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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2010 15:10:50 GMT -5
To get these four teams together in one tournament is great for the players, great for the fans, and great for the sport. We're fired up! Here's a link to a tournament preview on DigNittanyVolleyball: www.dignittanyvolleyball.com/?p=6138 We'll have analysis and fearless forecasts in the next few days from fans of the teams and maybe even neutral observers.
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Post by baywatcher on Sept 6, 2010 15:46:45 GMT -5
Stanford's backrow players are also good. Ailes is better than good and I would take Lichtman over Brown as an Opposite in the backrow. Quilico is probably better than Benjamin filling in for OH but who knows. That leaves McClendon and Klineman; we'll see if Penn State and Stanford play.
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Post by jgrout on Sept 6, 2010 18:34:54 GMT -5
Over her career, Lichtman has been an outside who hit regularly from the back row only in 2009, when she was in the L2 rotation (i.e., not an Opposite)... and even then it was not nearly so often as Klineman (despite the latter's shoulder injury). Much of the time, Lichtman only hit from the back row in the rotation where Cook is on serve. Only some of the time (and hardly ever against tall opponents) did Lichtman stay a hitter in the other two back-row rotations because that meant Cook was setting a 5-1 all the way across the front row.
Perhaps you meant her being an Opposite in the front row (when she also receives serve) and "back row" was meant colloquially (as a reference to defense)?
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Post by ShaneM2005 on Sept 6, 2010 18:38:16 GMT -5
Some of these matches are going to be on TV on the East coast if anyone cares. I flipped through the Guide on my cable and it's going to be on one of the Fox Sports channels. They listed about 3 matches, so I don't know if some will be repeats or what, but hopefully they'll all be different matches.
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Post by jgrout on Sept 6, 2010 18:46:19 GMT -5
My DVR guide says that Penn State-Florida will be on FCS Atlantic on tape-delay Friday at 7:30 PM PDT (which is 10:30 PM EDT) and the other televised match (presumably involving Florida) will be on FCS Atlantic live on Saturday at 1:30 PM PDT (which is 4:30 PM EDT).
Though there are scheduled replays as well, the first replay (early Saturday morning EDT) is identified as Penn State-Florida again. Given what we know about this tournament and Sun Sports' coverage of it, any match not identified as Penn State-Florida is Florida's Saturday match, not one of the other two matches.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2010 18:52:00 GMT -5
FCS?
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Post by jgrout on Sept 6, 2010 18:54:10 GMT -5
Fox College Sports. The three FCS channels are not original... all they do is nationally redistribute college content from FSN regional affiliates and colleagues such as Sun Sports and various CSN regional channels (many of which were once FSN regional affiliates). For a few years, all the Pac-10 matches of the week were live on FCS Pacific and thus available live in places like the Bay Area where WVB might as well be curling and is carried on CSN Bay Area (or CSN California) on tape delay on odd days and odd times and only because the Pac-10 makes them do it.
Because I am almost always at Final Fours involving Stanford, the best time I've had watching volleyball on TV in company was at the Old Pro in Palo Alto when a group of us got an upstairs room where they put up FCS Pacific's live coverage of Stanford-USC's Galen Center-opening match. It was such fun to watch Mick seemingly plan set 4 on the sidelines while his team, behind his (but not his assistants') back, gave back its big set 3 lead and ended up being swept (truth in advertising: it was probably his role to do that planning at the time he was doing it (and his assistants' to do the in-match management)... 95+% of the time, it works out... and his team didn't lose at the Galen Center again for years).
On satellite, there is no aggregrate redistribution: each regional network gets its own channel(s) and its own piece of the pie (that raises the bill significantly... it's much cheaper to get the FCS channels in a high-end sports cable package than to get all the regional channels around the country on satellite). There is also a pay-per-season package for college MBB... I don't recall one for football or other college sports.
For pro sports, most local TV coverage of games/matches stays local as part of rights agreements. There are the big pay-per-season packages that override this for baseball and hockey (and basketball?), slightly less pricy Internet packages and even a few exceptions for ordinary cable customers (e.g., MLB Network, which does not have its own game coverage, carries a limited number of local telecasts around the country to supplement its studio work).
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Post by baywatcher on Sept 6, 2010 19:12:38 GMT -5
Over her career, Lichtman has been an outside who hit regularly from the back row only in 2009, when she was in the L2 rotation (i.e., not an Opposite)... and even then it was not nearly so often as Klineman (despite the latter's shoulder injury). Much of the time, Lichtman only hit from the back row in the rotation where Cook is on serve. Only some of the time (and hardly ever against tall opponents) did Lichtman stay a hitter in the other two back-row rotations because that meant Cook was setting a 5-1 all the way across the front row. Perhaps you meant her being an Opposite in the front row (when she also receives serve) and "back row" was meant colloquially (as a reference to defense)? Yes, I was basically referring to Lichtman's back row defense, even though she is setting. References were made earlier to the "superior" Penn State backrow (D'Errico and Quilico) defense as being a difference maker. I'm standing up for the Stanford back row a bit; I would take Lichtman as a back row defender over Brown, not as a hitter, and the other references already made.
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Post by paloalto on Sept 6, 2010 19:20:36 GMT -5
My DVR guide says that Penn State-Florida will be on FCS Atlantic on tape-delay Friday at 7:30 PM PDT (which is 10:30 PM EDT) and the other televised match (presumably involving Florida) will be on FCS Atlantic live on Saturday at 1:30 PM PDT (which is 4:30 PM EDT). Though there are scheduled replays as well, the first replay (early Saturday morning EDT) is identified as Penn State-Florida again. Given what we know about this tournament and Sun Sports' coverage of it, any match not identified as Penn State-Florida is Florida's Saturday match, not one of the other two matches. This is the info I have also. My understanding is Florida matches only on TV. I get FCS Atlantic here on the West Coast and hope this information is correct. Please update if you find any changes.
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Post by jgrout on Sept 6, 2010 19:39:45 GMT -5
Yes, I was basically referring to Lichtman's back row defense, even though she is setting. That makes sense... in another thread somewhere, I mentioned that she led Stanford in digs against Tulane, whose offense was led by right-side hitters whose cross-court attacks were into her coverage zone.
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Post by jgrout on Sept 8, 2010 10:22:57 GMT -5
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Post by Thrill of the 'ville on Sept 9, 2010 6:19:45 GMT -5
www.texassports.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/090810aad.htmlAccording to this article, ALL 4 matches will be on Gatorvision. You'll have to pay for the month though ($9.99). Be weary however, as the volleyball schedule on Gatorzone.com only has the Florida matches marked as being on Gatorvision.
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Post by jgrout on Sept 9, 2010 10:06:50 GMT -5
If they sell a special package on their site and the two extra matches are missing, they'll get a bunch of refund requests.
P.S. The Stanford SID confirmed the existence of this package and is planning a matching release.
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Post by yourvolleyness on Sept 9, 2010 11:06:50 GMT -5
Does anyone have any information on west coast television coverage for this tournament-CSN, FSN, ESPN, what ever. my guide says: FCSA 1pm on Saturday
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Post by GatorVball on Sept 9, 2010 12:50:32 GMT -5
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