Serrano returning for sixth year

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This coming season has to be a do or die season. Unless he takes a Miss. St. type of turn I don't see him being around after next year. The SEC is so good when it comes to baseball why wouldn't you want Tennessee to be in the thick of the fight? We were one Auburn loss from not even making the SEC tournament. I guess 12 of 14 is good enough.
 
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Needs to play a very easy schedule, rack up a hell of a lot of easy wins, win 12-14 sec games and be on the bubble next year is the best path for an extension IMO
 
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Dave Serrano said this team will be better next year hahahahahahaha the team will not be good at all ... He can't recruit he can't teaching pitching? Our team is half the size as every other team in the sec... Just dumb to keep him
 
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Florida will not be as good but still top 10 in the country. Vanderbilt will be better. South Carolina will be similar. Missouri returns Houck for Friday nights. Kentucky has some good young talent. Georgia seems stuck like we are.

It will be tough to climb higher than 5th in the division. The schedule next season will be huge to see who we match up with in the West. We avoided Miss St and Texas A&M or this year could have been much worse.
 
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BruinVol said:
@wesrucker247: #Vols baseball coach Dave Serrano: Most of our top pitchers come back, and Kyle Serrano and Jake Westphal will be healthy.
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So Serrano, Westphal, Warren, Soto, Neely, Lipinski, Freeman, Harper-Cook are the main guys we will have coming back. Lose Kane, Cox, and I'm going to assume Martin. Plus whoever comes to school.
 
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TNSportsman said:
Florida will not be as good but still top 10 in the country. Vanderbilt will be better. South Carolina will be similar. Missouri returns Houck for Friday nights. Kentucky has some good young talent. Georgia seems stuck like we are.

It will be tough to climb higher than 5th in the division. The schedule next season will be huge to see who we match up with in the West. We avoided Miss St and Texas A&M or this year could have been much worse.
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MSU is going to be absolutely stacked next year, I hope we get nowhere near the state of Mississippi next year.
 
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I'm happy CDS will get another year but something smells to high heaven on this deal...it's been handled about as poorly as possible.
 
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I'm happy for Dave.

I still believe had CDS been booted, no way we get a coach with even 1/2 the experience, track record and desire to actually be here that Dave has.

I know I'm in the minority.

I think Dave may also be benefitting from a lame duck AD who knows hiring a baseball coach will be even more difficult if the candidates know they'll have a new boss after one season.

Cutting bait with Serranno would undoubtedly result in a hire of a Todd Raleigh type or washed-up, overrated, never-has-been like Jack Leggett.

And it's not intellectually honest to keep saying the program is not better than it was when Raleigh left. The coaching is better, the players are better but the SEC is even better to. Just look at our out-of-conference improvement against and even tougher schedule than Raleigh played. We couldn't beat ETSU or MTSU for Pete's sake.

UT made a commitment to baseball when they hired Dave. They opened up the wallet. However, they have not committed to the other parts of program that is needed. In the 90s, we were one of 4 SEC school who gave a damn about baseball. Now 11 do, as I am not sure UT is one of those 11. Only Missouri, Auburn, and Georgia show less commitment to sport that we do.
 
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vol66 said:
I'm happy CDS will get another year but something smells to high heaven on this deal...it's been handled about as poorly as possible.
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Couldn't agree more. Apparently we're just going to kick the can down the road.

Do everything the same and expect a different result.
 
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@wesrucker247: Serrano on recruiting on only a one-year deal: DoesnÂ’t bother me. We just got a big-time 2018 prospect to commit.
 
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orangeluvr said:
Our entire AD is lagging behind just about every other school the conference. appears that way to me. :question: :dunno:
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Honestly, this hurts a hell of a lot more than the loss to LSU did. I'm clearly over invested in the baseball program.

To your question, we have a budget for athletics that ranks at the top of the SEC, therefore, all of college sports. We have attendance for the Big Three that's also near the top of college sports...where are the results?

Are we so cheap we won't pay Hart's buy out now, wtf?
 
#45
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won't do any good, no recruits want to come into a lame duck situation, and he has not produced in 5 years, terrible job by d hart here
 
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lovavol said:
won't do any good, no recruits want to come into a lame duck situation, and he has not produced in 5 years, terrible job by d hart here
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He actually got a big time 2018 kid to commit last night, as odd as that is.
 
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Complete AD fail this morning. You can't say the coach is not the problem and then not identify and address the real problems.

That's accepting failure or inability to define a strategy for success. Both are very disappointing.
 
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appyvol said:
Why is everyone so sure Hart is gone? I've thought he's done a pretty good job.
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The reason behind this thread is a good place to start when looking for Harts fu#k ups.

You don't sign a guy to a one year extension, if you have faith in CDS then you give him at least 3 more years and stand behind it. Not a one year extension because you don't know jack sh!t and don't want to look bad by bringing in a bad hire.
 
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#50
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I'm 50-50 on this. I think there's a damned good coach somewhere inside Serrano, a feeling I never had or had reason to have with Todd Raleigh or Derek Dooley. There's also more than good reason to hand him his pink slip. I hope he turns the corner next year.
 
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