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orangecountyvols writes:

in response to fearthehound:

Don't get me wrong, I like the Weeklys. I think they're good coaches and great recruiters, but I think they tend to over-coach a little sometimes. They seem to think it's a little too much about them. Let Ivy or Ellen throw two or three bad pitches and they're in there jerking them out. Seems to me they need to use their great skills of attracting superior talent, coaching them like heck in practice, and then just turn them loose. They need to recruit some heavy hitters, too. Lay off of these slap hitters. I don;t think that's the future of womens's softball.

Just my opinion--I'm certainly no softball expert.

A lot of truth in what you say. One thing we all need to remember is while we down play our own team's ability and performances, we often forget to acknowledge that the teams we played were pretty good too and had pitchers that over powered us.

Could be Tennessee was a bit overwhelmed by the task at hand. We weren't the only team which utilized the slap hitting method. However we did not possess the portly looking power hitters which some teams do have. On occasion, some of Tennessee's smallish hitters could take one out of the yard, but just occasionally. The speed factor is what they counted on this season. And once again, we are seeing pitchers who are imposing in stature in the circle. Our girls don't look to need to lose 20 or 30 pounds but instead they try to move the ball around and finesse their pitches.

The Lady Vols will learn from this and will be okay. Just a matter of finding the missing pieces and looking back at where we fell short..........and working on those things. Regardless of the outcome, I wouldn't trade our girls for anyone else's.

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