These are not the best of times for Tennessee's baseball program. What's more, coach Rod Delmonico's teams have not won an SEC tournament game since Todd Helton played his last conference game 59 months ago on May 21, 1995. The Vols' disheartening 8-5 loss to Florida on Saturday night is yet another chapter in this season's team's uncanny inclination to lose close games. Tennessee went ahead 4-0, gave the lead away with three errors and then lost it in the ninth inning. Athletic director Doug Dickey is well aware of the state of the program.
Rod knows that.
I know that. Everybody knows that. We're trying to fix it. I don't think the program has gone so far downhill that it can't be corrected. We need to correct it.