SeBaseball has posted a very good article about Robert Woodard taking the spotlight now for the UNC Baseball program. He has to replace the two cornerstones of the UNC rotation in Daniel Bard and Andrew Miller. Robert has to be a stud for UNC to have a chance of making it back to Omaha this season because the rest of the rotation is not up to the level of Bard or Miller. The full article from SeBaseball can be seen here.

Mitch Harris of the Naval Academy was named the second best pro prospect for this past summer in the Cal Ripken Senior League. Harris pitched in six games this past summer striking out 26 batters in his 25 innings of work.

We now enter the fall which means that this is the downtime for the College Baseball world in terms of news. I will continue to update the site as I find the stories but the updates will be as often as I find the stories which interest the great readers of this blog. We are getting a good base of readers in the last few weeks and I hope you guys continue coming to the site and commenting.

I can’t wait till the 2007 season starts up and we can do some lively discussions about the best conferences in the country. I will probably be focusing on the ACC since I am in the heart of ACC living outside of Boston. I will also be following the former Providence College coaches in Charlie Hickey at Central Connecticut State and Paul Kostacopoulos at the Naval Academy. I will try to focus on the entire country but my weakness is going to be the Pac-10 since I don’t know any of the teams that well.

Andrew Miller has been called up by the Detroit Tigers after pitching a total of five innings in professional baseball. In those five innings, Miller struck out nine batters. It was debatable if Miller was going to be a September call-up for the Tigers but he is now on the roster before the September. This is a huge accomplishment for College Baseball and should give the College Baseball World some more notoriety.

Full article from the AP can be seen here.

The USC Trojans have released their 2007 schedule for next season. Chad Kreuter is the new head coach at USC which is only their fourth in the last 77 years. He has a challenging schedule with the usual Pac 10 teams but faces Tulane and Georgia in OOC series.

Click here for the Full Schedule

The University of Georgia and my favorite head coach in the country in Dave Perno have annouced the 2007 baseball schedule. They open the season on Feb. 9th with the defending national champions coming to town in Oregon State. This should be a very interesting series as UGA has a ton of players coming back this season led by Closer Josh Fields.

The full schedule is available here.

The Texas A & M Baseball schedule has been posted on the A & M website and the new partner in AggieBaseball.net. The schedule includes a very tough nonconference schedule with entry in the 2007 Minute Maid College Classic (includes Rice, Houston, and Arizona State), 2007 Domino’s Pizza Aggie Baseball Classic (National Champs Oregon State, Saint Louis, and New Mexico) and they also welcome the University of Florida for a weekend series in March.

Full Schedule can be seen on the official athletic site and aggiebaseball.net

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The Volunteers have released their 2007 schedule also. As previously discussed on here is their trip to FSU and they have a bunch of non-marquee OOC games. The full schedule can be seen here.

The 2007 baseball schedule for Florida State is out and is available. The University of Tennessee is making an appearance on Feb. 2nd-Feb. 4th in the only marquee Out of Conference match up for the Seminoles. My Boston College Eagles will be visiting from March 23rd to March 25th. Full Schedule is available here.

The Texas Tech Baseball schedule for the 2007 season has been released. There is no real surprises on their schedule with them facing the stiff competition in the Big 12 conference.

The schedule can be read here.

Nice article in the Napa Valley Register about sophomore to be Brett Wallace. He had an outstanding freshman season at ASU with a .371 average with seven home runs and 32 RBIs. He also had a productive summer in the Cape Cod League with the Falmouth Commodores. The whole article can be read here.

University of South Florida picked up four recruits for the 2007-2008 season. The four recruits are Kevin Quackenbush, Jonathan Koscso, Chris Jones and Todd Brazeal. Each of these prospective student-athletes were recruited heavy by some of the power players in the South. Quackenbush was recruited by FSU, Florida, Miami, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest. Jonathan Kosco has the Wahoos of Virginia, Army, Navy and Davidson giving him some looks. Chris Jones, a lefty from Gaither’s had offers from Florida, Clemson, Alabama, Auburn and Georgia. Todd Brazeal was getting looked at LSU, Clemson, and South Carolina but chose the Bulls over them.

These are four big recruits for new head coach Lelo Prado who is grabbing recruits away from the Big schools in the South like FSU and Miami. This should bode well for the USF Bulls chances of winning the Big East and getting a bid to the NCAA Tournament also.

USF also released their schedule for the 2007 season. Click here for the schedule.

Jack Leggett recently signed a new five year deal at Clemson to continue his run as the Tigers Head Coach. Leggett brought the Clemson Tigers to a 53-16 record last season and has won 608 games in his career. This is a great move for Clemson to lock up Jack as he is one of the class acts in College Baseball.

Charlotte Observer Article

The Gainesville Sun is reporting Matt LaPorta will be returning for his Senior year as he was not able to work out a deal with the Boston Red Sox who drafted him in the 14th round of this past year’s draft. LaPorta’s stock dropped dramatically this past season with only a .259 batting average after a super sophomore year when he was among the best players in the country. This is a huge story to see LaPorta return to the Gators lineup as they try to make the NCAA’s in the upcoming season.

Article can be seen here.