Alabama baseball’s SEC Tournament came to an end with a loss to South Carolina, but Rob Vaughn had to address the team’s NCAA Tournament chances.
Vaughn is of the mind to take care of business yourself. Unfortunately for the Crimson Tide, they didn’t do that in a 10-5 loss in the SEC Tournament.
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But, that doesn’t mean Alabama doesn’t deserve to keep playing.
“Yeah, I mean, I’m probably against the advice of everybody else,” Vaughn said. “I don’t think there’s really much of a question. But for me, I’m a big believer in not leaving my fate in anybody else’s hands. That’s kind of how I’ve approached everything in my life. I don’t want my future, I don’t want my career, I don’t want anything dictated in the hands of somebody else. And by not getting it done today, you kind of leave it in somebody else’s hands.
“And, you know, I think when you sit back and you look at the body of work of what these young people have done, there’s no way you look up and say it’s not one of the top 64 teams deserving to continue to keep playing baseball.”
The strength of schedule in the SEC is certainly a good argument for Vaughn and the Crimson Tide to get a bid.
“This is my first time going through the SEC. The beauty of this league isn’t just good players, isn’t just good coaches, isn’t just good environments. It’s the meat grinder that is 10 straight weeks,” Vaughn said. “And you see other teams around the country that will go play SEC teams and they’re good. They’re very good team … What makes this league what it is, is the day in day out and like I said this in the interview yesterday, we played South Carolina, about I think week three week four something like that, and took two or three. That team’s a different team than they were then.”
That’s when the head coach doubled down on Alabama’s body of work i good enough for the NCAA Tournament.
“But I think when you look at the body of work, with the series wins, we have the quality wins, we have the lack of bad losses that we have,” Vaughn said. “I think it’s a no brainer that this is one of the top 64 teams in the country. Now again, there’s a lot of people that have a lot of different opinions on that. So we’ll see how it plays out. But there’s really not a doubt in my mind. These kids should get a chance to keep playing next week.”
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