Tennessee’s season ended Tuesday at the College World Series.
Texas defeated the Vols, 8-4, at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska.
Following the game, fourth-year Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello met with media.
Vitello was asked if he has communicated with LSU regarding the Tigers’ vacant head coaching position and if he expects to return to Tennessee next season.
“No I’ve not, had zero,” Vitello said if he has communicated with LSU. “I just made an idiot out of myself at least for all the masculine folks watching, by getting teary-eyed about these kids. That’s where my focus has been. Like I said, the social life hasn’t been existent for quite some time well before our opening-day game. Part of that is I want to do as good of a job for the school that gave me a chance, and I want to do as good of a job for a group that we thought could go pretty far.
“The way the season evolved, like I said, the emotion’s certainly not fake, I don’t know if it’s embarrassing or not, but it’s coming from a place that’s my number one concern is these guys. I’ll go back to the room and anyone who knows me, it will be bad how much I critique myself and it hurts, so I’m certainly not going to waste energy before a game or any other game having regrets that my mind wasn’t right or we weren’t prepared the right way to go into whatever game it might be.”
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