BB: NJAC: New Jersey Athletic Conference

phil · March 21, 2008, 09:57:43 PM

Mike Oliver of TCNJ struck out 16 in 7 innings of work against 9-4-1 Haverford. TCNJ moves to 10-2 with the 9-1 win.

guyman · April 10, 2008, 10:40:35 AM

Anybody thinking of going to TCNJ at Kean on 4/26?

rjburke · April 17, 2008, 04:33:24 PM

Absolutely! These should be an interesting two weeks, no?

baseball1001 · April 18, 2008, 10:24:38 PM

This afternoon Montclair's head coach Norm Schoenig won his 600th career game over long time rival William Patterson University. Both of these programs have a vast history, and today, Montclair honored recently retired head Coach Jeff Albies. It is nice to see that two teams who have such a rivalry, can still show respect to one another. Montclair in honor of coach Albies today held Jeff Albies day at their stadium with a small ceremony during the 5th inning. Both of these coaches have done a lot for division III baseball and their players. I just wanted to recognize and say congrats to Coach Schoenig on his achievement. Hopefully there are many more to come.

mideastfan2 · April 18, 2008, 10:31:41 PM

Congrats!! A great coach can mean everything to a program. They can instill not only success, but tradition, and a family like atmosphere which can span many decades and link players for many years.

d3baseballnut · April 20, 2008, 09:14:11 AM

baseball1001

I ask you to please not be overly naive about the strength of the njac this year. I think everyone knows it is not as strong as it has been in years past, not discounting that it is still a very good league. A lot of teams are having down years, regardless of how competitive the top of the league is. Just because its competitive doesnt change the fact that montclair is leading the conference and already has 11 losses, and i believe like 5 in a row at one point. TCNJ is having a great year, but even teams such as rowan, who everyone expected to be a sleeper, has lost a lot of games. Even Kean i would say is a little overrated this year, really reaping the benefits of a championship last year, despite THIS year's rankings being exactly that.....THIS years rankings. So i agree there maybe should be a little more on the njac, but i dont think Jim should make a whole page for the njac or anything, bowing down and worshiping it, just because it has had some good years in the past.

kscer · April 20, 2008, 11:40:55 AM

There is a board for the NJAC, just like all the other conferences. That's where conference specific topics should be discussed. I think the coverage is balanced but maybe weighted early towards western and southern teams because in February there's nothing else.

Jim Dixon · April 20, 2008, 12:44:06 PM

Quote from: baseball1001 on April 20, 2008, 03:03:09 AM
Mr. Dixon...As an avid NJAC fan and supporter I was wondering why this website does not do more coverage on arguably the best conference in division three baseball? Any explanations??

First: This is a national site and I try to cover all teams/conferences equally.

Second: Those teams that promote themselves get better exposure. I would like no more than highlight every team. When sitting down to find a number of games to recap, it is difficult to search every web site for the best 6-8 games of the day. Therefore any team that allows me to find a recap more easily will be highlighted more often.

The only thing I track is the photos on the front page. Looking back over the year over 90 different schools have had at least one photo posted (my goal is all 300+ schools but that is a tall order). Next year I will track stories.

Then again this not the forum (national topics) to discuss this.

Moderator's note: Merged to the NJAC board for further discussion.

Jose Fulgencio got front page coverage last week for his Faces-in-the-Crowd SI appearance.

Additional point. The NJAC SID's are encourged to send press releases for posting. Of the ten NJAC members, I count the number of press releases from the participating programs that have been sent to D3baseball.com as 0, 0, 0, 0, 4 and 5 from 6 of the 10 schools.

Finally, the number of teams who are making news in mid- to late May is dramatically less, and frequently includes NJAC schools. Facetiously speaking, I am certain that I speak for all of D-III, in that we will gladly accept the voluntary cessation of any baseball activity from any NJAC school after May 15th of any year in perpetuity.

Pat Coleman has frequently mentioned that he doesn't necessarily need to load up on Mount Union stories in D3Football.com in mid-October. There will likely be plenty of Mount Union football material for D3Football.com in December. Any "man bites dog" stories (i.e., Mount Union losses) any sooner will be given front page coverage.

s/ Ralph Turner

baseball1001 · April 20, 2008, 02:33:21 PM

Thank-you. I imagine with all the D-3 schools it is certainly hard to cover every game. The website does a great job hands down.

D3baseballnut:

I think the NJAC teams are as strong as years past, but the amount of dominate pitchers may not be what it used to be. If you look over Kean, TCNJ, Rowan, and Montclair's schedules they all have quality wins over ranked opponents. And as for Montclair starting off 1-5 with those 5 straight, they are 18-6 since then. I will post this in the NJAC section, as to get it out of the National Topic forum. Sorry for the post in the wrong area.

baseball1001 · April 20, 2008, 02:34:52 PM

(copied and pasted from National Topics Discussion) posted on the wrong board. Sorry.

Thank-you. I imagine with all the D-3 schools it is certainly hard to cover every game. The website does a great job hands down.

D3baseballnut:

I think the NJAC teams are as strong as years past, but the amount of dominate pitchers may not be what it used to be. If you look over Kean, TCNJ, Rowan, and Montclair's schedules they all have quality wins over ranked opponents. And as for Montclair starting off 1-5 with those 5 straight, they are 18-6 since then. I will post this in the NJAC section, as to get it out of the National Topic forum. Sorry for the post in the wrong area.

Ralph Turner · April 20, 2008, 02:57:23 PM

Quote from: baseball1001 on April 20, 2008, 02:34:52 PM
(copied and pasted from National Topics Discussion) posted on the wrong board. Sorry.

Thank-you. I imagine with all the D-3 schools it is certainly hard to cover every game. The website does a great job hands down.

D3baseballnut:

I think the NJAC teams are as strong as years past, but the amount of dominate pitchers may not be what it used to be. If you look over Kean, TCNJ, Rowan, and Montclair's schedules they all have quality wins over ranked opponents. And as for Montclair starting off 1-5 with those 5 straight, they are 18-6 since then. I will post this in the NJAC section, as to get it out of the National Topic forum. Sorry for the post in the wrong area.

Welcome to the boards, baseball1001! +1

baseball1001 · April 20, 2008, 04:55:40 PM

Again sorry, I did not mean to sound brash, and as I read my original post, it is certain that I was. I look at this site daily, and I love what you guys are doing. Keep up the good work.

Knightstalker · April 21, 2008, 11:59:38 AM

baseball1001,
I think it is had to dispute the fact the NJAC is one of the strongest conferences in the country year in year out. I feel that some of our bottom feeder teams could go to other conferences and be among the better teams.

phil · April 21, 2008, 02:34:13 PM

d3baseballnut,
Since you're a Hopkins fan, perhaps this is the year which they finally survive a regional with the NJAC. If that should happen then everyone on the NJAC board can point out that the Jays finally won a regional in a down year for the NJAC!

I also like how you pointed out that TCNJ is having such a fantastic year so you can either crow about a win or brush off a loss when the Lions take on Johns Hopkins today. We'll see what happens when TCNJ has a committee of pitchers take the mound after playing 5 NJAC games in four days.

Montclair has lost their share of games, but when you're 5-5 against the d3baseball top 25 you're not exactly an easy "W" either.

Best of luck to your squad the rest of the year. Hopefully you'll take it easy on the poor NJAC come playoff time.

Lefty · April 21, 2008, 02:59:14 PM

Quote from: phil on April 21, 2008, 02:34:13 PM
I also like how you pointed out that TCNJ is having such a fantastic year so you can either crow about a win or brush off a loss when the Lions take on Johns Hopkins today. We'll see what happens when TCNJ has a committee of pitchers take the mound after playing 5 NJAC games in four days.

TCNJ @ Johns Hopkins has been postponed due to rain. They have rescheduled it for next Monday the 28th. With that being two days after the Kean doubleheader and right before the NJAC playoffs I highly doubt TCNJ will throw their top pitchers in Baltimore.