re: Tide Softball 44 -13 (16-8)

Alabama earns the No. 6 overall seed in @NCAASoftball Tournament.

2. Stanford (36-19)
3. Murray State (40-16-1)
4. Chattanooga (29-25)

Alabama will play Chattanooga, Friday at 3 p.m. CT.

Stanford vs. Murray State will follow.

Tennessee will beat us in the Supers. I’m calling it

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Have they released any info about what channel it'll be on?

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Haven’t seen TV details yet but am watching for them. Here’s the info so far from RollTide.com

Alabama Softball Earns No. 6 Seed, Qualifies for 23rd-Consecutive NCAA Tournament

The 2022 NCAA Softball Tournament bracket was revealed Sunday evening, with the Alabama Crimson Tide earning its 23rd-straight postseason bid coming in as the No. 6 overall seed where they will be joined by Stanford, Murray State and Chattanooga this weekend at Rhoads Stadium for the Tuscaloosa Regional.

NCAA Regional action at Rhoads Stadium begins Friday, May 20 at 3 p.m. CT on the SEC Network with Alabama (41-11) facing Chattanooga (29-25), followed by Stanford (36-19) and Murray State (40-16-1) at 5:30 p.m. CT. Tickets will available Monday morning at 9 a.m. CT through the Alabama Ticket Office (205.348.2262) and via www.RollTide.com/tickets.

The winner of the Tuscaloosa Regional will match up against the winner of the Knoxville Regional, featuring No. 11 Tennessee (39-16), Ohio State (35-15), Oregon State (33-19) and Campbell (37-17).

I still believe in them and I know that they can beat any team and also get beat by any team.

I would show them their film from the first half of the season just to show them that they are good enough to beat anyone.

I like our seeding and it's going to be a lot of fun watching them compete.

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so is he Married? Does he have rug rats?

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Why do you care?

From SECSports LINK:

12 of the 13 SEC teams made a regional. USCe was the only one (Vandy doesn’t play). The committee spread them out across the sites:

SITES/PAIRINGS (*Indicates Host Institution, SEC teams in bold):

Norman Regional - at Norman, Oklahoma
No. 1 seed Oklahoma* (49-2) vs. Prairie View A&M (20-28)
Texas A&M (29-26) vs. Minnesota (26-24-1)

Tempe Regional - at Tempe, Arizona
No. 8 seed Arizona State* (39-9) vs. Cal State Fullerton (36-20)
LSU (34-21) vs. San Diego State (37-14)

Los Angeles Regional - at Los Angeles, California
No. 5 seed UCLA* (43-8) vs. Grand Canyon (38-14)
Ole Miss (39-17) vs. Loyola Marymount University (36-15)

Durham Regional - at Durham, North Carolina
No. 12 seed Duke* (41-8) vs. UMBC (31-10)
Georgia (40-16) vs. Liberty (43-16)

Fayetteville Regional - at Fayetteville, Arkansas
No. 4 seed Arkansas* (44-9) vs. Princeton (27-15-2)
Oregon (31-17) vs. Wichita State (33-16)

Blacksburg Regional - at Blacksburg, Virginia
No. 3 seed Virginia Tech* (41-7) vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (37-16)
Kentucky (35-17) vs. Miami (OH) (39-15-1)

Gainesville Regional - at Gainesville, Florida
No. 14 seed Florida* (43-16) vs. Canisius (32-16)
Georgia Tech (37-16) vs. Wisconsin (28-19)

Knoxville Regional - at Knoxville, Tennessee
No. 11 seed Tennessee* (39-16) vs. Campbell (37-17)
Ohio State (35-15) vs. Oregon State (33-19)

Tuscaloosa Regional - at Tuscaloosa, Alabama
No. 6 seed Alabama* (41-11) vs. Chattanooga (29-25)
Stanford (36-19) vs. Murray State (40-16-1)

Clemson Regional - at Clemson, South Carolina
No. 10 seed Clemson* (39-15) vs. UNC Wilmington (32-13)
Auburn (39-15) vs. Louisiana (45-11)

Columbia Regional - at Columbia, Missouri
No. 15 seed Missouri* (36-20) vs. Missouri State (27-18)
Illinois (34-20) vs. Arizona (33-20)

Tallahassee Regional - at Tallahassee, Florida
No. 2 seed Florida St.* (52-5) vs. Howard (31-22)
Mississippi State (33-24) vs. South Florida (44-14)

Does anyone know what was up with the shirts the team was wearing in the announcement? Looked like some kind of random Twitter handle.

I'm not going to pretend to be a softball expert, but the expectations for this program by some here seem to be a bit unrealistic. I would challenge anyone to name a better program outside of Oklahoma than what Murphy has put together here over the past 20 years. And to be the #6 national seed and have a great shot to get back to OKC this year? And people think this is a terrible coaching job?

OK - I think this is it. A YouTube motivational video. (Note: NSFW)

Embrace The Hate

Found the transcribed version:

Hundreds of years ago when we were on the savanna fighting the saber-toothed tiger and the cheetah, if we left the herd, we would be killed and eaten. And now here it is, in whatever year this is, and we're still too frightened to think differently, we're still too frightened to speak with our own voice. We're still too frightened to chase our dream, we're still too frightened to live by our values, not by our mother's values or our neighbor's values, or society's values. I am tired of people not starting and living their life on one very simple thing, which is there worried about what other people think. whether that's their mom, their friends, and worst of all, f*cking comments in social media. I mean this is some 6th grade lunchroom sh*t. Are you really really really not gonna live your life based on somebody's anonymous f*cking icon feedback that you suck? It's enough. It doesn't matter what they think. When you're f*cking 92 and you're sitting there, you're not gonna give a sh*t about what punkman96 had to say, or even what your aunt had to say, who's miserable cause she never got hers, so she's trying to keep you down. So very simply, please take the passion that is pouring out of my f*cking face right now and run with it, and go do something. Because the only thing that's holding you back is you're worried about what other people have to say. Leave that sh*t in highschool, it's time to go. Life tests the big dreamers, the passionate revolutionaries, it's almost like a weeding out process, only the strong and the best get to live their heart song. You know what? If it was easy to get to world class and extraordinary, everyone would be doing it. Every dream starts off small, but you wanna start, and move it forward each and every day, and while everyone else laughs at you, and criticizes you, pay no heed to them, keep on moving your dream forward. Because there is something magical about sticking to your dream longer than anyone around you thinks you have a right to stick to that dream. Do the interior work required to get to a level where the negative opinions and the chattering voices of the cynics, do not knock you off your ambition. They do not knock you off your game. You have to be so strong in your own skin that when people dismiss your ideas or they don't understand it, or they laugh at you, you simply keep on going. So you gotta consider before you start anything, what is the commitment level? If you commit to something, you don't stop until you win. Wake up in the morning, you rise and you grind. You joined that health club? Don't quit. You started that business? Don't quit. Your mind has got to be steadfast, your minds gotta be locked in, no matter what. Because we are champions, and we never quit.

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I'm not going to pretend to be a softball expert, but the expectations for this program by some here seem to be a bit unrealistic. I would challenge anyone to name a better program outside of Oklahoma than what Murphy has put together here over the past 20 years. And to be the #6 national seed and have a great shot to get back to OKC this year? And people think this is a terrible coaching job?

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Because Murphy is the equivalent of Les Miles or Dabo Swinney: at one point in time, he was an elite coach, but instead of evolving with the game, changing your approach, and staying at the top, he is the definition of complacent, the top teams aka Oklahoma, UCLA have changed their approach and adopted to the evolution of the way the sport is played to remain ultra competitive i.e. they not only make it to OKC, they are usually playing in the last series. Murphy still wants to find one elite pitcher and ride her till her arm falls off or the other team starts figuring her out. To hell with slugging, impeccable defense, and more than one hoss on the mound who can beat you. He's followed the same gameplan since Team 1 and it has worked well enough to keep us around the top 10, but hardly ever a threat to win it all. The girls aren't COACHED when teams adapt to what's working and stop them, just like our hitting from early in the season. Montana has been throwing 1 pitch for 3 years and now it's not unhittable anymore. Why hasn't she been taught a changeup before this year?

Look, Murphy has done a great job building Alabama softball from nothing to a national power but he's gotten complacent and has lost his edge. He is a great recruiter, but his coaching leaves something to be desired. He just hangs out in the dugout like one of the gals and lets the girls play. Unless you're not one of his favorites like the girl that is now the SS for Florida or the girl playing at Arkansas. Those girls were more or less run off. It's time Byrne had a talk with Murphy and tell him it's time for some changes to his approach or we can change coaches. That's what some of us want. We've got the Bobby Cox of softball coaching our girls and as good as it's been, at times, it can be considered nothing less than underachieving.