Vols Announce 2012 Schedule, Fan Day with Domingo Ayala

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Highlighting the 2012 slate are 26 games against a total of 10 teams that made the NCAA Tournament last year, including home sets against Seton Hall, Alabama, Florida, Vanderbilt and Arkansas.

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Great, schedule is decent, the Houston Classic will be a tough test. Glad that's done now let's get the roster up on UT Sports.
 
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#8
Houston Classic would be much better if Betts and Romano were here, but it is what it is.
 
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Last year, the schedule wasn't released until December. This year, Serrano was hired in June, inherited a totally blank slate, and still got the schedule done in two months while at the same time securing a half dozen commitments. The man is organized.

He did have to take some RPI hits to get it done, though. There's a fall game against Western Carolina. Games in the fall count against the 56 game max, but do not contribute to RPI, so that's kind of a throwaway game. The series against Mississippi Valley State was probably an act of desperation, too.

But it's clear Serrano wants to stoke the in-state rivalries and upgrade the non-conference schedule as much he can. It's probably the best anyone could have done with the situation he walked into.
 
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Good schedule. No Easter home games (I can't stand that!) Lot's of early home games. Sucks that we have to go to Mississippi twice but at least we finally worked out a 2-game home-and-home with Memphis as a result.

It's good the opening SEC weekend will be on road south of here. Better chance of weather. UGA also has a habit of slow conference starts.

No LSU series.

The Houston tourney teams are (as a reminder)

Rice
Houston
Texas
Texas Tech
Arkansas

As a guess, we will likely play Rice, Houston and either Texas or Texas Tech. No chance we play Arkansas. Rice will be loaded in 2012. Raleigh's signature win was the single Texas game in Houston in season 1. Fool's Gold indeed.

I'm not really thrilled with any of the out-of-conference opponents coming to Knoxville. But that is really a 2-year-process and since Raleigh was thrashing last year trying to get sure wins, such a set up would be impossible in year 1 of Vol Baseball 2.0.

Another odd thing, We get most of our division games out of the way early. We will have played 4 of our division rivals by mid April. Since I expect us to be better at end than beginning with better coaching I'm not sure I like that. On the other hand, with thin pitching, maybe it will be better to be front loaded.

South Carolina and Florida back-to-back will be brutal. But we do well at Florida though for whatever reason.

Except for Vanderbilt, the back half of our schedule is far easier, with Miss State,. Auburn, Vanderbilt, Mississippi and Arkansas. The 3 road series (MSU, Auburn and Miss) are against the 3 worst teams in West) The 2 home series (VU and Arkansas) are against the 2 better teams. Works out great in last 5-weeks.

The first 2 weeks are against 2-teams that were in cellar with us last year in east.(GA and UK)

So fast start. Take our lumps in the middle and hopefully close out strong.

REALLY looking forward to the fall game against Western Carolina on October 14th. We should have a pre or post game get together.
 
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ShowmeVols said:
Last year, the schedule wasn't released until December. This year, Serrano was hired in June, inherited a totally blank slate, and still got the schedule done in two months while at the same time securing a half dozen commitments. The man is organized.
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It probably helped that he was immobolized for several weeks and could only work the telephones. :)
 
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Vols won't be playing cupcakes for non conference games.

Was the last time The Vols played at Minute Maid Park 2005?
 
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fryeguy93 said:
Ahab's first season in 2008. Upset Texas
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Thanks for the Information.

A lot of Orange, and two Universities that both start with T.

You can tell the difference with Texas has a Burnt Orange a dark orange while the Vols orange is a bright orange.
 
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firestorm said:
Thanks for the Information.

A lot of Orange, and two Universities that both start with T.

You can tell the difference with Texas has a Burnt Orange a dark orange while
the Vols orange is a bright
orange.
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Thanks Yogi
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