team gets a lot of publicity,” said Chris Mulden, a senior history major.

“I haven’t really heard anybody around campus talking about the team, which is probably one reason why nobody goes and supports the team.”

It doesn’t seem the team has ever been the talk of the campus like the basketball team has, or the football team or other non-sporting events like the upcoming Dave Chappelle concert.

“I don’t ever see anything posted around campus about the baseball games.” Paul Lotz, a physical education major.

“Maybe it’s because there isn’t enough money in the budget to fully advertise the games in the paper or on bulletin boards.”

Maybe they put so much money into building the new stadium they forgot to advertise. It’s pretty hard to believe that statement because they have constructed this new facility. But not a lot of students are filling the stands because they don’t know when they play or they just don’t care.

One example: Big posters of Eastern’s football and basketball teams’ entire schedules are posted in every building on campus and in the majority of dorm rooms. But when baseball season came around, there was no big poster of their schedule in sight.

What’s wrong with this picture?

It could also be because of time conflictions with classes and homework with the semester winding down or just pure, flat out disinterest in baseball all together. But it seems to me even though the athletic department tries to give as much publicity as possible to each of the sports — or at least that’s what they say — its hard to do because of the lack of interest by the student population.

Could this attitude by the students be because of bad advertising? I think so.

“Really the only major advertising I see around campus is for the basketball or the football team,” said Tyrone Garner II, a junior jazz and percussion major.

“I think the paper should spice up the stories to make the students feel like they’ve missed something,” said Randall Green, a freshmen undecided major. “It’s easy to recognize the best player on the basketball team, Henry Domercant, or on the football team, Tony Romo or J.R. Taylor, but I couldn’t name one person on the baseball team, let alone their best player.”

Only time will tell if the baseball team will get the publicity around campus I think they should get.