Juco Baseball Breakdown

Juco Baseball Breakdown by Region (Local regions only)

The January 15th signing date for NJCAA NLI’s is rapidly approaching us. A lot of these signings happen in the late spring and even quite a few happening after the draft is over. We’ll cover DFE later, because the Juco’s come into play there. There are 8 North Carolina Juco’s that play baseball, 2 in South Carolina, 10 in Georgia, 11 in Tennessee with none in Virginia, West Virginia or Kentucky (our region and the adjacent ones). That means there are 31 total Juco’s where there is a remote possibility of one of the NC guys signing to play with only 8 being “probables”.

It doesn’t make a huge amount of sense for us over here on the east coast to worry about the California Juco’s (now, if I was a college recruiter, then I’d be very interested in the topic, but we’ll skip that for now)

Attached to this message, you will find the regional NJCAA map.

The areas that could directly affect players from NC are
Region #10: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia
Region #17: Georgia
Region #7: Tennessee, Kentucky

That covers everything touching North Carolina in all directions. Juco’s are broken down into 3 classifications. D1, D2 & D3. D1 & D2 may offer athletic scholarships (and they may offer quite a few) where D3 can’t offer any. Obviously, if a Juco doesn’t play baseball, we aren’t interested in it (for our purposes) and have excluded it from the list.

Region 10: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Community College, NC, D1
Florence-Darlington Technical College, NC, D1
Lenoir Community College, NC, D2
Louisburg College, NC, D1
Pitt Community College, NC, D1
Rockingham Community College, NC, D1
Southeastern Community College-Whiteville, NC, D2
Spartanburg Methodist College, SC, D1
Surry Community College, NC, D1
Wilkes Community College, NC, D1

There are no baseball playing junior colleges in Virginia or West Virginia and only 2 in South Carolina.

Georgia (Region #17) touches North Carolina, so here is the breakdown for Georgia. All of the programs in Georgia are D1. Georgia only has 6 D1 programs, so these fill up pretty fast with the Georgia natives. Young-Harris recruits heavily throughout the southeast.

Abraham Baldwin College
Andrew College
Chattahoochee Technical College
Darton College
Georgia Perimeter College
Gordon College
Middle Georgia College
South Georgia College
Truett-McConnell College
Young Harris College

Tennessee (Region #7) touches North Carolina, so here is the breakdown for the Tennessee programs in that region. There isn’t any baseball played by any Juco in Kentucky. All of the Juco programs in Tennessee are D1. Per the NCAA numbers, Tennessee has 20 programs (10 D1, 6 D2, 4 D3). That’s one of the reasons you see so many Tennessee players down at Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, and Louisiana (in particular). The Tennessee Juco programs have historically been among the best in the nation.

Chattanooga State Technical Community College
Cleveland State Community College
Columbia State Community College
Dyersburg State Community College
Hiwassee College
Jackson State Community College
Motlow State Community College
Roane State Community College
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Volunteer State Community College
Walters State Community College

Juco scholarships: Here is a breakdown on how they work.

NJCAA Division I

• 24 full scholarships (including the following):
• Tuition, room, board, books and fees
• Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NJCAA Division II

• 24 scholarships (including the following):
• Tuition and books
• No room, board or fees
• Blending of athletic and academic scholarship monies is permissible for academically qualifying student-athletes (This varies from school to school)

NJCAA Division III

• 0 athletic scholarships
• Typically junior and community colleges are very inexpensive so many DIII juco baseball programs are able to field very competitive programs

Notes About NJCAA Scholarships:

• Many NJCAA scholarships ARE full scholarships – this is completely opposite to NCAA baseball program “norms.”
• The amount of fully funded scholarships varies widely from school to school and conference to conference
• Some NJCAA conferences / regions compete at DI or DII levels but per agreement among the conference schools do not offer scholarships or have reduced amounts of numbers of scholarships
• Scholarships and amounts offered can vary from conference/region to conference/region – per agreements made by the member teams

 

Juco Scholarship Limit Education:

Question #1:

Community College A (CCA) is a Division I College offering 24 full baseball scholarships. Can CCA offer 48 players each half of a full scholarship? Can they offer 12 full scholarships and 24 half scholarships?

Answer

No. A scholarship is counted by the individual, not by the dollar amount. CCA can offer 24 scholarships to 24 individuals, regardless of the dollar amount. No athletic aid can be offered to any individuals over the limit set for that sport.

It doesn't matter if the scholarship is for $100 or a full ride, the NJCAA counts the number of players, not the "Equivalent Players".

Question #2:

College A has 12 returning second-season baseball players who submit on the NJCAA scholarship certification form as receiving some athletic aid. How many additional scholarships does College A have remaining in the sport of baseball?

Answer

As per NJCAA sports procedures College A has 12 remaining scholarships to give to reach the maximum number of scholarships allowed in the sport of baseball (24). Just because College A submitted their 12 returning sophomore players on the scholarship certification form, does not allow them to provide athletic aid and/or letters of intent to an additional 24 players as per Article V, Section 19 of the NJCAA bylaws. College A may not exceed a total of 24 players on scholarship for the academic year.

 

Great thread ...

and info MAN oh MAN where do you get the time to doa lll of that research???????? :applause: :xyzthumbs :huh:

 

WOW! What research! Just to clearify some probable questions. Virginia, as does California, has their own JUCO league. The teams in VA. compete against each other, but do not compete in the national NJCAA tournament in baseball. Therefore, the teams in VA aren't ranked by the NJCAA or are they included in the national tournament scene. Some of the JUCOs in VA are Rappahannock, New River, and a few others that I can't think of their names at the moment. California schools are the same way. In West Virginia you have Potomac State as the only JUCO team competing in baseball and they do compete in the national tournament. They are actually in Region XX( or 20). That region meets the champion of Region X each year in the district finals to see who advances to the JUCO World Series. Potomac State was the team from Region XX that knocked Region X champion Surry from the Div. I District tournament this past season in what was a huge upset in my opinion. Therefore, they advanced to the JUCO World Series. I don't see any NC kids going there though, as they have lots of bad weather and are quite a good distance from here. They are located on the Maryland border.

 

The California Juco's play under the umbrella of the "Commission on Athletics". A link to trace them can be found at www.coasports.org ... the www. is required for that site.

A lot of these players end up at SEC/ACC schools. Historically, Wake Forest has brought in a lot of these players, so if you want to do some background research, you should bookmark the site (like I did).

Unfortunately, there isn't a site that I have ever been able to find all of the information about the individual Community College Athletics programs in Virginia. The best I can do is give you a like to a page where you can check out an individual program to see if it fits your needs.

Link page to check out Virginia Community Colleges