TCU Media Relations recently sat down with Jim Scholossnagle to discuss how the fall schedule went and his expectations for the 2010 season. TCU made the Austin Super Regional where they pushed Texas to an elimination game before bowing out of the NCAA Tournament. You can check out the full article below.

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NavySports.com recently sat down with Navy baseball head coach Paul Kostacopoulos to discuss how the Fall Practice went for the Midshipmen. He discusses what he has seen during practice, how the injured players are coming back after a tough 2009 season, and how important fall baseball is to the academy’s baseball program. Coach Kostacopoulos in my opinion is one of the most underrated baseball coaches in the country as he has had success at Providence College, Maine, and is starting to get some success at Navy.

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FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE

The Washington baseball team recently wrapped up its four-week fall practice season, its first action under first-year head coach Lindsay Meggs and his new staff.

The Dawgs will open the 2010 season next February at a tournament in Tucson, Ariz., and, for the time being, will work out in small groups and on their own before spring practice gets back underway on Feb. 1.

Recently, Coach Meggs sat down with GoHuskies.com to talk about the fall. Here’s what he had to say:

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CollegeBaseballToday’s Eric Sorenson recently sat down with LSU coach Paul Mainieri to get his thoughts on the 2009 season, looking forward to 2010, and also other random topics. The interview is fantastic like all of Eric’s stuff and gives you some great insight into what Paul Mainieri thinks of things.

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Kendall Rogers recently put out an article on the restoration of the baseball program at Seattle University. He spoke with Athletic Director Bill Hogan and his vision of the program while discussing other things.

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Brian O'Connor (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle/Bruce Newman)

Brian O’Connor the head coach of the Virginia baseball program recently sat down with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He discusses the success of his program and how the experience of making the College World Series will influence the program. O’Connor also talks about the attendance of the Cavaliers early season game challenging the fans to come out to the games. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Brew

Interview with Lee University Flames Head Coach Mark Brew, at the NAIA Baseball National Championship in Lewiston, ID:

Bob Broughton: The fans here just got to see a pretty good ball game between Lee and Fresno Pacific.

Mark Brew: That was a great game. That’s what happens in the losers’ bracket, when you get two teams fighting for their lives, it gets exciting, the drama and things like that. Both teams played extremely well. Some big pitches, some big hits. [Chris] Warters got a big hit. He’s a senior All-American, and you sort of expect him to do those things. Javier Lopez was good on the mound, at the end, he’s also a senior All-American, and in the end, we had the right guys in the right positions. Also, Trey Burstrom, a junior second baseman, had a big, big double. He’s a nine-hole hitter, and he sort of got us going. Read the rest of this entry »

North Dakota head coach Jeff Dodson is transitioning Fighting Sioux baseball from Division II to Division I.

North Dakota head coach Jeff Dodson was hired on June 20, 2008 to transition the University of North Dakota to Division I baseball after the school had spent the previous fifty years competing at the Division II level. Coach Dodson spent the previous five seasons as an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri State, where he was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator.  The College Baseball Blog had the opportunity to talk with Coach Dodson and ask him about the specific challenges he faces as a first time head coach and with the transition process, the 2009 baseball team and staff, and the future of Fighting Sioux baseball. Read the rest of this entry »

Jack Leggett

Clemson head coach Jack Leggett discussed his team’s sweep over Wake Forest with Clemson broadcast Don Munson yesterday. He talks about how key the freshman class has been to the Tiger’s 11-4 overall start and an early ACC record of 4-2 which is good enough for first place in the Atlantic Division. Read the rest of this entry »

Rocky Ward

College Baseball Blog WAC correspondent and bleedCrimson.net editor Sam Wasson recently sat down with New Mexico State head baseball coach Rocky Ward. This week he talked with Coach Ward about the opening weekend sweep of North Dakota, the upcoming series against Chicago State, the new WAC schedule as well as his thoughts on the WAC’s performance on opening weekend.

bleedCrimson.net: You put on a pretty big offensive display in the opening weekend but maybe more importantly you had a good defensive showing.
Rocky Ward: Yeah, we’re pleased with the quality of defense and pitching. We didn’t know what to expect from North Dakota. They’re coming out of cold weather, a new Division I program, making the transition. I was really pleased with their quality, I thought they had a good quality ball club. I understand people will look at the scores and say, “they pretty much took it to them.” They made a couple mistakes in the first and third games that expanded the scores, those could have been much closer than they were. We really took it to them pretty well in game one of the doubleheader but overall all three starting performances were outstanding. I don’t know that I can remember in school history that we had three consecutive six plus inning starts out of guys. You’d have to go back a ways. And we got good relief and played solid defense, only four errors on the weekend. A couple of those were kind of silly ones. Two of the four were first hitter of the game, just kind of routine plays to the first basemen and they weren’t quite ready.

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Rocky Ward

College Baseball Blog WAC correspondent and bleedCrimson.net editor Sam Wasson recently sat down with New Mexico State head baseball coach Rocky Ward. The Aggie baseball season begins February 20th and Coach Ward provided an update on the team as they ready for the 2009 season. The Aggies completed a successful fall practice season and we have Coach Ward’s thoughts on his team. In this interview he talks about his outfielders.

LF: We’ve moved [Leo] Aguirre from a 1B/DH role to left field. Leo’s not a real good runner, but he’s really really worked hard this fall. He’s cut his 60-yard dash speed by about 4/10ths of a seconds which is practically unheard of. He’s really worked hard, he played there a couple innings last year just to get him in the lineup because late in the year he was just hot. Almost a must have in the lineup guy. We project him going into the year to be the starting left fielder. He’s not going to go take balls off the wall but he’ll catch stuff that he gets to, he throws the ball accurately, breaks well. When you go back and look at his fall statistics he hit .468 with 11 doubles and six home runs, 32 RBIs in 94 at bats.

This is the best offensive fall team we’ve ever put together. Will it become the best offensive spring team in the school’s history? It very well might.
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TexAgs.com writer Gabe Bock recently sat down with Texas A&M head coach Rob Childress to discuss his expectations for the 2009 season. He talks about his projected lineup which is led by All-American candidate Kyle Colligan. The pitching staff should be solid as LHP Brooks Raley is expected to get the ball on Friday and RHP Barret Loux will be the Saturday starter. The Sunday starter is not decided right now as former Winthrop ace Alex Wilson is fighting with Clayton Ehlert for the spot. Read the rest of this entry »