What Illinois schools have a reputation for baseball?
Of course most take football more serious.
However which ones if any, are known for their baseball program?
D1,2,3 NAIA Juco. doesn't matter
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JJC..Joliet Junior College...Heartland Its a J.C. also down state was.I am 90% sure they let the coach go last year tho..With the bigger schools not sure what one would use as a qualifier ncaa tourneys?draft picks? I don't think any of the bigger schools fall into that.
I'll go with some smaller schools...Augustana has an outstanding D3 program. Also Aurora, Monmouth, Knox, IL Wesleyan are all pretty solid. JJC and Heartland are excellent JUCO programs as Proud stated.
UIC is getting alot of money lately from Curtis Granderson (new facility scheduled to open 2015), I would bet they are going to attract some good players soon.
Great.Hows things looking over at Marquette?You have a 2016 Right? One more for the Il. contingent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, reverse question. Which Illinois schools would you not encourage...
Originally Posted by biggerpapi:
Heartland DID NOT lose their coach last year. The former President was anti-sports and led an attempt to run the coach out on lies. Today, the coach is still there running a nationally-recognized program and the former President is now running a pretend online college.
Nate is a great person and coach. He is also Heartlands AD. They were trying to consolidate positions, eliminate positions, including Nate holding the AD position. And on what he is paid as a Head Coach, w/o the AD income, they would surely lose him
Nate is one of the nicest people I know and a great baseball person. I have had a player play for him who was able to play at a good school afterward. Down South, you have your choice between Ohio Valley and Missouri Valley Conference schools. You can look up the teams in both of those conferences and see what you think about the competition.
Originally Posted by CoachB25:
Nate is one of the nicest people I know and a great baseball person. I have had a player play for him who was able to play at a good school afterward. Down South, you have your choice between Ohio Valley and Missouri Valley Conference schools. You can look up the teams in both of those conferences and see what you think about the competition.
CoachB25 sending you a PM.
Hope you will keep us all updated over on the IL. forum like last year.Theres a few of us over there just nothing happening yet.
