BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Bishopleftiesdad]

...and how much has the food bill gone up??

Mine triples for about three weeks  .  They are calorie burning machines, particularly since he is in the weight room, cardio work,  or throwing or hitting.

Happy New Year.

Mine at least triples. Not only that but I have gone from taking the trash to the curb once every other week to 2 trash cans a week. Mostly from the trappings of the extra food. Every time I turn around the trash can is overflowing.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Denison's schedule is posted.

http://denisonbigred.com/sports/bsb/2013-14/schedule

TexasDad,
Do you know where they are going for spring. It does not look like the usual cast of characters that show up to the snowbird classic in port Charlotte Florida.

See the schedue is up as well.

Looks like the team numbers climed by 10, up to 34.

[TexasDad]

This year it is Florida is Russ Matt Central Florida Invitational.
http://www.russmattbaseball.com/page/home/centralflorida

South of Orlanda near Lakeland is what I'm learning.

Roster size did increase from last year and that's a good thing I would think. 34 sounds like a good size. 24 had to have been difficult. From son's comments it also sounded like they had a number of recruits come through Granville in the Fall.

[Dr. Acula]

That's a really strong schedule. That FL schedule is great and followed up by Etta first game back.  Way to crank up the competition Big Red.

[TexasDad]

Where are the other Conference teams going for Spring Break?

Do they typically travel anywhere other than Florida?

[Dr. Acula]

Most of the Ohio teams go to Florida.  Sometimes if they go by bus they'll stop on the way and play a DH with a school in TN or GA maybe.  Most then play 10 games in FL.  I remember Etta went to TX at some point to play their games against some TX D3 schools.  I think FL ends up being the default though because there are tons of other D3 teams down there to play so you can put together a nice schedule.

[TexasDad]

Makes sense.
Would be nice to get him home for a week of games; but that is unlikely.
Some very nice programs out west (son looked at them before deciding on Denison) but the travel becomes an issue I guess.
Just trying to learn my way around D3 ball these days.
Thanks for the insight

[Dr. Acula]

See if this link works...it's a map of the NCAA D3 football programs.  It's enlightening as to the landscape of D3.  Very, very heavily weighted towards the Midwest and East. 

D3 Map

[Bishopleftiesdad]

More and more teams are starting to go to Myrtle beach as well. While there is no tournament, like the Russmatt and snowbird. They sign up to play at the Ripken experience and schedule other teams that will be there. Manchester was there last year. OWU will be going there this year. and then probably alternating between Fla and Myrtle beach, if things go well.

Not sure who we are going to face yet but we come back to hiedelberg, and then two DH's with Case.

Kenyon is an interesting case. They spend close to two weeks in Florida, March 2- march 14 and get most of their out of conference games out of the way. THey come back and have one weekend before conference games start and the go to PA to play University of Pittsburg at Greenburg. Then on their bye weekend in confernce play they against Witt. But once they get back from Florida their are no weekday games.

Pitchers get work early in the season but if you do not make it into the rotation by then the second half of the season pitchers can see limited playing time.

[TexasDad]

DR--Interesting map. Would be interested if there is one for D3 baseball teams. I know there are more D3 colleges that have baseball but not football. University of Dallas (last year's Denison assistant now the head coach there) and Centenary in Shreveport are 2 examples. But, I understand the logistics of getting teams in one spot to play.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

D3Baseball has released their preseason baseball top 25.

http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2014/2014-week-0

NCAC, Wooster comes in at 33. No other NCAC teams make the list. I believe Wooster will eventually climb into the top 25. They have a large number of Seniors comming back. Not sure who elase in the NCAC could make this list.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

OWU clinic is today. I know several players attending.

I hope everybody enjoys the experience.

[TexasDad]

Denison: It's about that time... pic.twitter.com/FKQNPXvpbf

[TexasDad]

sorry the link won't work. Never said I was very bright.

Going to be cold in Ohio this week. A shock to the boy I'm sure. Was 68 degrees when he left on Sunday to head back to school.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Thanks to spence for pointing this out, D3 preseason all americans are out.


One NCAC guy: Reese from Wooster.

http://www.d3baseball.com/awards/all-americans/d3baseball-preseason-allamericans-2014