Softball Week 3 - USF Tournament

#951
#951
SEC FAN 1111 said:
He took a jab a me first. He needs to stick with his play by play and not come on this forum and pretend to know about hitting progressions when he doesn’t.
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How do you know he doesn’t? But we respect and appreciate your showing up here on this forum, Ralph. PS- do a little better job on the base running, K?? Thanks
 
#952
#952
SEC FAN 1111 said:
Wrong I have been around the sport longer than you have been alive young boy. Those colleges that you named above don’t force they’re hitters do use it. If a girl uses it it’s because she’s comfortable with it already not forced into doing it. I’ve played men’s fast pitch where it is not used either. Are you going to tell me it’s a different sport? Swinging a bat is swinging a bat it does not matter if it’s baseball or softball. Innings played or mound or no mound have any thing to do with swinging a bat. I take everything you say with a grain of salt. You call the games with no integrity imo!
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You've been around women's college softball for 37 years? Wow, that's impressive. It's even longer than every school in the SEC, save for South Carolina, has even had softball. You get credit for being an early adopter. I'm glad that you use that depth of knowledge to come on a message board to rip on 18-22-year old women while still somehow not having a firm grasp of what you claim to be an expert on and having nothing positive to say at any point.

Now that's out of the way, how about some more of those facts that you find inconvenient to your opinion: No hitter on the team is "forced" into the 2-strike squaring up. In fact, less than a third of the players on the team currently do it. One has been doing it literally her entire life. But the ones that do have found success and comfort with it.

You never did it in men's fastpitch. Great. We'll have to take your word for that, you mentioned baseball last time, so I just followed your lead on making false equivalencies. You know who did square with two strikes? Lauren Haeger is one of the greatest hitters in SEC history and she showed bunt with two strikes every time. Lauren Chamberlin and Keilani Ricketts hold every Oklahoma offensive record and they both did it, and beat our ass in the process in 2013.

Thanks for the note on my integrity, I'm glad I know where I stand with Mr. Anonymous Internet Poster Smart Guy.
 
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#953
sccshortstop said:
Most of us have missed your call and when will you be back?
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I've had every game, other than the Mexico games on UTSports.com and the app. I got busy and forgot to post the links here last weekend, that's my bad. I'll have UNC tomorrow night online and then we'll have the radio games on AM 990 in Knoxville (and also on UTSports.com and the app) starting at Texas A&M on Friday night.
 
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briancrice said:
You've been around women's college softball for 37 years? Wow, that's impressive. It's even longer than every school in the SEC, save for South Carolina, has even had softball. You get credit for being an early adopter. I'm glad that you use that depth of knowledge to come on a message board to rip on 18-22-year old women while still somehow not having a firm grasp of what you claim to be an expert on and having nothing positive to say at any point.

Now that's out of the way, how about some more of those facts that you find inconvenient to your opinion: No hitter on the team is "forced" into the 2-strike squaring up. In fact, less than a third of the players on the team currently do it. One has been doing it literally her entire life. But the ones that do have found success and comfort with it.

You never did it in men's fastpitch. Great. We'll have to take your word for that, you mentioned baseball last time, so I just followed your lead on making false equivalencies. You know who did square with two strikes? Lauren Haeger is one of the greatest hitters in SEC history and she showed bunt with two strikes every time. Lauren Chamberlin and Keilani Ricketts hold every Oklahoma offensive record and they both did it, and beat our ass in the process in 2013.

Thanks for the note on my integrity, I'm glad I know where I stand with Mr. Anonymous Internet Poster Smart Guy.
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Let’s get your facts straight. First I never ripped any girl on the team I ripped the staff for forcing them to do something they haven’t been doing. Milloy and Phillips didn’t use this technique before they were slumping now they go into a slump and start using it making a slump worse by using a technique they are not comfortable with and it shows by the low success rate. The girls you mentioned were hitting savants and obviously comfortable using it. It’s my opinion that it does not have a high success rate because there are to many moving parts and prohibits the full use of the bottom half. Stick to your sugar coated play by play.
 
#955
#955
briancrice said:
I've had every game, other than the Mexico games on UTSports.com and the app. I got busy and forgot to post the links here last weekend, that's my bad. I'll have UNC tomorrow night online and then we'll have the radio games on AM 990 in Knoxville (and also on UTSports.com and the app) starting at Texas A&M on Friday night.
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Brian this is more on UT than you, but since you might be able to get them to fix it. The stats from the app sometimes doesn't work and on the UT sports page the stats link returns the dreaded 404 no link most of time. If you could pass that on it would be appreciated. Had to go to the other teams websites to get live stats most of the year. Thanks, appreciate your work with Ut softball.
 
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#956
#956
Been around every kind of softball ask Player and a coach for over 40 yrs. This team is very young and might be the most talent IF everyone stays and gets healthy that UT has ever had. They have that chance. I expect the Weeklys know they need patience with them. This year is all about getting the freshmen and songs playing together with the remaining upper class men. I’d like to see them keep the hitting lineup with the expected power hitters in the 456 spots. And yes that includes Phillips. She’s excellent on defense. And can play both 3rd and catcher. Pretty sure she could backup at second also. I’m not sure Milloy is ready for the everyday job in center but she’s got plenty of ability. If McC comes back I’d put her in as the extra hitter she not as steady at 3rd. Phillips has struggled with consistency at the plate since the last 3 weeks of last season. Partly I’d say because she’s not sure where in the field she would be but like Milloy you know the talent is there. Hannon and Holcomb to be should get the majority of starts in the outfield as the younger players learn. Stating the obvious they NEED Ashley back doing what she’s did last year. Keep the faith. Good things are coming.
 
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SEC FAN 1111 said:
He took a jab a me first. He needs to stick with his play by play and not come on this forum and pretend to know about hitting progressions when he doesn’t.
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You bore me. Time for you to go.
 
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#959
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briancrice said:
I've had every game, other than the Mexico games on UTSports.com and the app. I got busy and forgot to post the links here last weekend, that's my bad. I'll have UNC tomorrow night online and then we'll have the radio games on AM 990 in Knoxville (and also on UTSports.com and the app) starting at Texas A&M on Friday night.
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They usually have the links in the Twitter account. Even when my wife and I get to watch the games we listen to your broadcast and turn their sound off. Just saying.
 
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briancrice said:
You've been around women's college softball for 37 years? Wow, that's impressive. It's even longer than every school in the SEC, save for South Carolina, has even had softball. You get credit for being an early adopter. I'm glad that you use that depth of knowledge to come on a message board to rip on 18-22-year old women while still somehow not having a firm grasp of what you claim to be an expert on and having nothing positive to say at any point.

Now that's out of the way, how about some more of those facts that you find inconvenient to your opinion: No hitter on the team is "forced" into the 2-strike squaring up. In fact, less than a third of the players on the team currently do it. One has been doing it literally her entire life. But the ones that do have found success and comfort with it.

You never did it in men's fastpitch. Great. We'll have to take your word for that, you mentioned baseball last time, so I just followed your lead on making false equivalencies. You know who did square with two strikes? Lauren Haeger is one of the greatest hitters in SEC history and she showed bunt with two strikes every time. Lauren Chamberlin and Keilani Ricketts hold every Oklahoma offensive record and they both did it, and beat our ass in the process in 2013.

Thanks for the note on my integrity, I'm glad I know where I stand with Mr. Anonymous Internet Poster Smart Guy.
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Lol, SEC FAN just got put in a body bag by the only person here with the stones to use his real name on his posts. Take the L and move on.
 
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kregman said:
Brian this is more on UT than you, but since you might be able to get them to fix it. The stats from the app sometimes doesn't work and on the UT sports page the stats link returns the dreaded 404 no link most of time. If you could pass that on it would be appreciated. Had to go to the other teams websites to get live stats most of the year. Thanks, appreciate your work with Ut softball.
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The website uses a re-direct with the URL. If you only have this portion of the link, you can get to the correct web page. Hope this helps.

"utsports.com/sidearmstats/softball/summary"

SIDEARMLiveStats
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Lol, SEC FAN just got put in a body bag by the only person here with the stones to use his real name on his posts. Take the L and move on.
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Don’t worry I will introduce my self in person. I stand by my opinions. Go share a sleeping bag with your boyfriend!
 
#963
#963
MadWorld said:
The website uses a re-direct with the URL. If you only have this portion of the link, you can get to the correct web page. Hope this helps.

"utsports.com/sidearmstats/softball/summary"

SIDEARMLiveStats
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I appreciate the response. This links to the Stanford branded site. Wouldn't UT be doing their own home tournament? We (others on the board) have usually found live stats but it has been a lot of times the other schools doing it. I mean in the post Google age you can find about anything, why would UT not link their own branded stats which they are keeping anyway? They have done it for years just not much this year. Most people have the app but it is nice sometimes to see on a big screen if you are home. Thanks for answering I will take any help I can get in life. :) (Oh and for some reason we have been Mexico a number of times, nice to represent a whole country of Ladyvol fans!)
 
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#964
SEC FAN 1111 said:
Wrong I have been around the sport longer than you have been alive young boy. Are you going to tell me it’s a different sport? Swinging a bat is swinging a bat it does not matter if it’s baseball or softball. Innings played or mound or no mound have any thing to do with swinging a bat. I take everything you say with a grain of salt. You call the games with no integrity imo!
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I've played and coached both baseball and ladies fastpitch softball as well, and your above statement could not be more wrong.

As a batter, facing a pitch coming from above the shoulder with the pitcher standing on an elevated mound is VERY different than facing a pitch that is released below the waist on a flat mound.

A baseball hitter should generally have a slightly low to high swing plane. Whereas a softball hitter should have a mostly level swing plane. I think a major problem with our hitters having a high number of strike outs last year, and having a large number of swings without making any contact, is because many of the lady vols have too much of a low to high swing plane. This is also why we typically have difficulty when facing pitchers with a good rise ball.

Think about the path of the ball and the plane of the swing and it should give you a very good visual. If the swing plane is up, but the ball path is level (or also up) then the only chance to make contact is if the bat meets the ball at the perfect time. With a level swing plane, the bat remains on the same plane as the ball longer so you can hit the ball early or late and still make good contact.
 
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