Tennessee Buzz: Candidates To Watch - Kendall Rogers

[bowlinggreenvol]

Lol. He didn't have him on his big list of candidates either.

He's the guru and got "punked" like many did and tried to play it off cool.

 

[feathersax]

He's a writer/founder of D1 baseball website. He predicted Vitello literally 1 hr before it was released publicly, as things started leaking and then tried to gorilla beat his chest like he called this hire.

Thanks! Some folks on VN are SPOT ON. Bowling Green, you're one of those. :hi:

 

[Gilbert]

Szefc to VT.

 

[Backwards K]

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[ShowmeVols]

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The scenario you're promoting requires us to believe two people behaved in an extremely unusual manner:

1) That the AD skipped the usual post-season review and met with the coach of a last-place team the week before the end of the season to offer him an extension.

2) That the coach, who everybody following UT sports or college baseball took for granted would be fired, turned down this miracle extension offer because he thought compiling the worst 5+-year conference record in the last half century entitled him to a multi-year contract.

If you expect people to believe both of these strange things happened, the burden is on you to provide sources or evidence.

[NOTE: This comment would have made more sense if Backwards K hadn't deleted his comment saying I needed to explain why I didn't believe his theory.]

 

[ShowmeVols]

Szefc to VT.

But, but, but . . . the insider geniuses at D1baseball.com told us CDS was getting major love for that position. Is it possible they don't know what they're talking about? Say it isn't so!

 

[Backwards K]

Showme, I just said, you are speculating, I'm not.

Don't believe me if you don't want to, you don't have to. I'm good with that.

 

[ShowmeVols]

Showme, I just said, you are speculating, I'm not.

Don't believe me if you don't want to, you don't have to. I'm good with that.

You haven't offered any reason to believe or any information to help others evaluate the highly unusual claim. Assertion without evidence is meaningless.

 

[DeerPark12]

The scenario you're promoting requires us to believe two people behaved in an extremely unusual manner:

1) That the AD skipped the usual post-season review and met with the coach of a last-place team the week before the end of the season to offer him an extension.

2) That the coach, who everybody following UT sports or college baseball took for granted would be fired, turned down this miracle extension offer because he thought compiling the worst 5+-year conference record in the last half century entitled him to a multi-year contract.

If you expect people to believe both of these strange things happened, the burden is on you to provide sources or evidence.

[NOTE: This comment would have made more sense if Backwards K hadn't deleted his comment saying I needed to explain why I didn't believe his theory.]

Currie told Serrano that he was willing to extend him by a year so they could fully evaluate the program. That was two or three weeks before he announced he wouldn't pursue an extension. Serrano sat on the offer and met with Currie again the Monday after the Kentucky series.

They both agreed that the program needed long-term stability and what happened at Kentucky was the best example of that. A coach's cloud hanging over the program for another year wasn't going to make things any better. Serrano also agreed that the results on the field meant that Currie couldn't offer him a multi-year deal and they agreed to part ways at the end of the season. He didn't ask for or feel "entitled to" a multi-year deal. He DID say from the start that the program needed a coach for five years, not for one year. Maybe that's where the confusion is here. But at no time did he say he felt entitled to a multi-year extension, in public or in private.

So I don't know what Backwards K wrote, didn't see it. But that's what happened to the best of my understanding from people very involved in the process.

 

[Backwards K]

DeerPark, that is exactly what I heard. Currie offered Serrano a one year deal but Serrano didn't want to limp thru another year. I did hear that he wanted a multi year contract but didn't campaign that hard to get it nor was it offered.

The only thing I mentioned was that Showme's assertion at the top of this page was wrong. I don't feel the need to tell everything I hear about the program.