I do not understand starting a post like this now, like there has been all this bad/negativity around the baseball team the whole off season or something. I know he has not turned it around has quickly as most (and I hoped), but we all knew with his resume he would be given more time than most and the season has not even started. I mean come on man!
Serrano is a way above average baseball coach, he cares about the program and even though the wins haven't come yet, he knows what he is doing. He is the right guy for the University of Tennessee. His teams have been competitive and he does everything the right way. It would be a tremendous setback to the program to even think about a new coach at this point.
This is the toughest league in college baseball. If you didn't see the program improving even marginally, or Serrano making bad game decisions, or players not improving then I could see the replacement talk. But, we're not seeing that. We're seeing a coach take over a team in the toughest league in the country which had been allowed to decline into the abyss and he is slowly bringing it back. Be patient. I saw good baseball from the team last year. We still just don't have the horses everybody else does.
Why is there always some moron spouting of about hiring unqualified former athletes as head coaches just because they had a few math classes on the hill when they were in their late teens?
Serranno would still be more qualified to be head coach than anyone we could possibly hire. He took two separate teams to world series and worked as an assistant under some of the greatest coaches ever.
We hear whining about hiring guys with a track record and in baseball we did it!
There's no one on the horizon that could have done anything differently over the last few years. I see improvement year-to-year and last year's bad weather in February crushed any sort of consistency we could achieve.
Even then, look how bad we were in February -especially defensively, and look how much better we were playing at the end of the season
The program was set back so bad by the prior regime that Todd Raleigh should have been awarded a national championship ring by Vanderbilt. Serrano inherited a roster with maybe one upper classmen with SEC talent.
No he kind of faces another mini-rebuilding but nowhere near the extreme as when he first got here.
We can't have the weather trauma we had last year again, and even if we did, CDS scheduled to avoid as much of the muck as he could.
It's an El Niño year so that usually means drier and seasonable temps. And actually that normally means worse weather conditions to the deep south. So we may see Florida, LSU, Texas A&M deal with cooler, wetter temps in 2016 as we have the advantage for once.
We are seeing slow improvements now, I have to believe that some season we are going to see a team get hot early and stay hot to the end. Why not 2016?
How long do you give it until they put the synthetic turf at LNS? I think that could be a huge help in on the field time.Why is there always some moron spouting of about hiring unqualified former athletes as head coaches just because they had a few math classes on the hill when they were in their late teens?
Serranno would still be more qualified to be head coach than anyone we could possibly hire. He took two separate teams to world series and worked as an assistant under some of the greatest coaches ever.
We hear whining about hiring guys with a track record and in baseball we did it!
There's no one on the horizon that could have done anything differently over the last few years. I see improvement year-to-year and last year's bad weather in February crushed any sort of consistency we could achieve.
Even then, look how bad we were in February -especially defensively, and look how much better we were playing at the end of the season
The program was set back so bad by the prior regime that Todd Raleigh should have been awarded a national championship ring by Vanderbilt. Serrano inherited a roster with maybe one upper classmen with SEC talent.
No he kind of faces another mini-rebuilding but nowhere near the extreme as when he first got here.
We can't have the weather trauma we had last year again, and even if we did, CDS scheduled to avoid as much of the muck as he could.
It's an El Niño year so that usually means drier and seasonable temps. And actually that normally means worse weather conditions to the deep south. So we may see Florida, LSU, Texas A&M deal with cooler, wetter temps in 2016 as we have the advantage for once.
We are seeing slow improvements now, I have to believe that some season we are going to see a team get hot early and stay hot to the end. Why not 2016?