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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 16, 2015 16:36:58 GMT -5
Improbable UTBB sweep and Georgia choke this weekend puts CDS into the SECT again. Actually, if Vandy beats Bama then TN jumps the Tide for the 11th seed and avoids a 9:30am first game start.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 16, 2015 17:11:21 GMT -5
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Post by relic on May 22, 2015 17:55:40 GMT -5
So, is back 2 back one day affairs @ Hooverville enough progress for 4 years of Serrano ball.
Next year looks pretty bleak from what I read.
I know, he inherited a train wreck from Raleigh, but still.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 22, 2015 18:09:24 GMT -5
So, is back 2 back one day affairs @ Hooverville enough progress for 4 years of Serrano ball. Next year looks pretty bleak from what I read. I know, he inherited a train wreck from Raleigh, but still. Yes. Baseball is a different animal. It harms you to recruit too well... a lot of the really good commits end up skipping college or leave early. Also, TN fans don't care too much about baseball, although he better show some progress. Also with his kid on the team, they're probably going to be allowed to stay together until Kyle leaves. |
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Post by relic on May 22, 2015 18:16:06 GMT -5
How many years Jr. got left.
I'm thinking he a junior but not all that confident about it.
Yeah, could look it up, but too lazy.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 22, 2015 18:26:39 GMT -5
Me too, but I recon sophomore or junior. I'm thinking sophomore since I've not heard talk of him leaving for the draft... I think they have to be juniors to go pro.
Where's Fact Checker Gramps when you actually need him?
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Post by relic on May 22, 2015 19:13:59 GMT -5
Guy is a certified nitpicker, but that's ok.
Then again where is he when he could be service?
Come on guy, there's nits that needs to be picked.
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Post by relic on May 22, 2015 19:14:43 GMT -5
And we all lazy.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 22, 2015 19:39:47 GMT -5
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Post by relic on May 22, 2015 23:46:24 GMT -5
That would coincide with Sr's contract then.
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Post by gramps on May 23, 2015 8:25:27 GMT -5
Guy is a certified nitpicker, but that's ok. Then again where is he when he could be service? Come on guy, there's nits that needs to be picked. Nitpicker? Can't you come up with something better than that?  Really don't need to say much about Serrano. He's proved that he is a one trick pony with small ball, and now that small ball is no longer the direction that college baseball has gone and he is too stubborn to change his philosophy there's not a lot of upside there with him. High school coaches I have talked to call him the "Derek Dooley of baseball" when it comes to his arrogance. The fact that he and Todd Raleigh are in virtually the same place after 4 years pretty much says it all. And before the "Raleigh never made the tourney" excuse comes out, when Raleigh was coaching only 10 teams made the tourney. Under the system Serrano is in, Raleigh would have made the tourney twice, as well. UT's losses in the draft will likely take several solid veterans and signees, and I am hearing that there will be quite a few transfers out. Next year will be a lame duck year, which as somebody said, conicides with Kyle's draft eligible year. I want to see a baseball coach at UT with no direct ties to either Farragut High baseball or Larry Simcox's Diamond Baseball School. On the Farragut thing, obviously a great Tennessee high school baseball program, but have you every wondered why so many of those guys end up going elsewhere, particularly Vanderbilt? And why are instate guys like Will Craig (Science Hill, player of the year in the ACC for Wake Forest) and Pigeon Forge's Will Crow (Freshman All American last year at South Carolina) being completely ignored by this coaching staff? And there are others on that list, as well. Hint: They weren't Diamond Baseball kids. And Thunder - every single school in the SEC and every top 30 type program in America has to deal with losing it's better signees to the draft every single year. Coaches have to have backup plans, primarily with juco players, to fill those slots. That's not something that is unique to Dave Serrano. It's an excuse, not a reason. Time to move on. The Serrano experiment has failed. And if that makes me a nitpicker, then so be it. |
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 23, 2015 10:10:22 GMT -5
Not signing appropriate players is an excuse, not a reason for sucking? Okay brainiac.
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Post by gramps on May 23, 2015 10:29:56 GMT -5
Not signing appropriate players is an excuse, not a reason for sucking? Okay brainiac. And not having a backup when you don't get your top targets is not very smart, either, Mr. Intellectual. So, why can other SEC/top 30 coaches manage to have those backups in place and be successful, yet Serrano can't? Quit trying to pump sunshine, Thunder. The Serrano experiment has failed. |
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on May 23, 2015 11:24:00 GMT -5
I'm not pumping sunshine. I don't really give a crap about baseball... it's pretty boring for those of us with short attention spans.
Other than Delmonico's CWS runs and maybe some guy in the 70s now and then (Wright?), Tennessee baseball has been a joke and an embarrassment. Unless they throw Pat Summitt kind of money at the Vandy coach I don't see anything changing.
Who they going to get? Chris Burke? Does he have any coaching experience? Recycle Delmonico? You said that he's a slime ball outside of baseball. Phil Garner? Why would he want to subject himself to fix this mess at his age?
Who would leave an established, successful program for this train wreck? Enlighten us.
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Post by relic on May 23, 2015 23:24:34 GMT -5
Guy is a certified nitpicker, but that's ok. Then again where is he when he could be service? Come on guy, there's nits that needs to be picked. Nitpicker? Can't you come up with something better than that? Really don't need to say much about Serrano. He's proved that he is a one trick pony with small ball, and now that small ball is no longer the direction that college baseball has gone and he is too stubborn to change his philosophy there's not a lot of upside there with him. High school coaches I have talked to call him the "Derek Dooley of baseball" when it comes to his arrogance. The fact that he and Todd Raleigh are in virtually the same place after 4 years pretty much says it all. And before the "Raleigh never made the tourney" excuse comes out, when Raleigh was coaching only 10 teams made the tourney. Under the system Serrano is in, Raleigh would have made the tourney twice, as well. UT's losses in the draft will likely take several solid veterans and signees, and I am hearing that there will be quite a few transfers out. Next year will be a lame duck year, which as somebody said, conicides with Kyle's draft eligible year. I want to see a baseball coach at UT with no direct ties to either Farragut High baseball or Larry Simcox's Diamond Baseball School. On the Farragut thing, obviously a great Tennessee high school baseball program, but have you every wondered why so many of those guys end up going elsewhere, particularly Vanderbilt? And why are instate guys like Will Craig (Science Hill, player of the year in the ACC for Wake Forest) and Pigeon Forge's Will Crow (Freshman All American last year at South Carolina) being completely ignored by this coaching staff? And there are others on that list, as well. Hint: They weren't Diamond Baseball kids. And Thunder - every single school in the SEC and every top 30 type program in America has to deal with losing it's better signees to the draft every single year. Coaches have to have backup plans, primarily with juco players, to fill those slots. That's not something that is unique to Dave Serrano. It's an excuse, not a reason. Time to move on. The Serrano experiment has failed. And if that makes me a nitpicker, then so be it. Great post, very thoughtful and on point. Lotta good bulk. Just look at that bulk. |
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