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Message: [QUOTE="BaseballDog, post: 3201840, member: 8782"] SHU was a solid program when we last played them, 3 years ago. They still look decent. Facilities wise Seton Hall is investing money in improving their fields so that shows commitment. Hopefully Butler, Georgetown, and Villanova can show some improvement soon. Villanova had the BE freshman of the year in Nick Lorusso from Masuk in Monroe CT, so maybe they have some chance of turning around soon. Although from what I remember Villanova plays in a park off campus that leaves alot be desired. I don't know much about Georgetown or Butler's programs, maybe UConn coming aboard can be a shot in the arm. I am very excited to have St.Johns on the schedule every year, if I had my way we would have already been playing them every year. Jack Kaiser is a great place to watch a game. Chreighton is a solid program with the added benefit of playing at TD Ameritrade every other year. Xavier has always been solid, but how much of that is due to Scott Googins? It seems like they may be dropping off without Googins? No denying that the AAC is a better baseball conference, however the majority of the schedule in baseball is OOC. Chreighton has been successful in the BE scheduling a challenging schedule OOC, giving them good standing in RPI. With significantly reduced in-conference travel and an additional OOC weekend to schedule (going from 24 to 21 conference games), UConn should have no problem in the BE positioning themselves for postseason play. On a side note, baseball is all about winning tournament play, I believe it would be a bad move to get rid of the four team double elim tournament, as some have suggested. The BE should have 4 quality teams year in and out between UConn, Chreighton, Xavier, St. John's, and SHU that if someone gets hot over a weekend and wins the tournament they will be all deserving ( ala Cincinnati in AAC this year or Michigan in CWS run this year). The regular season champ of the Big East should be in the tournament as an atlarge anyways. [/QUOTE]

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