"My experience with this baseball program was extremely disappointing. During recruitment, I was told a turf field would be constructed during my time at the school. I have since graduated, and the turf field was never built. There were approximately 70 total players, including around 40 freshmen, and many of them were eventually cut. He repeats this process year after year, causing most of the cut players to transfer schools.
More importantly, I saw very little genuine effort toward developing the players on the roster. Practices involved little to no actual coaching or individual instruction. Players were mostly expected to run routine drills, field ground balls, and complete cage work without meaningful feedback or guidance. It felt like the program brought in a huge number of athletes without having a realistic plan to coach, develop, or provide opportunities for them.
I understand that college athletics are competitive and playing time is never guaranteed. However, athletes deserve honesty during recruitment, a fair opportunity to compete, and coaches who are committed to their development. Based on my experience, this program did not provide those things. I would strongly encourage prospective players and their families to ask detailed questions about roster size, facilities, player development, cuts, and how playing-time decisions are made before committing."
"I’m simply going to state the facts and set the record straight (all of this is verifiable via the SVC athletics official website. Janosko has been coaching at Saint Vincent for 28 years. Out of those 28 years, he has managed a winning record 6 times (21.4%). His career record is 513 wins, 613 losses (100 more losses than wins). In 28 years, he has won a total of 0 PAC championships.
People may come on here and praise his coaching style, saying that he’s a tough love coach who pushes players to be better. 6 winning seasons in a 28 year career, and 0 Presidents Athletic Conference championship titles in the same time, prove otherwise."
"Coach Janosko is a great coach. I have never met a coach who cares so deeply about a program or his players! He pushes players very hard and is intense. Some players misunderstood this as Coach being rude or not caring. It is in fact the opposite. He believes in players so much that he holds them to the highest standard. He wants to see his players reach their fullest potential. Coach Janosko helped me grow as a player and accomplish things that I didn’t think were possible. Playing for him isn’t easy but that’s the point cause it makes you better."
"During my tenure playing under Coach Janosko, it was apparent that the knowledge gap was big and the care for the underclassman from a development standpoint was minuscule. The amount of preparation and care for not only individual development but team development hurt not only our teams over the years but the future teams as Saint Vincent College’s Player retention rate is very bad. Most kids lean on transferring to other teams and getting better opportunities. It also felt that the leash was longer for certain players and very short for others. Let’s also add that after March 1st we did not practice….at all. Other things to note is the offseason workouts felt disorganized and didn’t contribute to team growth. Lastly, the general feelings from the teams I have played on is that the locker room he does not have. JV games on top of everything were useless. When we played my freshman year we didn’t play or practice from March to May and on finals week they decided to schedule us 3 games during that week. JV was a waste of time and eligibility and served more as a rehab place than a developmental opportunity. Overall, if you don’t come in on Varsity as a freshman you might want to consider transferring. OH one more thing. I broke my leg my junior year and entered my senior year with limited play for fall meaning I could only run at 50% and couldn’t slide. Keep in mind I have them my status and the doctors orders. In quote I was told at the end of the year “ After watching you this fall we are concerned that you are a liability on the basepaths and didnt see you take any risks.” After that I decided to step away from the team."
"Zero advice given to players on whether they did good or bad, although if you screw up you will hear about it. Does not show any type of respect to players, plays favorites. Very hard person to try and talk to on and off field, often times you will get ignored trying to ask simple questions or get his attention. Always stated i would rather you make a physically mistake than a mental mistake on the field but whenever you did he would take you off the field and you would likely never get a chance to step on it again.Without a doubt has his favorites, as does coach lynn. My question is if you recruit 20 freshman why not try and built your team from there giving feedback to young college athletes, rather than tearing them down as soon as they step on the field. Would rather yell than give advice on how to get back. Overall horrible coach I would not commit here if I had a chance to take it back. Daddy ball is college as well."
"Weight room, good for a D3 athletic program. New indoor facility finishing up, good but lets see how the quality lasts. Student weight room, good. Training room is only good because of the trainers I had when I was there but needs some updates and need to retain good trainers. Most of the locker rooms are ok for other sports.
Baseball specific:
Locker room is the away football locker room and is worse than a high school locker room with quality and is always 90 degrees and you only get access to it in the spring semester.
Field: DANGEROUS! There are holes and hills in the outfield, dirt is hard as a rock, grass is always dead, batting cage in play in left field, both bullpens are in the field of play with wood around them, just got a warning track after someone tore their ACL and it is impossible to see a flyball in the outfield most days. Also sun sets right behind the 3rd baseman.
Dugouts: used to be terrible with no fence and no it is a little better with a half fence in front. Still not a lot of room, old benches, and old chairs with a small closet for field maintenance equipment.
Location: Great, right in the middle of campus, surrounded by beautiful hills, can walk to the field in 2 minutes from your dorm. 1 big problem, since it is in the middle of hills the water drains right to the stinking field.
Tarp: Huge tarp with holes in it that ain't weighted so we need to throw tires on it.
Fence: good luck to lefties it is 410 to right center field and there is a whole in the left field fence to walk down to the field
Sound system: Ain't none and we don't do walkup music
Would be a great place for a baseball field if the infamous turf field would finally appear that everyone has been promised for 10 years now, bite the bullet and do it. Best location of any baseball field in the conference but one of the worst play surfaces for safety and practicality. "
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