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...
deals last
It was one of those deals it was going to come down to who had the last shot, maybe.
help pressure pulling putting trying
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.
handle themselves
They're blue-chip prospects. They have been everything I have thought they would be and more. Not only are they talented, but they handle themselves well for young players. ...They will make an impact.
atmosphere baseball college game good great together
They're a great college baseball program. When we get together it's always a good game and a good atmosphere and well attended.
across clutch hitting job nice situations
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.
days freshmen hits love talk year
You can talk about two out hits all year long. Being able to do that after not being able to do it the first two days was big. Two of the freshmen got the big hits so you love to see that.
alabama best good group people pitching quality seen
Alabama is really good. They have quality pitching and have good people in the bullpen. They may have the best group in the league. I haven't seen everyone yet.
alabama beginning best coach couple gotten guys hitting picked quality since starters
Alabama is really good. They have quality pitching, and have couple of guys in the bullpen, and their hitting has really, really picked up since the beginning of the year. Coach Wells and his guys have just gotten better and better since Day 1. They may have the best starters in the league.
good hard job sunday today win
You win the first two, you want to do a good job on Sunday and try to get the sweep. But it's hard to do, and we just weren't able to do it today because of Crawford.
begin effective except lefty nice
The lefty they had out there to begin with was very effective and did a nice job. We really didn't do much offensively except for the one inning.
baseball great hard playing teams tomorrow
I think it's great that we have two teams playing baseball tomorrow where it's hard to get a ticket. That's outstanding.
played
We played about as well as we could.
five guys left pleased
We probably could have left him out there for around five innings, but we just wanted to give the other guys a chance. I was pleased with the bullpen, certainly.