Tennessee Softball 2025

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DeerPark12 said:
If we’re reheating what won back to back regular season championships in the toughest conference in the country, then sign me up for another cup of it.
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@DeerPark Thanks coach Weekly, I appreciate your time to come on hear and defend your decision. Why play in events where there’s top rank teams then, we could just play events like last weekend in Texas and inflate our stats and save our pitching. No you need to play top teams for RPI seeding. So why are we playing top teams if we are not playing to win. That hurts more than not playing them. It’s a culture and if a coach doesn’t care about winning and saving players they need to go. That’s not the Tennessee way. That was a clown justification to say we are saving her for conference. A win against UCLA could mean more to playoff seedings than conference wins if UCLA runs the table the rest of the season.
 
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kregman said:
I admire your dedication to protecting the coaching but you are living in an alternate reality if you think we are going to win the Sec again this year. That’s fine though get the highest seed you can and go.
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If you look back at the 2024 thread, people were saying the exact same thing this time last year. Who knows what will happen over the next three months, but writing it off today like people did last year because of two games at an elite tournament is also living in an alternate reality.
 
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OrangePark said:
@DeerPark Thanks coach Weekly, I appreciate your time to come on hear and defend your decision. Why play in events where there’s top rank teams then, we could just play events like last weekend in Texas and inflate our stats and save our pitching. No you need to play top teams for RPI seeding. So why are we playing top teams if we are not playing to win. That hurts more than not playing them. It’s a culture and if a coach doesn’t care about winning and saving players they need to go. That’s not the Tennessee way. That was a clown justification to say we are saving her for conference. A win against UCLA could mean more to playoff seedings than conference wins if UCLA runs the table the rest of the season.
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Win against UCLA means more than conference wins when you’re going to play multiple games against top five teams in conference? I get being upset about losing the game, but acting like this is the only opportunity all year against a top five team is nonsense.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Win against UCLA means more than conference wins when you’re going to play multiple games against top five teams in conference? I get being upset about losing the game, but acting like this is the only opportunity all year against a top five team is nonsense.
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If every game doesn’t maters then why play them??? I feel we had our chance to win against Nebraska, Oregon and UCLA. And the coaching decisions played a factor into all 3 losses.

Now if we are close in playoff seeding with any of those 3 teams we will be seeded lower because we lost the head to head. So please tell me those games don’t mater again. And we play nobody next weekend and we couldn’t rest Pickens next weekend??? I bet you today that she’ll pitch Pickens more innings next weekend then she pitched this weekend!!!!!

Karen never has trusted Pickens in big games. Every time she got in trouble the last 2 years she would pull her and go to Payton. And last night was the perfect example of it. Best example of a coach losing the trust from her All American pitcher. If she doesn’t feel the coach trust her on getting out of tough situations then we expect the player to. The inning she got pulled a ball didn’t even leave the infield. Nobody hit her hard all night. Worst case we leave that inning 3-1 or 3-2 but we would have left with the lead
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Win against UCLA means more than conference wins when you’re going to play multiple games against top five teams in conference? I get being upset about losing the game, but acting like this is the only opportunity all year against a top five team is nonsense.
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The concern is that we play in a toughest conference and have come up short by lack of hitting or questionable decisions. Beating up on mid level helps for reps and stats, you commented just a few days ago about the run rules as an accomplishment when another poster said they better be ready for this weekend. The way TN lost to Nebraska, Oregon, UCLA is a test to how they matchup against better teams. I don’t expect them to be 3-0, but didn’t expect them to be 0-3. We have more opportunities with big games, but those games could also show how far we are too. Which is my concern today, that we go as far as Pickens can take us.
 
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OrangePark said:
Starting for the #LadyVols against Minnesota:
1. Morgan (LF)
2. Fiedler (CF)
3. Pannell (3B)
4. Mealer (2B)
5. Doyle (1B)
6. Rodriguez (DP)
7. Nugent (C)
8. Faw (SS)
9. Taylor (RF)
P: Karlyn Pickens
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Please explain your comment about saving Pickens for conference play. She was on a pitch count last night but going in this game that should go to one of the freshman. You can’t make this up
 
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