Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello met with the media following the Vols’ 13-1 series-sweeping victory over Hofstra. Vitello shared his thoughts on Nate Snead’s start, Ryan Combs’ UT debut, managing the immense amount of talent on UT’s roster and more.
Watch Vitello’s entire post-game press conference below.
“I think there’s some guys that like to play,” Vitello said when asked what he learned about his team this weekend. “Hey, I’m a coach so I like practice day and scrimmage days but the bottom line is games aren’t scrimmages. And you have to come out to hunt and come out to compete. And you got a guy like (Austin) Breedlove there that finishes the game. He was better today than he’s been in any scrimmage since he’s been here. You’d like to coach the world’s greatest player, Kobe Bryant, the same guy every single day you’re ever around them.
“But scrimmages aren’t games. Regardless of temperate or wind or any other set of circumstances you come up with, you find out a lot about your guys on game day and I think we got some guys that like to compete and maybe there’s even more, I don’t know if it’s depth. We’ll find out by May if it’s depth but the bottom line is we’ve got some puzzles to solve. What’s the best combination of this guy in this spot or this guy in that spot.”
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