To the best of my knowledge, no. We’ve never let anybody go who went on to be successful elsewhere. There’s no regrets on the football or basketball size. We should’ve handled Finch better so he could’ve gotten the recognition he deserved but his health wouldn’t let him do the job any more.

So, anybody trying to paint us as ridiculous nationally, locally, or on this board should take into account that we’ve always made good decisions and the fan base has always been in general agreement with those decisions. we’re batting 1.000 unlike say UTK or Ole Miss or any other surrounding schools.

Edited to correct decimal place so as to not confuse those that something like that would confuse.

(03-13-2018 10:45 AM)jgardne Wrote:  To the best of my knowledge, no. We’ve never let anybody go who went on to be successful elsewhere. There’s no regrets on the football or basketball size. We should’ve handled Finch better so he could’ve gotten the recognition he deserved but his health wouldn’t let him do the job any more.

So, anybody trying to paint us as ridiculous nationally, locally, or on this board should take into account that we’ve always made good decisions and the fan base has always been in general agreement with those decisions. we’re batting .1000, unlike say UTK or Ole Miss or any other surrounding schools.

That is pretty cruddy

yea, I'm thinking the OP either doesn't know baseball of flubbed the decimal point.

Batting 1000 firing ... not nearly as good hiring ...

Try 1.000.

I think I could accidentally bat .100

No

How about if you get hit by the pitch...? That should count.

no question there.

Back to the OP. Generally we regret not firing them sooner.

This type of committed salary has never been in play in any other firings. Getting off the hook is why Pastner was allowed to leave.

We fire BB coaches like OM fires football coaches.

(03-13-2018 10:52 AM)fsquid Wrote:  yea, I'm thinking the OP either doesn't know baseball of flubbed the decimal point.

Batting a thousand is an expression. Lord have mercy the mathematical police have descended. I guess you’d prefer I express it 1.000?

How often do you see batting averages expressed to 4 decimal places?

Amazing the number of comments for the decimal place being one off.

(03-13-2018 11:23 AM)jgardne Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 10:52 AM)fsquid Wrote:  yea, I'm thinking the OP either doesn't know baseball of flubbed the decimal point.

Batting a thousand is an expression. Lord have mercy the mathematical police have descended. I guess you’d prefer I express it 1.000?

How often do you see batting averages expressed to 4 decimal places?

One is hitting every ball.

The other is hitting one out of ten.

(03-13-2018 11:25 AM)jamammy Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 11:23 AM)jgardne Wrote:  

(03-13-2018 10:52 AM)fsquid Wrote:  yea, I'm thinking the OP either doesn't know baseball of flubbed the decimal point.

Batting a thousand is an expression. Lord have mercy the mathematical police have descended. I guess you’d prefer I express it 1.000?

How often do you see batting averages expressed to 4 decimal places?

One is hitting every ball.

The other is hitting one out of ten.

I think the context makes it pretty clear it’s a minor typographical error.

touchy

What is our whip?

(03-13-2018 11:31 AM)SpiderMan79x Wrote:  What is our whip?

What is penny’s WAR?

Charlie Bailey?

Chuck Stobart?

(03-13-2018 11:38 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  Charlie Bailey?

Chuck Stobart?

I went to all those stobart games. I don’t miss him. Did he ever do anything else? Our record did get worse under Rip, no doubt.

But stobart had amazing amounts of talent he wasted on the offensive side of the ball by running 3 times and punting.

Charlie Bailey I don’t remember.

Will anyone feel bad sending Tubby home? After sending him home $9.75M richer, I don't. I lose sympathy at 6 figures (for doing nada).