Dave Serrano will be named new Tennessee Baseball coach
by Will Shelton on Jun 15, 2011 3:51 PM EDT
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According to multiple reports, first by Jimmy Hyams via Twitter, Tennessee will name Cal State-Fullerton's Dave Serrano as its new head baseball coach at a press conference tomorrow. Knoxville will be Serrano's third stop as a head coach after being at UC-Irvine from 2005-2007, then Fullerton the last four years. His teams have made the NCAA Tournament six years in a row, including a pair of Super Regionals and two trips of the College World Series, with Irvine in 2007 and with Fullerton in 2009.
Serrano was the pitching coach for the Vols under Rod Delmonico in 1995 and 1996, and was with the team when the Vols made the College World Series in '95 (where they were beaten twice by Fullerton). A California native, Serrano inherits a Knoxville program with nowhere to go but up. The Vols last made the College World Series in 2005, but failed to qualify for even the SEC Tournament all four years under Todd Raleigh's command. The facilities and the local talent make Tennessee an attractive destination, and postseason play of any kind would be an improvement.
As we've mentioned before, we can't really tell you much about the returning roster because truthfully, none of us have been paying attention to the baseball team in the last four years. But hopefully this is the hire that is going to change that very soon; it seems to be generating a significant amount of positive buzz among those wiser than we on all things college baseball, and completes an eighteen month turnover of the football, basketball, and baseball coaches on campus in Knoxville. Stability, here we come...we hope.
Welcome to the family, Coach Serrano. Free and clear.
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There goes our ability to hit curveballs.
(This is the second. It also won’t be the last.)
Formerly 'snail. You get used to it after a while.
Close the borders and hit the national pitching scene hard. Recruit Tennessee!
by GhostDance on Jun 15, 2011 5:16 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
So I'm noticing a lot of vitriol on VolNation (mostly from the infamous hatvol)
regarding Serrano’s lack of a degree from an accredited institution.
How do people here feel about that? Especially people with degrees from UT.
Personally, my view is that getting a degree while he’s here might help him better relate to the players, but it’s not unheard of for universities to hire a specialist in a particular field who does not meet the standard degree requirement. The examples that pop into my head are philosophers Saul Kripke and Derek Parfit. The former was teaching graduate courses at MIT while he was still a sophomore at Harvard. So personally, if he’s an expert in baseball, I’ve got no problem with him not having a bachelor’s degree.
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Go Bolts! Out West, go Preds! Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Jun 15, 2011 6:32 PM EDT reply actions
No problem
Old rule about being an example for your players. Coaches way back in time used to teach classes, as well.
As long as he gets rid of those hideous uniforms, I’m good.
by GhostDance on Jun 15, 2011 7:01 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
When accredited institutions start offering degrees in coaching baseball I'll care.
Apply to all sports. Simple as that.
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Whatever hatvol is saying
I probably feel the opposite
I actually agreed with him on how the university should handle the Pearl situation
he’s obviously smart, but he’s a very, very angry person, and it seems like once he gets an idea in his head, no amount of argument is going to change it. When I have to defend him, I feel bad for doing so, and when I argue against him, it’s extremely frustrating to not to have any of the good points addressed (since his MO is belittle the bad points, ignore the good ones). But even so, I think his opinions, once you get behind the bluster, are usually worth paying attention to, even if they aren’t always right.
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Go Bolts! Out West, go Preds! Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Jun 15, 2011 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I wouldn't classify hatvol as very, very angry
I’ve followed his posts for a while and agree with a lot of his conclusions if not always the method of his delivery and tend to find him quite humorous. He’s a very, very opinionated person who has a very, very low tolerance for sloppy thinking…he is a lawyer after all. If you can get by some of his caustic ways, he does challenge some accepted thinking.
He was on to Bruce before Bruce finally imploded and given his total disgust for the man, he did write a very complementary post recognizing the success and excitement that Bruce brought to Tennessee when it was evident that the end was coming.
Agreed Rx
I don’t think I’ve agreed with him on a single thing he has ever said. Too much built up hatred and nega-vol.
by VolfanatETSU on Jun 15, 2011 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions
for hatvol...
it’s all about the argument… I’d assume someone over there knows him personally otherwise I don’t see how he’s survived posting in the fashion he has. People get banned over arguing with him because he eventually baits them into stepping over whatever imaginary line there is with the mods there. Unfortunately for everyone else, the mods are either incapable of deciphering his equally inflammatory but better disguised attacks… or they just don’t care.
The guy can out-troll his own fellow fans more effectively than an entire board of Finebaum listening Bama fans.
that last sentence puts it very well
I think it’s that the mods there have a lot of respect for his opinions that they let him get away with being so inflammatory. He does usually have well-thought out opinions; the trick is getting him to actually explain them, because he’d much rather just call his opponents idiots, inbreds, simpletons. . .
Heel for school, Vol for life!
Go Bolts! Out West, go Preds! Southern hockey solidarity!
by Incipient_Senescence on Jun 16, 2011 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
given a lot of those posters
idiots, inbreds, simpletons may not be far off the mark.
This is a great hire
"Albert hits good pitches hard and bad pitches even harder. And when he gets in the batter's box, if you pray, then you start praying. And if you don't pray, you think about starting."--Brian Bannister
Trevor Rosenthal Update (as of 6/3/2011):
51 IP, 63 K, 22 BB/HBP, 21 ER, 2 HR, 2.41 FIP
by VolsnCards5 on Jun 15, 2011 7:11 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
First Wilcox (Broncos), now Serrano (Titans)...
Looks like someone in Knoxville wants me to be a UT fan. Anywho, good hire for UT. If he can recruit in the west, he can recruit in the SEC. Don’t expect a lot of TN recruits. If they are good, he will go after them. You don’t hear a lot of young talent coming from TN. (I got a couple of reasons for that). It will be interesting to see who he names as his assistants. Wonder if he will bring a west coast style of baseball to UT. I wonder how his philosophies will fit in. Serrano is a micro manager. He likes to call the pitches, check scouting reports, and pretty much know every little detail. So watch out for longer games.
I see the whole “he doesn’t have a degree” issue has come up. If a school had degree for baseball, he would have gotten it a long time ago. Baseball has been his life. If you had someone who has a TON of experience and no degree and someone with a degree and little experience, I would take the experience any day. I hate how society has just turned blindly to a degree. YAY, he has a paper saying he must know what he is doing, but the guy with experience who doesn’t have a piece of paper, must be stupid and not know anything. Sorry rant over.
I hope to be able to catch a few games in Knoxville (of course, I said that all last football season too). Good luck Vols. Hopefully you’ll be in the top part of the SEC soon and make a return to Omaha.
How many days ’til football?
I love the colors Orange and Blue. Go Broncos!!! Go Titans!!! BAD WORD Gators!!!
Of course they haven't been paying attention to baseball...
…they were totally consumed and enthralled with my tennis coverage. Like, obviously.
...just apologize for not thanking me.
Does anyone know who hired him?
Serious question. Is this a Cronan hire, or was Hamilton involved (before and after resignation)?
Also, not knowing much about the college baseball scene, I would have thought that Fullerton would be a better job than UT. Am I wrong? And if not, then why the move?
Cronan...
and apparently he likes the neighborhood and wants to raise his family here.
As far as the superior job thing, we’d probably kill CSUF in a bidding war… $100 mil+ AD vs. <10 mil… and while CSUF has been mega successful their attendance only exceeded ours by a hundred or so fans.
I don’t know how willing or able CSUF is to do facility upgrades, but god knows we can’t stop building them… that could make a difference too.
Thanks.
I’m impressed all around. Your knowledge of the baseball team, Cronan’s find, and Serrano’s decision to come back “home.”
by JohnCoctostan on Jun 17, 2011 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions
For sure he cannot be any worse than Raleigh was
"I don't want one of those guys who'll drive in two but let in three every game." Casey Stengel
by tnredneckyankeesfan on Jun 17, 2011 8:22 AM EDT reply actions
He could randomly shoot his own players in the kneecap with a .22
But other than that, probably not.
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