School, campus, and baseball program - pros and cons???

In a few words--It is a basketball school.

very solid academics, great campus, great area, much improved program

One thing to take note of is that the field is off campus about 15 minutes away. It is a very nice facility, although I know I would prefer an on-campus field.

Villanova is an absolutely beautiful campus and a great academic reputation. I do know one of the boys in the incoming recruiting class, and he's top-notch. However, I have to agree with the above post....I am amazed at how far from campus the field is located. The traffic is horrible too....makes the drive seem even further than it probably actually is.

BEENTHERE

That is not so---in fact until recently track was the big sport at 'Nova--hoops left when Rollie left

Baseball is on the upswing

on phila main line.

Nova is in an exciting time for baseball.

The Cats just came off of there 2nd 30 win season in three years. They have a young energetic coaching staff. The cats have had many players draft over the last three seasons and have had some great recruting class the past two seasons.

As far as the baseball facility is concerned yes it is off campus about 10 minutes away in Plymouth Meeting. The Stadium is adding lights soon and the total cost off the complex is about 2.1 million dollars! Not to bad for a 10 min ride.
They seem to draw good crowds on the weekend and are very fan friendly. Been to alot of college campus fields that do not even come close to the qualitiy of Villanova's and that not even scratching the service to say how this facility compares to most in the central to northern regions of the country when you talk about baseball facilities.

Seems like a very soild program heading in the right direction

Go Cats

VU wishes it was a basketball school! get your head out of the 80's Breeth!

Last I heard, they did build an on campus stadium, or one much closer than the park near the old Vet.

If you have not been to nova you can not comment on the situation. It is a great campus and as everyone else has said the baseball program is only getting better. You would be foolish to not like 'nova.

I think there are two main issues to consider -- (1) Do you like the coach (2) What's the situation at your position? How many guys are ahead of you? How soon will you play?

If you like the coach, and you are playing, you will not mind the drive to the ball field off campus! If you don't like your coach and you're not playing, you'll be miserable wherever you go.

To All

Coach Godri recruited my son to New Mexico State University 10 years plus ago--

He is one of the finest gentlemen I know in the college baseball world--- I cannot say more than that-- add in the new facility and the 'Nova Aura how bad can it be ???????????

What if you are playing and you dont like your coach.

As Earl Weaver used to say regarding Jim Palmer-- We don't have to be friends. We don't have to have dinner --all he has to do is go to the mound every 4th day and win his 20 plus games

A Big East Conference Baseball Team.

Typically ranks 160-175 out of 290+ DI Teams.

Strength of Schedule about 245 out 290+ D1 Teams.

Iterative Stength Rating (team quality for D1 baseball) is ~200 out of 290+.

2007 RPI ranking (for NCAA Post Season Play)
125 / 290.

2006 RPI ranking 182 / 293.

2005 RPI ranking 126 / 290.

First year Hitting/1b Coach is a class act
(and also played in one of the early Bear Classic
HS Showcase for Our National Pastime, at the Univ of Maryland)

cheers
Bear

Hey Bear,

Is there a place where those stats are located for all teams, D-1 and D-2? Or, did you compile all that on your own?

I don't eval DII as much. (Not a DII in Maryland)

If there's DII (or two of interest,
I will get back to you in separate emme.

DII M&D's are ...more sensitive than DI's,
(at least on this web site) so I prefer
to go off-line.

Regards

Floridafan,
For D-1 info, go to www.boydsworld.com.

A non statistical analysis:

Nova is a second tier Big East program. Typically they play over .500 ball by beating up on the local A10, Patriot League and Ivy teams in non-conference games.

It's a big park where the wind usually blows in from left. It's a pitchers park. Aside from the wind there's a lot of foul territory in play. A player told my son the coach loves left handed hitters and outfielders who can run the gaps given the nature of the park.

There have been rumors of an on campus or near campus facility to be built. I've never heard anyone confirm the rumors. The most recent information I've heard is they only fund six rides.

"The Stadium is adding lights soon" - 2004 post

Hasn't happened.

quote:

Originally posted by PABBfan:
www.boydsworld.com.

Nation Boyd (his real name) performes excellent analysis of college baseball (and probably epitimizes that service since it's free).

However, Boyd does not rank DII-DIII-others, only DI. He does write back if emailed and effectively collaborates.

Of course all material published on Boyd's World, is copyrighted by Boyd Nation, so reproduction directly from his site of an entire list without permission is prohibited (and according to Boyd, 'just plain tacky'). I agree.

cheers

postscript: When did the Big East become a two tier Baseball Conference?