Everything posted by SL Xpress
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I like Stanford. I think they have some handicaps in the NIL transfer portal era.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Part of Texas' struggles in this match is the opponent they're playing is a final four worthy squad.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I see no movement on this one.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I got to say, this team is so much easier to watch than last year's team, regardless of the result tonight.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Meske seems super charismatic. I think he's the most charismatic volleyball coach I've ever seen on television. I don't know how that translates into building a program, but he seems like he'd be a lot of fun to play for.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Louisville is not nearly as big as Texas overall. They have the 6'6 middle blocker, who is amazing. They have Sherman, who is 6'3. Then they have the two 6'5 opposites. But their outside hitters, Petersen and Chicoine, are 6' and 5'10.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I feel like Elliott leans on the idea he wants the players to figure it out. I find myself calling for timeouts often with him, but what are you going to do? Then I watch Hambly at Stanford and think, "Well, at least Elliott isn't THAT bad."
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I'm unconvinced there's a sport where a timeout seems to make a bigger difference than volleyball. It may not be true, but it feels like it.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Chicoine was terrific for Purdue last year. It's a little crazy to me both her and Hudson transferred. That Cresse chick, the middle blocker, is deadly on the slide. A little weird that Louisville has two players with sisters who played at Texas. Peyton Petersen, the sister of Sydney, and Nayelis Cabello, the sister of Naomi Cabello, who transferred to NC State.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
It looked obvious to me the index finger moved to the left as the ball passed by. They showed some terrible replays from the side, but when looking from the camera from behind the Louisville side head on, it just seemed blatantly obvious to me. But it looked like the finger moved in real time to me as well.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I thought it was a touch in real time, and it's definitely a touch on the replay. It's not hard to see, Holly. It's obvious. I also think Louisville is really good.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
This set sucks.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Announcers completely missing the fact Sydney Petersen played at Texas.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Who is the best back row defensive player we've ever had that was the main outside hitter? I honestly don't know. I just know Stafford is really impressive out there. Tied at 12 apiece.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
The Rainbow Connection!
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I enjoy watching Louiville on these extended points. Maybe not quite so much as I would if it was against a different opponent, but much respect regardless. It also helps we're up 11-4 right now. Hopefully we continue this.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Every time this season I see someone run a D-ball now I'm going to think of Js1.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Louisville's block and ability to win the extended rallies felt like the difference. Texas more impressive athletically, especially hitting the ball. I love our back row this year. Let's see what happens if we keep from getting in a deep hole early on.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
It's a bummer we don't have Singletary on this team, but such is life. No offense to Bunton. She's good, but this team would obviously be better if Singletary was still on the roster. I wonder if Harvey at some point surpasses Bunton. I doubt it happens this year. But I'm curious what happens next year.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Our production out of the right side attack with Cari Spears is better than I've seen it for years. No offense to Molly Phillips, who was amazing for us, but she was crafty and a surgeon, not a physical wunderkind. Last year's right side attack was incredibly disappointing. It's early in the season, so we'll so how it goes, but early returns are very impressive. Louisville looks great. I wish we could get those 5 points back when we started the set down 0-5. Louisville's block is outstanding.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I feel like Sam Gore has blackmail information on a higher up at ESPN, so they can't actually fire him. But they've parked him in volleyball coverage where he can do the least amount of damage. Unfortunately, as a volleyball fan, he does plenty of damage to me. He's so wooden. And he's not actually that knowledgeable, or even being interested in being knowledgeable, about the sport he covers.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Featuring Marina Crownover for the Tigers. Jhenna Gabriel on staff as an assistant to HC Dawn Sullivan. Sullivan has done a good job there her first two years.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
We can overlook them if we beat them. It will be in part because they weren't that good to begin with. How do we know if a team is actually good? We lose to them. It's perfectly good circular reasoning. Some of you just don't get it, because you don't get logic.
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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
Just realize basketball is way more transactional than football. Even now. And football is very transactional. All things being equal then how the program presents itself is very important, so I don't want to say it's meaningless, but programs come in with huge NIL offers out of the blue in basketball all the time. Practically every top player is potentially Felix Ojo. NIL endorsements have always been more lucrative in basketball than other sports. Think of the king of them all, Michael Jordan, who really shifted the whole endorsement deal into a higher plane. Texas has a couple of well heeled boosters who are friends to the basketball program almost exclusively, so Texas has some firepower. But they're not Phil Knight level wealthy, or even Cody Campbell wealthy. It will be interesting to see how Miller is able to navigate all of this. This isn't his first rodeo, but the rules of the game are different now. Before it used to be the shoe companies and AAU affiliations were the primary thing to navigate. We've seen a couple of championship teams in the NIL era that did it by keeping guys on campus for a while rather than fielding an NBA first round draft pick at every position the way Calipari used to. Not that Florida or Houston didn't have any NIL dollars invested in their teams. They had a lot. But it's as much about managing the roster as it is getting every player you're after.
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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: It's Miller Time
If Bo Ogden is a priority target and we can't land him, we need to fire the general manager. I'm only partly joking. The recruiting pitch should be, "Son, if you don't come to Texas they're going to fire me."