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May 22, 2007

Big East Baseball!

Filed under: Big East,Coaches,Conference,Recruiting — Dennis @ 7:28 am

Today kicks off the 2007 Big East Baseball Tournament at Keyspan Park in Brooklyn, NY. It will begin with an eight team double-elimination bracket and ends with the conference champion and a few other teams getting bids into the 64 team national tournament. The seedings fell into place like this:

1. St. John’s
2. Rutgers
3. Louisville
4. Pitt
5. USF
6. Villanova
7. Notre Dame
8. UConn

Pitt and South Florida play in the 4-5 matchup at 5:00 PM today and all of the results can be found here. I do not follow Pitt baseball closely but every week or so I try to remember to check the website and see how they’re doing; still haven’t found time to make the 20 minute drive to Trees Field and see them play though. Usually they play Duquesne at PNC Park — and yet they decide to throw it on a Wednesday afternoon.

A 27-25 (15-11 in conference) record was good enough to get them a 4th seed when they were projected to be around 9th (and out of the conference tourney) back at the beginning of the season.

That the Panthers even reached the Big East tourney makes this season a success story. They lost their first eight games of the season, including games to top-ranked Vanderbilt and top-20 Coastal Carolina, but recovered to win their next six before beginning conference play.

The team doesn’t really have it easy at all.

They receive only 8.5 scholarships a year, three-plus below the NCAA maximum (11.7), to fill out their roster.

That means Jordano splits scholarships into percentages, with some players receiving half tuition and others covering the cost of books. It’s not much, but sometimes enough to entice a talented player to walk on.

That announcement of the new baseball field and training complex should make it a little easier to lure potential recruits.

Now, the school is focusing on long overdue facilities for its “Olympic” sports of baseball, softball, soccer and track and field.

“We love playing here,” Jordano said of Trees Field, “but when you get the opportunity to get something brand-new and state-of-the-art, it’s nice.”

As long as they don’t make the players go swimming in Trees Pool. I spent my entire weekend in that pool (long story) and probably developed hypothermia — great isn’t it?





How do you give a 0.7 scholarship?….never saw that before…

Comment by Marco 05.22.07 @ 3:19 pm

0.7 scholarship:

You give a 70% tuition reimbursement to a student athlete.

Comment by ChrisA 05.22.07 @ 5:07 pm

Where is the story on the supposed “punishment” handed out at PSU?

Comment by Stuart 05.22.07 @ 7:35 pm

did we win this baseball game??

Comment by Kurt 05.22.07 @ 8:46 pm

Thanks ChrisA….next question, why is the baseball team underfunded? Maybe I’m alone, but I specify my donation dollars are to go to the baseball team, maybe its b/c I played baseball as an undergrad at an underfunded state school, but it seems unbelievable that a major D1 school, Big East no less can’t even give out their full scholarship allotment…..

Comment by Marco 05.22.07 @ 9:09 pm

from the horses own mouth!….”I don’t care whether they release it or don’t release it,” Paterno said. “I don’t care if they find out I made 5, 6 million bucks a year. That’s fine. Putting up with (the media), I guess I deserve it.” Check it out folks…last paragraph @

link to msn.foxsports.com

Why else would he pull that number of 5-6 million out of the air….that’s absolutely absurd…where are all of the PSucks apologists now…? Specifically Erin & Eric…?

Comment by Marco 05.22.07 @ 9:16 pm

We lost, 2-1. Not unusual seeing a baseball team from Pittsburgh lose…

The main story – Pitt had 6 errors to USF’s zero. Yuck.

Comment by mjb 05.22.07 @ 11:56 pm

I don’t care what Paterno makes..besides coaches at Big time schools make their money from the foundation/fundraising arms “affiliated with the school” not as much from the school itself.

So whatever number you end of digging up, keep in mind that is through school monies only.

Comment by scoocher 05.23.07 @ 9:36 am

Here’s a link that I think Chas put up a while ago. It’s a look at athletic dept. budgets – pretty much all colleges are listed in some capacity. Sport by sport breakdowns of funding and funding per player.
link to ope.ed.gov

It’s interesting.

Comment by ChrisA 05.23.07 @ 9:50 am

What a joke, his team has to clean the stadium after games…I’m sure they learned their lesson JoePa you old dirt bag.

Comment by ChrisK 05.23.07 @ 12:42 pm

Since Joe is requiring the entire team to be there on Sundays will it cut into his “practice” or team time allowed by the NCAA? That would be a real punishment for the program.

Comment by Cris 05.23.07 @ 12:49 pm

Pitt vs. UConn playing right now in the losers bracket.

Comment by CJ 05.23.07 @ 1:24 pm

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