Possible Replacement For Serrano?

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31VFL said:
I don't know if Moberg would want to take on another year of tuition. I'm assuming he isn't a full-ride guy or anything close to that.
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I just refreshed my memory of his career.
It's a stretch to even say he is a good college player based off just those 16 games.

Hell he only started 9 games the two years before combined
 
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I would be surprised if Kyle enters the draft next year. He will again have to prove the arm problems are gone. I agree with DP on his comments and I will go out on a leap of faith and say he gets 3 more to right this ship. Nothing more than my 2 cents worth!
 
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31VFL said:
Wes Rucker
@wesrucker247: Regardless of what #Vols do with Serrano, he’s a heck of a coach. Won’t matter if they keep/fire him if program isn't treated better. JMO.
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31VFL said:
Wes Rucker
@wesrucker247: My opinion hasn’t changed. Serrano didn’t turn into a moron overnight. If HE can’t win there, they should look at more than coaching.
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Truth
 
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BruinVol said:
Just in the names you listed you show the roster won't be better next year.


There won't be one pitcher on the staff as good as godley. Remember he made it to the big leagues


There won't be a hitter as good a maddox. Leftridge has had a good finish to the year but wouldn't have even played at the end of the season had Bartlett not gotten hurt.


While I like Santiogo he wasn't even really a catcher for most of the season and I doubt he even is our future behind the dish.

Next years roster is far far far away from a winning roster in the SEC
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When Serrano took over, Godley wasn't a guy that was projected to become anything close to what he eventually became. I wasn't sure they would even keep him, so I don't really think that's a valid comparison.

When Serrano came in, Godley's ERA in his only year at UT was 3.38 and there are six projected returnees from this team with an ERA lower than that. Will any of them eventually make the majors, even for a short time like Zack did? Who knows. But I would have bet great sums of money that he wouldn't make it either.
 
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31VFL said:
It won't be as big as what he would have got out of high school, but he will still go relatively early.
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Agreed. Coming to school has cost him $ for sure but strangely enough the injury might have been better financially than pitching the year and showing he still had no command.

I would guess he is a 3rd round kind of draft this year
 
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DeerPark12 said:
When Serrano took over, Godley wasn't a guy that was projected to become anything close to what he eventually became. I wasn't sure they would even keep him, so I don't really think that's a valid comparison.

When Serrano came in, Godley's ERA in his only year at UT was 3.38 and there are six projected returnees from this team with an ERA lower than that. Will any of them eventually make the majors, even for a short time like Zack did? Who knows. But I would have bet great sums of money that he wouldn't make it either.
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Not fair to compare pitching numbers as bat rules are very different than 6years ago

Fact is warren and Serano are our only returning real mlb talent guys
 
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BruinVol said:
Not fair to compare pitching numbers as bat rules are very different than 6years ago

Fact is warren and Serano are our only returning real mlb talent guys
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I'd like to see what Westphal looks like after surgery. He was a low 90's guy as a freshman and was really coming on his last 2-3 appearances in the SEC.
 
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TNSportsman said:
Here is how I judge Serrano:

Will the roster be better in year 6 than in year 1? I don't think it will be and that alone is enough to not bring him back for another season.
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Year one is the wrong baseline.

Year three offers a better comparison of whether is recruiting is improving, staying level, or falling off.

In 2012 he fielded practically all Raleigh recruits.

In 2013 he fielded the best uncommitted 2012 high school grads still available when he was hired plus a bunch of JUCO transfers after he cleaned house.

In 2014, he fielded for the first time a group you could truly say was his. And there was a lot of freshman and sophomore talent on the field that year: Stewart, Simcox, VJax, Serrano, Senzel, Lee and others, plus Maddox's final year.

That talent brought our RPI up to 53 after it had been in the 112-124 range the previous three years and got us to Hoover for the first time in a while.

The pro prospects from his early classes have moved on, our RPI has fallen back to 80, and we'll see what sort of replacements we get for the guys who went pro or graduated in 2015 and 2016.
 
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After pitching those 2 gems against LSU, I think Will Neely goes into the 2017 season as UT's number one starter.
 
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This is from The D1 Baseball chat from this past Monday with Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt:

Question:
Percentage on the chance Tennessee retains Serrano?

Kendall Rogers:
Would be very surprised, based on intel, if Serrano is back next year. Put it at 85 percent sure that he will not be retained.
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I didn't want to post it until we were done for the season.

TIFWIW
 
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Basilio said he had a "source" who said, Hart had not yet made up his mind on what to do with Serrano. Further said, Hart will probably only be around for another year and he may not want to make a change. Further telling, the source supposedly said Hart is getting absolutely NO pressure from boosters to fire Serrano.

With that being said, Basilio's sources have normally ranged from callers like W. Lynn to reading tea leaves at the Japanese restaurant he is always pushing. In other words, not reliable.
 
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Backwards K said:
Basilio said he had a "source" who said, Hart had not yet made up his mind on what to do with Serrano. Further said, Hart will probably only be around for another year and he may not want to make a change. Further telling, the source supposedly said Hart is getting absolutely NO pressure from boosters to fire Serrano.

With that being said, Basilio's sources have normally ranged from callers like W. Lynn to reading tea leaves at the Japanese restaurant he is always pushing. In other words, not reliable.
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He's been talking about Cheek and Hart in that manner for a couple of months now, I don't know what to think about it, but yeah if the board isn't gonna re up him, there is a thought on letting the next guy make the hire I guess...I dunno.
 
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Backwards K said:
Basilio said he had a "source" who said, Hart had not yet made up his mind on what to do with Serrano. Further said, Hart will probably only be around for another year and he may not want to make a change. Further telling, the source supposedly said Hart is getting absolutely NO pressure from boosters to fire Serrano.

With that being said, Basilio's sources have normally ranged from callers like W. Lynn to reading tea leaves at the Japanese restaurant he is always pushing. In other words, not reliable.
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Wasn't his story last week jack leggett was going to be our next coach?
 
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BruinVol said:
Wasn't his story last week jack leggett was going to be our next coach?
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No. All T-Boz said was that there has been some contact between Leggett and Hart, which jives with what I have heard from a very well connected college baseball source who is completely independent from UT.

But as another poster said, it's not clear if the meeting was with Leggett as a potential candidate or as a consultant on potential candidates.

Jack is 61, but he is still very much a "young" 61. Not advocating either for or against him as a candidate should we make a change, but he has a pretty solid track record at a very good baseball school in our part of the country. He's got some good years left.
 
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