Tennessee Softball 2025

[M40]

Remember when this was supposed to finally be a down year for OU?

LMAO they’re still running laps around college softball.

I think they 5 peat

It’s still early. Last week was the first time they played an opponent will a pulse outside of San Diego St.

 

[UT Challenger]

It’s still early. Last week was the first time they played an opponent will a pulse outside of San Diego St.

OU can hit the ball. They just out score you. Good pitching bad pitching it doesn't matter.

 

[wpcadetdad]

And the difference between a coach that preps a team for a playoff run and one that doesn’t. Karen Weekly never ceases to amaze. It’s difficult to understand how she would be worried about sweeping UCon because it is UCon while a coach like Gasso leaves a true freshman in that’s getting slightly beat up by South Carolina (a conference game, no doubt) in order to prepare another pitcher for the playoffs. OU may have been lucky to win that, and maybe because Landry wasn’t available, but the fact remains, Gasso was willing to take a conference loss to prepare for dividends later. It’s irksome to see Pickens having to throw more innings, especially against UCon. I could probably understand better if it were a conference game, but dadgum.

Agree, need to play the freshmen or risk losing them to the portal. It just seems to me that if you don’t prepare for the future you won’t have one.

 

[IBlvNTmWrk]

All of softball is filled with starters who can't hit. Bella is needed for her defense. She has shown flashes of being a hitter but agree that she needs to hit better.

Antigua is a lock down SS on the baseball team, and has a much better batting avg than Faw, and yet he isn't the starter on the men's team because there's a better option when considering both offense and defense. Faw is a decent SS, but not nearly as good as Antigua imo, who is often inserted in late innings for his defensive play.

I personally think Mealer at SS and Des at 2B is the better option. It would seem that Vitello and Weekly perhaps view things differently.

 

[MAD]

This is impressive

 

[chuckiepoo]

Antigua is a lock down SS on the baseball team, and has a much better batting avg than Faw, and yet he isn't the starter on the men's team because there's a better option when considering both offense and defense. Faw is a decent SS, but not nearly as good as Antigua imo, who is often inserted in late innings for his defensive play.

I personally think Mealer at SS and Des at 2B is the better option. It would seem that Vitello and Weekly perhaps view things differently.

Vitello understands the churn and competition for playing time a little better than Weekly. He has a much deeper vat of talent. Playing time also represents an investment, a resource, which must be administered judiciously.