The Tennessee baseball coach was an assistant at Arkansas from 2014-17 before departing for a Volunteers job that seemed desolate to the untrained eye. But he saw the potential there, and it has been realized.
Vitello and Tennessee are among college baseball’s most divisive subjects. Hated or adored, they are hardly ignored.
Much has been made of the Vols’ potential delay tactics and their manner of play, but the results speak for themselves.
Tennessee enters the Fayetteville Super Regional as the reigning national champion and playing at a super regional for the fifth season in a row.