BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[wordsmith]

Basking in the glow of being declared the Overall Winner in the season long NFL Prediction Contest I now turn my attention to LEC baseball. Preseason Guesselection:
1) EASTCONN 
2) USM 
3) RIC 
4) UMASS B 
5) PLYMOUTH 
6) KSC 
7)UMD 
8) WESTCONN   

[KSCfan]

Big trouble on the news for Eastern!!!

http://www.ctnow.com/sports/

Whats going on?

[ECSUalum]

Jim Schult doing a nice job down under with the Brisbane Bandits.
http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=t4065&t=p_pbp&pid=627962

From Wikipedia:
The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is a professional baseball league in Australia. The league is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF), and is jointly funded by the ABF, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Australian Federal Government. It uses the same name as a now defunct competition held during the 1990s, and though it shares some history of the original league with the Claxton Shield awarded to winners of both competitions, it is considered to be a separate competition. 
The ABL is jointly owned by MLB (75%) and the ABF (25%).

[kscer]

Big trouble on the news for Eastern!!!

http://www.ctnow.com/sports/

Whats going on?

This seems bigger than some incident on the bus after a game!??

[Boggsy789]

Well after picking perfectly the number of conference wins PSU would get last year during the pre-season, the greatest prognosticator since Punxsutawney Phil is here for his 2013 predictions. 

I'd like to make these predictions-
1. USM
2. Plymouth State
3. UMass Boston
4. RIC
5. West Conn
6. UMass Dartmouth
7. Keene State
DQ'd East Conn

But I'm going to make these predictions instead
1. USM
2. East Conn
3. Keene State
4. Plymouth State
4. UMass Boston
6. RIC
7. West Conn
8. UMass Dartmouth

[kscer]

Well after picking perfectly the number of conference wins PSU would get last year during the pre-season, the greatest prognosticator since Punxsutawney Phil is here for his 2013 predictions. 

I'd like to make these predictions-
1. USM
2. Plymouth State
3. UMass Boston
4. RIC
5. West Conn
6. UMass Dartmouth
7. Keene State
DQ'd East Conn

But I'm going to make these predictions instead
1. USM
2. East Conn
3. Keene State
4. Plymouth State
4. UMass Boston
6. RIC
7. West Conn
8. UMass Dartmouth

USM seems to have some difficulty keeping everyone healthy and having the whole team together all the time. I doubt we will be playing in Gorham in May.

[Boggsy789]

This could be the Panthers year.   USM while returning a very good offense did lose their top arms do they have the guys  that can fill those roles?  Keene graduated a huge senior class.  And East Conn possibly distracted by these rules violations and consequences. 

Might need to make reservations at the Common Man this year.

[7express]

Big trouble on the news for Eastern!!!

http://www.ctnow.com/sports/

Whats going on?

None of these things end well.  Will be interesting to see how this plays out.  Does seem weird that Eastern went to Arizona and Washington (I think) last year abd suddenly they have "no funds" available for the trip to Florida??  They've been doing this every season for 20 years and all of a sudden now it's not available.  Very odd.

[KSCfan]

Maybe someone like ECSUalum can help here.  When it comes to the Eastern spring trip how much of it was the team paying the trip and how much came out of the players pockets.  I have heard at keene that is the players responsibility to come up with the money, but that being said...  The players fund raised like crazy to cut cost down.  KSC players would sell t-shirts, chaperone middle school dances in town of keene, run 50 50 raffle at halftime of basketball games, and would work a lot during the winter break to make up the cost.  Did Eastern have something similar or did the school through down half and now players half?  The reason I ask this is how can they not have any money for a trip if the players are footing the bill.  The news video said that each player had to put at least 300 down to start.  On a 25 man roster that 7,500 right there.  Where did that money go?  Im not accusing anyone of anything i just feel like only half the story is out there because the pieces dont line up based on what the video clip had to say.


As far as predicitions and what not...

1. Keene
2. USM
3. RIC
4. Eastern
5. Plymouth
6. UMB
7. Western
8. Dartmouth

[ECSUalum]

Maybe someone like ECSUalum can help here.  When it comes to the Eastern spring trip how much of it was the team paying the trip and how much came out of the players pockets.  I have heard at keene that is the players responsibility to come up with the money, but that being said...  The players fund raised like crazy to cut cost down.  KSC players would sell t-shirts, chaperone middle school dances in town of keene, run 50 50 raffle at halftime of basketball games, and would work a lot during the winter break to make up the cost.  Did Eastern have something similar or did the school through down half and now players half?  The reason I ask this is how can they not have any money for a trip if the players are footing the bill.  The news video said that each player had to put at least 300 down to start.  On a 25 man roster that 7,500 right there.  Where did that money go?  Im not accusing anyone of anything i just feel like only half the story is out there because the pieces dont line up based on what the video clip had to say.


As far as predicitions and what not...

1. Keene
2. USM
3. RIC
4. Eastern
5. Plymouth
6. UMB
7. Western
8. Dartmouth

The whole FoxCT10 article is very strange to me.  If the admin wanted to get rid of Coach Holowaty, they would have done it by now IMHO.  We have a new AD here at ECSU from USF, but I dont think that's the problem. I think monies for the Spring trips were funded from various sources, including student (parent) contributions, and the ECSU Foundation via the Annual Golf Tournament/Baseball Clinics etc.  Last year most of the trip to Whitman College, (Walla Walla WA), was funded by a Whitman Alum, if I remember correctly.
Coach can be tough on players/umpires sometimes, at least early in his career, that was sort of his style, but he has mellowed considerably over the last 5 years or so.  The other allegations, I haven't a clue where they came from, and do not believe quite frankly.

BTW, The new ECSU JV Coach will be Jim Kukucka.  Shawn Gilblair will be varsity Assistant Coach/Pitching coach ad Lenny Reed, Assistant Coach.

I like ECSU to win the LEConference this year, they are bringing back a strong pitching staff, (Darby, Porter, Purnell, Chamberlain) and hopefully they can improve their hitting, (Roderick, O'Connell, Reimer, Larivee).

Keene, USM, and RIC will be strong competition and will all be battling for the Conference and LEC tournament title.
Until somebody in the LEC comes up with a dominant pitcher, as I mentioned in previous posts, I think there is a slim chance of a LEC team going to TCWS this year.  I like Wheaton and or WNEU to represent NE in Appleton WI

I am still waiting for a 2013 roster to see the recruiting class.  As mentioned earlier they have transfer catcher Tyler Caserta from Central Connecticut State/Keystone College and catcher Chuck Voght from Keene St, both fighting with Laravee for the starting catcher position.

[KSCfan]

Alum good post.


Fellow featherhead fans out there...

What happened to Tempone?  Last year he saw a lot of time on the mound in conference games, and keene just posted the roster (they have a small army) and hes not on there.

Tempone      3.63     0-1     13-0     0     0/0     0     22.1     28     10     9     3     15     3     0     1     91     .308     3     2     0     3     1

Anyone got any ideas.

Keene has literally an army of players.  A lot of younger guys.  Is there a jv schedule as well for them?  Lot of guys to carry for just a varsity roster.  2007 roster had 25 guys..... 2013 has almost 50 or double that

[7express]

I'll throw the darts at the board and see where they land in terms to predictions.  Can't possibly be any worse then my basketball picks from this year:

1) Keene
2) USM
3) Eastern
4) Plymouth
5) Western
6) RIC
7) Boston
8) Dartmouth

[BigPoppa]

Big trouble on the news for Eastern!!!

http://www.ctnow.com/sports/

Whats going on?

This seems bigger than some incident on the bus after a game!??

This feels like the tip of the iceberg... there HAS to be to the story than we are being told.

[LEC fan from a distance]

Eastern...no trip will still win...they seem to strive in adverse times...could this be ex-loyal lieutenant Wocjik getting his pound of flesh from Holywater after his dismissal or has the new AD been given the task of clipping Holywater's wings in these politically correct times in education???

[SCOUT66]

Seems like that state institution is declining in altitude.  Wouldn't put it past me if all parties involved have dirt on their hands.  As a new director of athletics isn't it required to review the finances? Has anyone questioned his relative that blogs on here? He might know more than we think