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Ray Tanner was accused
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:06 am
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:06 am
...of bowing out of the SEC tournament early so he could rest his players for the regionals during his successful run. I am not sure it's true but it seems like a logical thing to do if you have already locked up home regional. I wonder why someone hasn't figured that out lately. Smart or do you play for the tournament title ?
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Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:07 am to jumpstart
Real competitors don't do that.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:08 am to jumpstart
If there’s pitcher or two that need to rest their arm definitely. Let him rest.
I mean, isn’t that part of baseball at every level.
Do what you need to do to win the war, not the battle.
I mean, isn’t that part of baseball at every level.
Do what you need to do to win the war, not the battle.
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 10:09 am
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:09 am to Neyland TheGreat
So... real competitors get their shite kicked in by the bottom seed?
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:11 am to Neyland TheGreat
He won two CWS titles doing that
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:24 am to jumpstart
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...of bowing out of the SEC tournament early so he could rest his players for the regionals during his successful run. I am not sure it's true but it seems like a logical thing to do if you have already locked up home regional. I wonder why someone hasn't figured that out lately. Smart or do you play for the tournament title ?
I did the math once, I can't remember what the total was, but we won like twice as many CWS games as we did SEC-T games under his tenure.
I don't know if there's any actual data to back up the strategy though.
Some our non SEC-T winning teams bowed out early in the NCAA-T, some won the whole damn thing.
The one year we did win the SEC-T, 2004, we made it to the CWS and went 3-2 overall - both our losses to eventual champ Cal State Fullerton. Plenty of SEC-T winning teams have also made deep runs.
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 10:25 am
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:24 am to Neyland TheGreat
quote:His teams played in 4 national title games....sooooooo smart competitors do
Real competitors don't do that.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:32 am to jumpstart
It's 100% true. He would have forfeited from Columbia if they would have allowed him. Only 1 tournament counts in College baseball and that's the Ncaa's. That's the reason Carolina holds the record of 22 wins in a row in the Real tournament.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:35 am to jumpstart
The answer varies by person:
Person A - You should beat teams by as many points as possible.
Person B - No need to go overboard, just do enough to get the "W" & take it easy on your players.
Person A - You should beat teams by as many points as possible.
Person B - No need to go overboard, just do enough to get the "W" & take it easy on your players.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:43 am to jumpstart
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it seems like a logical thing to do if you have already locked up home regional. I wonder why someone hasn't figured that out lately.
MS State did it last year. They got run ruled twice in Hoover and went home.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 11:08 am to jumpstart
The SEC tournament has just as much talent, if not more, than the CWS so if you're going to play the best shouldn't it be for all the marbles and not a conference tournament championship.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 11:33 am to theGarnetWay
Paul Mainieri used to love proving the converse: blow all of LSU's pitching winning the SEC-T, get a national seed, then lose at home before getting to Omaha.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 11:38 am to jumpstart
That little tournament at the rv park in an Alabama suburb is a waste of time and arms
Posted on 6/14/22 at 11:39 am to Neyland TheGreat
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Real competitors don't do that.
Do you actually have experience to know what real competitors do?
Posted on 6/14/22 at 11:48 am to Tigerfan56
Butch rested Auburn's players this year. Sonny D showed up for a minute hit his dinger and shut it down till regionals.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 12:06 pm to jumpstart
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Ray Tanner was accused
...of bowing out of the SEC tournament early
Well Tennessee football bows out of the SEC race early every season.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 12:22 pm to jumpstart
It’s been shown that what you do in Hoover has nothing to do with what is going to happen the next two weeks. It’s not a terrible strategy. I doubt Tanner intentionally lost but I also doubt it bothered him much.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 12:46 pm to theGarnetWay
I watched the no question absolute best team last year win every series and the sec tournament. Lost in the supers while the eventual national championship got run ruled in the sec tournament. Watched the best team do the same thing this year. Hoping for the same results as last year. (A team(hogs) go 0-2 in conference tourny just to win the whole thing!)
Posted on 6/14/22 at 12:51 pm to jumpstart
You should never go into a game expecting.....or hoping to lose. I can't see Tanner doing that. These are 20 year old kids. 8 hours of sleep is enough for 2 days at that age. They don't need a week to recover from the GRUELING game of baseball.
The SEC is tough. he probably just got beat straight up.
The SEC is tough. he probably just got beat straight up.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:10 pm to jumpstart
Sec tourney should be on the front of the season and rest should be the goal for the NCAA. Get healthy and give them arms time to healup for the coming grind.
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