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Just now, SL Xpress said:

Yeah, I'm not worried in the slightest. I do look forward to a return to the program having a dominating block, but it's not an end all be all. Our middles are being effective. That doesn't have to result in a direct point. If they're altering shots enough to set up a terminal transition game, that's still winning volleyball, if not quite as spectacular. 

Georgia's tip defense was woeful. They're just not that great of a team overall. They're not terrible, but they're going to struggle to make the tournament. 

Outside of A&M and Kentucky I'm not sure how good the conference is, to be honest. I know we'll get some other teams in the tournament, but those are the only candidates to host the first two rounds, IMO. Florida falling off a cliff is a bit of a bummer from that perspective, although I can't say I'm all that invested in it. I was looking forward to having them as a fellow volleyball powerhouse, but they have work to do. 

I’m not sure how good Aggie is.  I’ve seen them now 4 times I think.   Trying to be objective about them, it seems like they should be a little better than they are with the players they have.   But they make a lot of mistakes.    

They are scrappy and have come back to win some sets they shouldn’t have to give them some credit. 

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    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   

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6 minutes ago, Mr. Drummond said:

I’m not sure how good Aggie is.  I’ve seen them now 4 times I think.   Trying to be objective about them, it seems like they should be a little better than they are with the players they have.   But they make a lot of mistakes.    

They are scrappy and have come back to win some sets they shouldn’t have to give them some credit. 

I saw what I needed to see of them against SMU and TCU. They’re fine but not elite

The get Kentucky on Oct 8, MSST on Oct 12 and Texas on Oct 31

1 hour ago, Mr. Drummond said:

I’m not sure how good Aggie is.  I’ve seen them now 4 times I think.   Trying to be objective about them, it seems like they should be a little better than they are with the players they have.   But they make a lot of mistakes.    

They are scrappy and have come back to win some sets they shouldn’t have to give them some credit. 

They're not going to be regional hosts, but they'll likely host the first two rounds. No one else in the SEC is going to do that. They beat Minnesota before the Gophers went through a rash of injuries. 

Volleyball doesn't have a great depth of teams. No one is going to win the national championship outside of the top 8. And even outside the top 4 it can be unusual. The top 16 host the first two rounds, but the bottom 8 have a rough time in the regional. For many programs it's a big deal to make the tournament, but if you're not in the top 16 then you hope to get a high enough seed to head to the first two rounds against the top 13-16 seeds, because your season is pretty much guaranteed to end if you don't. 

So A&M being somewhere around the 10th to 16th best team is a big deal for them. But that can happen and you'd still be correct. 

I'm just saying, in the SEC it's a big drop off from Texas/Kentucky --> then A&M ---------> then everyone else. 

2 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

They're obvious homers. It's going to be amateur hour for most of these SECN+ broadcasts. I feel like they pulled the play by play guy out of the communications school and the color commentator was some former player looking to make a little cash. Might as well have been saying boom goes the dynamite the entire broadcast.

Gotta start somewhere!

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Texas 3-0 over Georgia
aggy 3-1 over South Carolina
Michigan 3-1 over Minnesota (Minny won the first set, 25-18, and lost the next three, -12, -14, -12)
TCU 3-1 over Kansas
Baylor 3-0 over UH

Texas, Georgia, aggy and South Carolina were the only SEC teams in action last night (and somehow couldn't preempt SEC Now to be on TV)

 

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In 3 conference games so far (9-0 in sets):

.363 hitting %
10 aces / 20 errors
14.00 digs per set
1.44 bps (13 blocks total)
16.56 assists per set

Stafford .468, 4.78 kps, 2.78 dps, 3 total blocks
Ames .440, 2.14 kps, 5 total blocks
AVW .367, 3.33 kps, 3 total blocks
Harvey .300, 2.00 kps, 5 total blocks
Cari .307, 4.44 kps
Ella 12.33 aps*, 3.00 dps
Halter 3.89 dps, 1.44 aps
Gary 2.11 dps

*Binney is poaching about 5.5 aps from Swindle during the double-sub - Swindle could be almost 16/17 assists per set (SEC Setter of the Year type numbers) if not for the double sub

38 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Michigan 3-1 over Minnesota (Minny won the first set, 25-18, and lost the next three, -12, -14, -12)

whoa. That's a real shocker.  Michigan hasn't even made the NCAAs since 2021.

9 hours ago, Mittens said:

whoa. That's a real shocker.  Michigan hasn't even made the NCAAs since 2021.

It is, but Minnesota has serious injury issues. Starting middle blocker Calissa Minatee is out for the season. Starting libero Zeynep Palabiyik is gone for the year because of an ACL. Starting outside hitter McKenna Wucherer has an undisclosed injury and has been out since September 1. 

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7 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

It is, but Minnesota has serious injury issues. Starting middle blocker Calissa Minatee is out for the season. Starting libero Zeynep Palabiyik is gone for the year because of an ACL. Starting outside hitter McKenna Wucherer has an undisclosed injury and has been out since September 1. 

They are one more injury from pulling someone out of the stands 

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UCLA lost in 5 last night to Purdue but Singletary had 7 of UCLA's 17 blocks

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Cari was added to the NPOY watchlist. Joining Stafford who has been on it since day 1 

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Penn State looks like a JV team against Nebraska 

Florida/Auburn was pretty entertaining. Just went final, with Florida winning 3-1. 3 lopsided matches to start then the 4th set went to Florida 27-25. It's interesting watching Byrd out there. I always liked her potential. Also, we really went after Alec Rothe, Florida's starting middle. 

Auburn runs a 6-2. I don't think I'm ever going to like that system. 

Stucky went for 42 assists, 12 digs, and 10 kills for a volleyball triple double. 

41 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Penn State looks like a JV team against Nebraska 

25-6 in the first set. 25-15 in the second, which feels like a nailbiter in comparison. Hard for Martin to rack up any stats if Penn State never scores. 

Allie Sczech wasting away on the bench is not quite as impressive as Landfair and Blackwell spending most of their time watching matches from the sidelines last year, but it's close. 

There hasn't been a more swift and ruthless mercy killing than Nebraska dismantling of Penn State in Happy Valley since Travis finished off Old Yeller. 

Kentucky vs. Ole Miss was mildly interesting, if only in the sense the Wildcats were pedestrian throughout. They swept the hosts, but that didn't take much execution or intensity. Texas looks way stronger. 

Nebraska wins @ #16 Penn State 6, 15, 13
Hopefully this is a case of Nebraska peaking too early, otherwise they're not going to lose a match this season playing like this.

7 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Nebraska wins @ #16 Penn State 6, 15, 13
Hopefully this is a case of Nebraska peaking too early, otherwise they're not going to lose a match this season playing like this.

Didn’t we clean their clock a few years back for a Natty?

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3 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Didn’t we clean their clock a few years back for a Natty?

Yes but that was a very very very young Nebraska team

5 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Didn’t we clean their clock a few years back for a Natty?

They were also very talented, but also very young. They have a lot more experience on their roster this year compared to 2023

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11 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Nebraska wins @ #16 Penn State 6, 15, 13
Hopefully this is a case of Nebraska peaking too early, otherwise they're not going to lose a match this season playing like this.

Yikes doesn’t do that match justice. They have a setter problem (obviously) and Jurevicious is just Wenaaas 2.0, except Coach KSC actually benches her at times instead of leaving her out there.

Kennedy Martin made such a bad choice. She probably should have gone to Wisconsin, but she didn’t know PSU’s starting setter was going to quit 3-4 games in.  She probably should have just stayed at Florida, with Stuckey coming back. 

11 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

They were also very talented, but also very young. They have a lot more experience on their roster this year compared to 2023

A role-reversal of sorts with us and them and now and then.

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55 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

A role-reversal of sorts with us and them and now and then.

A little bit, yeah. I think we have better upperclass leadership than that Nebraska team did - Ella, Emma, Torrey, Ramsey, Devin, Mama Whitney

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

A little bit, yeah. I think we have better upperclass leadership than that Nebraska team did - Ella, Emma, Torrey, Ramsey, Devin, Mama Whitney

And no Harpie Murray.

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It’s wild that DBK and Dan Fisher are getting so much COY love. DBK walked into a stacked roster and Fisher returned a huge chunk of his team, including the reigning NPOY

Elliot seamlessly integrated 3 freshmen and 3 transfers and went undefeated against the #1 nonconf SOS

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Yikes doesn’t do that match justice. They have a setter problem (obviously) and Jurevicious is just Wenaaas 2.0, except Coach KSC actually benches her at times instead of leaving her out there.

Kennedy Martin made such a bad choice. She probably should have gone to Wisconsin, but she didn’t know PSU’s starting setter was going to quit 3-4 games in.  She probably should have just stayed at Florida, with Stuckey coming back. 

Rumor is she was paid $750k to transfer by Penn State alums. 

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1 minute ago, SL Xpress said:

Rumor is she was paid $750k to transfer by Penn State alums. 

Thats a lot of money to sit at home in December 

13 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

They were also very talented, but also very young. They have a lot more experience on their roster this year compared to 2023

Weird seeing  Dani Busboom Kelly as Head Coach at CORN

Forgot John Cook retired...

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Thats a lot of money to sit at home in December 

Yeah, probably should have spent more on Starck or her boyfriend.

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2 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

Yeah, probably should have spent more on Starck or her boyfriend.

😬😬😬

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10-4 Texas early after a failed MSST challenge 

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15-8 Texas after a Cari ace. Media TO

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18-10 Texas. TO MSST

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Not super difficult to start

25-14 Texas. 1-0

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Stafford has become Texas’ worst passer. Stop passing with your hands

3-7. TO Texas

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“I think she was there in time”

Ball obviously hits ground first 

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2 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

Lethargic second set thus far. Pick it up. 

Here comes Texas

8-10. TO MSST

We've awakened. But MSU will always have that sleepwalking span by Texas to look back on fondly. 

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Ames clinic as Texas is now up 14-11

Just now, Js1 said:

Ames clinic as Texas is now up 14-11

She's been trucking some fools lately. Her eyes get really big on those middle lollipops.   

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This set is drunk 

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20-18 Texas. TO MSST

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25-19 Texas

2-0

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