Ray Tanner
Ray Tanner
Ray Tanneris the athletic director at the University of South Carolina, a position he took on July 13, 2012 after spending 16 successful seasons as head coach of the university's baseball program. His record since arriving at Carolina in 1997 is 738-316. He led USC to three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2002, 2003 and 2004, three consecutive College World Series appearances in 2010, 2011 and 2012, two College World Series Championships in 2010 and 2011, and coached the...
interfere rule says straight
Did he interfere with Widmann? No, but the rule says you have to go straight in and he didn't go straight in.
close struggling win
Do we want to win? Yeah, we want to win. I don't think we've been struggling ... but we've got to be able to win some close games.
honest
To be honest with you, it's very exciting. It's also very scary.
great players plays smart teams veteran
There's nothing better than a veteran team, that plays hard, that plays smart and has great leadership. But there's some teams where you have young players on and this is one of them.
alabama best both caught good guys hard pitching played playing time today
We caught Alabama at a time when they were playing their best baseball. Today it was simple, pitching and hitting. They did both better than we did. My guys played hard but they weren't good enough.
awareness few gotten reminded steps team
We've gotten better, but as I reminded the team there is just a few steps between the outhouse and the penthouse. You've got to play with heightened awareness all the time.
friday guy night
That was really impressive. I told him after the game, I don't know that he's a Friday night guy yet, but he just got closer.
best caught game playing team time
That's the way this game is. We caught this team at a time they were playing their best baseball.
game win
That's baseball. They did more things to win the game than we did.
optimistic plate
I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.
bats continue hopefully optimistic practice swung week
I was optimistic going in after the week of practice that we had. I thought we were more comfortable offensively. We swung the bats better, and hopefully things will continue in that direction.
allowed baseball bit chilly early game hoping late less mistake pitchers quality
I was hoping to use one or two less pitchers than we did today. It's unfortunate it was a little bit chilly because it was a quality baseball game for the fans. ... We made a mistake early that allowed a run, and they made one late that allowed one.
few good impressed learned positive quality surprised weekend win won
I was impressed with the quality of Elon and I wasn't surprised by that. This was a good weekend for us to get better, and I think we learned a few things about this club. We won the series, but couldn't win them all but I look at it as a positive weekend.
flourish game gets knowing likes name regardless short whether
I think he likes it. He likes to be out there when the game is on the line. He really does flourish in that situation, knowing that when his name gets called, it's important. Regardless of whether it's a short stint or we put him in in the fifth, he realizes that it is big.