In my recent Tim Corbin baseball knowledge. Have I witnessed a team led by him absolutely cower and quit like I have seen this weekend. Very disheartening to see. Zero fight tbh. I’m sure others will have differing opinions.

Season isn’t lost by any means but this is not how I saw this team lead by one of the greatest coaches in NCAA baseball to respond to adversity. Especially to them.

That’s the number of scholarship players presently on the 2023-24 MBB roster. With 4 freshmen slated to come in (three 3 stahs and a no stah), we are slated to have 8 total scholarship players on the 23-24 roster, 4 of whom have never played at this level.

This is bad, fellas.

That can even possibly help alleviate the Lawrence loss?

Timing of this is super shitty tbh.

Wish Stack would get the Raptors job and just blow the whole dam thing up at this point.

2023 MBA safety commits to Vandy as PWO!

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My experience is just in football and baseball (and track which seems irrelevant here), but it seems like so many times we go from hot to cold in any sport there’s a chorus that the team and
coach quit — which 99% of the time seems like fans just throwing out whatever makes them feel better versus reality.

Take baseball. When you are in the batters box you are so absurdly locked in. It would, to me at least, be impossible to quit if you’ve already made it to this level. You certainly can be in your own head — that happens at times for nearly everyone. But you aren’t just giving up and letting hittable pitches just fly by you because you are unmotivated. That entire concept, and you can extend it to every aspect of the game, is just so absurd to me. I’m football you almost couldn’t for your own well-being. You’d be blasted okay after play and if anything that alone would be motivation to suck it up. More likely the freak lined up across from you in the SEC just has physics much more on their side.

Sure Corbin is bummed. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t care. In fact, it means the exact opposite. He cares a ton, much more than anyone on this board.

Highs and lows are the nature of anything competitive. If we win 7 in a row we won’t have magically started trying harder. We are still trying hard right now. My 2 cents at least

I am not suggesting that one needs to be called. What I am curious about, however, is if we get to the point where one would be necessary, who on this team would call it? Who on this team would say we need a players only meeting and the team would respond? I do not know the team as well as many of you, so I don't who that might be.

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Get 'em in...

Rumors of a “mass exodus“ are floating around. I haven’t understood it since I first read it. Can someone tell me where exactly it is coming from?

Last season was no surprise: with the incoming class, only Mann was likely to stay in the rotation, and he said he wasn’t happy being played out of position at center. The rest were looking into the barrel of the end of the bench.

That isn’t the case this year. Most of these kids don’t have super NIL opportunities elsewhere, and I assume the Vandy collectives are going to work to lock down Lawrence (and I guess Shelby, given that he is now an “ambassador,” whatever that means). Robbins will almost certainly be drafted, which makes at least one player to the NBA for every year Stack has coached. How many average teams can sell that? I don’t see a huge lure to go home, either. I guess Lewis could go back to DC and play at Maryland or Mason or Smith could play at SMU, but all five freshmen have significant minutes opportunities next year. I assume Wright will leave for his grad year but who knows?

So, where is this coming from?

Will check the scoreboard occasionally, but won’t be watching. When everybody on the team just decides to mail it in, I’ll wait until they decide they show they want to compete before tuning back in.

We have some terrible fans. Just reading some embarrassingly bad takes on Corbin and our team.

You know who you are.

This team has holes and they had holes this whole season but if Diaz can field a routine grounder in the first or if Maldo buries his 9th inning slider on Friday night, we just as easily could have won 2/3.

Competitors move on and keep fighting. I’m glad some of our clown fans aren’t on this team.

It seems some would like the team to surrender. Well, my reply to that is: Surrender? NUTS !! Yes, the weekend was a total collapse, top to bottom. The VandyBoys have put a "Help Wanted" sign in the window. So I plan on being at the Hawk this weekend to help in any way I can to try to get this team back on track. Keep the faith and ANCHOR DOWN.

Can somebody help put together the stats for all of the incoming freshmen?

I'm thinking:

PPG
RPG
APG
StPG
3pt %
FT %

I know that these guys all competed against different levels but I love knowing what we're getting. To me, the two I'm probably most interested in are 3pt % and FT % (those may be the hardest to find). I'm not saying those two are the most predictive as things change with better coaching but if a kid is a 25% 3pt shooter and a 57% FT %, not good...

Joey won't be there so I'll cover from TV.

No lineups posted yet.

Been a pretty wild weekend

UT 2-0 over VU
USC sweeps UF (mostly felt non competitive, UF has some huge bullpen issues)
UGA sweeps Arky (injuries finally catching up to Hogs?)
A&M 2-0 over UK (took both in the double header yesterday)
LSU 2-0 over Ole Miss
Bama 2-0 over Mizzou
Auburn 1-1 vs Miss St

Could be an absurd number of sweeps this weekend. Arky, UF & depending on today VU all could have horrendous weekends. UK looking like they are coming back to earth now.

Duplicate thread.

Can’t wait for the season!!!

This is not really breaking news, but since there is a thread about not watching the game, I figured that I'd start one in support of the team.

You can do this.

This is the official game thread, Joey is there to cover.

We've been told that 2023 DE Emmanuel Okoye is on an official visit at Vanderbilt right now. The 6-foot-5 and 230-pound international prospect was originally a 2024 prospect, but he reclassified to the 2023 class. He's visited Tennessee already. He plans to visit Texas Tech on Wednesday. He plans to make a decision "in a few weeks".

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I wrote a story on him when he got his offer.


Freakishly athletic.

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24 years ago tomorrow he hit 2 grand slams in the same inning.

Here’s what’s baffling to me. Both were off the same pitcher: Chan Ho Park. Tatis’ 2be GS made it 11-2. Why the hell was Park still in the game? Giving up 7 runs in a single inning (before the 2nd GS) is usually grounds for being pulled. Wild that he was even given the opportunity to pitch to Tatis for the 2nd GS.

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