Correct, it's been a long, rough day today
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Yeah he's eligible I've seen him as high as #78 and outside the top 200 so who knows where's he's gonna go or if the money will be enough to sway him. I have heard he wants to play at State and I think it's greater than 50/50 we get him but who the heck knows with these kids.
Doucheball is the Tennessee version
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Maybe this is how you recruit 14 and 15 year-old kids. I bet riding with Bianco or Andy Cannizarro is thrilling to mid-teenage boys. My son is 7, I bet he rather hang with Vitello than Van Horn.
We've got some young kids committed that I wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole. I have no idea what we see in them except they play for a particular organization. They aren't even great HS players. I think sometimes coaches start taking kids like that from a particular organization and miss out on some better players. There's one kid that's been hurt this year and just came back that's as good as any hitter in MS. Already has like 5 bombs in the week he's been back. He's signed out of state with a former coach of ours.
We really need to get back into FL. That's completely dried up for us. AL has been pretty good for lately. TX needs to be bigger for us. LA is hit and miss because of LSU. We seem to be going East for talent more and that's a positive.
We were on a 3 year SR streak coming off a CWS appearance when lemonis was hired.
Tennessee hadn't been to a regional in 14 years when Vitello was hired. Tenn is about to win 50 in back-to-back years after a CWS appearance last year
Vitello has a better winning % at Tenn than lemonis at state. I like lemonis (even though I'm pissed about this year), but I'd trade straight up.
ETA... lemonis does have the ultimate feather in his cap, and that should in no way be minimized, but as a state (and braves here) fan, we should realize that winning it all takes more than a little luck. It's not very often imo that the best team wins it all in baseball (pro or college). Putting yourself in a position to succeed in the postseason should be the biggest factor in judging a coach
Gotro can't coach clutch. That's on the kids. Average and HRs are as good and better than last year. It's the failures and some bad luck when we needed to produce with runners on that's been the killer. The possible negative take is that we've gotten away from driving the ball around the park and seem to have too many dead pull hitters. We're recruiting so hard to that short RF porch. I hate that!
Everyone concerned with Vitello and Tenn., remember that he was at ark for 3 years and tcu before that. He had been recruiting the top kids for awhile in the same footprint and he is known to be one of, if not the top recruiter in the country. He probably didn’t miss a beat with who he was recruiting and probably has taken a few that were headed for ark. Lemonis, on the other hand, was probably not recruiting the same kids at Indiana that he recruits at State.
I swear its as if some people just ignore that we lost the most dominant pitcher in the country and another one of our weekend starters and people think we should be just fine?
What is our record if Sims is healthy?
People that think Lemonis is on any type of hot seat next year are beyond stupid.
I think going 12-18 in SEC next year with very little obvious improvement in 2024 would start some stirring.