Division II pre-season poll a joke

Moundmaster. Ignore the voting go out an win . Thats the ticket to the DII to playoffs. Except against Post University !!!

Wins erase pre-season publicity.

Just win - and the rest will take care of itself by season's end.

Actually it's not a joke. Southern Connecticut State got worse offensively. FPC is just as good offensivley as it was last year and the pitching staff is ten times better. They have 8 pitchers who can touch or throw in the 90's. Their pitching staff may be the best in Division II this year. Their team is looking at as many as 4-10 players going to the 2006 Draft. It's all going to come down to how good certain players perform this season. FPC is basically stacked.

Just a technicality as he wasn't a tremendous contributor last year. SoConn lost Jeff Galipeau of Upton Ma. off of last year's staff.

8 pitchers in the 90's? wow! 4-6 going in the draft? unreal! that's better than most high level D1 programs. FP is on a big time roll.

They could beat a lot of division I teams with no problem. It's a pretty freakish team and it won't last long. After this season the team will be dismantled because of the draft and graduates. If they were to win it all this would be the year...

Shep,
First of all Congrats on winning the regular season conference. FP does have a great team this year. But, I really don't see where SCSU got worst offensively. 4-10 players going in the draft? (maybe 4-5 (which is still great!). IMO all the top teams in the NE-10 are pretty awesome teams (SCSU,Stonehill, and Lowell) Just for the record... FP is 3-4 against these other teams this season. Should be a great Conference Tournament and Regional. Good Luck and may the the team that wins kick butt in the series.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MOUNDMASTER:
Shep,
First of all Congrats on winning the regular season conference. FP does have a great team this year. But, I really don't see where SCSU got worst offensively. 4-10 players going in the draft?


4-5 is what it will most likely be, but their are 10 players overall that are being looked at by scouts on a regular basis. SoCo did get worse offensiv;ey, especially when they lost Jeremy Terni one of their best hitters.

Shep,
Maybe I'm reading the stats wrong... so I checked again... Seems this years team is ahead in every offensive stat then in 2005.and Ortiz is leading the NE-10 in BA. Jeremy was a great player last year but, was playing hurt most of it. With a team BA up almost 25 points this year I would say SCSU is a more rounded team offensively and is'nt depending on one player to get them going.
JMO

You're right about all that. I just thought in my own opinion that they were better last year. I didn't look at stats I just judged it off of how they looked when they played us. We got to see them 5 times last year and got to know them pretty well. We also playd them early in this years season and maybe their offense wasn't clicking yet, but it seemed weaker than last season. But anyways you're probably right, I was just too lazy to look up the stats.