College World Series organizers said that "virtually everything went right" with this year's event, "leaving only a few tweaks an maybe a couple of trims to consider for the event's second year" at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, according to a front-page piece by Christopher Burbach of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. CWS organizers said that "initial responses indicated that TD Ameritrade Park performed very well for players and fans." NCAA VP/Baseball & Football Dennis Poppe: "It has gone amazingly well. ... We're very pleased with the play of the game. I've heard nothing but positives from the coaches." Some discussions, however, have "begun about changing the 'batter's eye.'" A row of evergreen trees "stands in front of a dark fence in the batter's eye," and Omaha Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority President & CEO Roger Dixon said that NCAA baseball officials are "considering whether that part of TD Ameritrade Park needs changing." Dixon: "If we heard anything negative about the stadium at all, it was about 'the Christmas trees' out in center field." Burbach notes there also were "some complains from fans early in the series that speakers were too loud under the overhang," though stadium officials "made adjustments." Another complaint "would be more difficult to resolve." Fans in some seats "under the overhang on the first base side and in right field can't see the big scoreboard and video screen." Dixon said it is "not an easy fix" and called it a "down-the-road" item. CWS of Omaha Inc. President Jack Diesing Jr. said that the "vast majority of the approximately 2,700 season ticket-holders were happy with their seat assignments." He indicated that only about 30 fans "were unhappy enough that they asked for reconsideration." Diesing: "Ninety-nine percent of everything that happened this week went well. We had 10 percent more people attend every game. They stayed for the whole game, and they were comfortable in their surroundings" (OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, 6/30).
