Tennessee haters, you got your wish: Party's over for college baseball's bad boys
That round of applause you just heard was from 49 states not named “Tennessee.”
Oh, that round of applause is still going? It’s a standing ovation that’ll dip into the start of the College World Series every time Notre Dame is spotted in Omaha?
Yep. Down go the villains. Up go the haters of this 2022 version of Tennessee baseball, of which there were many (“Tennessee” was trending nationally on Twitter following Sunday’s season-ending loss in the Super Regionals).
The No. 1 overall seed is gone, and not without a fight. Drew Gilbert’s return couldn’t spark the Vols, and there were only so many home runs in the bat of Luc Lipcius.
Upset of the year? Sure. Tennessee baseball might have been as brash as they come, but for all of their daddy hat-wearing, bat-flipping controversial ways, they were also as solid as they come. This was the team that entered the weekend with just 7 losses all year thanks to the nation’s top-ranked offense and pitching staff.
Of course, by another trend, perhaps this should’ve been expected. In the 21 College World Series of the 21st century, no top overall seed has won it all. Tennessee couldn’t do what 1999 Miami did. Shoot, it couldn’t even do what 2021 Tennessee did. That is, make it to Omaha.
The large anti-Tennessee crowd will say that hubris got in the way of Tennessee’s title run. They’ll say that it was Gilbert’s ejection on Friday night that did in the Vols, even though Tennessee actually played its best game of the series when he was suspended for Saturday’s series-evening win. The Vols also got their best start of the series with pitching coach Frank Anderson sidelined for his role in Friday night’s dustup.
But really, we aren’t having this conversation if Tennessee just keeps 2 late-inning fastballs lower in the zone instead of leaving them elevated. That’s what led to back-t0-back Notre Dame home runs in the 7th. If Saturday was Tennessee’s championship-level response to having its back against the ropes, Notre Dame’s 7th inning on Sunday was the 1-2 combination that knocked Tennessee out for good.
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That’s how quick these things can happen. Welcome to life on top. Tennessee got Notre Dame’s best shot. Quite simply, Tony Vitello’s team couldn’t handle it.
That’s life.
Someone was always going to get the last laugh. To the surprise of no one, public sympathy did not side with the team with the cheetah coat celebration who was known to rile up an opposing dugout or two. Public sympathy sided with literally anybody but the Vols.
So the real question is simple — should Tennessee have toned it down to harness its best version of itself?
On second thought, that question isn’t simple. It’s too easy to play the results in a case like this when reality is, Notre Dame played 2 excellent games and showed resiliency in a raucous atmosphere. Championships are won because of plays like the one David LaManna made, wherein he went with an outside fastball the opposite way and took advantage of Tennessee’s 320-foot short porch in right field.
TOP 7 | WE ARE TIED!!!!!!!@david_lamanna HITS A TWO-RUN BLAST!!!!!
ND 3, UT 3
📺 ESPN#GoIrish x #RoadToOmaha pic.twitter.com/rjwOS7IWbQ
— Notre Dame Baseball (@NDBaseball) June 12, 2022
Narratives don’t win or lose titles. This wasn’t an issue of not wanting it badly enough or wanting it too bad. Had Tennessee been the last team standing in Omaha, we would’ve all pointed to how dominant the program was with its unapologetic identity in the regular season and claimed that was at the root of its first national title.
Fair or not, that was always going to be Tennessee’s reality. The Vols could’ve lost in extra innings of an elimination game in the national championship, and some would’ve still said that cockiness was their undoing. That’s what they signed up for. They knew that. Part of what made them great up until this weekend was that they didn’t hide from that. You don’t reach a Super Regional with 7 losses coming out of the SEC if you don’t know how to take all of that outside noise in stride.
But that’s not what the outside world will choose to remember about this Tennessee team. They’ll choose to remember the team that came off like it had been there before even though it hadn’t. That’s really what this comes down to. If the Vols were this traditional power with a trophy case full of national titles, they wouldn’t have become as polarizing as they were. On the flip side, if they weren’t historically dominant, they wouldn’t have allowed themselves to take on that identity.
Go figure that Tennessee might’ve been better suited for a late-inning comeback had it not been such a force in the regular season. The Vols were 49-0 when leading after 6 innings. All it took was 1 inning in 1 do-or-die game to change that.
The Tennessee faithful will always have a bittersweet memory of the 2022 Vols. We’ll never know how Vitello’s squad would’ve handled a return trip to Omaha with its Super Regional drama in the rearview mirror.
The only way Tennessee was ever going to quiet the haters was by being perfect this postseason. It had a chance to become what the late-80s Bad Boy Detroit Pistons were. They could’ve shifted the power dynamics of the sport and rustled the feathers of the purists. For awhile, it appeared Tennessee was on its way to doing that. Maybe there will come a day when Vitello and the Vols are the last ones standing in Omaha.
But for now, 49 other states will rejoice in the stunner on Rocky Top.
Sounds like the biggest Vol hater is the writer. Did someone wearing orange pi ss in Connors Wheaties?
Not even close, that would be Ronnie from south of the border
LOL south of the border.
Ten R C last beat Alabama in football in 2006. These Ten R C fans are now getting drivers license. Alabama has raised a young breed of rocky top fans who expect to lose to Alabama.
Not to disagree with what you’re saying but this article is about baseball and our Tide is at home watching it on TV just like you and me.
57939names. I am just making some new Ten RC friends.
COACH SABAN’S DOCTOR SPEAKS OUT. AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ…. © Negan
GEORGIA THUMPS ALABAMA 33-18!!!
The aftermath….
Saban is still in counselling and is still having the dreams! Where Stetson Bennett is offensive MVP of a national championship game in which Georgia kicked his rear and badly!!!!
Saban had a nervous breakdown following the game. He made all kinds of excuses and his analyst says it’s even getting worse, instead of better!!!! The doc says. Georgia really rattled the goats cage badly!
Doc recalls that. After he was finished accusing A&M of what he himself has been doing his entire career. Long before NIL! That he even went after poor little Jackson State!!! But we all knew that! Doc says he’s still doing it!!! LOL
Doc says the worst part of it all is the Georgia-phobia! He’s lost it every time the doc asked him, if he would like to just talk about it? Doc says he either storms out yelling obscenities or challenges him to a fistfight and has to be restrained by his own security. Presumably hired to keep him out of lawsuits. Doc says they stand outside the door at all times!!!
Finally Saban consented to hypnosis. Doc says it doesn’t work. Says then he jumps up on the couch in a trance yelling at his team. Then at Kirby. A purely fictional argument. Presumably created by his subconscious. Then he thinks he has a machine gun and is at war with Stetson Bennett and Jimbo Fisher. Then he and coach Prime are selling endurance together. As well as selling girl scout cookies and well. How do I say the last part?
Then he and coach Prime are going door to door. Only they are Jehovah’s witnesses! Why? Who knows? Just the subconscious brain of a man having a nervous breakdown I suppose!!!
Doc says lastly he starts doing this crazy Bogart impersonation. Talking tough with a group of kindergarten kids. Then he’s in a surgery room. Discussing his desire to become a woman named Trisha!
FINALLY IT ENDS THIS WAY….
Then he spits up and comes out of it. Then it’s all over until next time! Doc says he would have dropped him if he didn’t pay so well!!!! LOL
PS. Doctors orders. Time to retire coach. Before Georgia turns the goat & the so-called king. Into an insane dr..ag qu…een or worse a chick named Trisha!!!!! LOL
CAN SOMEBODY SAY RATTLED CRYBABY???? I CAN!!!!! LOL
Negan
This will not be hard on the Ten R C fans. They are accustomed to losing. They are trained for it. This will not be hard on the fans at all.
Um, Conner prefers Fruit Loops.
UT made a ND fan out of many of us and that middle finger came back to haunt them, as the article might say, from 49 states.
“the team that came off like they had been there before even though they hadn’t”
You can say they used that to motivate themselves but it’s really unnecessary.
Comes off as unsportsmanlike and that’s why everyone outside Tennessee is happy.
Hope they learn that you can win without being an A hole
Coming from a former huge CDM fan… very enlightening words of wisdom, palley…
” Coming from a former huge CDM fan… very enlightening words of wisdom, palley… ”
AMEN!!!!!
Negan
Legs…are you calling CDM an Ahole?? I thought you guys loved seeing him on our sideline…lol.
I did! I certainly am struggling hating CBN as much…
we’re used to it really. if i was an opposing teams fan i would give em a rib or two myself. enjoy everyone. but we are still sec champs. not bad for the team picked 4th in the east preseason.
Congrats.
“we’re used to it really.”
I concur.
ENJOYING VERY MUCH ,
#1 team in the nation, better own it, bc it’s not happening in football or basketball! Who knows with UT fans!
Fuzzy, I was able to meet several of the players and their parents at the SEC tournament and they were all so friendly. Where’s this hate coming from?
57939names. Are you joking. This is Alabama people talking to Ten R C fans. It is our duty to pound on them whenever we can. It’s a rule.
Take pleasure in the victories.
Fuzzy…….I don’t keep up much with college baseball. But I was rooting for Tennessee!!!
How could a team they called the best ever be only picked 4th in the east? Who was doing the picking???
Sure you aren’t talking about football? Anyway congratulations for the SEC. Sorry you didn’t win it all. You probably deserved to!!!
PS. Fuzzy, you sure sound down. Even made me feel sorry for you. I’m not kidding!!! Again. Congratulations on that SEC CHAMPIONSHIP!!! It means something to!!!!
Negan
We had it happen to us last year, so I’m not going to slam the Vol fans…I know how discouraging it is.
That said, they kind of asked for the hate and probably got motivated by it.
Great season, great team.
Now gotta go pull for the Hogs to win this one today to punch our ticket.
i think i am going to be an ole miss fan in the cws. the team that kind of snuck in and was maybe the least likely. im one of those that pulls for the underdog unless its UT or the sec but I genuinely wish the best for all the sec teams.
Just remember fuzzy, Ole Miss had the golf ball, mustard container, and numerous water bottles thrown their way at Neyland Stadium. Play nice.
“so I’m not going to slam the Vol fans’
I am. They were about as arrogant as I’ve ever seen any fanbase in any sport at any point in SEC sports history. They were nasty to other teams, threw t rash at fans/umps and proclaimed themselves to be the best.
They deserve ridicule.
Ron, although I do agree with you about Tennessee & their over enthusiastic fans. I’ve gone through that feeling as a fan of seeing your #1 team all year get knocked out at home.
but…since our HOGS just punched our ticket to Omaha…I’m hoping the Vols can pull for the Hogs since they wont be there.
Ron I was just about to ask you why you took the MO off your name, but now I have to say good take
Nah I hope Vitello gets a championship before Van Horn simply because it would be hilarious.
hear hear
They had it coming. It was a good team, though. Good year. Ole Miss is looking real good. A&M too. Have to wait and see who gets hot next week.
“Ole Miss is looking real good. A&M too. ”
And some team from AUBURN, ALABAMA.
lol
Hey wait.. can I get a woo pig too?? Let’s make this thing an SEC West party!
SEC West. Still the best conference in baseball.
WOOOOOOPIIIIG!!!
” Let’s make this thing an SEC West party!’
That’s a great point.
Well….Mississippi State won it all last year but it was 12 years prior that the last West team won the College World Series (LSU–2009). The East has won 5 in that stretch.
Good for the East! Now back to watching the West play while the east goes on vacation.
Ouch, Ronnie! Did you jinx the War Eagles?
“Ouch, Ronnie! Did you jinx the War Eagles?”
No, as I’ve stated several times over the last few weeks, I’m just happy AU got in. I had/have little expectations and do not expect them to go very far.
“No, as I’ve stated several times over the last few weeks, I’m just happy AU got in.”
I just hope everyone has fun.
No Connor, people don’t hate Tennessee (and their Hillbilly fans) because of cockiness or “acting like they’ve been there before,” it’s because they acted like they’ve never been there before.
The relentless d-baggery. The over the top, look-at-me home run celebrations. The flipping the bird to the opposing outfield.
This d-bag team and it’s d-bag coach and their hillbilly loser fans got EXACTLY what they deserved.
Good Ol’ Rocky Flop! Rocky Flop, Tennessee!
Exactly. They acted like they have never been there before.
Overall, the super regionals this year hasn’t been nice to seeded/higher ranked teams.
Did you call out the ND player for his bird Friday night? I’m guessing you don’t care at all about that one since it wasn’t Tennessee doing it.
“Did you call out the ND player for his bird Friday night?’
TN deserved it.
So it wasn’t the bird itself, just that Tennessee did it. Got it.
“So it wasn’t the bird itself, just that Tennessee did it. Got it.”
Yes.
Georgia has won nothing of relevance in the sport since before current recruits were in their daddy’s scrotum.
1998.
And you’re too mentally weak to be able to stay on topic. But bravo, want a participation trophy? That’s all UGA will get in this sport.
1998.
“Georgia has won nothing of relevance in the sport ”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHH ok.
Another mentally weak UGA fan who can’t read more than 9 words in a row before getting confused. Read the rest, maybe you’ll understand.
Maybe it’s your team that’s mentally weak…
“Another mentally weak UGA fan ”
Ma’am I’m not a UGA fan.
Not sure what this has to do with Heorgia, but didn’t they just win the NC in football? Congrats on making the sweet 16 of baseball.
Ah, you mean baseball. So how many times has TN won the NC in baseball? You could say, TN has won nothing of relevance in this sport since, well, never.
The answer to that question is of course zero times. The Hillbillies have won the CWS zero times.
Which is less than the Dawgs have, interestingly enough.
The Dawgs made the CWS in 2008.
CWS Finals. Lost to Fresno St. Daddys scrotum had already spit out the current Vol players
Georgia won a CWS in 1990. Tennessee has never won one and hasn’t been to a final since before the Eisenhower administration.
That streak stands.
Just like you talking Basketball I’m spite of the fact you have never made a final 4
Irrelevant
UGA has more wins in baseball in the last 10 years than the vols do…..and of course more CWS appearances and the ship that UT will never have (first team in the SEC to win it)….so cry to your mama! Karma for acting like turds all season!!
Math/counting isn’t your strong suit, is it? Tennessee has 323 wins the last 10 years (2012-2022) while UGA only has 291.
You dumb Hillbilly, you forgot to accout for the zero.
2012-2021 is ten years, 2012-2022 is eleven years.
So from 2012-2021 Tennessee has 291 wins, UGA has 286. Still can’t add in Georgia. You want to do 2013-2022, it’s still Tennessee 324 (Wikipedia didn’t update from the weekend) to UGA 291. 2012-2022 is 348 to 322. So my typo on putting 2012 instead of 2013 really makes you get me.
“The relentless d-baggery. The over the top, look-at-me home run celebrations. The flipping the bird to the opposing outfield.”
Correct.
So, again, you don’t care about the action. Got it. Typical hypocrisy. Google that word if it’s too big for you.
Am I supposed to care about your opinion?
The word is called “class”, and UT has never had it outside women’s basketball.
1998…
Love it
so funny, I love it. d-baggery was relentless and now that’s all they got left, an empty douche bag.
“Tennessee haters, you got your wish: Party’s over for college baseball’s bad boys”
Good riddance.
Love it
Karma
Low class hillbillies
Per USUAL
The best part of Knoxville is 75 South
the best part of auburn is…….. well there isnt a good part. and you lay claim to the biggest jerk poster on sds. Mexicorndogron. He makes rocks and sticks look like surgeons and scientists.
“the best part of auburn is…….. well there isnt a good part.”
Huh?
“Mexicorndogron. He makes rocks and sticks look like surgeons and scientists.”
Remedial English, furry. Please retake it.
Telling this poster to retake English is rich when you can’t comprehend 10+ words strung together.
“Telling this poster to retake English is rich when you can’t comprehend 10+ words strung together.’
Elaborate, ma’am.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but nobody needs to elaborate here. Everyone on this site knows you’re a douche
With all the braggadocio antics all year long, it seemed like Tennessee was insecure and overcompensating for something.
This weekend showed they were right to be insecure.
Scared dogs bark the loudest.
I bet they drive big trucks to compensate.
Just like Basketball…
Hogs in the Elite Eight.
Woooo! PIGS! SOOOIEEE!
OMAHOGS.
Yessir
Toughest championship win in college sports. Just that y’all remember we played in 3 back to back to back and won 2 consecutively. We won the last CWS in Rosenblat and the 1st one in the new stadium. Y’all were waaay too cocky.
Winning the basketball title is harder. One bad game and you’re out. Takes at least 2 losses in the postseason to be out in baseball.
Ron, although I do agree with you about Tennessee & their over enthusiastic fans. I’ve gone through that feeling as a fan of seeing your #1 team all year get knocked out at home.
but…since our HOGS just punched our ticket to Omaha…I’m hoping the Vols can pull for the Hogs since they wont be there.
Love you hog fan but F the Vols.. They can enjoy being at home while the Hogs are at CWS
I am being moderated again so will make some adjustments.
Let me first say TBoned and Ronsouthoftheborder are who they are and I can’t defend those boneheads.
As for this whole “hater” thing in sports that runs so parallel to the whole political narrative that is dominating our country right now, it would be refreshing if we just realize “hating” is sports. Do we really think Boston or New York fans, Celtics or Lakers fans, Auburn or Bama fans, Hearns or Hagler fans, called each other “haters”? That list could go on for days. It would be most excellent if we could drop this lame ESPN term and just go back to being fans….whether fans for or fans against. It’s sports people!!!
I don’t know if it’s a millennial thing but that “hater” BS is a relatively new term.
When in doubt always blame millennial snowflakes
“Let me first say TBoned and Ronsouthoftheborder are who they are and I can’t defend those boneheads.”
I don’t need defending.
CPS called, they need a word with you.
And que putting that in quotation marks….
ESPN is a major part of the problem. Anybody that brings up Hagler – Hearns, I’m a fan! Hagler – Hearns 1 the best 1st round in boxing history!
CToolidge, best post I have read in quite some time. Only unfortunate part is most of these “kids” have no idea who Hagler and Hearns were.Greatest 3 round fight in history though.
Definitely a lesson in humility. Those lessons are always bitter. TN Baseball will be lucky if it hasn’t tarnished its image for years to come. They definitely have found a lot of haters.
Yes they have, as a HOG fan I rooted for TN in certain sports but that coach and baseball team has now made me hate them and I’m so glad the Irish whipped that ass
It’s a tough tourney to win. I think it’s the hardest championship to win, because it’s not based on talent but getting hot at the right time.
But you do get a mulligan at every level of the tournament. You don’t get that in basketball or football.
That can be a negative thing as well. That used to be South Carolinas problem. Win the season and lose in the playoffs.
See, I disagree with the whole “bad boys” persona that everyone is slinging around now.
Yes this team talks more smack than the average, but it seems more like much of this has been stoked by the media and a couple opposing fan bases. (Hello, Irish Nation and Vandy)
I don’t like some of the over the top celebrating and jawing with the refs on a regular basis but it’s done by more than 75% of the teams in the country.
These guys were dominant with a capital D this year and that tends to bring out the haters; if we’d been jockeying around with other teams in the top 10 all year this wouldn’t be more than one article; now, it’ll be the entire off-season narrative and the takeaway from a very impressive college baseball season.
Didnt one of your best players and a coach get thrown out for this game? I mean…its hard to critique your own team, I know that. But the narrative was kinda owned.
Instead of “hating” Tenn, I adopted them as my No. 2 team in the midst of Ole Miss’s mid•season spiral, because they were simply the most dominant team in every aspect of the game I’ve ever seen.
I’m not a fan of Drew Gilbert telling the ump to “Go F yourself,” or whatever he said, but I am a fan of baseball excellence.
*Changing topics*
I told my family “watch out for Ole Miss in the NCAA’s. They have the potential to be a sneaky good team that could go far.”
Congrats Hotty Toddy on making it to Omaha!
Likewise, my porcine friend! Let’s make this an SEC West party.
I could care less about college baseball and the only reason I watch is when the Braves aren’t on and there is no football. That being said I don’t hate TN baseball this year because they were good, I hate them because of they way they and their fans have acted. You should be embarrassed because I know the SEC is, especially after the debacle on rocky top against ole miss in football.
UT took it over the top with everything borderline is why it stood out, a one up you mentality in bad sportsmanship. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. Great season lost to defeat and antics.
naw man, somebody’s good every year and they don’t engender the kinda hate the vols did. they lived by it and now they have to live with it.
Nothing sucks like a big Orange.
SO HAPPY THESE A____ Holes lost.
A great day
Love it
I take no joy in the Vols’ downfall. I remember last year too well.
There is no comparison to last year’s Hogs to this year’s Tennessee team. Yeah they both were dominate on the diamond, but people not wearing the home colors actually liked the Hogs.
I hate this. Sorry about this Vol fans. I know it has to hurt. I haven’t read all the articles, but the ones I have did not display any Vol hate.
Tennessee brought it onto themselves.
“If the Vols were this traditional power with a trophy case full of national titles, they wouldn’t have become as polarizing as they were.”
Exactly. People weren’t hating on Tennessee because they were a good team. They were rooting for the other team because this team (and many of their fans) were acting like they were on a chase for their nth title in the past ten years. Oklahoma softball has been dominate and a bit brash, people root against them because the Softball Sooners have been dang good. It is the respect part that Tennessee doesn’t have.
Teams can go play, have fun, do their bits, but keep it respectful to the other teams and people will respect them.
The only people rooting for Tennessee are the usual Tennessee backers and sidewalk fans.
“The only people rooting for Tennessee are the usual Tennessee backers and sidewalk fans.”
I am neither, yet I was rooting for them. At this point in the season, I pull for the SEC teams. Just as I pulled for Arkansas, and I am pulling for AU.
Excellent post by the hog fan. But this is the way Vol fans carry themselves. Imagine how they would act if they won just the SEC East in football??
This team and the fans were SO obnoxious all season. You can understand or even give a pass if they are a defending champion or been on top for years, but they have accomplished less than nothing. Easy to say they are young kids acting up, but this is an older, veteran team. Some of these guys will get straightened out quickly when they play in the minor leagues. Of course it seems the UT path means staying in college as long as possible. F$%^ing Losers.
I bet you you were willam dafoes biggest fan, how many did you absorb last night? I bet you bumdocked a couple. Don’t speak on behalf of a fan base that you know nothing of, I grew up on the line by Huntsville, it was common hatred, but a respected dislike. You must be a Gen Z.
I’m being moderated over any negative comment about two or three coaches in the SEC. I have never use a cuss word or any phase associated with body parts or such. I see such phases with incorrect spelling to beat the system everyday. But this moderation of my post with criticism of coaches is only a opinion. Yet the power people get me. Must be alum of the teams these coaches are employed by. Getting so close to what is happening with the press of a certain party suppressing the real news. Moderate this SDS and post what I say.
SDS uses algorithms. Sometimes it is tough to figure out what word you are using that is getting you. You can wish people a great holiday, for every religion, except Chris tian ity. Try saying Merry Chris tmas. But Happy Ramadan is ok.
Yes, just imagine anything that could possibly upset the snow flake WOKE community and do not use it.
Ron you are now rivaling Corch as the most pathetic person to post on SDS. I cant imagine how miserable yourife must be. I’m assuming you both must be middle schoolers. I can’t imagine grown men spending so much of their free time posting on another teams articles just for some kind of gratification. Then again maybe you both are incels and this is as good as gets for you. Corch loves to call Tennessee fans hillbillies. Maybe you need to take a little trip to the home of your new 5 star QB Gunner Stockton. There is a reason they filmed Deliverance there. Enough said.
“You got a real purdy mouth…”
I’m not a UGA fan, moron.
Try harder.
“There is a reason they filmed Deliverance there.’
There is a reason you have the IQ of cow dung.
You do know Deliverance was fiction right?
And it was shot in South Carolina.
Rabun County, Georgia is where the movie was shot.
” Maybe you need to take a little trip to the home of your new 5 star QB Gunner Stockton. ”
Ma’am, again, I am not a fan of UGA.
Actually was shoot mostly on the Chatooga, which is the state line for GA and SC in NE GA. I grew up and live in Atlanta and have been fly fish the Tallulah north of Lake Burton for over 30 years and tryst me, Deliverance is nothing like what you see in Rabun County. People there couldn’t be friendlier.
He’s an auburn fan, closeted by the way. I suppose that is his safe space.
1998.
Haaaaaaaaaa!!! This loss brings me so much joy. Couldn’t have happened to a less classless team. Hey Volin NC, how about in your free time teaching your teams and fans how not to be total losers? I cant imagine being adults throwing temper tantrums, throwing things on the field (in 2 sports) and being such losers. Grow up hillbilly. And FYI we all take A LOT of gratification in seeing a classless team and fanbase lose. And get used to it, this is as good as it gets for you hillbilly. Now go cry to your momma/sister. Enough said! Haaaa
And by the way Connor, people were against this team because they were jerks. They took on the attitude of their fans and deserve every criticism they receive. Like Crash Davis said in Bull Durham “Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You’ll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy and you’ll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes and the press will think you’re colorful.” Live by the sword die by the sword.
And for all those that don’t think so, there is still a “right way” to win. If UT would have done that throughout the year, the comments here would have been much, much different. Take the barn right now, I cant stand them and never root for a rival, ever. BUT, I respect what their coach said about having to travel 90 minutes both ways to play Oregon St. THAT is class. No excuses. Thats how you handle things.
The last part of your comment is irrelevant. You just threw it in to sound smart.
They may have been brash, but they sure were good for college baseball overall. They were a funloving, rowdy bunch of players. Tell me you wouldn’t have wanted to be on their team given the chance.
The “posting on other team’s articles” bit is so tired. Maybe if Vol fans and their team did not stand in the street and beat their chest everytime they did anything, other fans would not be having so much fun today.
I understand that you need to live vicariously, but just know that we all love you for who you are. Being the recipient is ok, you’ll grow in to the mens role over time, one day you’ll be able to give instead of receiving.
They had The U swagger with the USF number of natties..
Gottem
IT WAS THE UMPIRES!!!
– GWhite
He thinks umpires are called refs.
I had to turn the sound off on my TV Friday night. As SOON as the Vols fell behind, the fans automatically turned on the umpires err refs. It is now second nature to Vol fans. I am surprised that nothing more was said about the idiots throwing things on the field when Senior Big Mouth got tossed. I actually had a UT fan tell me yesterday that you can say whatever to the ump as long as you are not facing him. Yeah.
Where is that vol fan that had been posting all season about how dominant this team was and that they couldn’t be beaten in a series?!? Guess he has his tail tucked and won’t be back in here LMAO
I knew they were vulnerable when Ky. won the series against them (the only SEC team to do so). The Cats couldn’t even make the tournament.
Yep, gwhite was his handle….guess he’s crying to his mama right now and can’t come here and eat crow!! Crybabies
No, he chimed in. Said that what they accomplished in the regular season was more important than winning a championship. Since he has never experienced UT winning a championship, any championship, I am sure he believes that.
The “juice” they’ve been taking all year finally hit the half life at the wrong time. Enjoy June on your couch!
Inject directly into my veins. Couldn’t have happened to a better team. Never seen more bush league behavior at any level in my life.
Here’s an idea for 2023: focus on baseball instead of spending so much energy trying to act like the largest jack@$$es possible. Play the game with dignity and respect.
New summer class added for the term at UT-Knoxville
Bat Flipping and Unsportsmanlike Behavior 401
Instructor – Tony Vitello
Students will have to provide their own pacifiers, blanket, and crayons.
And he’ll teach them to throw the opponents bats at opposing players because he’s a crybaby! Yet his team can bat flip and flip birds and it’s ok
And Vol baseball fans are identical to UNC Tar Hole hoops fans. Any time any call doesn’t go their way, no matter if it is blatantly the correct call (more often than not) constant boos and jeers from the crowd.
Nauseating, ranking up there with that whistler at Vandy, maybe even higher.
Connor, congrats on the number of clicks by taking on TN. Not a huge fan of them so may I ask, what’s the deal with the animosity from the UGA fans with Rocky Top? Is it an SEC East rivalry thing? Y’all have a great day. And help get this country back on track by voting R.
I don’t think anyone hates TN, it’s just funny when the blatantly cocky faceplant. Any team (TN or otherwise) who was that cocky would have had a hard time finding people supporting them.
But it’s their own fault Conner, so they (nor you) can’t act like they’re being mistreated now.
Bama here but after Bama I’m all for SEC and certainly was pulling for TN and NOT ND of all teams! So SEC has 3 in the World Series so far and I wanted to se TN get in too. Heck I’m even pulling for Awwwbun to get in!
RTR!
^^Yeah, I can see that, but watching THAT team for just a few innings, made it impossible to root for them. They reminded me of the 1990 era Miami Hurricane football team, without the titles. I mean all you did is stand in the batter’s box, take pitches and walk, why would you slam your bat and yell at your dugout? Just a pathetic display all around.
I, for one, am extremely glad Woodward did not try harder to hire Vitello away. Can’t stand the nasty attitudes of he, his assistants, and his players. I did pick the Vols to make it to Omaha, but in a way glad they didn’t.
Vitello needs to take lessons in humility and how to be a great coach from Skip Bertman.
Bertman was no angel. For sportsmanship and demeanor, Mainieri was a better example. But I agree. I wanted Vitello at this time last year. Don’t want him now.
I for two
The basketball…I mean baseball school falls flat again. The cockiness and arrogance catches up to ‘em. The best part was watching all the fans wearing that ugly orange sit there with their mouths open after it was over. I hate Notre Dame more than anybody but I their biggest fan today. GO DAWGS!!
Eddy Furniss, one of the best hitters to ever grace the SEC diamonds said, you can’t be a bunch of Aholes and call it fire and emotions. The Baseball Gods are always watching.
I was still pulling for the Vols. They were obviously talented. You don’t have the kind of season they had on luck
The baseball gods certainly were not smiling down on them.
The baseball gods spoke loud and clear, and they might not be done speaking. The punishment for that level of cockiness and disregard won’t wash off that fast..
Enjoy this while you can. Those who think this baseball program is going anywhere but up? You’re kidding yourself.
The future will be very kind to us on the diamond.
they will implode this offseason. kids with their attitude can’t turn it off if their coach encourages it. watch for plenty off season arrests, cutting class etc. Knoxville will cover it up but this is so bad it will get out.
Unfortunately the Tennessee players take after their coach. Arrogant, classless, and entitled. I’m not a Tennessee hater, I think it’s absolutely hilarious that the fans wore the classless vs the catholic t-shirts with pride and don’t comprehend what a laffing stock they were to everyone else. We will not be seeing any of the Tennessee players in the majors anytime soon. Can you say OVERRATED
As a Northwest Arkansas Razorback Baseball Fan, I was at Baum Walker
Stadium Last Year When we were No 1 most all the year won the SEC
outright and the SEC Tournament, and lost in the 9th inning Super regional to North Carolina State , So I felt Tennessee’s Pain. I think
being No 1 all year puts the pressure on a team and a target on their back ? I like the fact the Razorbacks played as Underdogs the last of this year and now we are going to Omaha ! Tennessee will be back im sure .No matter what it was a great year for them
I was a huge UT fan last year. I thought the Hogs-Vols series was one of the best and hardest fought of the season.
While I can sympathize with UT fans this year, after having an even more dominate regular season and SEC Championship than the Hogs did last year and then repeating our super regional ouster… Man, I didn’t see a whole lot of class out there as UT played the games this year.
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Tn sports have not been good for a long time and it seems that they choke when it really counts. It’s hard to have a good team especially football when the coaches suck. TN current coach (football) was a great hire and it seems he is bringing in good recruits and a stable atmosphere. They will contend in the sec East for sure in 1-2 years maybe earlier. We will see I think GA will have their hands full this year
Of course they will. Go back and read what was said in year 2 of the Pruitt era. You are not going to overtake Georgia with transfers and keeping players on your roster for 6 seasons. Still can’t wait to see Heupel recruit and develop his own QB. Maybe the 5* they BOUGHT will be the answer.
Losing of course is never fun, but losing at home as the favorite doubly sucks. The Vols got out over their skis a bit, and ND got the timely hits. Gotta give them credit.
Notre Dame definitely deserved that win. I watched our super regional against them last year and felt genuinely sad for them when we eliminated them. They were great sports about it even though it was clear they cared very much about winning. If they’d beaten us last year I’m fairly certain they’d have won it all.
It’ll be easy for me to root for ND, AU, and A&M. Somebody, please stop every true State fan’s nightmare from happening… please.