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What can you say but it was an incredibly disappointing year.
CDS's track record out west is clear...but with zero improvement from last season he's put himself in the cross hairs for next season. There are simply no more excuses in year three.
When I say that I'm not looking for an SEC title or a trip to Omaha. But there's got to be more improved & simply smarter baseball on the field.
Let's Go BaseVOLS! Hoover 2014!
Well said Banner.
Godley is gone & some of the pitching we need will surely go high enough in the June draft to bypass college...
Like you said, there just doesn't seem to be any fire at all and it starts at the top.
You'd liked to have seen at least SOME improvement so the pressure isn't so great going into year three...but there just wasn't any & I hate to draw comparisons, but year three under CDS is going to be just like year three under Dooley...win or we're starting over again...with another program.
And yes, feel very bad for the kids. So disappointing.
It's technically not over yet...so I'll shelve my harsh words (for the staff, not the kids) for now.
With regards to us not having any patiences...I don't think in year two, a year where the SEC is not what it normally is, it's too much to ask to be one of 12 teams that make it to Hoover.
Way, way too many mental errors to consider this season to have been coaches well regardless of the youth on this team. It's just so disappointing...
Regardless, two games left...
Go BaseVOLS!
Yes, enough with the uniforms. They can be wearing lime green & mustard yellow and unless Godley is pitching it doesn't seem to matter...
Such high hopes for this year...
And I do think CDS can turn it around, but isn't it a little late in the season to pull out the "tough talk" card now?
Texas A&M is nearly as bad a we are...c'mom Vols! Show some life and at least go down fighting!
in response to spencer1989#206886: Patience folks....It seems everyone seems to want overnight and instant success. It take time....And this is his only second year. Just like the replacement building for the World Trade Centers....It is not being built overnight.
in response to spencer1989#206886:
Patience folks....It seems everyone seems to want overnight and instant success. It take time....And this is his only second year. Just like the replacement building for the World Trade Centers....It is not being built overnight.
Agreed but here's the thing...we're at the end of year two for CDS and record-wise we're no better.
People will then point to the youth/new players. But we're nearly done with the schedule and still the same silly mistakes are being made on the field.
I was very excited for this season. And I don't think myself or anybody else was expecting a division win...but I don't think we should be clawing to just make it to Hoover.
Whatever happens the rest of this season (and there's still a little time) next year the seat will be red hot for CDS and there's just got to be some tangible improvement.
The way our season has gone a beating was bound to happen one of these games...
That being said we've got another one today that we need to get!
Once again Godley is the man. Wow.
Great win! There's still some time left for Hoover! Got to keep it going tonight!
Nice midweek win...but they simply have to carry this into the weekend vs Arkansas. Crunch time now if we hope to sniff Hoover.
We should be used to this (not the bad news) by now. New coaching staff (what, is this our 7th in the last 5 years?...) and they want different types of players to fit different types of schemes. It is what it is.
I'm sorry...but you just can't do that with the record we have with two outs in the ninth with the bases loaded. You just can't.
We can expect a poor play(s), a one run loss & a heartbreaking loss in every series we play it seems...at least all three are out of the way already.
C'mon guys!
Agreed...but "darn it" time is running out.
Echoing what's been said...no, what was brutal was the way Bray wasted has natural talents at UT and didn't become the QB everybody thought he could
Not wishing him luck...not wishing him ill...he made a poor decision to leave UT early and move on...so must UT & it's fan base
Can...not...figure...this...team...out!
CDS is a proven winner...albeit out west. That being said, I'd agree he's got next year yet. But then the pressure is on. Raleigh had three years and showed nothing. CDS is half way there. Still support him, but show me some improvement the rest of this season and then Hoover is an absolute must next season, no questions.
PS - I dig the black shoes...it just looks better and if you look good, you feel good & if you feel good you play good...in theory LOL
Where would this team be without Godley? What a solid season this kid is having.
Bray was recruited by Kiffin & mentored by Dooley...is it any wonder he was ill-prepared?
Just an incredible waste of physical talent. Have to have the mental side as well...especially to make it at the next level. And he clearly didn't throughout the interview process.
Then you have Zach Rogers. Doesn't have the physical tools but is prepared & works hard. That kid will make it as a 4/5 slot WR & special teamer.
This team is as puzzling as it is frustrating.
And can we really be talking about youth half way through an SEC season?
Has he basically thrown in the towel on this season playing so many freshmen hoping they'll be ready next year? Hard to figure any more...
Was so excited for this season after he took over the dumpster fire last year.
It's not over yet...but at 5-13 they're starting to run out of games already.
Come freak'in on now...GO BaseVOLS!
It's all good! I'm just thankful Dooley is gone!
And you watch the post game presser and listen to what Jacques Smith said...and it's safe to say so are the kids.
I'm as frustrated as the other 14 BaseVOLS fans...but I can't get on Godley either.
Boneheaded play? Yes. But you have to wonder if all the pressure & innings that have been piled on him finally took its toll w/a mental lapse there?
Can we really continue to leave him out there 100+ pitches every start? He's a senior but still a young arm.
At this point in the season can we keep saying it's "youth?" Once again we've got to get it together...heading to Florida this weekend.
C'mon now! Let's GO BaseVOLS!
Nice little roll here after taking 2/3 from #13 UK over the weekend!
Let's keep it going against Ole Miss!
I've had faith in Coach Serrano for the long haul...but boy was it getting frustrating in the short term...NICE WIN!
Let's build on this!
I'm not going to crack on these kids or the coaches who are obviously giving it their all...but it's hard to stay positive at this point in the season...again.
(nonetheless) Go BaseVOLS!
How sad is it when the only way to get "fans" to comment on the baseball team in such numbers is a losing streak & getting pounded by SC (insert head shake here)
Yes, Hamilton ruined UT athletics but after years of bashing (which he did & does deserve) I just don't have the energy anymore.
The baseball team is similar to the rest of the programs...who was going to take the job? And while I see a saddening similarity between the football & baseball teams in year two record and progress-wise we need to remember this, Coach Serrano has a winning track record...Dooley had none.
So in year two after rolling over the "roster" left by Raleigh, this is w/o a doubt very ugly, but he's got to be given more time.
With that many new faces not to mention true freshman, I didn't expect to win every series...but they've got to at least start being competitive don't they?
And Coach Serrano, unlike Dooley, just doesn't throw his kids under the bus.
Gotta stick with them.
Go BaseVOLS.
Really, really wanting & waiting for this team to turn the corner. The corner looks further away than it did just a week or two ago.
Yes, the season is still young as well as the team. But these weekday struggles with non-SEC teams is really troublesome.
Gotta get it going.
Go BaseVOLS
Not gonna lie...this was disappointing. I really thought they had some momentum built up.
This team is young & by definition likely a little fragile. Gotta come back from a beat down like last night strong tonight.
They have the talent...just need to do it.
With all the faces that didn't come back from last years squad and how young this one is...leadership was definitely a concern.
Will Maddox has come up big early in all the phases: with his glove, with his bat & leadership as well.
Rough start, but really feel good about this group as we head into SEC play.
Hoover 2013!
Let's not crack on Riley too bad...it is the KNS that will not assign a full time staff writer.
If not for Riley as a free lance contributor...i'm willing to bet KNS doesn't even report on the BaseVOLS.
This is on the KNS.
After digging a hole starting out against UNLV, ASU & the tourney in NC, congrats to the team for getting above .500 (8-7)!
Bright future for this group.
I think you're on the wrong page...shouldn't you be over on the football page complaining about Butch Jones?
Anyone who doesn't think beating down anybody is good after starting out in Vegas and hosting ASU hasn't been following this baseball team.
This young team just needs a spark to get them going after a difficult opening schedule. This series can be a launching pad for their confidence as we head into SEC play.
This reads to be soooooooooo not Dooley Ball...love it!
Go VOLS!
Exactly. And it's not as if they've played a bunch of mediocre teams either.
I like Coach Serrano setting up this tough non-conference schedule to start the year. Good way to get this young team ready for SEC play.
Too much talent on this team...it'll come.
in response to FanNotSheep: OK, once more and slowly: I don't follow the coming and going of assistant coaches and the minutia of recruiting. So I was not aware that this guy is apparently the next Rodney Garner, but I don't understand why anyone thinks a former UF football player is bleeding Tennessee orange. The SEC? Sure, and a good career move if Jones can coach. I am not grumbling, just not naive enough enough to think a Florida guy has loyalty to Rocky Top, any more than Jay Graham always dreamed of being a Seminole. I'd love for you to call Jay Graham a coward to his face. I guarantee he would knock you all the way back up which ever Interstate brought you here.
in response to FanNotSheep:
OK, once more and slowly: I don't follow the coming and going of assistant coaches and the minutia of recruiting. So I was not aware that this guy is apparently the next Rodney Garner, but I don't understand why anyone thinks a former UF football player is bleeding Tennessee orange.
The SEC? Sure, and a good career move if Jones can coach. I am not grumbling, just not naive enough enough to think a Florida guy has loyalty to Rocky Top, any more than Jay Graham always dreamed of being a Seminole.
I'd love for you to call Jay Graham a coward to his face. I guarantee he would knock you all the way back up which ever Interstate brought you here.
You wanna be "that guy"...knock yourself out.
As for myself and many others...we're happy Dooley is gone someone's in there that at least initially gives the impression that he gives a rats arse about tradition & giving former players an open door (which Graham appears to have slammed back in his face).
We tried the former player thing with Chuck Smith, Tee & now Graham...not working out so great is it?
If it takes hiring a former Gator (via SC, OKST & WVU) to help get this team moving forward...so what?
Like I said...believe what you want. Until Graham comes out and explains bailing on UT a week before practice starts I'll believe he realized Coach Jones asks a bit more from his coaches than Dooley did.
in response to FanNotSheep: I'd say there are 300,000 reasons he is here. UT tradition ain't one of them. People who blame Graham for leaving are crazy. He was in a tough spot as the only guy on the staff who even knew how to pronounce Vol. Geez, can you imagine the idiots on the coaching staff from Michigan by way of Cincinnati apparently thought Tennessee's mascot was a small rodent that lives underground?
I'd say there are 300,000 reasons he is here. UT tradition ain't one of them.
People who blame Graham for leaving are crazy. He was in a tough spot as the only guy on the staff who even knew how to pronounce Vol. Geez, can you imagine the idiots on the coaching staff from Michigan by way of Cincinnati apparently thought Tennessee's mascot was a small rodent that lives underground?
Listen...if you want to grumble about this you're going to be in the minority.
If there's more to it and Graham isn't a coward who didn't want to work as hard as the rest of the staff from THE NORTH (yep, we're everywhere...ohhhh) then Graham better come out and explain...
Until then (and really, even after then) I'm going to support the coaches that want to be at UT.
LOL...didn't even take one whole minute.
I rest my case...SMH
All that the haters will notice is that he played RB at Florida...
But considering the pinch Graham put UT in with just over a week until the first practice...great hire. Impressive resume.
Oh, and most importantly...he wants to be here!
Exactly...very good win to bring the spirit back after two tough series to open the year.
And really, with a team so young you're not going to mess up the weekend rotation for a mid week game so it shouldn't be a surprise so many pitchers got in yesterday.
This win is just what they need heading into the weekend tourney.
Can we please stop with the VFL stuff?
This is big business and loyalty goes as far as the pile of money you can throw at someone.
Plus the whole "VFL" thing was started by Dooley and that just adds a tinge of BS to it...
And really, for all the talk of how great a recruiter Graham was, two cycles at UT and he whiffed on every big time RB he want after right?
This team going into next year has bigger problems than losing Graham...it was going to be a tough year regardless
You absolutely have to take into account the youth across every aspect of this team...and while 2-5 is not a good feeling, it's hard to look back and expect much else when you factor in a road trip to Vegas & hosting perennial powerhouse ASU.
That being said...laying the wood to ETSU and grabbing two of three this weekend in the USA Baseball Tourney would set the tone heading into the final few weeks before SEC play begins. The talent is there.
Yes, great story. Very glad AJ decided to come to UT vs signing with the Rockies.
Tough series with ASU. Getting one with this young team would be great...getting 2 of 3 phenomenal. It's a long season.
Hey KNS...HIRE RILEY!
Coach Jones is so anti-Dooley...LOVE IT!
Another tough one... But with something like 14 (or was it 17?, can't recall) first timers making appearances this weekend losing three 1 run games is understandable.
With all that in experience, 4 games on the road in Vegas and then a weekend with ASU will serve this young team well down the road.
Chins up young bloods!
Two one run losses & a W with this young squad on the road in Vegas is not bad at all.
If they can get the split today, all things considered that is a pretty good opening series.
ASU next weekend will be a different story, so lets get the split today!
What a novel idea...kids actually being held accountable! The VFL thing has a nice ring to it...but what did it mean? How was it measured?
This is so anti-Dooley! Love it!
Riley doing work...can we please hire him both giving him & the baseball team the respect they deserve.
Can't really understand why the University of Tenneseee's Baseball team doesn't deserve a full time reporter from the city's newspaper.
How many people did you have devoted to the dumpster fire that was Dooley? You can't find one guy to cover the baseball team? C'mon KNS.
From getting rid of Coach Fulmer for Kiffin & then Dooley...getting rid of Coach Delmonico for his buddy Raleigh to bringing in Pearl & the NCAA trouble...all UT failures lead back to Mike Hamilton. Period. End of sentence.
I'd like to think Coach Serrano is in it for the long haul. He was here with Coach Delmonico and only left to get a head coaching gig.
I obviously don't know him, but don't you just get the feeling he's excited about being here and wants to bring UT Baseball back?
Well done Riley! I say the KNS just hires you to report on the BaseVOLS all season. An utter disgrace that the KNS only feels the baseball program is good enough for a "free lance contributor."
That being said (he steps off his soap box)...
Very much looking forward to the start of this season. I think the Raleigh element has been fully purged and UT Baseball takes a big step forward this season.
GO BaseVOLS!
Well...it's a release from UT & not a report (you know, from an actual reporter...)...but it's a start.
Don't be a stranger KNS...there are baseVOL fans out here.
1) "Gosh" I hate Dooley...I wish him nothing but ill luck & if we never hear of him again it'll be too soon.
2) I'm going to go out on a limb & say Coach Jones & his staff will do what most coaches do (and certainly something Dooley never did) and actually coach up whatever level of talent he has.
We're not going to ATL. I'd be shocked if we competed in the East. We're going to get waxed by Oregon. But if you give me 8 or even 7 wins and a bowl game I'd be down right giddy this season.
The season is now a month away and the last article was from 12/4 and it was regarding a baseball camp...C'MON KNS!
Believe it or not...there are those of us out here that actually care about the baseball team. You can do better than this.
Clearly a cry for help...
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