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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 10:24 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 10:32 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 11:38 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 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 12:51 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.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:38 pm to jumpstart
State kinda did that last year
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:41 pm to jumpstart
quote:Well, last year Arkansas won both SEC titles then got knocked out just like Tennessee. This year we got bounced early and are in Omaha.
...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 ?
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:41 pm to jumpstart
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bowing out of the SEC tournament early
I'd say it worked out pretty well for us last year. We've got enough SEC Tourney trophies. Only the peon programs brag about those.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:47 pm to jumpstart
They should make it single elimination imo
Gonna start fading teams that do well at the sect and riding those that have disappointing performances
Gonna start fading teams that do well at the sect and riding those that have disappointing performances
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:52 pm to jumpstart
Other than the obvious reason of money, I don’t really see the point of the SEC tournament for teams who have already secured a bid. It’s not really for a championship, the league is already decided it’s regular season champion by then. once I knew we were in the NCAA tournament I was not sad that we lost in Hoover at all.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:57 pm to jumpstart
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I wonder why someone hasn't figured that out lately.
Quite literally happened last year.
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