Tennessee Softball 2023

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popvol said:
I hate to step into this subject because and I'm not pretending to know anything about how or when the injuries occurred. But your comment about opposing dugouts makes me ask, do teams normally take players recovering from surgeries on road trips. That would make no sense to me. Does Tennessee take these girls in shoulder splints on a road trip? Just asking, because I don't know.
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Until this year, you couldn’t travel injured players, except in postseason. The only players allowed to travel were those on the active roster. The SEC changed that rule this year, you designate an active roster, but in active players can be in the dugout, both at home and on the road. Tennessee elected to travel everyone on the team once conference play started. Many teams stuck with the previous practice of only traveling active players for financial reasons.
 
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lvfan said:
standing up and attacking someone for their opinion are two different things. This is an open and anonymous forum. That’s how forums are set up. No one is hiding. How you approach people on here makes a difference. There is lots of content on here that simply not true but it’s someone’s opinion. You of course will defend bc you’re an employee.

I’m a season ticket holder and i played sports. I listen and observe so I know what players, parents, staff say about each other and how they complain about staff (specifically Karen). I watch “warm ups” so I have my opinion on how to prevent reoccurring injuries and it always can be better especially concentrating on the shoulders and knees. I have also observed you, Brian both at the games, on air and in this forum. You need to represent UT and yourself in a better way. It’s unbecoming of a Vol. That’s my opinion as a VFL.
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Opinions are perfectly fine when they are rooted in fact or they fall in an area where complete information is not widely available. Opinions that are based on lies are either misinformed, or intentionally obscuring the truth. If you look back at what this person has posted for years, it is the second. That’s not an opinion, it’s a verifiable fact.

I didn’t attack anyone. I pointed out that what he posted was a lie. An easily verifiable lie. Pointing out lies is not unbecoming in any way.
 
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briancrice said:
Opinions are perfectly fine when they are rooted in fact or they fall in an area where complete information is not widely available. Opinions that are based on lies are either misinformed, or intentionally obscuring the truth. If you look back at what this person has posted for years, it is the second. That’s not an opinion, it’s a verifiable fact.

I didn’t attack anyone. I pointed out that what he posted was a lie. An easily verifiable lie. Pointing out lies is not unbecoming in any way.
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Apparently Brian, you are right and scared the crap out of 1111. He hasn't responded all day. Guess he knows when he is defeated.
 
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I don't pretend to know the reasons why--I'm sure they are varied--but Tennessee has a LOT of injuries. I played SEC baseball for four years and I
can remember only one injury that kept a starter out for maybe 8/10 games. Maybe there were others that I've forgotten--it's been a long time--but there were very few significant injuries. Our softball team just seems always to have three/four people out with injuries of one kind or another. One reason might be that a significant number of softball players are on the heavy side and are not naturally athletic---don't have the athletic builds that we see in other sports and that you want in all players. This has been changing, I've noticed--we're seeing more athletic builds in the sport--and that's a good thing. I'm not suggesting that weight/build are a major reason for injuries, which occur to many parts of the body for different reasons--but it certainly can be a contributing factor with some injuries.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
If you'll remember before ranting, Lair's offseason surgery was on her shoulder. The injury that kept her out at the beginning of the season was lower leg, suffered during preseason practice in January. They aren't related.

Sometimes, you just have bad luck. Of the players injured this year, Lair has had multiple injuries dating back to high school. Pannell's was a freak deal on a hard swing, similar to Madison Shipman in 2011 (different hitting coach, trainer and strength coach). Mosely came in injured, knew from the fall that she was looking at an offseason surgery and elected to have it in-season when it because clear she wasn't going to play more than as a pinch runner. As mentioned above, Keane has had issues since she was 15. Zaida's had issues since Oklahoma, has been on a "pitch count" for throwing since she arrived here. Ashley is, as has been covered here many times, predisposed to stress fractures/stress reactions. Her brother has had similar issues.

In 2022, Underwood came in injured and took a foul ball off of her reconstructed shoulder a couple of weeks after being cleared. Thompson came in with shoulder issues that kept her from ever playing. Bender missed parts of two seasons at Iona with injuries before coming here. Ayala sprained an ankle on a bad spot in the outfield at Florida.

In 2021, Thompson came in with shoulder issues that kept her from ever playing. Curran tore an ACL on an awkward stop on a baserunning error.

In 2020, Ashley was the only significant injury, as described above.

In 2019, Shipman tore her ACL and broke her wrist on a collision. Seggern missed some time with a minor knee injury.

In 2018, Matty Moss had a chronic throat issue related to electing to not have her tonsils out during the summer of 2017. Brooke Vines had shoulder issues that predated Tennessee and the UT doctors (and her own doctors in California) couldn't find anything structurally wrong that would cause the discomfort she described. Huffstetler tore her ACL changing direction running the bases.

When you break it down year-by-year, I don't see that list as some sort of diagnosable chronic problem. They had more injuries this past year than normal. But it doesn't appear tracible to some common thread.
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The real questions are are younger players playing too many games or/and is the medical community/coaches/parent's doing a disservice to young athletes by rushing back/ignoring injuries.
 
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SEC FAN 1111 said:
I have heard from numerous sources that they are not given the proper amount of time to warm up before practice because of the time constraints on practices nowadays. If you’re not using bands to stretch and slowly working your way into long toss you will see increased injuries like the lady vols have had!
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Yeah right, ok that is BS
 
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volforlife15 said:
Have heard there is contact with Maxwell and they are trying to get her to visit soon. Do not believe Florida is the overwhelming favorite that people seemed to have made them out to be. Arkansas also involved
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Hopefully it's not Arkansas. They've got a very nice class coming in (not suprising because most of their success has been via the transfer portal). Hedgecock is also returning.
 
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RebKell said:
When does fall softball start and is their any way to keep up with it. Streaming/radio/anything?
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Usually starts late September or early October. I've never seen a stream or broadcast of fall games, and I'm not sure they are allowed to (someone else with more knowledge can answer that). Usually hard to keep up with unless you're there, but there is often a writeup somewhere after the games. I don't think they post boxscores for fall games either (again, maybe not allowed?).
 
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CoryDallasLV said:
Usually starts late September or early October. I've never seen a stream or broadcast of fall games, and I'm not sure they are allowed to (someone else with more knowledge can answer that). Usually hard to keep up with unless you're there, but there is often a writeup somewhere after the games. I don't think they post boxscores for fall games either (again, maybe not allowed?).
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They did a no-broadcaster video stream of fall ball in 2020 when they didn't let parents or fans in, but they typically don't do anything formal for the fall games. They experiment with a lot of things in the fall so it's not that they don't want the info out there, they just don't want people to draw conclusions off of it.
 
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kregman said:
In the past there have been a one camera video with no broadcast, but don’t count on that. Best bet is to go to them and/or have someone on here giving highlights. I like to try to make one just for the eyeball test.
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Do they travel?
 
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