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re: Rank the 5 greatest coaches in SEC Baseball history
Posted on 2/20/18 at 12:18 pm to I-59 Tiger
Posted on 2/20/18 at 12:18 pm to I-59 Tiger
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what's interesting about Riley,Swayze and Schmittou was in addition to being outstanding head baseball coaches, they were also their football team's recruiting coordinators.
As I'm sure you know BGinTn,but others may not, Riley was Major Ogilvie's uncle.
I was being sarcastic.
I don't know anyone who would use the term "outstanding" to describe Hayden Riley as either a basketball coach or a baseball coach. Nor does anyone believe he occupied those positions for any reason other than a place for Coach Bryant to park him while he worked in the football program. He coached basketball until Alabama decided to finally get serious about basketball. Then, he was put in the head baseball position until Alabama decided to get serious about baseball. During much of Riley's tenure, Alabama didn't even have lights.
Look at the team leaders in various hitting categories in the seventies. Sure, Butch Hobson was a stud, but he was the only player the entire decade who even had double digit home runs. And yeah...he was from Tuscaloosa. After the seventies, the RBI leaders start to have more than double the RBIs.
Riley didn't really recruit that much, because it's not why he was there. He filled out his roster with Tuscaloosa High players, some of whom I had class with.
This post was edited on 2/20/18 at 12:34 pm
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Posted on 2/20/18 at 12:21 pm to PineGroveBully
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Well you clicked on the thread dubmass
Ironic post is ironic.
And
I'll click and post wherever the frick I want.
This post was edited on 2/20/18 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 2/20/18 at 12:23 pm to Godawgs4
Posted on 2/20/18 at 12:35 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Then you care
Posted on 2/20/18 at 1:16 pm to PineGroveBully
Perhaps I appreciate the OP's board prowess and clicked on his thread to see if he was up to any shenanigans
Posted on 2/20/18 at 4:07 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Hal Baird 5 times
Posted on 2/20/18 at 4:56 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Casey Stengel was pretty solid.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 6:25 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Jim wells, Cohen, Hal Baird. They managed to take multiple teams to college world series playing with only 12 scholarships and no help from a lottery
As much as people won't admit, Florida, LSU, south Carolina and arkies programs were horseshite before lotto schollies. Hell, I think we still lead all time head to head against everybody in overall records. I'd love to see what we could do if we played on even fields.
As much as people won't admit, Florida, LSU, south Carolina and arkies programs were horseshite before lotto schollies. Hell, I think we still lead all time head to head against everybody in overall records. I'd love to see what we could do if we played on even fields.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:14 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Rank the 5 greatest coaches in SEC Baseball history
Well, Skip's obviously gotta be one of them, built LSU into the baseball powerhouse they are today and led them to 11 CWS and 5 CWS titles
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:45 pm to ThePTExperience1969
don't follow baseball that much, but was life long friends with a guy whose father played on the '68 bama sec title team, and he always talked about polk and what he'd done for sec baseball ...
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:55 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Andy Cannizaro
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:57 pm to Reservoir dawg
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Polk had the best team in the country in '85, but didn't get the title.
Polk is notable for showing the other SEC teams how to do it. They actually went and did it, but he showed them how.....
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:10 pm to TouchdownTony
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As much as people won't admit, Florida, LSU, South Carolina and Arkies programs were horseshite before lotto schollies. Hell, I think we still lead all time head to head against everybody in overall records. I'd love to see what we could do if we played on even fields.
lol
You're 26-37 All-Time vs The Gamecocks btw.
So is your field below sea level or something? Ours is flat, shaped sorta like a diamond, with an outfield, and dugouts.
How is yours different?
Oh, also, SC was in Omaha quite a few times before we ever got the lottery ... had played for a couple of National Championships before we ever got the lottery ... but whatever false reality helps you sleep at night - have at it lady. Pull your skirt up and quit your pathetic bullshite crying ... it's not a good look quite honestly.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:20 pm to Reservoir dawg
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Polk had the best team in the country in '85, but didn't get the title.
Polk had maybe the most talent on a team in '85, but Miami, Texas, SC, Arkansas, Stanford and Okie State all probably had better teams.
Hell, didn't MSU almost drop their regional to Michigan that year?
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:29 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Rod Delmonico
His baseball camps in the summer were GOAT. No coincidence we have been the absolute worst program in the conference since they fired him
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:32 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Skip Bertman built SEC baseball. He's really the Bear Bryant of SEC baseball until a Saban comes along someday.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 10:19 pm to SummerOfGeorge
CPM gets a lot of hate but has very good result. Should be higher.
This post was edited on 2/20/18 at 10:20 pm
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:04 am to scrooster
Barry Larkin was on that Michigan team. They were very good. We beat them in the Regional in Starkvegas to go to the CWS.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:07 am to SummerOfGeorge
Skip bertman...
The rest.
The rest.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:26 am to TouchdownTony
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As much as people won't admit, Florida, LSU, south Carolina and arkies programs were horseshite before lotto schollies.
LSU went to 3 CWS in 4 years before lottery scholarships were a thing in LA. Sorry, but no they were not
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