Serrano is not getting the wins....

[Backwards K]

Actually, the OVC is having a down season from where they've been. They'd do quite well there and has done well against OVC opponents already:thumbsup:

Speaks volumes that you felt the need to say that!

In all seriousness, the Vols still have a chance to get to Hoover and salvage something out of this dumpster fire of a season.

 

[ShowmeVols]

Did you miss the part of my post where I said the following?



Look, I understand and agree that the team has taken a step back from last year to this year. He is responsible for that, I've said that in this thread and others.

My point was and is that people that saying Serrano is no better than Raleigh aren't living in reality. There is not a coach in the country that would have taken the rosters he had his first two years to the NCAA Tournament.

Sone of "his" recruits the first two years, especially the ones from JUCO, weren't SEC players, but you have to build from somewhere. People that expected him to immediately recruit with the South Carolinas and Floridas of the world are dreaming. Look at their facilities and recent track record and tell me why they should come here instead. But he is trying to build us to a point where we are competitive with those teams, and we were on track to do that. Obviously, this year is a setback to that. There is no denying that.

Ok, I may have been too hasty/harsh.

Totally agree with your comments about re-thinking the "system." I get very concerned whenever Serrano expresses total confidence in the system he learned from Horton, saying he knows the system works, and the team just needs to execute it. Baseball is a game of continuous adaptation and adjustment and re-thinking. That he is so committed to a system he learned more than a dozen years ago when it obviously isn't working in the SEC in 2015 makes me wonder whether he will figure out what will work.

 

[TechnoVol]

Funding won't help things when you're 5 runs down
7th inning
Runners on 1st and 2nd
2 outs
And Serrano has the hitter BUNTING
And this is not trying to get one down because the 3rd baseman is too deep
After the first pitch was fouled off
The hitter tried to bunt again.

I've seen this type of baseball incompetence too much from Serrano. Frankly, it's embarrassing when your coach does idiotic things like this on a regular basis.

BTW, that not an "offensive system." It's rank stupidity.

Or... if the runner on first or second gets picked off which has happened way too often this season.