Wow, a little upset that he’s thinking of taking his talents elsewhere considering he’s always had pop in that bat. Was imagining him being a potential starting outfielder or Dan Hurley but injuries have hampered him significantly. He could be exploring his options and could come back to UConn but you never know. As always, wish him and the other transfers the best.Kevin Ferrer is now on the D1Baseball.com transfer portal listing as well. Oh well, I was hoping he would stick around.
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| Reginald Crawford | Connecticut |
| Ramsey Collins | Connecticut |
| Zach Stephenson | Connecticut |
| Brendan O'Donnell | Connecticut |
| Kevin Ferrer | Connecticut |
| Christopher Brown | Connecticut |
| Samuel Favieri | Connecticut |
| Mitchell Pascarella | Connecticut |
| Phoenix Billings | Connecticut |
| Bobby Mcbride | Connecticut |
| Jackson Ferrigno | Connecticut |
| Craig Pihlkar | Connecticut |
| Matthew Bonvicini | Connecticut |
Sad to see O’Donnell in there
Anyone surprised by Brendan O'Donnell entering the portal? He had meaningful opportunities at high leverage moments in their NCAAT run and was a regular out of the pen.
| Brendan O'Donnell | Connecticut | Houston |
| Reginald Crawford | Connecticut | |
| Ramsey Collins | Connecticut | |
| Zach Stephenson | Connecticut | |
| Kevin Ferrer | Connecticut | |
| Christopher Brown | Connecticut | |
| Samuel Favieri | Connecticut | |
| Mitchell Pascarella | Connecticut | |
| Phoenix Billings | Connecticut | |
| Bobby Mcbride | Connecticut | |
| Jackson Ferrigno | Connecticut | |
| Craig Pihlkar | Connecticut | |
| Matthew Bonvicini | Connecticut |
I was saying this during the CWS it almost makes sense for the BE and B10 to create some sort of scheduling alliance purely for baseball to better compete with the SEC/Pac 12/ACC. The difficult thing is that other than UConn, BE baseball stinks comparatively (I know it was a down year for all teams but us mostly) so there really isn't any appeal for the B10 to help out per say, but the B10 is essentially a 2-3 bid league which isn't great for them. Last NCAA tournament appearance for each BE school:
This is the answer, but the problem is when you schedule teams you have no indication on how good they actually are/will be. For example this year, we scheduled USC who were ranked when we played them early on. They ended up last in the Pac-12. I think this season's OCC schedule was plagued by similar examples (played teams that even were NCAAT teams the year before and had down years).
That's a solution but it's very tough. If you look through posts on this board at this time last year you'd see mention of a strong OOC schedule. We had a bunch of historically good teams on their who had down years. It's also compounded by the lack of good midweek options in the northeast. There's a handful of good teams but the majority are RPI killers
Good snapshot of UConn and Northeast schools performance over the years in the article in this thread:
This is well said and well put. My biggest fear too. We won .697% of our regular season games and we wouldn't have made the Tournament if we didn't win the BET!
So true. Especially if we stay in the BE.
