March 11, 20232 yr 5-0 Frog sweep. LSU’s first match was 9a, some of their fans (& players’ moms) were felling rather well.
March 11, 20232 yr Oregon beat us 5-0 today as well. Still looking for our first point by the program...
March 11, 20232 yr Won our first 2 matches in program history against Nebraska! But lost the overall match 3-2 Edited March 11, 20232 yr by Js1
March 12, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, shadow_operative2.0 said: Lost 4-1 to Wash. At least Hawaii is probably fun. All expenses paid trip to Hawaii for spring break with no expectation of winning. Sweet deal
March 12, 20232 yr Quote b. A dual in which two teams, represented by five pairs, play each other is an event in its entirety. (1) Officially recognized as an NCAA Beach Volleyball match. (2) An event in which each pairs match result counts toward points to determine the result of the dual (a team win or a team loss). Had this discussion with a TCU regular the other day. It's officially dual with an 'a', but you'll see it misused all the time, including by our new kids at Texassports. Quote Texas Beach Volleyball came up just short of the program's first duel match win on Day 2 of the Heineken Queen's Cup at Queen's beach on Saturday.
March 13, 20232 yr Thanks for the updates. I'm planning to be at the matches later this week. Curious to see the team dynamic / morale considering this team is used to competing for and winning national championships and is now scraping to win games and may be uncompetitive in many matches this season. The coaches will need to manage the mental side / confidence. A few wks ago, Coach Sullivan said something about setting proper expectations with the team. I suspect he knew they'd struggle in many matches this first season and wanted to get in front of it and prep them for the learning/growth experience. Also, going forward the coaches will need to: 1) figure out, in coordination with the players, who's going to play indoor/outdoor only or both and 2) for those playing both ways, ensure beach techniques/tendencies/instincts that don't work indoor don't bleed over to that side and vice versa
March 13, 20232 yr Um, this is REAL bad. Quote 5. Hannah Yerex/Mary Sinclair (UW) def. Asjia O'Neal/Kenna Miller (TEX) 21-1, 21-9 21-1 shouldn't happen if they were playing against prime May/Walsh, let alone Wash's 5s. Wash's Twitter has 21-2, but that doesn't change much.
March 13, 20232 yr 13 hours ago, BadgerHorn said: Thanks for the updates. I'm planning to be at the matches later this week. Curious to see the team dynamic / morale considering this team is used to competing for and winning national championships and is now scraping to win games and may be uncompetitive in many matches this season. The coaches will need to manage the mental side / confidence. A few wks ago, Coach Sullivan said something about setting proper expectations with the team. I suspect he knew they'd struggle in many matches this first season and wanted to get in front of it and prep them for the learning/growth experience. Also, going forward the coaches will need to: 1) figure out, in coordination with the players, who's going to play indoor/outdoor only or both and 2) for those playing both ways, ensure beach techniques/tendencies/instincts that don't work indoor don't bleed over to that side and vice versa I’m not concerned. These players have zero beach chemistry. They’re only playing until we start recruiting actual beach players. We are using indoor coaches for this year. The players should just be having fun and building chemistry with the freshman and Wenaas. Should be a good bonding trip to Hawaii Believe I read Baby Spice has a stress fracture so she’s not playing beach Edited March 13, 20232 yr by Js1
March 13, 20232 yr Js, you really don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. Just because it’s a women’s sport, you don’t have to pretend. I don’t post on the wbb thread because I don’t have a fucking clue, it’s okay.
March 13, 20232 yr Who pissed in your morning cherrios? Why don’t you eat my ass? No wonder you stole Derka’s username. So you could be a little petulant bitch
March 13, 20232 yr Ha, okay. Just admit you don’t have to talk about sports you don’t know. It’s okay, bro.
March 13, 20232 yr It's going about how I expected. 21-1 is really bad though. Asia is an MB so it's not too surprising. I bet she hasn't done serve receive in years and years until now. Half of the plays she made in indoor are illegal in sand so the mental adjustment is tough, plus the reps of certain skills not being there.
March 13, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, JesusSweatDuck said: It's going about how I expected. 21-1 is really bad though. Asia is an MB so it's not too surprising. I bet she hasn't done serve receive in years and years until now. Half of the plays she made in indoor are illegal in sand so the mental adjustment is tough, plus the reps of certain skills not being there. That right there may be why Elliot was so hesitant to bring in beach volleyball to the 40 acres. He probably had legitimate concerns that as certain indoor players improve their technique and skillset on the sand, it may hurt them when they flip back to indoors in the fall. Fortunately, beach has their own scholarships so I imagine Elliot will try to convince most of his indoor players to avoid beach for the most part, once they have a full roster. I’m just speculating
March 13, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said: That right there may be why Elliot was so hesitant to bring in beach volleyball to the 40 acres. He probably had legitimate concerns that as certain indoor players improve their technique and skillset on the sand, it may hurt them when they flip back to indoors in the fall. Fortunately, beach has their own scholarships so I imagine Elliot will try to convince most of his indoor players to avoid beach for the most part, once they have a full roster. I’m just speculating I don't think it will be a big deal. Most don't have girls that play both as far as I know. I'd be surprised if they don't fill out an entire Sand team once they hire a coach. I'm still curious who that will be.
March 15, 20232 yr Well, appears our 11:30 pm Hawaii dual will be on ESPN+. Unexpected, didn’t see it listed yesterday.
March 15, 20232 yr Decent video quality, I’ve seen this network before for their football. Very few fans there. Molly to the 2s, Asjia chilling.
March 15, 20232 yr Swept at 4 & 5, let’s steal a set somewhere in top 3. Edited March 15, 20232 yr by shadow_operative2.0
March 15, 20232 yr Hawaii appears to only have two courts, so they will clinch the dual before the 1s even step on the sand. Less than ideal.
March 15, 20232 yr I read Elliot say this will be a limited schedule this year to ease us into the sport. Do all these matches count on our record forever or is this a true gap year where nothing officially counts?
March 16, 20232 yr I hope our ladies got they Chins up. We gettin pounded. from kicking everyone’s tail indoor to gettin dominated in the sand. Can’t be good for the mentals.
March 16, 20232 yr 59 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: I hope our ladies got they Chins up. We gettin pounded. from kicking everyone’s tail indoor to gettin dominated in the sand. Can’t be good for the mentals. Gotta start somewhere. Our rowing team used to be one of the worst in the nation. Now pulling down national championships. Gotta be patient, going to take a few years
March 16, 20232 yr On 3/12/2023 at 7:39 PM, BadgerHorn said: I'm planning to be at the matches later this week. @kingkoopa6, I assume you’re the reply?
March 17, 20232 yr On 3/15/2023 at 7:37 PM, kingkoopa6 said: I hope our ladies got they Chins up. We gettin pounded. from kicking everyone’s tail indoor to gettin dominated in the sand. Can’t be good for the mentals. Nebraska has been getting their teeth kicked in for years. Obviously last year wouldn’t be considered a sterling success, but outside of that they’ve been the most consistently successful program in the country since their indoor team started participating in beach. For their coach, John Cook, it’s worth the beat downs to be able to work on overall skills and to get the extra time practicing under coaching supervision. They have a truncated schedule (just like Texas) and then use the rest of the time available for the season working on indoor. My problem with it is if you’re going to field a team, I want my school to aspire to national championships, whereas Nebraska uses it more as a cheat code. I look forward to a permanent head coach being named and a roster full of beach only players brought on. I fully expect with the right person UT quickly vaults to elite status. There aren’t that many beach programs on the country, in all honesty. With UT’s resources and the talent in our backyard it shouldn’t take long to compete for national championships, IMO.
March 17, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: Not sure I’m making that 830. No way you are, bro
March 17, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: I just got star struck. Madi and Molly. I couldn’t even say hi haha
March 17, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said: Hopefully we can get our first program win today against CS Northridge Nope. hahha. but the Hawaiians had a close first one vs csun
March 17, 20232 yr What I get without knowing beach v the smaller girls seem to dominate. our long leg girls not sand quick we using indoor tactics what I like is the conditioning we gettin out of this
March 17, 20232 yr Oh shyt!!!!!!!! I think madi and Molly got one Or all. Shit idk. This confusing. But our girls celebrating
March 17, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, kingkoopa6 said: Oh shyt!!!!!!!! I think madi and Molly got one 5 games simultaneously not easy but I planted between madimolly and Hawaiians. It was fun gonna come out again tomorrow morning.
March 17, 20232 yr 2 more chances to get our program’s first win tomorrow. We play Utah and then Stetson
March 17, 20232 yr One thing we are good at. But I didn’t see any other team do. Kills. maybe it’s not needed in the game. But madi mashed the ball many times. Opponents did not saw Devin and a ref go at it. Devin stated case, ref was like nah. And that was it. I wanted to “ you suck ref” but it was Golf event quiet.
March 17, 20232 yr Coach E so smooth. He walks with commanding grace. other teams fans and girls were fan girling over our girls. im sure it was an honor to play against the best. ( not Beach best tho haha ) after the games. I wanted to tell some of the oppts. “ let’s take this inside and see y’all get smoked”
March 17, 20232 yr My observations: - it's a lot of fun. Highly encourage you guys to come out and watch. If you have athletic daughters, it's a no brainer to bring them along - Basically reiterating what we knew: the beach player is a different type of athlete. These teams are full of 5'5" - 6' girls with agility, ball skills, and everyone can either hit or they have craft with cuts, shooting, etc. You need blockers who aren't a liability on serve receive and setting; and defenders/littles who can hit down on the ball to side out. Indoor players aren't asked to do that. Overheard the Utah coach talking to one of the LBSt coaches saying something along the lines of "we're in a similar boat to Texas just one year further - still mostly playing indoor volleyball outdoors but some younger beach players" and the response was "yeah, that's really tough" - The top 3 teams are showing some positive flashes. You can tell Devin and Akana have some of the right beach instincts and are still working on the execution part. They may not have the physical tools some of their teammates do, but I can see why they're on Ct1 - Madi and Molly looked good and won their second match. I played beach several times against college indoor players and the key is getting them out of system. If you give them easy balls, they'll set up and just crush balls back at you. That's what happened for M&M a few times - Madi received an easy ball and you could tell the point was over before she smoked one past the block. Molly and Jenna had a few hammers of their own. Too many unforced errors esp on serve. I could see Madi being very good at beach... But you can probably say that for her about multiple sports - Didn't see much of the 4-5 teams. Hoping to see more tmrw. - Seemed to be running relatively basic defensive schemes from what I noticed. Makes sense for a new team. I'll pay more attn to that tmrw. - Serious uniform talk: I'm not a big fan of the unis. The white front looks good but the wide burnt orange stripe on the back makes it look like an attempt at a dual use home/away jersey of some sort. Either go storm trooper or burnt orange - Really happy to see the girls out there competing and laying the groundwork for what I think will be another UT team competing for championships in a couple of years
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