Look: Josh Heupel congratulates Tennessee baseball on making College World Series

Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel congratulates the Tennessee baseball program on making it to the College World Series.

While he has yet to coach a game for the football team, head coach Josh Heupel is getting into the good graces with the Volunteers fanbase, congratulating the Tennessee baseball team on reaching the College World Series.

Tennessee demolished the LSU Tigers 15-6 to make it to Omaha for the first time since 2005. While Tennessee has had success on the diamond before with future MLB superstars like Todd Helton but we typically think of the football team and the basketball teams before the accomplishments of Tennessee baseball. But the job Tony Vitello has done leading this Vols squad has been worthy of much praise and attention.

Josh Heupel celebrates Tennessee baseball punching its ticket to Omaha

This will be the fifth time in school history that Tennessee has made it to the College World Series. Besides 2005 and this year, Tennessee has sent three other teams to Omaha before in 1951, 1995 and 2001. Tennessee is of the six teams to punch its ticket in thus far, joining Arizona, North Carolina State, Stanford, Texas and Vanderbilt. There are two more spots left to be had between the winners of Mississippi State-Notre Dame and Virginia-Dallas Baptist.

While it is great for Heupel to celebrate the baseball program’s incredible accomplishment, it makes all the sense in the world for him to curry favor with the Tennessee fanbase ahead of what should be a challenging year for the football program.

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