Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/28/bell-named-pitching-coach-at-florida-state/
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Bell Named Pitching Coach At Florida State
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? Mike Martin didn?t have to sell Florida State?s rich baseball history in his search for a top-flight pitching coach with Division I experience. Mike Bell was a part of that history and now he?s back in Tallahassee where he helped the Seminoles earn a pair of College World Series appearances on the [...]
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
College World Series Championship Preview
Breakdown With Guest Analyst Mike Rooney… CollegeBaseball360 welcomes current ESPN college baseball analyst Mike Rooney as a guest contributor ? lending his unique perspective in previewing the upcoming College World Series Championship series. … Mike Rooney graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and played four years of baseball for the Irish on [...]
Brian O?Connor CWS Interview
Virginia head coach Brian O’Connor discusses his team’s heartbreaking loss to South Carolina that ended the Cavaliers’ season.
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/25/brian-oconnor-cws-interview/
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
College World Series Championship Preview
Breakdown With Guest Analyst Mike Rooney… CollegeBaseball360 welcomes current ESPN college baseball analyst Mike Rooney as a guest contributor ? lending his unique perspective in previewing the upcoming College World Series Championship series. … Mike Rooney graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and played four years of baseball for the Irish on [...]
Monday, June 27, 2011
2011 College World Series Photos
Check out all the 2011 College World Series�action in the CB360 photo albums>>
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/26/2011-college-world-series-photos/
Sunday, June 26, 2011
2011 College World Series Photos
Check out all the 2011 College World Series�action in the CB360 photo albums>>
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/26/2011-college-world-series-photos/
A Year Later: Life in the Rosenblatt Stadium Neighborhood
It hasn’t been quite a year yet since the last baseball game was played at Omaha’s legendary Rosenblatt Stadium but already it’s hard to tell that this sleepy little enclave in South O was once the host of college baseball’s “greatest show on dirt”. Neighbors have adjusted. Some like the peace and quiet. Others long [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/24/a-year-later-life-in-the-rosenblatt-stadium-neighborhood/
Friday, June 24, 2011
College World Series Day 6 Notebook
Bad News for the Bears: Virginia�Writes the Ending�to Cal’s Storybook Season Game 10:�Final Stats | Cal Recap | VA Recap | Photo Album Omaha (6/23/11) Fabulous baseball weather continued in Omaha on this sixth day of the 2011 College World Series at the new TD Ameritrade Park. At game time, players and fans enjoyed partly [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/23/college-world-series-day-6-notebook/
More Trouble at Ohio State. Really.
Another day, another bad omen for Jim Tressel at Ohio State.
With Buckeye Nation still reeling from a string of previous revelations regarding potential rule-breaking behavior in Columbus, news broke on Thursday of even more trouble. And this latest broadside is more cruel than those that have come before--because it was fired, as it turns out, by a one-time Buckeye star.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/05/26/more-trouble-at-ohio-state.htm
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Stewart Out, Holgorsen In at WVU
Dana Holgorsen is the new coach at West Virginia.
And his ascension to the top job could not have unfolded in a more awkward fashion.
Holgorsen, the former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator who has named "head-coach-in-waiting" for the Mountaineers late last year, was introduced as the program's head-coach-for-real on Friday night--about a year or so ahead of schedule. The timeline accelerated thanks to the alleged misdeeds of coach Bill Stewart, who is reported to have sought the assistance of local reporters in digging up "dirt" on Holgorsen.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/06/11/stewart-out-holgorsen-in-at-wvu.htm
SEC Takes a Stand on Oversigning. But Not Really.
The SEC has finally done something about its oversigning problem.
The only question, it seems, is whether the nation's leading football conference has done enough.
Over the objections of the league's football coaches, SEC presidents have approved new rules that will cap the number of players coaches can sign each year at 25. That's down from the previous cap of 28.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/06/05/sec-takes-a-stand-on-oversigning-but-not-really.htm
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Kent Emanuel Interview
North Carolina pitcher Kent Emanuel discusses his complete game in UNC’s 2011 College World Series win over Texas.
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/20/kent-emanuel-interview/
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Kent Emanuel Interview
North Carolina pitcher Kent Emanuel discusses his complete game in UNC’s 2011 College World Series win over Texas.
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/20/kent-emanuel-interview/
College World Series Day 4 Notebook
Play Begins With Morning Suspended Game… If you?re going to the College World Series, your one stop for the most officially licensed 2011 College World Series apparel is the all new Dugout, located right across the street from the Road To Omaha statue outside TD Ameritrade Stadium. If you can?t make it to Omaha, simply [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/21/college-world-series-day-4-notebook/
Monday, June 20, 2011
College World Series Day 2 Notebook
A Look At Father’s Day Action From Omaha… If you’re going to the College World Series, your one stop for the most officially licensed 2011 College World Series apparel is the all new Dugout, located right across the street from the Road To Omaha statue outside TD Ameritrade Stadium. If you can’t make it to [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/19/college-world-series-day-2-notebook/
Bryson Smith CWS Interview
Florida outfielder Bryson Smith discusses his 2-for-2 performance after the Gators’ day one win over Texas at the 2011 College World Series.
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/19/bryson-smith-cws-interview/
Friday, June 17, 2011
With Tressel Out, the Rebuilding Begins at Ohio State
I never thought we'd get to this point.
For the better part of the past five months, I've been telling everyone who would listen that there was no way--absolutely no way--that Jim Tressel would lose his job over this ridiculous scandal in Columbus. I couldn't see it happening. I honestly couldn't. And there was one very simple reason why: Tressel was as perfect a coach as Ohio State has ever had.
An Ohio native and son of an Ohio college coach (his father, Lee, led Baldwin-Wallace College to the Division III national title in 1978), Tressel seemed to do everything right, at least in the eyes of the Buckeye partisans. He embraced all of the traditions that Ohio State fans hold so dear. He beat Michigan--and made no secret of taking great joy in doing so. He won Big Ten titles and dominated the conference like no coach in decades. He claimed one national title and played for two others. He was stately, and understated, and a Buckeye to the core.
Plus, well, he won. He won big.
He was, without question, one of the two best coaches that Ohio State ever had.
The only guy who was better? Well, Woody Hayes of course.
It was for all of those reasons--the wins over Michigan, especially--that I figured Tressel was untouchable. Absolutely, unquestionably untouchable. You see, being an Ohio native myself, knowing how much Ohioans love that program and understanding on a very fundamental level how vitally important it is (both culturally, and in a bottom-line sense) for Ohio State to win on the football field each autumn Saturday, I was absolutely certain that the officials in Columbus would do everything in their power to keep Tressel on the sidelines. Because let's face it: Given his enormous success, it would be in their best interest to do precisely that.
Fire Tressel? It could never happen.
That's what I believed. I believed that very strongly, in fact.
Well, as we now know, I was wrong.
Because as it turns out, Tressel, a man who presented himself publicly as a paragon of class and "doing things the right way," turned out to be just another crooked college football coach--just another guy who was willing to look the other way so long as the recruits kept signing on the dotted line, so long as the wins kept coming, and so long as the money was good (and yes, the money was good).
It's sad, really. Sad, that is, the way this remarkable ten-year run had to end.
Tressel was a superb coach, as his record suggests. Mocked at time for his conservatism, one could certainly not argue with the results: An 106-22 record, seven Big Ten titles, one national title, and a stretch of conference dominance not seen since the height of the Woody era. I mean, Tressel was a fantastic winner. Dominant. Consistent. Relentless.
But now? Well, now his legacy, once seen to be on par with the great Hayes, will also include that most dreaded of descriptives: Cheat. There is no escaping the reality that, for all of his success, and for all he's done for Ohio State, Tressel's legacy will be stained forever. He will never be remembered as fondly as Woody. Nor should he be.
Of course, one man's legacy's is not what this mess is really all about. It's mostly about the future of one of college football's flagship programs. And at least in the short term, Tressel must also accept the unhappy truth that he's left this Ohio State program--a program he professed to love so much--in a state of absolute crisis.
It has long been forgotten now, but it should be pointed out that this Buckeye team won 12 games last year, capping another Big Ten title season with a much-needed win over an SEC team (Arkansas) in the Sugar Bowl. With a ton of talent coming back for 2011, it was widely assumed that the Buckeyes would win the Big Ten yet again; some experts had them pegged as national title contenders. At the very least, this team was going to win 10 games and play in yet another BCS bowl game.
Besides, that's what Tressel always delivered.
Of course, a national title is now most likely a pipe dream, as is a Big Ten crown. Talented or not, this team will not--and I emphasize, will not--win the Big Ten in 2011. They will be lucky to win ten games, actually, because they are now rudderless, their leader fired unceremoniously, and the very future of their program thrown into serious doubt.
Let us face the facts, folks: Luke Fickell, the interim coach charged with cleaning up this mess, has absolutely no chance to hold on to this job past 2011. Barring a miracle run this year, he'll be cast aside when this nightmare season comes to a close. Many of the players will very likely face the same fate, as Tressel's real replacement (Mark Dantonio? Gary Patterson?) brings in his own staff, his own ideas, his own recruits. And then there's that black cloud of NCAA sanctions hanging overhead, which will not only keep potential recruits away, but very well could drive many current Buckeyes to transfer elsewhere. I mean, why wouldn't they?
In the wake of Tressel's transgressions, you see, this program faces nothing less than a complete rebuild. But the rebuild cannot begin until demolition is complete.
And here's the thing: Tressel's firing was but the first swing of the wrecking ball.
There are many, many more to come.
Photo: Jim Tressel was the perfect coach for Ohio State. Except, of course, he wasn't. (Getty Images)
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The 2011 College World Series Field Of Eight
A Look At The Teams Bound For Omaha… Eight teams are now bound for the first College World Series to be played in TD Ameritrade Stadium. It’s a field that’s heavy on heavyweights and light on the little guy. CLICK HERE to see the daily schedule of games and TV assignments. The 2011 College World [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/14/the-2011-college-world-series-field-of-eight/
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
NCBWA 2011 Freshman All-American Team
34 Freshman Honored By Writers Association… LYNCHBURG, VA. (NCBWA) ? A total of 34 standout freshmen college baseball players from every part of the country are featured on the 2011 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Freshman All-American Team, the organization announced today. The 2011 NCBWA Freshman All-American Team features players from 17 conferences and [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/13/ncbwa-2011-freshman-all-american-team/
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Super Regional Podcast ? Jason Krizan Interview
Dallas Baptist Standout On Verge Of “The Goal”… In a season where the new BBCOR bat standards have seen offensive numbers drop across college baseball, Jason Krizan has defied the odds. The Dallas Baptist outfielder is batting a robust .419 with 10 home runs and 81 RBIs, while leading the nation with 39 doubles. Krizan’s [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/10/super-regional-podcast-jason-krizan-interview/
Saturday, June 11, 2011
2011 College Baseball Super Regional Host Sites
All Eight Sites Announced… The NCAA has announced all eight host sites for the 2011 NCAA Super Regionals. Seven of the eight sites were announced at midnight Monday night, but the eighth site was released Tuesday afternoon. Cal and Dallas Baptist were both upset winner of their regionals. Neither of their campus sites could be [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/07/2011-college-baseball-super-regional-host-sites/
Monday?s NCAA Regional Final Matchups
Last Games With Super Regional Berths On The Line… A minimum of seven and possibly nine regional games are set for Monday. Two games were resumed Monday afternoon after they were halted due to weather on Sunday. Florida State defeated Alabama 8-1 in the bottom of the 6th inning in Tallahassee, while defending national champion [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/06/mondays-ncaa-regional-final-matchups/
Friday, June 10, 2011
New Process for Sale of College World Series Tickets Raises Questions, Anxiety
Along with�the move to the new TD Ameritrade Park for the 2011 College World Series, the NCAA has implemented a few changes as to how fans will get tickets. Changes that are raising questions for some, anxiety for others. The most noticeable change is that reserved tickets for individual games were not made available for [...]
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Nebraska Names Darin Erstad Head Baseball Coach
Former Two-Sport Star Promoted At Alma Mater… Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne has announced that Darin Erstad has been hired as the head coach of the Husker baseball program. “Darin is very passionate about Nebraska and especially our baseball program,” Osborne said. “Nobody is going to work harder than Darin. He showed that both here [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/02/nebraska-names-darin-erstad-head-baseball-coach/
2011 NCBWA DIII National Awards
Eastern Connecticut State University outfielder Jim Schult (Sr., Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay) has been named National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association NCAA Division III ?Position Player of the Year,? while Marietta College?s Brian Gasser (Jr., New Philadelphia, Ohio/Indian Valley) earned that organization?s NCAA Division III ?Pitcher of the Year? honors. Schult was named the New England [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/02/2011-ncbwa-diii-national-awards/
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
SEC Takes a Stand on Oversigning. But Not Really.
The SEC has finally done something about its oversigning problem.
The only question, it seems, is whether the nation's leading football conference has done enough.
Over the objections of the league's football coaches, SEC presidents have approved new rules that will cap the number of players coaches can sign each year at 25. That's down from the previous cap of 28.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/06/05/sec-takes-a-stand-on-oversigning-but-not-really.htm
Sunday, June 5, 2011
SEC Takes a Stand on Oversigning. But Not Really.
The SEC has finally done something about its oversigning problem.
The only question, it seems, is whether the nation's leading football conference has done enough.
Over the objections of the league's football coaches, SEC presidents have approved new rules that will cap the number of players coaches can sign each year at 25. That's down from the previous cap of 28.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/06/05/sec-takes-a-stand-on-oversigning-but-not-really.htm
College Baseball Stats Leaders ? NCAA Tourney Edition
A Look At NCAA Participants… Throughout the season we have posted a weekly look at the national stats leaders in key categories. With the NCAA Tournament about to begin we thought we would take a look at where participants who are in the field of 64 rank among the nation’s top 50. We have included [...]
Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/06/02/college-baseball-stats-leaders-ncaa-tourney-edition/
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Forcier: Miami Is Too Far Away. Auburn, However, Isn't.
And so the Tate Forcier saga continues.
Days after he announced that he would not, in fact, be transferring to Miami, the once-promising and now obviously confused quarterback says that he's set his sights on some new targets.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/05/24/forcier-miami-is-too-far-away-auburn-however-isnt.htm
Friday, June 3, 2011
Arkansas-Little Rock Shortstop Greg Garcia, Georgia Southern Ace Chris Beck Lead Week-15 Primetime Performers
Arkansas-Little Rock junior shortstop/leadoff batter�Greg Garcia (Pflugerville, Texas) and Georgia Southern sophomore ace pitcher�Chris Beck (Jefferson, Ga.) rose to the challenge during their respective conference tournaments, ultimately leading their teams to NCAA automatic bids in thrilling fashion to earn top billing�on the CB360�week-15 Primetime Performers Honor Roll (for May 23-29, 2011), as selected by CollegeBaseball360.com. [...]
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tressel Out at Ohio State
Good-bye, Jim Tressel.
Bringing to an end months of speculation (and misery) in Columbus, Ohio State officials said on Monday morning that Tressel had resigned his position, effective immediately.
The Ohio State program has been under intense scrutiny since the Tattoo-gate scandal first broke in December. But even after Tressel and Ohio State officials addressed that issue, more reports of wrongdoing continued to surface in Columbus, and in recent weeks, even some prominent Buckeye supporters have questioned Tressel's ability to lead the program.
...Source: http://collegefootball.about.com/b/2011/05/30/tressel-out-at-ohio-state.htm
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