Vols Best College Baseball Team Ever Assembled???

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CAPTAIN--VOL CAVALRY said:
I think maybe.

Really, quite possibly the best college baseball team ever assembled. Say it with me. Quite Possibly the best college baseball team ever assembled. Just Wow

I know, I know......Rat Poison right?

It's not just me, everyone is jumping on the band wagon now.

How the numbers show that the Tennessee Vols have the greatest college baseball team of all-time
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Until a team has a national title trophy in the case, that conversation can't even be considered. We had the best men's BB team UT has probably ever had talent-wise, and we got bounced in the second round with the ham-and-eggers (slipping a Bobby Herman quote in, for the uninitiated).
 
#53
#53
CAPTAIN--VOL CAVALRY said:
I think maybe.

Really, quite possibly the best college baseball team ever assembled. Say it with me. Quite Possibly the best college baseball team ever assembled. Just Wow

I know, I know......Rat Poison right?

It's not just me, everyone is jumping on the band wagon now.

How the numbers show that the Tennessee Vols have the greatest college baseball team of all-time
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I remember tons of smack talk after KY lost first round of the NCAA only for us to get the boot in the second round. I know that isn't the case, but the old adage about counting chickens before they hatch still applies here. I think our offense has slowed some. We only went 3 games without scoring 10 runs twice this season but this is 4 games in a row without scoring 10 runs. Makes me nervous. We might actually need a new coach.
 
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#58
If they are (and it is a distinct possibility) they will win it all. Would be some amazing stuff to have happen for TENNESSEE!
 
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ArmchairQB said:
Killjoy perspective: We are very, very good. But our numbers are also very, very skewed. Beating Vandy by 4, 3 and 5 in a road sweep says a lot ....
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Those games were a lot closer than those numbers!!!!
Those were ALL 1-2 run games and then something happened.
This IS a good team. In fact, I would argue they are a VERY good team.
But baseball has a winning % that is normally about .675 if you are really good.
Even full season numbers are somewhere around .750 if you are really good.
Here is a look at just three coaches ...

Tim Corbin lifetime at Vanderbilt is .680 (best year .831)
Dave Van Horn lifetime at Arkansas is .659 (best year .733)
Tony Vitello (excluding this year) at Tennessee is .663 (best year .735)

Baseball is a funny game ... "seeing eye hits", a pitcher who has an incredible game, hits off the end of the bat, lighting up a pitcher but they are all hit right at somebody, losing a ball in the lights, baseball players running into each other, a blister, a broken hand, umpires, arms get tired, batters get exposed and balls that bounce funny.
I've seen really pitchers lose their stuff, I've seen average pitchers who were unhittable, I've seen an incredible hitter who hit the ball all over the field and literally lined out to someone for like 30 at bats in a row before he every got a hit that season.

So, this is crazy talk .. we are not even half way through our season of about 68 games (I did do the math!).

Playing more ordinary baseball over the rest of the season puts us at 49-7. [Note: I am not projecting that we lose 6 more games. My guess is 3, maybe 4.]
But this is legendary type stuff ... even 52-4 or 51-5 would require re-writing some ncaa documents .... http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/baseball_RB/2010/D1.pdf

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It all starts with ... "Ya gotta believe!" (Former Met fan, now a Cub fan ... I actually follow players - not teams.)
 
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#62
I hate articles like these. We could literally lose the next 6 out of 9 games and it’ll make this article look like a kid on drugs wrote it. So why write it? With that being said I hope we don’t lose another game.
 
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