Tony Vitello: Coaching, Control and Tennessee Culture

In episode 9 of Vol Club Confidential, an Aspyre media production, Tennessee’s Head Baseball Coach Tony Vitello joins our host Austin Price of VolQuest to unpack the season ahead. The former player, elite recruiter and experienced coach offers an inside perspective on molding the men he works with into the talented, MLB-bound athletes that they become. Tony explains how he anticipates players’ needs to determine whether or not to emphasize urgency, pressure or trust during the game. Coming to bat at a point when the Volunteers did not have many advantages on their side, he shares the key thing that he focused on and how he used them to bring the program up to where it is today. Tony draws fascinating comparisons between coaching baseball and coaching football in terms of control, resources and community. Find out why he felt more pressure coaching Tennessee than he had with any other team, what he considers to be the backbone of the team and the thing that makes the sport so special to him, in this episode.

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