Light at the end of tunnel...Make the argument

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fryeguy93

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Where are the young players (besides Toles) that will be better next season?

Where are the top-tier recruits ready to bust down the door?

Where are the assistant coaches that other programs are clamoring to hire as head coaches?

Where are the close games indicating the Vols are "almost there"?

Where is the year-to-year improvement a new coach is supposed to show to prove to fans the team is improving?

Where is the excitement for an up and coming program?




Despite promises about this season, our pitching appears worse in conference play as we are giving up more runs even with dead bats than in 2010.

Our "Gorilla Ball" offense has degenerated into "Lemur Ball" as our offense is definitely worse than 4 or 5 seasons ago...and it's not due to bats. Remember the Toad complaining about the slow progress of the indoor batting cages effecting Vols in 2010. What's the excuse now? Is it the fluorescent lighting in the facility?

Every assistant hire is worse than the guy that Toad replaced.

Now we are looking at a final 30 games where the fans and team has ZERO confidence as we hope that the athletic director runs Raleigh on a rail.
 
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No offense but I think posts such as this one have been rendered moot. Kind of a salt in the wound thing at this point.

I am most hopeful that the new hire can switch us out of the softball uniforms that CTR and co have had us in the last 4 yrs. That along with how he fits in his uniform spoke volumes about what to expect.

I will give you Gorilla ball and constantly playing top tier competition outside of the conference schedule. What a mess. I simply hope we will play hard the rest of the season against a very unforgiving SEC schedule.

When you have Florida, Vanderbilt, South Carolina all in the East and all in the top 10 in the country you are going to be in trouble unless you also have a top 10 caliber team.

This was not a mistake by CTR but by MH. Even teams like Georgia and Alabama have struggled the last 2 or 3 years and they have really good coaches. CTR is and was way, way, over his head.
 
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I miss the del monico days..
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Where are the young players (besides Toles) that will be better next season?

Where are the top-tier recruits ready to bust down the door?

Where are the assistant coaches that other programs are clamoring to hire as head coaches?

Where are the close games indicating the Vols are "almost there"?

Where is the year-to-year improvement a new coach is supposed to show to prove to fans the team is improving?

Where is the excitement for an up and coming program?




Despite promises about this season, our pitching appears worse in conference play as we are giving up more runs even with dead bats than in 2010.

Our "Gorilla Ball" offense has degenerated into "Lemur Ball" as our offense is definitely worse than 4 or 5 seasons ago...and it's not due to bats. Remember the Toad complaining about the slow progress of the indoor batting cages effecting Vols in 2010. What's the excuse now? Is it the fluorescent lighting in the facility?

Every assistant hire is worse than the guy that Toad replaced.

Now we are looking at a final 30 games where the fans and team has ZERO confidence as we hope that the athletic director runs Raleigh on a rail.

Glad you posted this. I was starting to forget your thoughts on TR.
 
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since my days as an undergrad (age of acquarius), the vol baseball program has never been much to get excited over. there was a brief interlude when delmonico was interested, but it was just a blip. but, i'd gladly take a blip over the black hole hammy and raleigh have turned it into. tenn. baseball is in about the same position as lady vol's basketball was before a girl named pat showed up. its going to take a miracle worker of the same magnitude to get this thing off the ground.
 
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since my days as an undergrad (age of acquarius), the vol baseball program has never been much to get excited over. there was a brief interlude when delmonico was interested, but it was just a blip. but, i'd gladly take a blip over the black hole hammy and raleigh have turned it into. tenn. baseball is in about the same position as lady vol's basketball was before a girl named pat showed up. its going to take a miracle worker of the same magnitude to get this thing off the ground.

Vanderbilt has a very good baseball team. If they can do it tuen so can we. It wouldn't take a miracle. It would take at least some effort though. That seems to be too much to ask.
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Vanderbilt has a very good baseball team. If they can do it tuen so can we. It wouldn't take a miracle. It would take at least some effort though. That seems to be too much to ask.
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Agree! To think the Vandy can have a top 5 baseball team and we can't even be top 5 in our own conference is ridiculous. We have resources out the yeng yang compared to Vandy. All it is going to take is the RIGHT hire. Hamilton has failed miserably with the hire of Raleigh and the sooner he cuts bait, the sooner we can start rebuilding our baseball program. It's TIME!!
 
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Agree! To think the Vandy can have a top 5 baseball team and we can't even be top 5 in our own conference is ridiculous. We have resources out the yeng yang compared to Vandy. All it is going to take is the RIGHT hire. Hamilton has failed miserably with the hire of Raleigh and the sooner he cuts bait, the sooner we can start rebuilding our baseball program. It's TIME!!

Vandy should be better than UT in anything athletically, except women's bowling.
 
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:horse:

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is just the headlight of the freight train.
 

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