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Post by beba on Aug 4, 2010 14:55:59 GMT -5
Utah has run a 6-2 for at least the past 3 years, and went to the Sweet 16 two years ago with it.
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Post by sevb on Aug 4, 2010 15:15:26 GMT -5
Im to lazy to check... when was the last time anyone, at any level, won a national championship with a 6-2?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2010 15:19:35 GMT -5
Utah has run a 6-2 for at least the past 3 years, and went to the Sweet 16 two years ago with it. Didn't work out so well last season, though!
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Post by beba on Aug 4, 2010 15:35:31 GMT -5
Utah has run a 6-2 for at least the past 3 years, and went to the Sweet 16 two years ago with it. Didn't work out so well last season, though! More than 2 setters, it is necessary to have enough hitters who can finish.
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Post by sevb on Aug 4, 2010 15:46:32 GMT -5
That is true no matter the system!
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Post by bunnywailer on Aug 4, 2010 15:49:55 GMT -5
Im to lazy to check... when was the last time anyone, at any level, won a national championship with a 6-2? I'm not completely positive on this one, but I believe that was in 197WHOGIVESAFLYINGFRICK.
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Post by sevb on Aug 4, 2010 15:50:54 GMT -5
hahaha - that's a good enough answer for me!! The fact that one has to REALLY think about it tells me more than I need to know...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2010 15:57:22 GMT -5
Didn't work out so well last season, though! More than 2 setters, it is necessary to have enough hitters who can finish. True. Still fall into these two categories though: Team ran 6-2. Team did not perform up to expectations.
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Post by beba on Aug 4, 2010 15:58:26 GMT -5
That is true no matter the system! Agreed. The point I was trying to make, not very elegantly, was that Utah used the same two setters both in 2008 and 2009. The difference between the two years (a 9 win drop) was that Utah lost three great front row hitter/blockers (Toone, Baird and Haynie), and had difficulty replacing them.
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Post by lonewolf on Aug 4, 2010 16:16:19 GMT -5
Im to lazy to check... when was the last time anyone, at any level, won a national championship with a 6-2? Nebraska came close in 2005.
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Post by beba on Aug 4, 2010 16:18:00 GMT -5
More than 2 setters, it is necessary to have enough hitters who can finish. True. Still fall into these two categories though: Team ran 6-2. Team did not perform up to expectations. An interesting statement. What does it mean to say that a team "did not perform up to expectations"? Whose expectations? And do "expectations" mean anything? If I say I "expect" Minnesota to win go undefeated and win the national championship, and the Gophers don't, do I then get to say that they did not "live up to expectations"? Maybe I was just wrong going in. This is a problem with preseason polls. The people polled make guesses (perhaps educated, perhaps not) about the future. When the guesses don't pan out, the team gets the blame for not meeting "expectations". We say "Oh that team was picked to win the conference". Somehow the team, or the coach, or some combination, gets blamed for the inaccurate prediction.
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Post by flatlander on Aug 4, 2010 16:18:25 GMT -5
Im to lazy to check... when was the last time anyone, at any level, won a national championship with a 6-2? Nebraska came close in 2005. USC 2003?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2010 16:23:18 GMT -5
That is correct.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2010 16:25:58 GMT -5
Teams generally run 6-2s to cover up weaknesses; it's run as the lesser of two (or more) evils.
That's why the 2010 Huskers would be interesting if they went that route.
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Post by jgrout on Aug 4, 2010 17:39:53 GMT -5
Not sure they actually will, but Florida's always seemed like they wanted to put Murphy in a system where she can both set and hit. Stanford too... and when they didn't land her, they went ahead and ran the 6-2 anyway in 2008. When Evans played well, it did very well indeed... e.g., against UW in Seattle... but she was maddeningly inconsistent. After Evans had a ghastly set 2 against UW at Maples, the team switched base offenses to a 5-1 offense set by Lichtman (though the 6-2 set by Lichtman and Evans did come out at least once more... against Oregon State?).
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