Hofstra baseball 2022

[HUSID80]

I surely would have gone but I have a golf tournament Sat/Sun....too bad!

[EvanJ]

We don't have many fans on YouTube. Before me, the Final highlights from Hofstra did not have any likes, and the Final highlights from the CAA had 1. To compare, our 2020 Men's Basketball Final highlights from the CAA have 21 likes.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2022/5/29/ba ... stern.aspx is titled "BB: Champions! Hofstra Wins CAA Championship with 7-6 Win Over Northeastern."

https://gohofstra.com/news/2022/5/30/ba ... ional.aspx is titled "BB: Hofstra To Go Dancing At Chapel Hill Regional." It says we won the 1994 Diamond Conference, but there was not a conference tournament or automatic bid. We have never played North Carolina or Georgia, and we are 8-27 (.229) against VCU. Us (9 games), North Carolina (7 games), and VCU (15 games) give the Regional three of the longest six active winning streaks. North Carolina is tied with Tennessee for the most wins against the top 50 with 20.

https://goheels.com/news/2022/5/30/base ... -2-pm.aspx is titled "UNC EARNS NO. 10 NATIONAL SEED; OPENS PLAY FRIDAY AT 2 P.M."

https://goheels.com/news/2022/6/1/baseb ... scing.aspx is titled "HOSTING IS A CAROLINA BASEBALL TRADITION." In 2019 they hosted and started by coming back in the bottom of the ninth to beat UNCW. In 2013 they won hosting Towson.

[daHUPride]

So Awesome!

Go Pride!!!

[ProudofPride]

Great article in the NY Post

https://nypost.com/2022/06/02/frank-cat ... re=twitter

[Polito]

Super write up, thanks for linking PoP!

Stu, although your point about him inheriting a team is fair to some degree, this actually highlights just how much this staff deserves major kudos for THEIR hard work to completely turned this program around, total 180 - and no one thought much of what he had on the roster still picking them dead last.

This staff is LEGIT. They did this.

Like I said before, HU better PAY THIS MAN. They better have some payout incentives in place for the fact he won the CAA. And if he wins NCAAT games he should get bonuses for that too. Lucking up on top flight coaching doesn’t happen every day at this level, let’s do what it takes to keep this rising star as long as possible.

Literally decades of awful erased in 1 season, frankly this is a near miracle. Cole, make sure HU handles this right, let’s see if HU baseball can actually become a real program now!

[HUSID80]

Totally agree Polito. I don't think we spend much on baseball but with this team's and coach's success we should invest in this program.

It has already paid handsome dividends!

[Jojogunne]

I think we're all learning about the business of college baseball. I wanted to know more and found a few interesting articles:

No surprise: the top schools spend millions of dollars annually on their baseball programs:

https://www.diycollegerankings.com/coll ... all/18372/

It looks like there is no tournament money for participating conferences/schools:

https://businessofcollegesports.com/fin ... ld-series/

Also, schools can award only 11.7 scholarships for 27 players:

https://www.ncsasports.org/baseball/scholarships

[triplec2195]

Great article in the NY Post

https://nypost.com/2022/06/02/frank-cat ... re=twitter

Great post luv the work mentality and the drive needed to be a winner. The entire philosophy has turned this program around. May be some of this could spill over into our basketball program and an analogy could be made to start shooting less three point shots or trying to hit the long ball in baseball.

[Wags]

Bruggeman (No. 22) hits Hofstra's first NCAA tournament home run in the 22nd week of '22, in the same month that Hofstra's best 22 of all-time (Jenkins) will be honored.

But UNC hits a homer themselves. BUT, then Rosso homers and it's 2-1, Hofstra in the top of the 2nd!

[Wags]

Bruggeman (No. 22) hits Hofstra's first NCAA tournament home run in the 22nd week of '22, in the same month that Hofstra's best 22 of all-time (Jenkins) will be honored.

But UNC hits a homer themselves. BUT, then Rosso homers and it's 2-1, Hofstra in the top of the 2nd!

More 2s... 2 solo homers for each team and it's 2-2 after 2.

[Wags]

Unfortunately, Camarda is having a rough outing. UNC has scored in each of its first four turns at bat. It's now 5-2, Tar Heels, top of the 5th. But we do know how this HU team never quits this year, so we'll see.

[Wags]

Was thinking, what if the NCAA men's basketball tournament were done the same way as baseball, with 64 teams (after play-in games for 65-68), pods of four teams, with the top 16 teams seeded and then other teams in those teams' pods, double elimination instead of the current single elimination format? Might be interesting. Although, I would guess we'd see fewer Cinderellas and more favorites advance that way.

https://twitter.com/NCAABaseball/status ... 52/photo/1

[Wags]

Unfortunately, Camarda is having a rough outing. UNC has scored in each of its first four turns at bat. It's now 5-2, Tar Heels, top of the 5th. But we do know how this HU team never quits this year, so we'll see.

The pen was even worse. Hofstra stayed within 6-3 but UNC put up a touchdown in the 7th. Ouch. It's now 13-4 in the 8th. Even for this scrappy, ultra-resilient team, that's too much at this point. HU will have to beat either Georgia or VCU in the next game to avoid elimination. I hope it's VCU - would be cool to play our old nemesis in an NCAA tourney even if it's not in men's basketball.

[EvanJ]

It was 15 to 4, with hits being 17 to 8. North Carolina entered averging 4.8 runs allowed, with many of those games against much better teams than us, so scoring 4 is okay.

I made a video that is pages of text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB95stX-nwY

Was thinking, what if the NCAA men's basketball tournament were done the same way as baseball, with 64 teams (after play-in games for 65-68), pods of four teams, with the top 16 teams seeded and then other teams in those teams' pods, double elimination instead of the current single elimination format? Might be interesting. Although, I would guess we'd see fewer Cinderellas and more favorites advance that way.

https://twitter.com/NCAABaseball/status ... 52/photo/1

The NCAA would never have that many Basketball Tournament games and stop people from making single elimination brackets.

[Polito]

Super proud of this group, score be damned. Doesn't matter one iota - this is a program with 80+ years of historical garbage - this is like the Tribe finally making the dance - this is a hugely successful season, and they deserve major kudos going up against a top ranked ACC program hosting on it's home field with loads of CWS experience behind it.

Every HU program should feel the burn and pull to get their butts in gear and make their tourney as well - HU baseball just proved beyond ANY shadow of a doubt that EVERY SINGLE HU TEAM should have NCAAT expectations. Especially HU's prime sports. No excuse for some of them like hoops and lax. What a group, love this team, I am a new HU baseball fan.

FC sounds like a mans man, a real coach that doesn't accept excuses or losing 'just because it's hard' and 'that's how it's always been'. AMEN. About damn time we see some courage and high standards in this dept. PAY HIM and let's get this program into a winning tradition!!

On to the next game tomorrow, this isn't over, still in the fight! I don't care who they play, just glad there's another game - bring on the Dogs or the Rams, let's try to get a W! That would be the icing on this cake!

Go get em fellas, no quit baby, fight on!

[Jojogunne]

We play Georgia 1 pm Saturday.

[triplec2195]

Nothing to be ashamed of we were competitive until the deluge in the 7th inning and hit a few dingers to boot. Love it. Lets find a way to beat Georgia. Maybe a walk-off!!

[Polito]

Youch, boys are getting there butts handed to them today lol - oh well, all good, this was this programs first ever taste of big boy ball - now this staff and the players have a better understanding of what it takes to play at a high level on a bigger stage

Program needs to take advantage of the momentum and recruit more / better talent, continue to develop guys, and play a much tougher OOC going forward to get them better seasoned for the real ball that gets played in May and June

Congrats to this group, they made history, now onward and upward to a new era in HU baseball!

[triplec2195]

Losing 20-0 in the 7th inning. Not much pitching in this one for us. A learning experience for sure and hopefully something to build on. Where's the MERCY RULE,LOL!!

[Jojogunne]

So far, it appears that today's 24-1 win by Georgia is both the most runs scored and the greatest margin of victory in the tournament.

Other lopsided scores:

Maryland 23, LIU 2

Vanderbilt 21, New Mexico State, 1

East Carolina 17, Coppin State 1

Glad we didn't play VCU. They beat UGA 8-1 yesterday and are leading UNC 1-0 in the 6th inning.

https://www.ncaa.com/scoreboard/basebal ... 3/all-conf