Tennessee Softball 2025

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#5,476
OrangePark said:
Aren’t you the same one that thought Faw was the best shortstop ever to play here because Karen told you she was. That’s the talent she’s recruiting.

Please tell me in the last 5 recruiting class with 30 players total she’s only had 4 impact players out of all her recruits. West, Gibson, Pickens and Pannell. That’s a .133 average on recruiting. She’s lived in the portal to hide her lack of recruiting.
2025: 7
2024: 3
2023: 10
2022: 6
2021: 4
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never have i ever said anything about faw. wrong poster. Recruiting involves the portal. nice try tho.
 
#5,480
#5,480
OrangePark said:
Aren’t you the same one that thought Faw was the best shortstop ever to play here because Karen told you she was. That’s the talent she’s recruiting.

Please tell me in the last 5 recruiting class with 30 players total she’s only had 4 impact players out of all her recruits. West, Gibson, Pickens and Pannell. That’s a .133 average on recruiting. She’s lived in the portal to hide her lack of recruiting.
2025: 7
2024: 3
2023: 10
2022: 6
2021: 4
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Can’t argue with what’s she’s recruited and what’s been productive. Portal has been kind to helping the cause.

Clark and Morgan have a chance to help the cause. I believe next years class with Morrison as a whole class has a chance to be one to build around.

People hated to hear it, take away Pickens and this team is middle of the SEC. Shows the luxury of what Payton brought the last few years.
 
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volfan__18 said:
never have i ever said anything about faw. wrong poster. Recruiting involves the portal. nice try tho.
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Good point, we could not hit last year either and she recruited portal players to hit and guess what Ryan and Barnhart didn’t even leave the bench this year on this team so how’s that recruiting going?

When Tennessee is the only offer some of these kids are getting that throws up questions
 
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OrangePark said:
Good point, we could not hit last year either and she recruited portal players to hit and guess what Ryan and Barnhart didn’t even leave the bench this year on this team so how’s that recruiting going?

When Tennessee is the only offer some of these kids are getting that throws up questions
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ryan was a question mark get, barnhart i don’t think is available this year, so that’s unfair to say.
 
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Majors said:
Can’t argue with what’s she’s recruited and what’s been productive. Portal has been kind to helping the cause.

Clark and Morgan have a chance to help the cause. I believe next years class with Morrison as a whole class has a chance to be one to build around.

People hated to hear it, take away Pickens and this team is middle of the SEC. Shows the luxury of what Payton brought the last few years.
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Our Portal pickups have helped being competitive but not getting us to next level. Outside of getting Payton we aren’t getting all Americans or 1st team all conference type of players from the portal. We are picking up players because of the name on there jersey they played for.. Thats why the lack of recruiting has hurt building around the pitching staff we have had the last 5 years.
 
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#5,484
#5,484
Karen needs to go. Never been a winner on the big stage. Now can even compete in sec tournament. Last few series of the year were bad as well. She sucks ! I've been right about women's basketball coaches. Finally got a good one in Kim Caldwell!
 
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i wish they’d fire karen so you all could see life without her at the head of tn softball. tennessee isn’t spending money for softball to get a home run hire head coach and NIL money in the portal. you gotta live with what you got sometimes and just be HAPPY😀.
 
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OrangePark said:
Our Portal pickups have helped being competitive but not getting us to next level. Outside of getting Payton we aren’t getting all Americans or 1st team all conference type of players from the portal. We are picking up players because of the name on there jersey they played for.. Thats why the lack of recruiting has hurt building around the pitching staff we have had the last 5 years.
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Zaida and Nugent have been nice were additions with OU players staying because of Covid. Don’t disagree on getting over the hump, last year was the year to do it.
 
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volforlife10 said:
i wish they’d fire karen so you all could see life without her at the head of tn softball. tennessee isn’t spending money for softball to get a home run hire head coach and NIL money in the portal. you gotta live with what you got sometimes and just be HAPPY😀.
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True but they weren’t spending money and there was not much interest in women’s basketball under Kelli Harper, but things have changed with the home run hiring of Kim. It just takes that one person to change a stale program.

Under Karen’s leadership her teams don’t learn from there mistakes. The same girls continually make the same base running mistakes. Sophie made the same mistake that she did today with two runners on third base in the Mississippi State series where all we had to do was tag one of the girls on the base instead not knowing the situation. We get zero outs out of it.
 
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belter said:
They can go home, rest, practice, and prep for post season. Much like baseball tournament is just for show in the modern era .... GBO.... Regionals and Supers await.
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Not for show, we probably lost our top 8 seed to Arkansas because anytime you step on the field it matters.
 
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westtnvoljackson said:
So I guess it’s safe to assume a top eight national seed is out of the question?
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There’s a good chance because they’re not going to give SEC all 8 seeds even though they deserve them. Teams from other conferences will get a few spots even though they wouldn’t be able to compete in the SEC. We still have a chance because ESPN manipulates the seeding for matchups so depending what matchups they want, we might fall into a top 8 seed to host or miss a matchup they’re wanting.
 
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bobo18 said:
Karen needs to go. Never been a winner on the big stage. Now can even compete in sec tournament. Last few series of the year were bad as well. She sucks ! I've been right about women's basketball coaches. Finally got a good one in Kim Caldwell!
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The only thing that some posters bring to this board is fire some coach who are not meeting their expectations.....
 
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The softball program should be held to the same standards as the fan base and administration expected out of the baseball program. No way Tony would be on a pedestal as the way some of you feel about Karen if they coached the same team.
 
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OrangePark said:
So your ok with a coach making 580,000 a year to under perform and not winning the games that matter?
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Damn right ....does that answer you dumb question ? And what games that matter is the question .....???? Those are in your perspective ......all you have to do is look at the Big Picture for her career and tell me that she has not won her fair share of games that matter..... that is from my perspective......
 
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