Happy for Dave Serrano

[YankeeVol]

Really thought he would have success here.

Glad to see it.

 

[Local Yokel]

Really thought he would have success here.

Glad to see it.

I wanted Elander to make a move to get Serrano on staff. I think it would have been a valuable addition.

 

[YankeeVol]

 

[IfDickeyStayed]

I wanted Elander to make a move to get Serrano on staff. I think it would have been a valuable addition.

Serrano has been extremely successful wherever he has been, except as HC at Tennessee. He is an outstanding recruiter, pitching coach, and motivator. Bringing him back on staff would be great, in my opinion

 

[Baseball25]

Always liked Dave. Top notch guy.

 

[robcovol]

I wish it would have worked out for Serrano here. But he worked his tail off, and I’m glad its’s paying off for him now.

 

[fryeguy93]

I finally looked at the bracket.

https://www.naia.org/sports/bsb/2025-26/Files/Bracket_Baseball.pdf?preview=true

Never mind NAIA, this bracket looks like it's designed by an insane graduate from a bad junior college in California or Arizona .

Ten teams. No byes. Teas seeded 1-10
Four games today. HOWEVER, Johnson plays Saturday morning at 11 before the losers of the first four games play.

Fine, five games in a day is a stretch. But Southeastern (Fla) and Johnson are the 5-6 teams.
The winner of their game will not play again until Tuesday where they will play the winner of a Monday matchup from first day winners. So the 5-6 seeds basically skip a 2nd round game.


Good luck to Tennessee Wesleyan who is also in the tourney. I noted that University of the Cumberland (on the state line) was upset last week and did not make the tourneey

 

[VolsSportsFan]

He was the most home run hire on paper I had ever seen here at UT in pretty much every sport; I was pretty surprised he didn't do any better than Todd Raleigh.

 

[txbo]

....

Never mind NAIA, this bracket looks like it's designed by an insane graduate from a bad junior college in California or Arizona .

Ten teams. No byes. Teas seeded 1-10
Four games today. HOWEVER, Johnson plays Saturday morning at 11 before the losers of the first four games play.

Fine, five games in a day is a stretch. But Southeastern (Fla) and Johnson are the 5-6 teams.
The winner of their game will not play again until Tuesday where they will play the winner of a Monday matchup from first day winners. So the 5-6 seeds basically skip a 2nd round game.


...

LOL. That is strange.

 

[fryeguy93]

He was the most home run hire on paper I had ever seen here at UT in pretty much every sport; I was pretty surprised he didn't do any better than Todd Raleigh.

* Small ball was no longer going to work in the SEC as the deadbats came back to more realistic leves.
* Dave was here when the SEC was likely at it's strongest top-to-bottom. Especially in the SEC East. Florida, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt were rolling. Then consider Arkansas was at it's peak and Ole Miss/Miss State were ascending and LSU under coach moron even won a title.
* I don't think the pitchers were doing as well as they should have been doing. (see #2 for a possible explanation)

 

[GSPVol]

Serrano has been extremely successful wherever he has been, except as HC at Tennessee. He is an outstanding recruiter, pitching coach, and motivator. Bringing him back on staff would be great, in my opinion

Is he a candidate to join the staff? Honestly, I thought he was a slam dunk hire and we were in for a helluva ride under him. Can't express how disappointing it was to see how it all turned out.