Tennessee Softball 2025

#127
#127
chuckiepoo said:
Faster, as a tool in the bag, will always play.
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Yes speed causes chaos, always has. You need a couple of speed players whether they can bunt or slap to get on first. After that with hits, stolen bases, errors, sac flies, whatever you can manufacture runs. Comes in handy when your big hitters are not hitting. AL got to the CWS with that and if Gasso sees a need for it, I would take it seriously.
 
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#131
#131
Vols330 said:
Contrary to popular belief, I do not believe this is a good thing for us.
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It’s always a good thing for your people to be promoted. Bad thing, is staying and team/position regresses. Then you become a target as to the fault. He signed 3 year contract and it was up. His goal was to move on to a HC spot.
 
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#138
OrangeBeachVol said:
If DW wants the LV's to remain at the level they are at or better, and I believe he does, he will give Karen the $ to hire a good hitting coach. IMO, Karen needs to decide what kind of 'game' she wants to play next season and hire accordingly.
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Chris was one of the highest paid assistant coaches in the country, so she will have that budget, for sure.
 
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#139
Georgia is on the move with the Rumor Mill:
Georgia has committed Lassiter, Callahan and one of the Washington outfielders and one of the Washington pitchers. Will be announced after WCWS. JT's connection with the Washington girls
 
#141
#141
Not sure if he’ll get a call but Josh Bloomer at Arizona. East coast coach (Kentucky) with connections all over from travel and Fury organization. It’s only a matter of time before he takes over a program…he’s been on a trajectory from helping Duke get started, South Carolina last season to AZ. If UK ever opens up, he’ll probably be on the short list.
 
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#142
#142
Ridiculous article on ESPN. Calls the SEC the Death Star.

Fact is that youth softball has grown BIG TIME in the south and that's why SEC schools are able to compete. The writers of this are doing the "pity the PAC12" angle that just doesn't work for anyone who really is in tune with the softball scene. GA, AL, TN, TX youth teams are routinely winning youth softball championships. Yes, the CA teams win some as well, but it's not like it's 2003 when you HAD to recruit 2/3rds of your roster from the west coast in order to compete.

SEC Death Star?
 
#143
#143
tnburban said:
Ridiculous article on ESPN. Calls the SEC the Death Star.

Fact is that youth softball has grown BIG TIME in the south and that's why SEC schools are able to compete. The writers of this are doing the "pity the PAC12" angle that just doesn't work for anyone who really is in tune with the softball scene. GA, AL, TN, TX youth teams are routinely winning youth softball championships. Yes, the CA teams win some as well, but it's not like it's 2003 when you HAD to recruit 2/3rds of your roster from the west coast in order to compete.

SEC Death Star?
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I think the article was accurate.

Even the California girls are moving East to play college ball these days. And it will only get worse when UCLA starts playing road games at Minnesota and Wisconsin.

It’s a criminal shame IMO that we lost the PAC-12…in all sports.
 
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#144
#144
If I get the hitting coach job the first thing I'll do is re-program anyone who adopted that stupid split grip! Nope. Not on MY team.

Next, I'll implement a new rule: 1. You stand and watch a third strike go by, you come join me on the bench for the rest of the game since you'll have just as good a chance of getting a hit there as you had by not swinging at a hittable pitch with two strikes already.

Third thing I'll do is spend some extra time training a few players to become switch hitters.

Fourth thing I'd do is make sure we train up at least one super-quick runner to become a reliable slap-hitter to be used in a pinch. Someone like Bama's Kristen White, adept at chopping her way onto first.

Fifth thing I'd do is shorten the swings of about half the roster. NOT that we don't need some heavy swingers -- home runs are nifty! -- but I'd bring several batters an inch or two closer to the plate and have them primarily focused on simply connecting with the ball. I feel like we're too often trying for extra bases when safely getting one would help more as long as we can string a few of those together.

Karen needs me, she just doesn't know it. 😂
 
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#145
P.S. In case anyone is sitting at home feeling scared that I was being serious about going for the pitching coach job, you can rest easy. I was just kidding! It just crossed my mind that there might be folks reading this board who might have taken me seriously. 😅
 
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#146
#146
P.P.S. For those batters I bring closer to the plate in the box, I'd also have them try a bat at least an inch shorter. Just sayin'. And all my plate-crowders would wear as much protective gear as possible to make them feel more safe and, thus, more confident standing in.
 
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#148
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lvocd said:
P.S. In case anyone is sitting at home feeling scared that I was being serious about going for the pitching coach job, you can rest easy. I was just kidding! It just crossed my mind that there might be folks reading this board who might have taken me seriously. 😅
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Blue font takes care of that. About your rule on the swinging with 2 strikes on you, the 2 summers I was an assistant on a AAU team we had a similar rule. If you watched a 3rd strike cross the plate without swinging you got pinch hit for next AB. It did work. We had a few who would swing at anything once they had 2 strikes, ha.
 
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