Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Featured Replies

  • Replies 4k
  • Views 148.5k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • SL Xpress
    SL Xpress

    Uh, the other thing being when Binney enters the match Spears sits on the bench. That's even bigger to me than replacing Swindle, and I love both Swindle and Kahahawai.  I think there's something

  • That's going to be a new McCombs graduate diving all over the floor in a few hours.    

  • If Vandy finishes off Cal (leads 2-0), the challenge will end in an 8-8 tie Texas, Bama, MSST and OU all had 5 set wins today   

Posted Images

  • Author

Aggy and Minnesota tied 1-1 on B1G network. Playing in South Dakota in the lesser AVCA first serve tournament (Lincoln was the main event)

  • Author
Just now, perfectchaos007 said:

aggy wins in 4. They're taking volleyball seriously these days

Lednicky and Cos-Okpalla are scary. That offense is so fucking fast 

  • Author
14 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

This court is ugly. 

Putting a secondary set of teams in Sioux Falls of all places was super random. And like, Nebraska got to host their pod in Lincoln, but they couldn’t do the secondary set in Minneapolis or something?

Also it was 8 teams in Lincoln over 3 days and only 4 teams in Sioux Falls on 1 night. And Kansas and Penn State had to play in both cities!

I swear a drunk toddler came up with this stupid tournament 

  • Author

Game Day Sport GIF by HockeyDiversityAlliance

8:30(ish) on BTN

  • Author

Wisky and KU 1-1 in the match ahead of ours 

  • Author

And going 5

We aren’t gonna start for a while 

  • Author

9:20ish

Edited by Js1

  • Author

Texas up 15-9 early 

Every pass is in the box. I love it.

Really looking good for the 1st match of the season. I'm impressed! 

  • Author

Can see AVW and Spears needing to adjust to the Creighton block 

  • Author

Texas wins 25-21

1-0

Ames and AVW block to end set 1 

Devin keeping Ayden out of trouble 

  • blacklab changed the title to 2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
  • Author

The Serbian service run to get Texas up 10-6. TO Creighton 

  • Author

17-9 Texas. Devin and Binney in. Elliot running some interesting combos but working 

Youth/inexperience and chemistry seems like is going to be our weakness this year. 
 

Talent is there though just young 

  • Author

Stafford is the real deal 

Texas wins 25-19 and up 2-0

  • Author

3rd set all sorts of disjointed 

  • Author

The freshmen just need to calm down

  • Author

Oh the team loves Anja 

  • Author
5 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

We've lost our focus in the 3rd. Looks like a throw away set

Snl GIF by Saturday Night Live

  • Author

Ha! Taylor Harvey ace to win it

Sweep!

Win the match on an ace by a true freshman. Way to go ladies

  • Author

Think everyone but Krueger, Gaido, Kenna Miller and Whitney played 

Elliot definitely gave people opportunities to stand out 

Great comeback in that third set. Already showing they can fight back in a set that looks lost. They struggled with that belief last season

  • Author

I’ll be pretty happy with getting out of Madison with a split, considering how much this team needs to grown up and jell 

But saw a lot of good things! 

I only caught the last few points, but great energy and solid serving by our ladies to close it out. Creighton...not so much. 

  • Author
9 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

I only caught the last few points, but great energy and solid serving by our ladies to close it out. Creighton...not so much. 

Creighton 0-6 in sets so far against the team they beat in the regional semis (Texas) and team they lost to in the regional finals (PSU). Revenge complete! 

Thought our backcourt defense with Stafford, Gary and Halter was very good. Stafford led the team in digs. Interesting Hawaiian double sub when Binney and Devin come in. Not a 6-2, just a double sub

Freshmen pins looked raw but AVW got more confident as the match went on. Went from her power tip/throw down to just beating the ball. Spears played 6 rotations, which surprised me. Held up well 

Ames was good defensively, but our middle attack needs work. Bunton couldn’t put the ball down. Kudos to Harvey slamming some overpasses down at the end of the third. 

Anja went on 2 long service runs. A good weapon 

Great start to the season beating racist Creighton in a sweep and getting some revenge. The Freshmen played like, well not like Freshmen. I thought everyone played well except Bunton. Which is ironic given she was the starter. Harvey played better than Bunton. If you're not ready for the dump over against a tall setter you're not playing smart VB.

  • Author
3 minutes ago, Hard Times said:

Great start to the season beating racist Creighton in a sweep and getting some revenge. The Freshmen played like, well not like Freshmen. I thought everyone played well except Bunton. Which is ironic given she was the starter. Harvey played better than Bunton. If you're not ready for the dump over against a tall setter you're not playing smart VB.

I expect the freshmen to look better in game 2 after shaking off the nerves

But you right - Harvey was better than Bunton. I’d say MB2 is not settled and Harvey could still win that job. Which would mean we are starting a FR/SO middle combo, freshman OH and freshman OPP.  My goodness 

  • Author

Next match is Wisconsin on Sunday, 1pm, B1G Network

Wisky also didn’t look great in the post-Franklin/Smrek era. Boothe is 6’7 but that block doesn’t look as scary as it did before. Kansas’ OPP went off, but she is a 6’7 Serbian

On 8/25/2025 at 10:58 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Cool pic from Emma. 

 

spacer.png

They grow up so fast

  • Author

Aggy down 2-1 to Central Ark. tried to give Lednicky and Stowers the day off and both had to come in

  • Author

Texas passed a 2.33, but Creighton passed a 2.44 and got swept. We didn’t serve aggressively at all, with only a few errors, and Creighton had a ton of first ball side out kills. But they also hit a ton of balls long and gave us free points. 

11 hours ago, Hard Times said:

Great start to the season beating racist Creighton in a sweep and getting some revenge. The Freshmen played like, well not like Freshmen. I thought everyone played well except Bunton. Which is ironic given she was the starter. Harvey played better than Bunton. If you're not ready for the dump over against a tall setter you're not playing smart VB.

Is that a reference to Doug McDermott; or did I miss something pertaining to volleyball?

22 hours ago, Js1 said:

Next match is Wisconsin on Sunday, 1pm, B1G Network

Wisky also didn’t look great in the post-Franklin/Smrek era. Boothe is 6’7 but that block doesn’t look as scary as it did before. Kansas’ OPP went off, but she is a 6’7 Serbian

Any way to watch today’s match besides BTN?   I already checked and did not see it listed in ESPN+.  

  • Author
1 minute ago, Chicken fried bacon said:

Any way to watch today’s match besides BTN?   I already checked and did not see it listed in ESPN+.  

Unless you have that weird standalone Fox subscription, I don’t think so. B1G Network is part of Fox, not ESPN

16 hours ago, Js1 said:

Texas passed a 2.33, but Creighton passed a 2.44 and got swept. We didn’t serve aggressively at all, with only a few errors, and Creighton had a ton of first ball side out kills. But they also hit a ton of balls long and gave us free points. 

With who we have on the block I prefer the more conservative approach to serving.  Side outs on service errors grind my gears. 

  • Author
Just now, gsoda3 said:

With who we have on the block I prefer the more conservative approach to serving.  Side outs on service errors grind my gears. 

A Few people mentioned on Volley Talk that we had much different serving against Creighton than we did the Utah exhibition.

Whatever we did, their best player hit negative. That was a plus 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.