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...
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The fact that he uses the whole field ... that's when you get excited about a young hitter. You always preach that. The fact that he does it helps others see the advantages. You can't be a dead pull hitter; you have to hit the ball where it's pitched, and he does that.
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I think this gives us a little validation. We think we have a pretty good team, but we're young. It helps us a little bit regardless of what happens tomorrow. I think our guys will feel like, hey, we're pretty good, too.
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I like it the other way; I like the stability. But there are a lot of teams that make changes. There are many very successful programs that don't always stick with their rotation.
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I'm not disappointed at all. Any time you don't win a game, you're not happy about it. We've won 11 games through the first half of the season, and that's pretty good in this league.
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It was a great weekend altogether for us. We did some good things, and some things went well for us. We hit balls that found holes early. We're certainly happy to be in the position we're in right now.
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It was a great weekend all around for us. We hit some balls that found some holes. Our guys responded and did a good job.
deals last
It was one of those deals it was going to come down to who had the last shot, maybe.
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I want them to do well now and I'm pulling for them so hard, I sometimes feel I'm putting too much pressure on them, which I'm not. I'm just trying to help them get through this.
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They did a nice job hitting in clutch situations and we weren't able to get some across when we had to.
above average
They are no average freshmen. They are above average talents.
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We just had everything going for us. We were catching some breaks. We were hitting the ball hard and doing a good job, but it seemed like everything was going our way. It was certainly a great day and a great weekend for us.
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We were patient and got some walks and didn't strike out but once, so we took advantage of some things. Today we got some extra outs and were able to score guys that got on base other ways than with hits. We hit balls hard, but again we didn't have a lot to show for it.
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We chartered a couple times in my career, but we go commercial most of the time when we fly, and we try to bus as much as we can. It's hard to move a baseball team commercially.
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We had to have a guy out there who had some big-game experience. We've got to get the right guys in the right situation.