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Tennessee Buzz: Candidates To Watch - Kendall Rogers
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After looking his resume I would be shocked if he doesn't get an offer as soon as Maryland's season ends. Especially with his ties to Currie. Except for his time as an assistant at UL-Lafayette, he's been at some places that are not easy to win at and has been a part of success at those places.
He has taken Maryland to two super regionals. Those teams won regionals at UCLA and at South Carolina to advance to the next round. Maryland had not been to a regional in 43 years before 2014.
Maryland is on the bubble for the tourney this year. If they don't get in something could pop pretty soon with this guy.
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No. But I think you and others got played by his skillful use of the lapdogs who pass as college baseball journalists. His teams were ranked in the pre-season polls or touted as a sleeper team just about every year he was here. He was the source of the unwarranted hype.
Your willingness to blame UT and excuse Serrano for his performance over the past year sounds like a domestic violence victim blaming herself instead of her abuser.
When you look at his record at UT and consider the talent he coached over the past years, it's impossible to insulate him from criticism. Has any coach had comparable talent over such a period and failed to sniff even the bubble of the NCAA tournament?
I thought it was a great hire six years ago, and I gave him time to recruit and develop his own players before making any judgments about him. But it became clear he wasn't up to this rebuilding job. His teams were out-coached and out-hustled and out-executed too many times for your "It's not you, it's us" enabling to have any credibility.
He was less effective that Raleigh over a longer period of time. Everyone criticized Raleigh, but nobody wants to criticize Serrano. And the only difference between them seems to be Serrano's superior PR skill.
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not seeing it with this guy, last year they were projected to be a top 20 team and it didn't happen. This year they are on the fence of the tourney....
I'll be honest and admit I've never head of the guy until recently but I'd be shocked if he's hired to rebuild a SEC program. Not a Big 10 fan either...
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There are problems with some aspects of the baseball facilities. However, the renovations that were done around 2012 to the locker room, film room, team room, batting cages, weight room, training room etc. were excellent. They have video of everything. Whether they use it as well as possible I do not know. Outside of South Carolina, UT's facilities are comparable to the other teams in the Eastern side of the conference.
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Phase 1 was completed before the 2009 season, phase 2 before 2010...UK will have a brand new field next year I believe...and Vandy soon...
UGA had renovations completed before last season...UF has upgrades planned, don't know if it's still in the works now that Foley is gone...
Really, the only team we'll be on par with soon is Missouri. Wilkerson has said that much on the radio several times and of course he's been to each facility. Which, coincidentally is where our attendance is too, 13th, ahead of only Missouri.
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Even you're saying all of this is COMING from our competitors, it's not there right now. The argument is we haven't been able to attract kids for the past 5-10 yrs because of what our competitors had. With renos done in the last 7-8 yrs, some of that stuff still had the new smell when Serrano first got here. I can't and won't pretend to speak for the behind scenes stuff at the other SEC schools because I don't know what they have compared to us. I have been to games at Vandy, UF and SCar's old stadium and only Sarge Frye field at SCar was better at the time than LNS. Vandy is cosmetically appealing on the outside with some of the brick work but the inside of the stadium was nothing overly special. UF is a dump IMO and long overdue for renovations. A question to ask is have some of our player alumni invested in the program the way Price and others are doing at Vandy? If not, why?
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I did not say what UT does or does not do. I should be over on the Eat Crow post. I hate that '17 was not the year, but now its time to move forward. We need a coach that knows the SEC and will take UT to the next level with development of players. The pictures from UK can speak for themselves. Because they have Trackman Baseball technology (3D Doppler radar) their analysis of players and the competition is a huge advantage. I have looked at UT and we have some cameras, but we do not have anything like that powerful square sensor on the press box or all those HD cameras with staff at UK. Gather enough data long enough and a freshman with a B in statistics and a smartphone can tell you what you will throw, how fast, and where the batter likes to go by pitch and his exit velocity...before it happens. More importantly coaches and players know exactly what to fix in practice. That's all I am trying to say....and no I do not sell the stuff. I'm just a fan and I see it at MiLB, MLB parks, and Prep fields like Lakepoint, Fort Myers, and Jupiter FL.
UT can't do what UK does because they do not have the combination of HD video timed up with Doppler radar data. I do not know if UT has staff that edits and creates training summaries for the players. That would be useful and I have heard other SEC schools do, but I don't know. The example I use is UK because they are so similar in overall program challenges. UK now has the tools and coaches that use them. That old saying, "you play like you practice" appears to be true for them....or maybe it was "don't take a knife to a gun fight"?
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First, I'm not saying anything about attracting players, obviously it's not as simple as JUST facilities. Vanderbilt has a lot to offer other than facilities. All those major leaguers come back so often they will have their own locker room, lol.
At the end of the day, most players want to play in the post season at a place where players are getting to MLB.
That trumps facilities IMO...but...it doesn't matter what I think regarding where we are compared to the rest of the league. There are plenty of folks that know more than I do that have said it, I trust them.
As far as a fan experience, I don't have much of a problem with LNS except not being able to watch the game when you go to the concessions. I think the field is well kept and much nicer than the turf fields some have now. I don't think folks who are being critical are talking about the fan experience, though.
In my opinion BGV, it's everything. Starting with vision for the program. For instance, for some of our brethren, it's not enough to have a new video board, they want to have the biggest one in the nation, right?
Are we simply trying to field a team or are we trying to get to Omaha? Are we happy with 1711 as our average attendance?
As for your last question, I don't really know. When Hamilton was AD, he said, when discussing baseball facilities, "We need a hero"...
We won 7 SEC games, we haven't seen significant post season in 20+ years. You'd think there would be nowhere to go but up...but if the CDS era has taught us anything, maybe we need to up the expectations a bit, all around.
Alabama is in it's second season with brand new digs...
BEFORE
AFTER
That alone hasn't helped them very much.
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As was stated, the guys from Maryland, Auburn, WVU that have been mentioned will probably be participating in the NCAA tourney, so if those guys are really candidates we might not know anything for weeks...
I haven't heard anything about any interviews, but that's to be expected, if he's going to hire someone who is not currently coaching we might hear something sooner.
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