2014 College World Series Thread

#101
#101
Congrats vandy on your first championship in mens sports and baseball.
Corbin like Tanner has prospered with the topnotch result of a championship.

Not sure any could have predicted this result before the year started and that's what makes college baseball so freakin great.
 
#102
#102
Many of Vanderbilt's best players came from Tennessee: David Price, Mike Minor, Haden Stone, Brian Reynolds, Bryan Miller, among many others.
 
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vol66 said:
Dave Serrano @DaveSerranoUT · 5m

Congrats to the SEC and @VandyBaseball for winning the National Championship! That's why the SEC is the best out there.
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It is the Superb Conference, the Justice League of College Sports Conferences.
 
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VU Lineup: Swanson 2B, Wiseman RF, Reynolds LF, Norwood CF, Wiel 1B, Conde SS, Rice DH, Campbell 3B, Ellison C, Fulmer RHP

Swanson, Ga.

Wiseman, Mass.

Reynolds, Tn.

Norwood, NJ.

Weil, Tn.

Conde, Fla.

Coleman, Ill.

Stone, Tn.

Ravenelle, Mass.

Rice, Ind.

Campbell, Ore.

Ellison, Fla.

Fulmer, Fla.
 
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StallingsBaldSpot said:
9 players on this team are from TN. But don't let facts get in the way.

Not to mention the number of players from KY, GA, and FL.

Or don't let another fact that there are more students from TN that go to VU than any other state. The Vanderbilt Profile*|*Undergraduate Admissions*|*Vanderbilt University
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Congrats on the victory.

I just wanted to put the actual line up and where the players are from, that's me heading it off at the pass. Successful SEC schools recruit nationally. Period. No matter the sport.
 
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Never thought something like that would happen. Congrats to Tim Corbin and the 2014 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team.

After looking at their roster on wikipedia, a lot of their players this year where Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshmen. Very few Seniors, so the overwhelming majority of these players will likely be on the field in Nashville next year.

And considering all the attention they will get after a major victory on national television there's no way this will not impact their recruiting of new players over the next few years.
 
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#109
#109
Bright side is we took a weekend series from the CWS Champ. However, they did even it sending us home early from Hoover.
 
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I've been critical of Corbin in the past for falling short with a lot of talent. He had a lot of talent this year, but it was young. Probably one of his best, if not his best, coaching jobs ever. Too bad he has to celebrate it with some of the most insufferable prick fans on the face of this earth. The funny thing is, Candy fans act like they've been huge baseball fans forever. Hilarious. They wouldn't know the difference between a baseball or a football if it hit them in the face. They're the Miami Heat fans of college baseball. Just read Climer's article today where Corbin's wife asks him where all the fans were at.

In moments like this, we should reflect on how far Vanderbilt baseball has come on Corbin's watch. In the first game of the Corbin era in 2003, the Commodores took the field against East Tennessee State with a chilly rain falling. In the stands at Hawkins Field were family and friends.

"My wife got there and she said, 'I thought the game started at 4.' I said, 'It does,' " Corbin recalled. "She said, 'There's no one here.' I said, 'That's right. There's no one here.' "

Maggie Corbin then asked her husband if he wanted to go back to Clemson, where he had been an assistant coach for the previous nine years.

"She was joking, but it was just different," Corbin said.

Climer: No one deserves championship more than Corbin

Yes, Tim, it is different. You built it and they finally came. Why? Because they're bandwagon hoppers just like the ones who hopped on the football bandwagon and Heat fans hopped on the bandwagon.
 
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StallingsBaldSpot said:
9 players on this team are from TN. But don't let facts get in the way.

Not to mention the number of players from KY, GA, and FL.

Or don't let another fact that there are more students from TN that go to VU than any other state. The Vanderbilt Profile*|*Undergraduate Admissions*|*Vanderbilt University
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I'm inclined to believe that this account is Kevin Stallings himself, because there's no other person on the planet who would refer to that chrome-dome as a bald "spot."
 
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OrangeBalls said:
I've been critical of Corbin in the past for falling short with a lot of talent. He had a lot of talent this year, but it was young. Probably one of his best, if not his best, coaching jobs ever. Too bad he has to celebrate it with some of the most insufferable prick fans on the face of this earth. The funny thing is, Candy fans act like they've been huge baseball fans forever. Hilarious. They wouldn't know the difference between a baseball or a football if it hit them in the face. They're the Miami Heat fans of college baseball. Just read Climer's article today where Corbin's wife asks him where all the fans were at.

In moments like this, we should reflect on how far Vanderbilt baseball has come on Corbin's watch. In the first game of the Corbin era in 2003, the Commodores took the field against East Tennessee State with a chilly rain falling. In the stands at Hawkins Field were family and friends.

"My wife got there and she said, 'I thought the game started at 4.' I said, 'It does,' " Corbin recalled. "She said, 'There's no one here.' I said, 'That's right. There's no one here.' "

Maggie Corbin then asked her husband if he wanted to go back to Clemson, where he had been an assistant coach for the previous nine years.

"She was joking, but it was just different," Corbin said.

Climer: No one deserves championship more than Corbin

Yes, Tim, it is different. You built it and they finally came. Why? Because they're bandwagon hoppers just like the ones who hopped on the football bandwagon and Heat fans hopped on the bandwagon.
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In a lot of ways though that does show Corbin's character a bit, wanting to build a program from nothing, as opposed to jumping to a larger, more successful program that already has a history of winning. He could have jumped ship after his first three or four seasons of moderate success and gone to an already proven powerhouse program where he might have gotten himself two or three more NCAA Titles by now. Instead he took it slow and steady, and it finally paid off. I wouldn't be a bit surprised in a way if this wasn't his high water mark and with the possible exception of winning two or thee more SEC titles, he fades into irrelevance before retiring, but he's definitely proved that it is possible to take a doormat to the top.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
Vandy won something?
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They just won the College World Series, they are the NCAA National Champions of 2014 for college baseball. They've done something on just their second trip to Omaha that UT hasn't been able to do in four seperate trips to Omaha over 6+ decades.

Vanderbilt Commodores baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tennessee Volunteers baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The only other SEC teams that have won 1 or more national titles in baseball are LSU, South Carolina, Georgia, and if you want to be technical about it, Missouri won once way back in 1954.
 
#125
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Wasting no time Brian miller a vandy pitcher proposed to his girlfriend, and she said yes.
This may be something best known from the Boise state win over Oklahoma in the 2007 fiesta bowl, and has since seen it's share of others using it.
 
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