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Post by jump31 on Dec 24, 2006 12:14:50 GMT -5
anyone who subscribes to a monthly magazine expecting current event news is out of touch with reality. Monthly mags all cover feature stories, personality pieces and stories as someone else stated, not time sensitive. I got my issue of vball mag and thought it was great. Good story on Tom and excellent pictures as well. The most current event news is mostly given on web sites like this one where everyone can post what is happening as it happens.
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Post by starsky on Dec 24, 2006 13:14:41 GMT -5
I am well aware of the 6 to 8 weeks time pattern. I have recieved the magazine for years. Magazines to attempt to stay current try often to project what is going to be the hot topic when the magazine gets to the mailbox. The Hot Topic at that time was not Logan Tom . I realize many of you gushing, giddy, Logan fans were probably over the moon but many of us were frankly disappointed and not particularly interested what Logan Toms opinion was of the National Team. Is this the Naitonal Enquireer magazine where we stalk volleyball celebrities or a publication about volleyball? By all means though don't let me interupt the idolizing of Tom. Continue your gushing.
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Post by brybry on Dec 24, 2006 15:31:36 GMT -5
I want to know if there is any validity to the players questioning JLP's coaching abilities. She's been so successful as an Olympic player, coach, and pro club coach. Who are these players that are unhappy? Are they the ones that have been cut from the team, or the ones that receive little playing time, or the starters? What are the specifics of their complaints? I want to know more before casting judgment, because last Olympics a lot of Team USA players seemed like diva bitches.
I hate hearing about discontent veiled by vague rumors.
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 24, 2006 16:33:08 GMT -5
American players are notorious for their selfish and complaining attitudes.
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Post by cbrown1709 on Dec 24, 2006 20:38:15 GMT -5
With Berg leaving, would she be one of them?
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Post by StuffU on Dec 25, 2006 3:22:05 GMT -5
Woth Berg leaving, would she be one of them? Wasn't JLP coaching Berg in Italy last year? Why would it be so different on the US NT versus an Italian Club team? |
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Post by cbrown1709 on Dec 25, 2006 3:32:18 GMT -5
Maybe the level of pay is greater to put up with her....I really don't have a clue, just speculation.
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Post by StuffU on Dec 25, 2006 3:46:04 GMT -5
All I can say is a big "CHEERS!!" to Ah Mow.
She has remained faithful to the US NT through 3 coaching regimes. She waited her turn on the bench in the Haley years. After injuries and a pregnancy, she works her a*s*s off to get back in shape and share setting duties with Berg in the Toshi years. Now she's still there with JLP, working her butt off and looking like the starter for 2008 ~ giving the US experience at a very important position when there is a lot of youth on the court. Not many US players have given as much to the US NT, without causing soooo much commotion.
I'm definitely proud to call her a product of Hawaii volleyball!
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Post by sIsam on Dec 25, 2006 7:41:53 GMT -5
Woth Berg leaving, would she be one of them? Wasn't JLP coaching Berg in Italy last year? Why would it be so different on the US NT versus an Italian Club team? JLP coached Sykora in the 2nd half of the 2003-04 season. Abbondanza was the coach of the team Berg played for. Pesaro is now coached by Ze Roberto, the NT coach of Brazil. |
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Post by StuffU on Dec 25, 2006 12:53:18 GMT -5
Wasn't JLP coaching Berg in Italy last year? Why would it be so different on the US NT versus an Italian Club team? JLP coached Sykora in the 2nd half of the 2003-04 season. Abbondanza was the coach of the team Berg played for. Pesaro is now coached by Ze Roberto, the NT coach of Brazil. Thanks for the correction. I knew JLP was coaching an American in the Italian leagues, but I just couldn't remember which one (the memory is fading in my old age lol). For some reason, Sykora just didn't enter my thoughts. Interesting though, Sykora didn't return to the NT after Toshi's departure and JLP's hiring. hmmmm. Still JLP is a very well respected coach across the globe. I just have a feeling it's the same American feelings of entitlement with this generation that may be causing the rifts between foreign coaching styles and American athlete attitudes. |
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 25, 2006 13:20:48 GMT -5
Did any of you blokes get a private IM from someone from Japan who is starting a signature campaign in support of Logan Tom to the USA NT? I did. It's very bizarre to think that a signature campaign would get anyone on the USA NT.
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Post by usvolley on Dec 25, 2006 14:15:51 GMT -5
Why are we all quick to judge that the players are the problem here? I think the only valuable information that we can judge is from the people in the USA National Team Program. Does anyone have any insights from any of them?
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Post by OverAndUnder on Dec 27, 2006 15:29:28 GMT -5
Societies take time to change.
Every great movement spawns an Entitlement Generation which inherits the suspicious and rebellious spirit of the movement's pioneers, but inherits little of their solidarity, idealism, or work ethic. If you want to make the world a better place, you must understand that those born into your new utopia will have no concept of corruption and entropy, and will be unmotivated or unable to recognize and rebuff their advance. It took ten years for the effects of Title IX to work their way out to the numerous educational systems of the USA, and in the 1980s through around 1995 we saw the Greatest Generation fight, grow, succeed, flourish, then settle in.
What we have seen between 1998-2005 is the early adulthood of the rudderless entitlement kids of the first NCAA volleyball generation.
The next will be better.
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