While I agree that Fairleigh Dickinson needs to become more competitive in the NEC, your comment about their web site’s results was absurd. In the last two seasons, games results, and updated statistics, have been posted the day of - no exceptions. Perhaps you were referring to the conference site in regard to stats and results.

FDU finished fifth this season and has a legitimate chance at making the postseason tourney in 2009. Watch out for lefty John O’Hara. He should get drafted, or at the worst ink an independent contract. By 2011, the Knights will have a new complex and that should help with recruiting.

Monmouth has a pair of stud freshmen and will continue to be a league powerhouse. Central Connecticut has to be a top team every year - they’re a state school. Just look at their number of scholarships!

Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart will be back next year, with Mount St. Mary’s being the wild card. Hats off to the Mountaineers, but their 2008 NEC title was an aberration.

FDU (which is where I got my MBA) treats this like an intramural sport, while schools like Monmouth, Quinnipiac, MSM and CCSU take it seriously. Wagner always has a few good players, a brutal schedule, and lost a few kids they should have had back. Sacred Heart graduated a ton of talent, and looks to be down.

Monmouth gave everyone all they could handle in the NCAAs last year, and have the top pitching in the conference and some very potent bats. They could make a regional final, ala Manhattan in 2006.

But if you peruse the web site of these schools, Monmouth still doesn’t have a roster up (although once the season starts they are very good at being on top of things,) and FDU usually runs about two days behind for results.

Gotta love DI Baseball in the Northeast.