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...
difficult fill guy holes last replace steve trying
We're trying to fill the holes that we have from last year. It is going to be real difficult to replace a guy like Steve Pearce.
good guys hard played
My guys played hard but weren't good enough. We got out-hit and out-pitched.
added begin difference good hitter hitters strength
Let's make no mistake; he was a good hitter to begin with. But good hitters need to be strong, too. The added strength has made a lot of difference for his this year.
good gotten last played quite team
My team has really played about as well as it can play the last two weeks. First part of the year, we weren't quite as good ... we've gotten better with a young team.
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.
game great
It was another great game in a great rivalry. It's always a great game when we get together.
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Quinnipiac isn't in awe of South Carolina, and they are coming down here to win. The fact that we were able to answer whenever they got some runs was big.
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Probably the best case for him would be (out) six to eight weeks. If he does have to have surgery, then he'll be gone for the rest of the year and possibly next year.
bats couple early helped job past relax scoring today
Probably scoring early today helped us relax a little better offensively. We'll do a better job with the bats than we've done in the past couple of weekends.
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.
ahead good innings obviously outing sat three
(Cruse) was only going to go two or three innings at best, and obviously it wasn't a good outing for him, so we went ahead and sat him down.
against few gave good performance pitch played team
Cruse gave us the performance of his career. I'd like to get a few more hits, but we played about as good as we can and pitched about as good as we can pitch against a team of that caliber.
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Drew understands our situation. Most other guys would have been in my office by now. He has an argument for being in there every single day.