BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[A.G.]

Thanks...
...a shame the NCAA is too cheap to have the set-up for Live Stats.

It's the responsibility of the host site for the regionals, just like the first two weekends of the basketball tournament and the first four rounds of the football playoffs.

Thanks for the clarification.  I understand completly.

[mybleedinghands]

that StatCrew software is pretty damn expensive, especially the one that lets you do live stats. if the programs a lot of schools make for their games are any sort of indicator of the budget the sports information department has, then a lot of schools have an even smaller budget than LC's sports info department, and the LC sports info budget is nothing to get excited about to say the least.

info based on www.statecrew.com
assuming a school already has some version of the non-live stats statcrew baseball software, an upgrade for the software that allows live stats is $125 - a new version would be $350. tasftp is also required, and that costs $350 alone. an XML license is free, but it has to be renewed every so often, but it doesn't list a price for that. i don't know if anything else is required, but those two things alone is quite a significant sum of money. 475 for the upgrade option, or $700 for the brand new option - either one would be no small dent in a sports info departments budget.

[A.G.]

 

Holy smokes....
...no wonder it took the Big South Conf (D-I schools) 'til THIS year to go on-line with it.

[mybleedinghands]

Holy smokes....
...no wonder it took the Big South Conf (D-I schools) 'til THIS year to go on-line with it.

lol yep. its one of those products where you buy it once and then don't upgrade or buy a brand new one until you absolutely have to (or unless you work at a sports info department with a good budget), so they have to charge a lot since the resale value is pretty low.

[Pat Coleman]

A lot of conferences provide it.

[Catfishncwc]

Thought you ODAC people would like to know Matt Hudgins from VWC has signed with the Cubs. 

[mybleedinghands]

http://www.vagazette.com/sports/va-sports2_070707jul07,0,4567890.story?coll=va-sports

an article on LC's spencer garrett

[GoldGlove]

Has anyone noticed how well former R-MC pitcher Travis Beazley is doing in proball?  He is going off, winning five of his first six starts since being promoted last month to High-A.  He recently had a 19 inning scoreless streak and was just named California League Pitcher of the week.  He is giving a great name to the ODAC, the South Region and for that matter DIII baseball.  I would say that R-MC baseball is back on the map!

[Ralph Turner]

The change in the subject heading is to facilitate identifying a message board by sport and then by conference.  Looking forward to 2008... 

[mybleedinghands]

Shenandoah University has officially announced it's desire to join the ODAC. Read page 6 of this newsletter for more info http://www.su.edu/pr/publications/sun/Sept19.pdf

[A.G.]

That move would make sense...as the ODAC would certainly be more travel friendly.

[NCWC]

Any guesses on who will be the teams to beat this year in the ODAC?

[A.G.]

VWC will be tough...especially with their #2 SP back...but I think they will really miss Hudgen's bat in the middle of the order.

HSC will be very good...and was very young last year.

LC has almost the entire team back...and does not have a senior pitcher on the staff and has added more offense this year.

BC lost a bunch...but Shaeffer will anchor the staff.

W&L lost a bunch, too.

I will say it will be a 3-way battle between HSC, VWC, and LC for season honors...with nay one of the 3 having a shot at an at-large bid should they not win the tournament.

[mm77]

Any schools have freshmen that will contribute right away?

[A.G.]

LC has a couple of freshmen pitchers and a catcher who may contribute.