October 6, 20232 yr Author Swindle’s connections with O’Neal and Phillips look much improved. As soon as we get consistency at OH2, that should take some pressure off MB2 (Bella) - she’s effective in smaller doses, but when OH2 isn’t producing, she has to be set more and it takes away her effectiveness. To her credit, she’s doing great but she only hit .270 last night, which isn’t good for a MB Here’s hoping the bulk of set work in practice is Swindle to Devin
October 7, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said: Looks like they're sticking with Wenaas. Kind of surprised. F’n ridiculous
October 7, 20232 yr You're starting to see a team that is dangerous. Elite block, middles are dangerous offensively, and Skinner is starting to play like a dominant OH1. Need a OH2 to just keep improving. Edited October 7, 20232 yr by Rickylovesweed
October 7, 20232 yr Author 1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said: You're starting to see a team that is dangerous. Elite block, middles are dangerous offensively, and Skinner is starting to play like a dominant OH1. Need a OH2 to just keep improving. And the serve game
October 7, 20232 yr Wenaas is our biggest weakness. Come on Elliott. Play Devin. It's obvious at this point.
October 7, 20232 yr That's what Wenaas needs more of. Stop these soft swings/tip shots. Swing dammit.
October 7, 20232 yr Granted it’s the end of the set, but he takes out our best scoring middle….yet he doesn’t take out the OH that’s bleeding points when she’s in….make it make sense to me!
October 7, 20232 yr Skinner is playing out of her mind. Swindle is also setting so much better which is a big reason why. Edited October 7, 20232 yr by Rickylovesweed
October 7, 20232 yr I wasn't sure we had a national championship ceiling this year but starting to see a style of play that gives us a chance. Serve tough, let our elite block dominate matches, and feed Skinner/middles.
October 7, 20232 yr Author Elliot at Point Texas last night, per Volley Talk: 1. Saw the SEC volleyball schedule for next year. Not. Pleased. At. All. All games will be Friday and Sunday (not the same team). He said he experienced that playing schedule when he was in the Pac 12 (I know it was probably Pac 10 then) and he hated it. Said the girls are robbed of their weekends and it starts dragging a team down where they are physically and mentally exhausted by the end of the year. 2. Said he was going to start Wenaas. Said Singletary was doing outstanding in the gym and they need to find time for her in a game, but that time would mean she would be fighting for starting time. So tough to find the window. Said Singletary and Kahahawai were both going to be "first off the bench" players 3. Said they almost pulled the redshirt on Byrd. Aha! Redshirt - he said it. They told to get ready the he sent her to get last minute instructions from Erik and then, "Molly got hot" 4. Said he actually now likes the home-home games. That was a shock. 5. When asked about the Kansas setter who likes to dump, ALOT he said a few things: a. They don't practice defending that because they don't have a setter who can dump practice. No, not Swindle, Crownover. b. They don't like their middle jumping every single time the setter is touching the ball because that means each of the pins are left alone
October 8, 20232 yr On 10/7/2023 at 8:55 AM, Js1 said: Elliot at Point Texas last night, 1. SEC VB schedule next year. Not. Pleased. At. All. All games will be Friday and Sunday (not the same team). He said he experienced that playing schedule when he was in the Pac 12 (I know it was probably Pac 10 then) and he hated it. Said the girls are robbed of their weekends and it starts dragging a team down where they are physically and mentally exhausted by the end of the year. That's just bullshit for players and staff... what happened to all the recent concern for athletes mental health !!! FUK
October 9, 20232 yr Author Through 10/9: Texas 6-0 UCF 5-0 ISU 4-1 TCU 4-2 BYU 3-2 KU/KSU 3-3 UH/Cincinnati/Baylor 2-3 Texas Tech 1-5 OU 0-5 WV 0-5 Remaining schedule: 2 against UH (2-3) 1 against TCU (4-2) 2 against Baylor (2-3) 2 against WV (0-5) 1 against KSU (3-3) 1 against Cincinnati (2-3) 1 against Iowa State (4-1) 1 against UCF (5-0) 1 against Tech (1-5) Our remaining matches have a WP of 25-36 (.410). @TCU is probably our toughest remaining match. UCF is 5-0 against Cincinnati, OU and Tech lol. They have Baylor, TCU, UH and BYU twice (consecutively) before they face us. They could and should be something more like 7-6 by the time we face them. We have a very weird schedule where we have only played back 2 back series so far. We have 1 single match against TCU after the UH series and then we end the season 5 different one-off opponents after the WV series.
October 9, 20232 yr 15 hours ago, LTtxfan said: That's just bullshit for players and staff... what happened to all the recent concern for athletes mental health !!! FUK We decided to join the SEC. That’s some woke ass bullshit that doesn’t work there. Women will do what they’re told to do when they’re told to do it.
October 9, 20232 yr Author Hopefully the SEC is not committed to ONLY Friday/Sunday, meaning some Thursday/Saturday or Saturday/Monday to provide some variety. And maybe it’s just for a year while they figure out scheduling for the future. But the B1G does the same type of scheduling (sometimes you play 2 diff opponents on back to back nights, like you go to MSU and Michigan for a Friday/Saturday)
October 9, 20232 yr Author Texas is FOURTH in the RPI, but unless the committee goes straight RPI, we probably aren't hosting. Two of our losses are to RPI #2 and #5 (Stanford and WSU) and #48 (Long Beach State), with wins over #16 BYU (x2), #25 KU (x2), #39 Minnesota, #41 Rice and #52 Ohio State. We offset those 3 losses that with 7 top 52 wins. Texas has the chance for 7 more top 50 wins at the moment, but our biggest knock is going be lack of top 25 matches (6, with a 4-2 record currently, and KU is barely hanging onto top 25 in the RPI) Matches remaining (RPI rankings): 28 Baylor (x2) 31 UCF 33 TCU 34 ISU 47 Houston (x2) 89 Texas Tech 92 Kansas State 117 Cincinnati 196 West Virginia (x2) AVCA Poll: 1. Wisconsin (60) 2. Nebraska (4) 3. Stanford 4. Washington State 5. Oregon 6. Louisville 7. Texas 8. Pittsburgh 9. BYU 10. Tennessee 11. Georgia Tech 12. Arkansas 13. Penn State 14. Florida 15. Purdue 16. Kansas 17. Creighton 18. Dayton 19. Arizona State 20. Baylor 21. Houston 22. Auburn 23. Kentucky 24. Minnesota 25. Iowa State
October 10, 20232 yr 22 hours ago, conVINCEd said: We decided to join the SEC. That’s some woke ass bullshit that doesn’t work there. Women will do what they’re told to do when they’re told to do it. Now there's some intense ignorance there. I only know Auburn, which is in the heart of the SEC, and they are state of the art. I would bet other SEC schools are too. They even offer therapy dogs. Auburn University Student Counseling & Psychological Services | The primary counseling center of Auburn University Take your ignorance hand hatred elsewhere.
October 10, 20232 yr 21 minutes ago, Hard Times said: Now there's some intense ignorance there. I only know Auburn, which is in the heart of the SEC, and they are state of the art. I would bet other SEC schools are too. They even offer therapy dogs. Auburn University Student Counseling & Psychological Services | The primary counseling center of Auburn University Take your ignorance hand hatred elsewhere. Maybe he should have used the sarcasm font.
October 10, 20232 yr Looks like the U of H game on Saturday is sold out. I expect to see lots of burnt orange on both days.
October 10, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, Chicken fried bacon said: Looks like the U of H game on Saturday is sold out. I expect to see lots of burnt orange on both days. Bought 7 tix myself so there will be some burnt orange for sure
October 10, 20232 yr Author 15 minutes ago, Hornbeliever said: Bought 7 tix myself so there will be some burnt orange for sure Will be some fun matches. UH isn’t as good as we thought they’d be (2-3 in conference with both of those over WV) and 9-5 overall (did beat USC and aggy, but lost to Texas State), but they’ll be fired up to play us Unfortunately for them, we are getting hot and much more comfortable in some new roles. OH2 is still the biggest question mark.
October 13, 20232 yr Author Parra got hurt in TCU’s 3-2 win over OU last night. She may not be available against us next Wednesday
October 13, 20232 yr Parra got hurt in TCU’s 3-2 win over OU last night. She may not be available against us next Wednesday [emoji20]Huge bummer
October 14, 20232 yr On 10/6/2023 at 8:11 PM, Rickylovesweed said: Looks like they're sticking with Wenaas. Kind of surprised. Wenaas must be the BEST practice player to get the start...cuz she is terrible in-game.
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