Tennessee falls to Notre Dame in Super Regionals, becomes latest No. 1 seed to fail to win national title
Tennessee entered the NCAA Baseball Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed, cruising through the regional round in Knoxville to advance to the Super Regionals, also held in Knoxville.
After losing Game 1 to Notre Dame on Friday, the Vols bounced back with a 12-4 victory on Saturday to force a decisive Game 3 on Sunday afternoon.
Early in the game, things seemed to be going the Vols’ way. Seth Stephenson’s double extended Tennessee’s lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the 5th inning:
https://twitter.com/NCAABaseball/status/1536054795412426754
This bizarre play also helped the Vols keep the Irish in check early:
What a series of events pic.twitter.com/uTxjSydNeG
— 11Point7: The College Baseball Podcast 🎙 (@11point7) June 12, 2022
But, the Vols couldn’t get anything else going offensively. Meanwhile, Notre Dame came all the way back to win 7-3 and clinch the second of 8 spots in Omaha for the College World Series.
Now, the Vols become the 22nd No. 1 overall seed in a row to fail to win the College World Series title:
- 2022: Tennessee (lost in Super Regionals)
- 2021: Arkansas (lost in Super Regionals)
- 202o: No tournament (COVID-19)
- 2019: UCLA (lost in Super Regionals)
- 2018: Florida (lost in College World Series)
- 2017: Oregon State (lost in College World Series)
- 2016: Florida (lost in College World Series)
- 2015: UCLA (lost in regional)
- 2014: Oregon State (lost in regional)
- 2013: North Carolina (lost in College World Series)
- 2012: Florida (lost in College World Series)
- 2011: Virginia (lost in College World Series)
- 2010: Arizona State (lost in College World Series)
- 2009: Texas (lost in College World Series)
- 2008: Miami (lost in College World Series)
- 2007: Vanderbilt (lost in regional)
- 2006: Clemson (lost in College World Series)
- 2005: Tulane (lost in College World Series)
- 2004: Texas (lost in College World Series)
- 2003: Florida State (lost in Super Regionals)
- 2002: Florida State (lost in Super Regionals)
- 2001: Cal State Fullerton (lost in College World Series)
- 2000: South Carolina (lost in Super Regionals)
- 1999: Miami (won national title)
The Vols finished the 2022 season with an impressive 57-9 overall record. They also won the SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover.
Move Over Gonzaga
Move Over Los Angeles Lakers
Move Over Cincy and Michigan
There’s a new title holder in the Choke of the Year
“There’s a new title holder in the Choke of the Year”
I could not agree more.
TN won in the only thing that matters more than a national championship in Omaha. Being number one all season and winning nearly 60 games gets you excellent portal players and star recruits. Winning 60 isn’t chocking. There is a reason the best teams in baseball almost never win the national title. Intangibles and luck. Look at MSU. They won a natty and did it matter the following year? LOL NO! TN did what they needed to do this year to grow the program massively and that was going to happen with or without a trip to Omaha. Auburn could win it but still won’t recruit nearly as good as TN.. So cry all you want Ronald, TN won in every way it actually matters this season.
” So cry all you want Ronald, TN won in every way it actually matters this season.
Cry? Ma’am I’m laughing my b utt off at UT fans right now.
“Auburn could win it but still won’t recruit nearly as good as TN”
Wut?
“Being number one all season and winning nearly 60 games ”
AHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHHHAHHAHAHAHHHAH
You suck, gwhite. Have fun watching AU, Arky and TAM play on.
Such a bad take…need to take our medicine….this was a collapse of epic proportions!
“Auburn could win it but still won’t recruit nearly as good as TN.”
Last I checked AU was still in the fight. AU didn’t choke like UT did.
Also, ma’am, AU’s pitching next year is projected to be some of the best in college baseball.
G F Y
“this was a collapse of epic proportions!’
No, it was expected. I called UT out for the garbage team they were.
“Look at MSU. They won a natty and did it matter the following year?”
You retard, MSU won the CWS. I highly doubt they care right now.
“Winning 60 isn’t chocking.’
You lost to ND, ma’am.
“TN won in every way it actually matters this season.’
You don’t get a trophy for s ucking, ma’am.
Good Ol’ Rocky Flop!
Rocky Flop, Tennessee!
“Rocky Flop, Tennessee!”
Music to my ears.
Man I don’t like Senor Ron but nobody is buying that BS. Winning it all may not be the only reason to play but it is so far ahead of second place you can’t see it in the rear window.
Only gwhite could see not winning as a positive.
“Man I don’t like Senor Ron ”
ON NO!!!!!! WHat EVER will I do?
Gwhite: so being ranked #1 for most of the season is more important than actually winning the NC? That is as stupid as saying it’s better to have the 6th ranked offense on a 7-6 team than the 8th best on a National Championship team. MSU won last year and it still means more than what UT did this year.
“TN won in the only thing that matters more than a national championship in Omaha.”
And there you have the most ridiculous spin you will ever encounter. This might even top “Champions in Life.”
They’re calling it ” The Hillbilly Choke ” here in Knoxville,that’s about right,but to have your own saying,that helps. Better than” Classless vs Catholics ” too.
They can suck on mustard bottles.
“They can suck on mustard bottles.”
Spicy brown preferably
I would say there’s always golf, but I’m pretty sure NCAA rules don’t let you throw it.
Lakers have 17 world championships. Tied for first in NBA history. They last won the title as recently as 2020. You are an idiot.
Well this is gonna be fun. I called it!
Let the hate/name calling/bitterness begin.
Why would we cry? LOL Being the best team in baseball is still who TN is. It grew the baseball program in ways few other SEC teams have seen. We actually make money off the fans. Secondly, being a unanimous number one all season means you get better recruits. All the recruits care about is if the program is good and gets you to the majors. TN is that. But no one is going to cry about not going to Omaha to win what amounts to a regular tournament. I’d rather be number one all season and get the glory, recruits etc, than get lucky and with some skill win a natty. Recruits want winningest programs, not good and lucky program. Pay attenion here. The most important thing a baseball team can do 99.9% of the time is be the best regular season, all season than win a couple of games at the end of the season. Where do the top recruits go? They don’t go to a MSU or any team that was middle of the road to good and be the last team standing. TN has a program that will draw the best for years to come. I’d rather be a top 4 program every year than be the last team standing in Omaha once every 2 or 3 decades.. Now how about some tears?LOL
“Why would we cry? LOL Being the best team in baseball is still who TN is.”
Ma;am, UT is not the number one team. UT is out.
“being a unanimous number one all season means you get better recruits.”
LOL ok.
“Now how about some tears?’
You’re the one crying, ma’am.
Have fun watching better baseball teams win. Arky, TAM and Au are laughing at you.
gwhite713, I’m going to call a B. S. about being #1 all year and not going to Omaha to win the natty!. You are a prime example of what is wrong with the entire University of Tennessee athletic department. You play to win the games so you can win the National Championship. Plain and simple
“You are a prime example of what is wrong with the entire University of Tennessee athletic department. You play to win the games so you can win the National Championship. Plain and simple”
Yep.
Last I checked the best team gets crowned after winning the CWS.
I couldn’t even read after you posted that UT was the best team in college. The fact that you didn’t make the CWS disproves that statement. We will find out who the best team after the tournament. We do know that UT won’t be the NC so we know they aren’t the best.
Except you’re not “the best team in baseball”. At least one team is better than you.
Can you even imagine an Alabama fan talking like this after losing the NC?
No way
Interesting take Bro; you selling getting bounce before the CWS…you have a solid program, but many of us have been there before. You are talking now vs programs like MSU (for instance) that have long been a power in the sport.
I for one found the VOls entertaining, but knew it could go this way. Not buying it bro…you choked. Gotta at least get to the CWS and win some games big dog.
There, you just go an education. Worth more than any name calling or bitterness. lol
“There, you just go an education’
Huh?
” Worth more than any name calling or bitterness. lol”
You make it so easy.
Ouch. That one hurt. Oh well. On to the off-season.
Sucks for you.
’98, now you can pull for the Razorbacks! (Or Aggies if you want).
I probably will, those happen to be my #1 and #2 favorite Non-Tennessee SEC teams. The ‘Noles are out of the playoffs too. Counting the days till football.
“Counting the days till football.’
Yeah, another 7-6 season is awesome to UT.
We’ll see.
“We’ll see.’
UGA and UF will continue to own TN.
AL will always own UT.
The Noles?? Geez man.
Definitely feel your pain. It seems like only last year we did the same dang thing…
Except Arky fans didn’t brag and put every other SEC team down. Arky fans didn’t claim a title before the title game was played.
I don’t recall doing either of those things, unless fired upon first.
Or you can be Auburn..lol Who won’t draw many recruits that are blue chips or from the portal. Winning it all in Omaha or not, it’s still a team we owned. And will for the foreseeable future. Future teams in coming! lol
“I don’t recall doing either of those things, unless fired upon first.’
Never said you did.
“Or you can be Auburn.”
AU is still in it, ma’am. AU fans didn’t go around yelling WE ARE THE BEST EVER.
“Winning it all in Omaha or not, it’s still a team we owned. ”
ND owns you.
Auburn leads, 29–22–3
Auburn owns UT as well in football.
We will see.
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Couldn’t happen to a worse group of fans.
So you think winning a few games in Omaha that most teams with under 45 wins, lucks it way into, is somehow better than being number one all season? LOL Wow, are you sure your not from Alabama? lol NO coach in the world would trade a Omaha win for what TN accomplished this season, building from last season. How many records did we break. WE still are the best team in baseball and every stat backs that up. So what’s there to be mad or sad about. Absolutely nothing.
“So you think winning a few games in Omaha that most teams with under 45 wins,”
AU is still in it, ma’am. UT not so much.
“Wow, are you sure your not from Alabama? “”
You’re not your, illiterate person.
“How many records did we break. ‘
None.
We talking about stats? Try winning games when it matters.
GWhite is officially confirmed as Tennessee’s version of Dan Mullen.
GWhite is delusional for sure.
History remembers Champions. No one cares about seasons.
The only thing people will remember about UT this year is how UT was a good team who choked.
You can be the best team on paper but the trophy that says “Best Team” will live outside of Knox County.
I’ll remember UT as the team with the most t rash thrown on the field.
Luck of the Irish just pee’d on your little party. Go home and watch the top teams play ball. Vols, like the 21 Hogs, did exactly d*ck.
Dang you are such a m o r o n.
My Braves were a sub .500 team until after the All Star break last year and had the worst record of any team in the playoffs.
Did I care when they hoisted the World Series Trophy?
I did not.
In 1992 they won 103 games in the season and lost the series.
Which result do you think most people would prefer.
exactly
“This is the best team I’ve ever seen” – UT fans
“You’ll lose before Omaha” – me
Just here for the comments…let it begin!
I’m here to troll. Such a glorious defeat.
Your doing a bad job of trolling because you think winning in Omaha is better than being the best team in baseball and number one all season.. Potato head confirmed..lol
“Your doing a bad job of trolling ‘
YOU’RE DOING A BAD JOB WITH GRAMMAR.
“you think winning in Omaha is better than being the best team in baseball ‘
You are not a smart person.
*making it to Omaha.
Everyone in their right mind thinks winning in Omaha is way better than being the regular season champs. It’s not close.
Gwhite I’m sorry but everyone knows that winning in Omaha is the ultimate goal. Having the best regular season record means nothing if you can’t win it all
BTW there’s no such thing as “regular season champs”
I’m trying to throw him a bone.
Have to disagree with you there. Hogs were #1 last year. Won EVERY SEC series. Won Hoover. Lost in supers. I’d rather have the natty…
“Your doing a bad job of trolling because you think winning in Omaha is better than being the best team in baseball and number one all season.”
As do most fans.
Horrible takes gwhite…cmon son.
I can relate to the disappointment. Last year the hogs rolled through the season, entered the tournament the #1 seed and … didn’t make it to Omaha. Apparently, being the #1 seed has been the jinx for the past 22 years.
“#1 seed and … didn’t make it to Omaha.”
That’s my fav part.
Number one seed and still the greatest team this year and maybe any. You just need luck and some skill to get to Omaha. You need pure skill to own the records TN does this year.. That’s my fav part..lol
“Number one seed and still the greatest team ”
ND is laughing at you.
“You need pure skill to own the records TN does this year..’
No one will remember TN. Ever.
I just spat drink on my phone.
Who has ever googled “which team was ranked #1 all season and didn’t go to Omaha” that wasn’t answering a trivia question?
OK man. I’m sure that’s what all recruits are dreaming for.
This is exactly what happened to Arky last year. I thought it might happen to UT this year just because its so hard to have the “perfect” season in baseball.
I was pulling for ya Vols, only thing that sucks worse than getting put of supers is getting put out of supers on your home turf, we were there last year and it sucks. WPS!
“worse than getting put of supers is getting put out of supers on your home turf”
That’s the best part.
It’s fact that its better to be the number one team all season and own the stats and records than to win in a title in Omaha. All those recruits lined up, because they mean more to recruits than a few games in Omaha that even some very lucky, not great teams have won. The biggest prize we could have won this year, we did. Winning as many as we did, the way we did and our depth got us more fan growth, recognition, recruits than a few wins in Omaha. Same with AR last year. That success carried over to this year because of who you were in the regular season and some post play.
“It’s fact that its better to be the number one team all season”
No one will remember UT.
Everyone will remember the team that wins the CWS, ma’am.
You know that you get all those good recruits to win championships, right?
Besides all of those potential recruits will be watching the CWS in Omaha.
They won’t be watching your d@mn Vols chump.
*1951
(Your last and only CWS final appearance…which you lost)
1998
The last year you won anything.
1951, Ouch…lol
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger bunch of Dbags. Grats on the choke job
^^^^^^YES YES YES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OH, what did winning in Omaha get you? Did it even get you anywhere this season? NO!!!! LOL Winning all season is where the money is, why the recruits want to come. So, you not even making it to any regional to speak of says it all.. That is why you only have one natty for your entire school’s history.. lol RE RE.
“OH, what did winning in Omaha get you? ”
A national title, loser.
Remind me how many titles Tennessee has?
“Remind me how many titles Tennessee has?”
Z E R O
None
They have appeared in one final. In 1951. They lost.
Like Basketball…zero final 4’s but lots of talk.
1998
Uh a national title… please don’t compare UT to MSU in baseball, it’s not even remotely close. Everyone has a down year and everyone knows MSU is baseball royalty. We’ll be back next year.
exactly…cmon Gwhite, REALLY?
Gwhite…you have to wear the ass whopping bro. Solid program and all that, but you didn’t get it done, and fell short of even getting the chip series (CWS).
Where’s that Tenner fan who told me that they had 4 pitchers as good as Kopps who had proven that they were better players and that they were a better team?
In shambles, most likely.
Cryin in her Zima right about now.
Right here piggy. lol And I was right. Why? Because every pitcher has their limit. As I said all season long, if TN loses it will be because he didn’t take the starter out soon enough. At the top of every 7th, we started the season off by taking them out for the closures. But we didn’t today, I was proven right..again. Confidence not cockiness. When you have 4 pitchers as good as Kopps, you pull him at the top of the 7th even if it looks like he’s ok. A great pitcher at his limits on a hot day is still not going to throw better than Connell, Walsh or Camden, not after 80 plus pitches.. You all lost last year because you relied too much on one pitcher. Kopps.. You had no one to go to, so there is that.. But TN still won the only thing more important than a title in Omaha. Being the best team in college baseball and still is, still will be probably next year. All the recruits, stats and records that come with it. What did it gain MSU this year from being the last team standing in Omaha last year?? NOTHING!!!! They regressed because they weren’t the best team in baseball last year. They were just the last team standing against a bunch of teams that were better than them. Most of which, they didn’t even play but with far better talent and records. So, there, you learned something today piggy..lol
“o, there, you learned something today piggy..lol’
Arky is still in it, ma’am. Arky is laughing at you.
So is Mississippi State, as they stare at their national championship trophy.
“So is Mississippi State, as they stare at their national championship trophy.”
That is true.
It could not have happened to a nicer bunch of “gentlemen”. Good riddance.
BINGO
That’s a shame.
Poor C rappy top.
Tennessee failed to advance and live up to their billing. Granted. But, the amount of comments this article and the many to follow like it just shows that they generated interest in the sport. That’s huge. I love college baseball, so I appreciate what they accomplished, while acknowledging they they certainly didn’t meet expectations.
“Tennessee failed to advance ”
As predicted by me. Their arrogant hillbilly fans can suck a big fat mustard bottle.
It’s only a sign of how insufferable their arrogant, won nothing fans are.
I get what you are saying LSUSMC, but I think GWhite and RonMex might be elevating the numbers of comments. Those 2 need to be in the first ever internet cage match
“Those 2 need to be in the first ever internet cage match”
She’d run away crying.
I side with Ron.
Ron is killing him on this one…
Another day, another sport, another seasoning ending loss in Tennessee for the Vols to an Indiana school. Sad.
Another day of me laughing at UT fans.
Gators 2 nattys this weekend…Tennesse..not so much
I didn’t know the Irish had a baseball team.
Neither did UT.
Ha, they do now.
I put this one on Peyton Manning. I can’t remember the last time TN won a game or a series where he made an appearance. He showed up at the Georgia State game I went to. Didn’t go well. But Tennessee is gonna Tennessee. One day they will put it together in some sport. Not today. Great season and good luck to everybody else in the tourney. Except Notre Dame.
Peyton choked as well.
He did against Florida for sure. They had his number. Great player. Just couldn’t get it together to win it all. These guys played loud all year and the only way to not eat a mountain of crow was win it all. Loved the enthusiasm but the antics were a bit much at times. I am UT to the core but I am as realistic as they come. Going in as a 1 seed is the worst possible thing. 22 years running. I also am not a fan of the antics of this Nico kid coming in next year. Looks talented but his ego might get the best of him.
“He did against Florida for sure. They had his number. Great player. Just couldn’t get it together to win it all.”
Sucks for him.
Also, these people saying that UT won the important stuff are out of their minds. I was excited to win the SEC in basketball and baseball. That just means you’re the best out of 14 teams.
Those “people” are GWhite. That’s it
Right now he is choking on about $250 million dollars. I bet he hasn’t thought about the Gators since 1997
I’m thinking that he doesn’t think about it much but it does bother him a bit, since at the time FL and TN were big rivals, especially with Spurrier and his barbs. :)
Uncle Nutz…if he had the 250mil in the bank in 97, I’d agree, but along the way to the cheddar, best believe that 0-4…and a chip the NEXT year with Tee Martin mattered
So I’m not here to gloat and troll like some others but I understand why some are giddy you guys lost.
I will root for the remaining SEC teams that are alive, even Auburn with their insufferable troll
Even Auburn’s coach wishes he was number one all season and the blue chips that TN is getting because of it.. Winning in Omaha doesn’t do a lot for that, but we all like to win.
“Even Auburn’s coach wishes he was number one all season and the blue chips that TN is getting because of it.”
Yeah, I’m sure he wishes that. As he sits coaching a team that didn’t choke he’s thinking “gee I wish my team was as c rappy as UT”
Darn dude. Winning in Omaha is what it’s all about. That’s the reason you recruit and play. How can you elevate recruiting over winning? That’s such nonsense.
Is it what its all about? What does that do for recruiting if your only just a over .500 team? Becuase when you recruit elite, your chances of being consistently good are better. Being better longer than a few games in Omaha is how any team improves. Secondly, how about job security. If I’m top 4 all season, than whether I make it to Omaha doesn’t matter as much.. There isn’t a coach still coaching that made it to Omaha and won once in a decade but went sub .500 that is still their team’s head coach.
“Is it what its all about? ”
Yes.
If you win it all in Omaha, you win one thing. The tournament. But being the best all season, winning the records and stats, that is everything. No one believes that the last team standing is the best team that year in baseball. Do you think MSU was the best team in baseball last year? LOL NO one does, not even the MSU coach! It’s a prestige tournament. But that’s all it is.
A few years from now, this Tennessee team is nothing but an occasional footnote. Period. Whoever wins in Omaha will be remembered forever. I didn’t take you for a participation trophy type of guy. Good to know.
“If you win it all in Omaha, you win one thing.’
That’s like saying “my team was the best in the regular season but lost in playoffs before the Super Bowl”
No one remembers losers, ma’am.
“Do you think MSU was the best team in baseball last year? LOL NO one does, not even the MSU coach! It’s a prestige tournament. But that’s all it is.’
How high are you?
“Winning in Omaha doesn’t do a lot for that, but we all like to win.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAH
Name one thing, winning a natty in Omaha actually gets you that is better than being number one all season and winning the stats and records? Please, I’m all ears mouth lol.
“Name one thing, winning a natty in Omaha actually gets you”
A championship trophy, name in the record books. Prestige. Respect.
“Please, I’m all ears mouth ”
No, you’re an idiot.
You need to give it a rest.
Today Auburn’s coach is in a better place than UT’s.
He’s team is still alive
“Today Auburn’s coach is in a better place than UT’s.”
And AU fans aren’t screaming WE ARE CHAMPIONS!!!! We’re just happy to be here. It’s fun. That’s it.
Those “Blue Chips” will be watching the games in Omaha.
Guess who they won’t see.
You havent played in a final since 1951. Blue Chips know that too.
1998
I was talking to Tark…he said that he was better off losing to Duke after the undefeated season in 1991…
Serious HOG fan but have never been happier to see TN lose..I didn’t realize that converting choir robes into baseball uniforms could be so effective… Much congrats to the Irish… Go home and cry Vols it’s where you belong… Love it
The Irish laugh at UT.
The Irish coach even wishes they were as deep as TN and as good. He is praising the heavens thanking the above that Vitello didn’t pull Burns at the top of the 7th. Otherwise, its another ND loss.. The key is pull them before any issues arise. Vitello didn’t. But he’s a young coach and he’s getting an ear full now about not pulling Burns. Even number 4 VT lost today and no one believes the best ever win the tournament, so much so, they call it a curse..LOL So don’t hate us cause you ain’t us..lol
“The Irish coach even wishes they were as deep as TN and as good.”
ND beat you.
“LOL So don’t hate us cause you ain’t us..lol”
I don’t want to cheer for losers, loser. AU is still in it.
RonMexico1 We swept you like a rug..lol Your not better than TN and you probably won’t be for sometime. NO matter how well you do in Omaha. Your just lil Auburn to us..lol
“RonMexico1 We swept you like a rug.”
AU is still in the hunt for Omaha, you raging retarded inbred moron.
“Your just lil Auburn to us”
It’s “you’re” you moron.
AU owns UT in every sport. EVERY SPORT.
“We swept you like a rug.”
Might want to go back and check your facts.
Tennessee didn’t sweep Auburn.
You are lucky the YN coaches don’t think like you. You are an idiot.
Auburn does not own Tennessee in every sport. We beat them in basketball. We beat them in football a few years ago. Oh and by the way, we also beat you in baseball.
TN won the only thing that matter most in baseball. That is to be the best team for the entire season. If you anti-TN trolls had common sense you’d see what one win in Omaha every couple of decades gets you compared to being the best team in college baseball. NOTHING, but bragging rights about the tournament. All those teams coaches wish they were the best team in baseball all season because that is how you get blue chip recruits. That is what inflences players. Any great team can lose for various reasons on any day. It’s how long and how good your steak is that counts. Embarrassing yourselves and only confirming why AR and Alabama fans are clowned on..lol. What did winning in Omaha last year get MSU this year? Nothing. Any coach that wins in Omaha will tell you that it’s more important for them to be the best all season, than it is to win in Omaha. TN still the best team and will only get better. FACT!
“TN won the only thing that matter most in baseball.”
Where’s the trophy?
Hmm Where’s the Trophy? How about Maui Ahuna? How about the best hitter in Alabama? And more blue chips. That is how you get better is by being consistently good. TN ends the season with less than 10 losses and no one in the sports media thinks there was a better team. Because there wasn’t. But you go ahead and play for just a trophy and we’ll wish you all luck but every head coach wishes they were better consistently. A trophy will sit in remembrance but that trophy will never say, “Best team in baseball”. Nor will it garner or guarantee elite recruiting. The key is to be consistently good or elite. A trophy season in baseball stop giving at the end of that championship game. But a number one ranking or top 5 is the gift that keeps you consistently good by way of recruits and player development. But you go girl for your King of Omaha trophy..lol
You are a sad little lady.
“Where’s the trophy?”
In the ladies room with the Top Gun Runner Up trophy lol
“. That is to be the best team for the entire season.”
The San Fran Giants had the best record in the NL in 2021.
The Atlanta Braves have the WS trophy in their stadium.
You are a very i diotic sports fan.
The best team is the best consistent recoed mor ron..LOL That is fact, stats and baseball. Football, not enough games are played. But baseball, there is more than enough. Why are you comparing baseball to football re tard? lol
“The best team is the best consistent recoed mor ron”
Check back when the final record is revealed, ma’am. UT won’t be at number one.
The Braves were sub .500 until after the All Star break and had the worst record of any of the playoff teams.
Wonder if any of those teams would have traded with them lol.
Recruits watch the finals too.
Guess who they won’t see.
“TN still the best team and will only get better. FACT!”
The team with the CWS trophy will laugh at you, loser.
RonMexico1 So you think the best team in baseball is based only on who wins in Omaha? LOL Do you believe the MSU was the best team in baseball last year? LOL Four million s perm and you were the fastest?? LOL
“So you think the best team in baseball is based only on who wins in Omaha? ‘
Me? Yes. Everyone else? Yes.
Yeah GWhite…that’s kind of the whole point.
Using your logic, why even play the season. Just look at the preseason poll and crown a champ.
Baseball isnt football…it is a marathon, not a sprint. The Vols are one of those runners that leads for 23 miles only to cr@p their pants and not finish. Nobody remembers them.
gwhite we all admire your dedication but man you are just wrong. You can take all the moral victories you want but if you aren’t still playing this time of the year you are not the best team in baseball. At best you are #9.
Enjoy the great season TN had but the best team in baseball is the one that hoists the trophy
“we all admire your dedication but man you are just wrong. ‘
I like his dedication to being an idiot.
poptiger so do you honestly believe the best team is the last team to lose in a tournament? Than you must believe that MSU was the best team in baseball last year??LOL Ignoring game stats, team stats and records? Wow dude, you can’t be that d umb. Being number one all season and owning the record books and win that many games isn’t a moral victory, its a sign of dominance. I dare you to ask someone older than 5 if MSU was the best team in baseball last year. LOL Ask any sports announcer. It takes luck and some skill to win it all in Omaha but it takes elite skill to win nearly 60 games and own all the records.. Everyone will tell you that.
The best team is arbitrary. Being the champion is not. UGA football fired Mark Richt for doing what you are pretending is the most important thing. His teams were always good, but never the champ.
I honestly think gwhite is pulling a ruse here. No way he can even believe what he is saying. You would have to spend years working at it to be that dumb.
But TN has a great offense in football. That matters way more than winning anything. Right. Gwhite?
Don’t worry you’ll be mentioned along with Arkansas and other schools as a stat for a #1 team being left out of the college World Series.
Regular season SEC champions, congrats man, nobody will remember it like you will. Remember Arkansas fell to the same fate last year… did you remember that or nah?
Don’t ever give up on the pigs, they’re still in it.. Vols can take their cocky a””s home!!!
That’s funny… Fu*k Tennessee baseball..Fu*k the cocky ass coach that is lucky he even got to lick Dave horns boots and Fu*k the cocky ass players that just got to go home… If they didn’t get ejected first
Ummm no. Hogs were the “best team all season” last year. Even did what “mighty” Tennessee could not do and that is win every single SEC series.
All that meant nothing when we lost in the supers to NC State.
UT had a great year that ended in failure.
UGA was the best team in college football this year. They proved it by winning the national championship.
A super regional is not a one and done, where anybody can’t beat anybody on any given day. It’s a best of three series and the best team wins. Notre Dame was better.
See you next year.
Bro…stop it. 20+ times later, it still reeks of nonsense. Take the L…
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of folks.
The only thing that could make this better is if the remaining 3 SEC teams sweep their super regionals just like A&M. That would just be the perfect gut punch to end the day for vol fans.
Especially since UT fans were saying they wanted to play AU because AU sucked.
RonMexico1 I don’t think Auburn sucks, just against TN..lol Cause we are far better than Auburn and everyone with an IQ over 70 will tell you that..lol We had a harder time with the Campbell Camels than we did Auburn..lol Here’s the run, every sports announcer can tell you why TN is better than Auburn. Did you think that because you last longer in a given tournament your a better team? LOL You did! C L o W N.lol
You should stop. Ron owns you here.
“You should stop. Ron owns you here.’
^^^HE AIN’T WRONG^^^^^
“Cause we are far better than Auburn ‘
Not anymore they’re not.
You just keep clinging to those moral victories you’re claiming. Still doesn’t change the fact that Auburn is still alive while Tennessee isn’t, just saying….
Don’t mind gWhite…he picked Michigan to blow out Georgia in the Orange Bowl
Just need Auburn to sweep now and the cycle will be complete, Vols tears will be sweeter than ever if the 4 West teams sweep while the East falls flat.
We want to win a bunch of games this year, but lose out before the CWS. Said no team ever.
I really want to pull for all SEC teams, but dang…UT made it easy to cheer against them. Great season for tbe Vols…but not sorry to see it end early. Hoping someone in the SEC can win it all.
I can’t remember a more insufferable, unsportsmanlike team in my 15+ years of watching college baseball. Only time I’ve ever rooted against an SEC team, and for ND no less.
Fifteen years of watching??! Your a c h i l d. LOL OH your going back so far to root against an SEC team lol. You could twenty and that be true. Much to learn you still have. The best team in baseball owns the most stats. Period. That’s the most important thing with recruits, as well as staff. Fifteen years means your still in diapers from a fan perspective. But I do hope you all win, no matter how many games in a row you lost to us.
gwhite is a sad sack of c rap.
Watched plenty as a kid, but don’t really count those years as I didn’t follow intently.
The best team wins the championship, DA. UT clearly isn’t the best team, as they are no longer playing.
I understand the classlessness (it’s to be expected), but you are deluded into oblivion. My goodness.
So kick back, relax, and wait 365 more just to see UT choke again.
So I guess the Dodgers were the best team last year. The Braves winning the World Series meant nothing. Got it. Idiot.
Recruits watch the finals GWhite and want to win championships. This is of course a problem at Tennessee.
And what good are those recruits if you don’t win championships?
Hope so as well but not happy TN goes home, their players and coach are deserving of the Irish kicking their ass
So.. Not not
F Tennessee… Especially their coach
Tennessee teams just have trouble in the postseason for some reason. Who can figure?
I would amend that to say “trouble in the postseason and with Kentucky “. You guys took 2 of 3 from the Vols, right?
Gwhite is all drunk on his orange koolaid… spewing all sorts of nonsense.
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a serious sports fan talk such nonsense. How is winning a title not what it’s all about?
GWhite is a sad sack of $ hit.
He who owns the number one rankings all season, has the most stats, best record is the best team. A few games in Omaha does not change that. So you can pretend like 10 year olds that a few games in Omaha vs and entire season of dominance makes you the best team. But no one with a intelligence and coaching believes that.. lol I admit the troll attempt but trolling never beats established facts.
“He who owns the number one rankings all season”
He?
He identifies as a champion.
The great teams own the season AND bring home the hardware.
What you describe is a team that chokes chump
Gwhite will rationalize any UT failure. We saw it in football and basketball, now baseball. There’s the glass-half-full guy, and then there’s gwhite – constantly attempting to transmute Ls into Ws in the most twisted pretzel logic manner possible. It’s an exhausting exercise in futility.
Karma is alive and well. Behaving like arrogant jerks goeth before the fall. Normally, I would’ve been cheering for all the SEC teams to do well, but not this UT bunch! Maybe in the offseason they can learn some humility and how to keep those middle fingers holstered.
UTK is not the best team, there not even the 8th best team, but they are the best team that never made it to the World Series, I’ll give you that. They also bought a pretty good picture for next year, maybe a repeat of some kind.
UT’s ’22 baseball team was like the UM football teams from the 90’s. They won a lot and talked a lot (the homer coat, the bat flips, over the top eyeblack, etc). People didn’t like that, so UT baseball had a lot of haters this year. Apparently Ron Mexico was the haters fan club president.
And no one remembers them.
Yeah that’s karma I guess. Ronnie is a little over the top though, as if UT baseball or their fans had personally wronged him. And then gwhite is in denial. Not a pretty sight
OH no, a gator just compared baseball to football..LOL No two sports can be compared to baseball. There is no clock, so you can’t use that as an excuse. Only innings. Come on gater, be smarter than the tater Ron..lol No one gets recruits based solely on how they did in Omaha over how they did in the regular season, their ranking and their record stats. Please tell me you know this.
You are desperate man. Just stop.
No one gets recruits based on early exits from tournaments either
But honestly at UT, baseball is like football…full of disappointment lol.
Anyone who thinks “being the best all season” is better than winning it all was never a Braves fan in the ‘90s. It sucks, and you can’t rationalize it away. Being the best is ABOUT winning the title. Best of luck to Auburn, Ole Miss and the Hawgs. SEC still in great shape.
I think only gwhite believes that
Sorta my point ;-)
If you were to ask any coach going to Omaha, if they could end the season with TN’s seasonal ranking this season and with all the skill players and record they have they would all say, “I forfeit if I could have TN’s roster next year”. Not a one would sacrifice that for one final win in Omaha.lol Because there will be a next year and wins equal job security and contract extensions. None of those things are guaranteed if you win in Omaha. But they are if your Vitello.
Not one of them would say that.
That’s some real Mulleny kinda thinking.
Yeah literally no coach would say that.
How are you winning it all???LOL Are you replaying over 50 games again in Omaha???LOL Even Vegas knows that Omaha is based on luck and some skill. Basically also who you avoid playing and how weak or strong a bracket is and guess what? Its not 50 games..lol No one believes what you all think. If they did, than the Omaha winner would always REPEAT!!! LOL Because they would get all the recruits.. lol Come on Mountain. Be smarter than Ronald..lol
It’s you that is the rock head here. Why get all the good recruits and not think it’s important to win? What’s the point of the recruits?
The trophy. The trophy in the trophy case. That’s how you know you’re “winning it all.” It’s not that hard. Again, ask Braves fans from the 90s how satisfying a mostly-empty trophy case is when you have the acknowledged best team year in and year out.
Don’t recall seeing any “Braves Almost Won A Championship!” shirts.
So what’s the goal for TN baseball then? Just to have great players and a great regular season and never win the NC? If that is the goal,congrats, TN is the best at something…underachieving.
Baseball is a Marathon. You led for 23 miles. Then you cr@ped your pants and lost.
a really disappointing loss but itwas a great season and look forward to seeing where this program goes. Congrats to ND. A well deserved win.
lots of insults, maybe more than I have seen on here before. Some negative comments are expected but SDS always brings out the worst in posters. Enjoy.
Good luck to all the other sec teams.
I hate to say it ,but it is so true. It’s not always the best team to win in sports.it is the team that is usually the hottest in the postseason. Not Saying ND will win it all but they are playing well to knock off the two previous teams they have played. UT had a great season and next year can’t get here fast enough for the fan’s player’s and coaches.
They are called upsets for a reason. They know the better team loses sometimes. But upsets never re-programmed a team in one year, nor two. That’s true Dawgtime because facts and stats back that up. In the end, lets say the team with the lowest stats in Omaha won it all, would everyone really say that was the best team fielded that season? No. But teams can get hot, but they only got to be hot for a few games vs an entire 50 plus game season. A well coached team that is middle of the road can win any tournament if the better teams aren’t there, or knocked out. By better I mean the best overall stats. TN had a few goals this season. Win the most games, Win the SEC, and Omaha would be a nice consolation prize. It wasn’t the prize but a goal sure. WE got records in most categories, 4th best all time home run hitting team. Broke schools records all season and still the most important. Get wins for recruiting. If we had Auburn’s season, and were swept by some teams, we wouldn’t have the recruiting, nor the stadium expansion, fan growth and media exposure. WE did 99% of what we could have hope to do.
Fuzzy, how about you. Would you trade TN’s record season and all the blue chips, money, fan growth for being a middle of the road to decent team, not elite but decent for one win in Omaha? With no comparison to what TN has or whats coming? I would not. If I believe as the others do that MSU was the best team in baseball last year only cause they were the last team to not to lose in Omaha.
One win in Omaha is not the point. The point is to make it to Omaha and keep winning there
Ask fans of whatever team wins it all if they would trade places with Tennessee. Go ahead.
Except Auburn.
I thought LSU was better than Auburn. But when your a recruit, your looking at how consistent a team is at winning. Otherwise the Omaha winner every year would be king of the recruiting season. It never works out that way. Otherwise, MSU would be in Omaha this year. I am humble about my Vols and when teams out coach us and ND’s coach out coached Vitello by pulling the pitchers, “BEFORE” an issue arose. Vitello is young and their coach got it right over Vitello 2 out of 3 games. ND is a good team, nearly 40 wins coming in and only 14 losses. TN is deeper and more talented at every level but one. Coaching experience. The TN players are confident and that looks like cockiness to the unconfident.
“I thought LSU was better than Auburn. ”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHH
You forgot to blame the umpires GWhite
“Except Auburn.”
Good luck to LSU…oh wait.
So are you guys going to hire Gus back after last season? LOL Are you all still angling to get rid of Harspin? I advise against this by the way. Every time you do that your going to cheapen the HC’ing job at Auburn. You think there is just a bigger name dying to come and coach there. I wanted to get your thoughts on this also. What say you?
“lots of insults, maybe more than I have seen on here before.”
Furry, aren’t you the one that was mocking AU on another article?
Yes, yes you were.
Mocking an article isn’t bashing a team, or name calling or, “RON XPLAINING” LOL
what a loser
You must be the dumbest son of a b!+ch alive GWhite
GWhite you wouldn’t know class if someone put it in a mustard bottle and hit you in the head with it
Not a Vols fan by far but not hear to troll . Tennessee had an amazing year as they won over 50 games as well as both the sec regular season and tourney champs . I can look past the Tennessee team arrogance and antics and appreciate how good this team is . While they will not Have a natty much less a cws experience calling this team a failure is by far the most idiotic thing possible . Congrats to the Vols on a great season and all the wishes to Texas a and m or another sec team to win it all at the college World Series
class ^
Nice post gator. These young men are confident, not cocky though. They have never called anyone they beat losers, bad teams, or anything else. This is what college baseball is supposed to be. Having fun and being confident when you are winning. Much like the gator football players. Fans will do all the bashing on both sides and the name calling. But the players are coached well evidence by what they’ve accomplished. This also means when your coached well, your coached humility. Being humble in a win or loss. The 1918 NY baseball team was cocky..lol Tye Cobb was cocky..lol
“hese young men are confident, not cocky though”
Now that’s a lie.
Prove it. Show me where anyone of them did that? You can’t. Son, you talkin out ya other mouth..lol
I guess flipping off the opposing team is just “confident”. SMH
Ok now everybody pile on the Vols. Kick em while they’re down. They were the best in the SEC. I guess its just jealousy driving the comments here.
SDS: Schadenfreude Down South
more class ^
Very classy post Dawg. Bulldawgs and Vol players bow their heads in thanks when in defeat or win while playing their sports. The players themselves make it all worth watching and true humble fans.
” true humble fans.’
Which does not describe you.
LOL Are we not friends anymore Ron. If you weren’t my friend, I really don’t think I could bare it..LOL
Naa. I can grit my teeth and root for the Gators from time to time but the Vols could be playing the all Taliban team and I’d wear a burqa to the game.
Me and some buddies wore red to a Russia Natl Team vs GaTech basketball game in the 80s. Cheered for Russia the whole game
“Ok now everybody pile on the Vols. Kick em while they’re down.”
Absolutely. Their fans were awful and deserve the ridicule.
Nah…UT brought this on themselves. It all starts with the coach. The disrespect to other teams, fans, and umps…all leads to this. If you don’t win it all, get ready for the barage.
Of the ten SEC legacy programs, only two have failed to win a natty in one of the big three sports during the 21st century. Ole Miss is one. Tennessee is the other. And the Rebs are still very much alive for a baseball title this year.
well ok
fun fact for you i guess. you guys win your first football natty since the horse and buggy and get all high and mighty. tHEN YOU CALL VOL FNS COCKY. WHATEVER mtn. enjoy reveling in that.
I guess it’s true that feelings trump facts with some.
When you proudly and loudly bill yourself as an “everything” or “all-sports” school, a single trophy somewhere might help legitimize that claim. It is what it is. Sorry if it offends you. No safe spaces on SDS, though.
Who ever proclaimed a trophy was everything. In college baseball it does not mean your the best. It means you got a good backet, were a good team and were the last team that avoiding losing the last game. NO coach going to Omaha would trade one Omaha conference trophy to have what TN has and all the perks that came with being number one all season. No coach. A troll would think so because they only thing one dimensionally. Sorry if that offends you but stats get recruits, not one particular trophy. Otherwise blue chips would be pounding down MSU’s door and well, they never came this season. Every sport is different. In football you have to play the elite teams sooner or later and you have far fewer games to do it in. Plus, there is a time limit or clock. Never go with feelings over facts because that isn’t baseball, football.. That is emo woke ism..lol
what mountian? you cant be an all sports school if you dont have a championship trophy in the last 25 years and sec championships dont count.
is that really what you meant to say.
No Fuzzy, I said exactly what I meant to say. A generation of boys has come and gone without seeing UT win anything of serious note in men’s college sports. The next generation doesn’t equate UT with championships any more than they do Vandy. Oh wait – Vandy has several WS titles . . .
“Who ever proclaimed a trophy was everything.” (sic)
Proof positive that argument is pointless with gwhite.
TN has won more national titles in all sports combined than most SEC teams and national teams. But MSU won their first and only national Omaha conference title last year.. But knowing they weren’t the best team in college baseball that year. Football is different. Because you HAVE to play the best teams, or conference winners, playoff teams.. Comparing that to baseball is just funny.. And there can be a small difference between a conference best team and the runner up in baseball, compared to the drop off in college football.
Actually, Tennessee is kind of mid pack in the SEC. Heres the breakdown, feel free to fact check.
1. Arkansas — 43
2. LSU — 42
3. Georgia — 41
4. Florida — 33
5. Alabama — 25
6. Tennessee — 23
t7. Texas A&M — 19
9. Kentucky — 10
10. South Carolina — 5
t11. Ole Miss — 3
t11. Missouri — 2
13. Vanderbilt — 2
14. Mississippi State — 1
UGA had more CWS championships in 1990 than Tennessee in their history.
They also have a final 4, unlike you.
They have a championship this century.
You have a lot of stats (just not in any postseasons lol).
Bro…stop it. 20+ times later, it still reeks of nonsense. Take the L…
Forty one years. But UGA I’m sure has won other national titles. We had a long jumper that won a national title the other day in the long jump. Wayne Pinnock on his 3rd attempt. I root for all SEC teams in the post season after my Vols.
I don’t. I used to but not any more. At least not all SEC teams.
Wishing the Rebs, Hawgs and Tigers the best of luck.
Yeah…baseball comes to mind
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Vol’s are yet again Winner’s in Life!
Those hillbilly bums and jerks got exactly what they deserved. Go back to making excuses why TU fans throw stuff on the field (in 2 sports!) The baseball team was classless like their fans. Be happy with almost but not really being good.
And FYI, nobody on this site cares or who will ever look up to who won a long jump title in 2022 let alone any other year unless its a jeopardy question for them to win money. #winnersinlife.
You are a joke Gwhite and always will be.
I root for ones that don’t rub their opponents noses in it every minute of every game.
Karma is a b.
Heck yeah brother. I’ll throw a bottle of mustard to that.
Is Rontaquito actually Negan pretending to be an AU fan? Please give it a rest, you are more grating than listening to Pelosi speak.
Ok, Bernie Sanders.
We played like hot garbage this year but we can say we have a CWS championship.
Ditto.
Better luck in the bush leagues! Hahahaha.
Rocky Flop strikes again.
ND, 2nd place in the A-She-She, was only 12-10 in true road games this season, but won 2 of 3 in Knoxville.
ouch
Most UT fans are like gwhite and not bothered much by the loss yesterday. They know inside they never cared about college baseball before the past two seasons. That is not much of an investment.
Still, I have never seen a team that has accomplished exactly squat, act as if they were the Yankee dynasty. Got just what they deserved.
SEC regular season champs- tremendous accomplishment.
SEC tourney champs- tremendous accomplishment.
#1 practically the entire year- tremendous accomplishment.
#1 seed in NCAA tourney- tremendous accomplishment.
Eliminated in Super Regionals- heartbreaking.
Funny thing is, you guys didnt think those same tremendous accomplishments were so tremendous last year when the Razorbacks checked those same boxes.
Now you know how it feels UT. Sucks right? So enjoy the regular season titles because they were well earned… just remember that applies to every SEC champ every year.
Wondering why Vitello was not criticized harshly for wasting his 105 mph relief pitcher in a blowout Friday night, so he was not available Sunday? Oh well, guess we can shelf that one.
UT Vols Super Regional runner Ups. Those bright orange T-shirts are selling in Nashville if anyone wants one.
Boonie, you are hilarious. If i can get one online i’ll take it.