Game Thread Lady Vols Softball Team SEC Tournament

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Smallvol#1 said:
Maybe because a lot of fan sites don't allow such negative postings. Wish we all would stay more positive with our Ladys. And of course we have trolls who roam freely....only thing to do with them is ignore.

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Trolls don't bother me. It's the fans, both on boards and on social media that pick apart every performance by every player on our teams. Every loss or tough game is the end of the world.

I hate to break it to people, but sports are failure-based. The best baseball and softball players fail 65-70% of the time. Good shooters in basketball fail half the time.

I'm not suggesting that it should always be rainbows and butterflies, discussing failure is as much a part of the games as failure itself. But the running down of players that I see here and elsewhere is over the top. There is nobody in the country performing at the level that our fans seem to expect Tennessee teams to perform.
 
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You guys picking on Jeff for very valid points about Geer is ridiculous. Some of you'll act like we just lost the CWS championship game with that one AB by her. Good grief. Grow up some of you. You'll know who you are too.

I back what Jeff has posted about this matter 100%. Geer doesn't deserve to be talked about or slandered in such a negative way as she IS one of our best players period. Some of you act like she should be like Michael Jordan. C'mone folks.

While she may not have taken the bat of her shoulder that one AB that still didn't cost us the darn game. Look at all the great things Geer has done for us. Her stats prove it! Stop your whining for the ones that are keeping this one AB like it cost us so much & jumping on Jeff for what he is most certainly right about in my opinion. There's no need for it guys! We need to back our girls instead of quitting on them especially for dang one AB. :eek:hmy:
 
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What an interesting discussion on the board. Seems that some of us have forgotten that other teams have competitors too. Though we want our Ladies to always be successful,sometimes the other competitor wins. That's what makes sports competitions as popular as they are. That said,a competitor has the wrong mindset in a clutch situation when not taking the bat off her shoulder. A bad at bat,but it happens. It's over,so let's get to the next game and try to do better.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
I have never in my life seen a fan base so quick to eat its own as the followers of our women's sports at Tennessee.
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Well, this site is fast becoming a Pollyanna board just like The Summitt...surprise, surprise, surprise,as Sgt. Carter would say. I played college sports, and if some fan came up to me and tried to pump hot air up my tailpipe when I knew I stunk the place up, I thought much less of their words than the fan who said "you had a tough day, you're supposed to be our ace." Most of us have said as many positive things in this thread as negative, go back and read the statements, you're cherry picking the posts to prove your own agenda! *If this is the way it's going to roll on here, you can expect more rah, rah BS and a lot less of what really occurs.
 
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LVJeff said:
Even the best batters take a seat on the bench 6 times out of 10. For Geer this was one of those six times. That's all it was. If you think she can't take SEC pressure, then it's you that hasn't been watching her play, not me.
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Understand that. But if the coach puts her in the four spot at least give him a chance to pinch hit for you by telling him you're not even going to stick your bat out there.
 
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And LVJeff, surely you could have found the positive things that were said about Geer. Keep it "fair and balanced"...you didn't post a single good statement about her that many on here made! Quite frankly, I don't appreciate being made one of the targets of your unfair and unbalanced rhetoric. We're not morons, we know that Geer is a talented player...and said so. So keep on keeping on with your nonsense that posters on here are being unfair to Geer, if it makes you feel better. Just remember that you're taking a position that doesn't portray the full picture of what was said, just the side that tends to make you look so noble.
 
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hokievol12 said:
And LVJeff, surely you could have found the positive things that were said about Geer. Keep it "fair and balanced"...you didn't post a single good statement about her that many on here made! Quite frankly, I don't appreciate being made one of the targets of your unfair and unbalanced rhetoric. We're not morons, we know that Geer is a talented player...and said so. So keep on keeping on with your nonsense that posters on here are being unfair to Geer, if it makes you feel better. Just remember that you're taking a position that doesn't portray the full picture of what was said, just the side that tends to make you look so noble.
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Can't we just let this whole thing go about Geer & move on for Pete's Sakes? Jeff didn't attack anybody personally. You say he made you a target. I seen him reply to the posts of a few members about this topic not just you. There's no need for this to continue.

What Geer done is over & done with & like I said that one AB didn't cost us the dang game. So, can well all just move away from this subject matter & talk about something different about this team? Like the regionals coming up or something else please?
 
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Quite the opposite...he made every individual poster from whom he borrowed his examples, a target. Maybe it took less effort to find the so called negative excerpts, the poisitve statements just didn't fit his platform.
 
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hokievol12 said:
Quite the opposite...he made every individual poster from whom he borrowed his examples, a target. Maybe it took less effort to find the so called negative excerpts, the poisitve statements just didn't fit his platform.
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One more time. I ask please to let this go & move on. How hard can that be for some people?
 
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Why don't you tell that to what's his name? Early in this thread I stated "it's history"...go back and look. But someone felt so offended that he prolonged the thread because some of us were supposedly being unfair to Geer. Please! I watched Hank Aaron play once in my life, in old Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Hank went 0-4, and I left a little mad because my favorite player didn't get a single hit! I later watched the night he hit the record breaking home run. He was a great player, but he made plenty of outs in his career. Point is, if you've ever played sports, you know there will be good days and bad days. Geer had a tough day, but she wasn't the only one. Her last at bat was a big moment, doesn't mean we hate her, or blame her for everything that happened. "Snap and flush" as Butch Jones likes to say...but don't pretend it was a great moment.
 
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tonybologna said:
Can't we just let this whole thing go about Geer & move on for Pete's Sakes? Jeff didn't attack anybody personally. You say he made you a target. I seen him reply to the posts of a few members about this topic not just you. There's no need for this to continue.

What Geer done is over & done with & like I said that one AB didn't cost us the dang game. So, can well all just move away from this subject matter & talk about something different about this team? Like the regionals coming up or something else please?
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We're not the ones not letting it move on. I said what I thought and stick by it. She let herself, coaches, teammates and fans down when she was being counted on the most. If she would have at least taken cuts at the ball and struck out I would have had no problem with that. She would have just gotten beat. But to not even play the game. Geez.
 
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I know she probably feels horrible and I feel horrible for her. And, she should feel horrible. Hopefully she learns from this and is better mentally prepared when a big moment arrives. Fricking swing the bat.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Trolls don't bother me. It's the fans, both on boards and on social media that pick apart every performance by every player on our teams. Every loss or tough game is the end of the world.

I hate to break it to people, but sports are failure-based. The best baseball and softball players fail 65-70% of the time. Good shooters in basketball fail half the time.

I'm not suggesting that it should always be rainbows and butterflies, discussing failure is as much a part of the games as failure itself. But the running down of players that I see here and elsewhere is over the top. There is nobody in the country performing at the level that our fans seem to expect Tennessee teams to perform.
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I was never an athlete quite good enough to play college sports (Division I) like hokievol was fortunate to do, but I still soldier on. I've experienced more failures, utter failures in my competitive athletic life with a few bright spots/successes mixed in here and there. I completely understand the failure side of the equation in competitive sports more than most people although I've never been an elite athlete like Megan Geer is presently.

I'm also a coach certified by the leading professional organization in the world. I coach a little bit on the side. Whether I'm competing as an athlete or coaching my students, I always stress the importance of giving one's 100% effort. All the time. Win or lose, doesn't concern me. Outcome is not the goal, but the process. Even when I'm injured a little bit, and not at my 100% physically, I still do go out and compete because my teammates/coaches count on me. They need me in the lineup. I don't want to disappoint them. All I can do is compete hard and give my all regardless of the outcome. And that's about all they expect of me too. And I fail miserably doing that...time after time...

That's about all I want to say in this particular post...
 
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Beating Auburn at Auburn will be very difficult we are not the same team on the road. Regardless it has been a good season and hopefully we can win the regional at home and have the opportunity to take them on.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Beating Auburn at Auburn will be very difficult we are not the same team on the road. Regardless it has been a good season and hopefully we can win the regional at home and have the opportunity to take them on.
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Games against Az and Ohio St. not assured. Very tough bracket. Seems committee seeded Ky up and us down.
 
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Sandvol said:
Games against Az and Ohio St. not assured. Very tough bracket. Seems committee seeded Ky up and us down.
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I know but we usually beat the crap out of teams at home and so I'm confident that we'll win the regional. I'm not at all confident that we can win at Auburn but stranger things have happened.
 
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LA Vol said:
The UK seeding is a headscratcher.
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Got to be one of the worst seedings in NCAA history if you ask me. How in the heck did they get up to a #9 seed? There's no valid argument for that whatsoever. You could put LSU who is 10th easily over them along with way too many other teams to mention. This blew my mind when I was watching the selection show live last night. I like to fell off my couch when I seen that.

Then, after seeing that they had us down to #13 & I was shocked again. The first thing that got me though was seeing Georgia as the #16 seed. That shocked the heck out of me too. I don't know which was more shocking to me.

Kentucky being a #9 seed or Georgia sneaking in as the #16 seed. Probably slightly favor the Kentucky seeding as more shocking but not by much because Georgia did not deserve to be a 16th seed either. Kentucky should have been no higher than #14 seed if you ask me & Georgia not in the top 16 at all. This had to do with these 2 teams being in the SEC which is the strongest conference.

However, it's unbelievable & not fair for other teams more deserving. Baylor or Fresno State for sure should have been picked to replace Georgia as the #16 seed. This has been the worst seeding that I've ever seen for the NCAA tourney. Not fair at all for quite a few teams if you ask me. It is what it is so nothing can be done but accept your seedings & move on.
 
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Vols4life said:
EG before she got hurt was a 16-17 year old on the USA junior national team the only high school player on the team....she also set the high school record for k's in a game with 34....she was a phenomenal pitcher before injuries....Nunley was a late bloomer and when the weekly's already had EG they tried to get Nunley but it was too late
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Argh, what could've been...Nunley was named an NFCA 1st-team All-American earlier this week.

Growing up, Nunley idolized Monica Abbott, the star UT softball pitcher. She had one of Abbott’s jerseys in her room. “I really looked up to her,” Nunley said last week.

In her dream scenario, Nunley was going to follow in the footsteps of her idol and do great things in Tennessee orange. Except, after she’d become a star pitcher for the Soddy-Daisy Lady Trojans, Tennessee did not come through with a scholarship offer.

“They told her they had seven scholarship offers out, and they didn’t have any (scholarship) money for her,” said Clifford Kirk, who coached Nunley at Soddy-Daisy. “Kelsey was a Tennessee kid through and through. That was a tough thing.”
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee's gift to Kentucky softball | Lexington Herald-Leader
 
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