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Post by noreaster14 on Dec 30, 2018 22:29:51 GMT -5
Looking back on their careers (or most of their careers if redshirted), who do you all feel are the top 10 for this class now? Who lived up to or exceeded their SA ranking?
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Post by bball on Dec 31, 2018 0:07:42 GMT -5
Let me get this straight: You are an "All-American" on VT and took the time to sign in or at least reply in order to offer your anonymous opinion that a player who had a terrific year did not impress you greatly. Do I have that right? Why, why, why would you do that? What did you accomplish? It couldn't have made you feel better. I know for a fact that it made no one else feel better. So, why? What was the point? I can promise you that no one, NO ONE, gives your unsolicited opinion any credence. All it does is make us all worse off for having read it and me doubly worse off for being so pissed off that I felt the need to respond. Please and this goes for you as well as all others who feel the need to contribute on forums: respond productively or for goodness sake refrain. FWIW, he/she is only impressed with anything that has Huskers on it. Duello, being from Wisconsin, obviously wouldn’t qualify. Trust me, our Stanford players were not even spared by him/her. Lies.... Sun doesnt live up to her class at the moment, nor did schwarzenblock. But they still have time I call a spade a spade babe. Duello still has time, but didn't shine when it mattered. Rettke sure is deserving. I mean, my goodness was I the only one who saw the regional final with WI vs IL?
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Post by Disc808 on Dec 31, 2018 0:48:54 GMT -5
Who could ever forget “Jenna Gray is going to be a DS” lol
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Post by gogophers on Dec 31, 2018 5:44:25 GMT -5
I'm not that impressed, sorry. Let me get this straight: You are an "All-American" on VT and took the time to sign in or at least reply in order to offer your anonymous opinion that a player who had a terrific year did not impress you greatly. Do I have that right? Why, why, why would you do that? What did you accomplish? It couldn't have made you feel better. I know for a fact that it made no one else feel better. So, why? What was the point? I can promise you that no one, NO ONE, gives your unsolicited opinion any credence. All it does is make us all worse off for having read it and me doubly worse off for being so pissed off that I felt the need to respond. Please and this goes for you as well as all others who feel the need to contribute on forums: respond productively or for goodness sake refrain. It's a forum, not a fan club. It serves, in some cases, as an outlet for people who want to express an opinion in a world where hardly anyone else cares about vb. Nothing wrong with that. I agree that an opinion to the effect of I think she's great/I don't think she's great, without more is rather content-less and thus not interesting to the rest of us. So be it. I don't see why anyone should feel a need to make sure his responses are productive, which is to say, positive.
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Post by bball on Dec 31, 2018 9:00:18 GMT -5
Who could ever forget “Jenna Gray is going to be a DS” lol I said that for her freshman season. I didnt think she would have beat out the senior. But yea, she proved me wrong for sure.
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Post by John Tawa-VolleyballMag.com on Dec 31, 2018 9:54:13 GMT -5
Let me get this straight: You are an "All-American" on VT and took the time to sign in or at least reply in order to offer your anonymous opinion that a player who had a terrific year did not impress you greatly. Do I have that right? Why, why, why would you do that? What did you accomplish? It couldn't have made you feel better. I know for a fact that it made no one else feel better. So, why? What was the point? I can promise you that no one, NO ONE, gives your unsolicited opinion any credence. All it does is make us all worse off for having read it and me doubly worse off for being so pissed off that I felt the need to respond. Please and this goes for you as well as all others who feel the need to contribute on forums: respond productively or for goodness sake refrain. It's a forum, not a fan club. It serves, in some cases, as an outlet for people who want to express an opinion in a world where hardly anyone else cares about vb. Nothing wrong with that. I agree that an opinion to the effect of I think she's great/I don't think she's great, without more is rather content-less and thus not interesting to the rest of us. So be it. I don't see why anyone should feel a need to make sure his responses are productive, which is to say, positive. It doesn't have to be positive; it has to be substantive. The follow up comments from the original poster help explain his/her position, which I appreciate. I recognize the difference between HS and college players and the need of some to use their fandom to criticize players competing on scholarship.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 13:14:34 GMT -5
FWIW, he/she is only impressed with anything that has Huskers on it. Duello, being from Wisconsin, obviously wouldn’t qualify. Trust me, our Stanford players were not even spared by him/her. Lies.... Sun doesnt live up to her class at the moment, nor did schwarzenblock. But they still have time I call a spade a spade babe. Duello still has time, but didn't shine when it mattered. Rettke sure is deserving. I mean, my goodness was I the only one who saw the regional final with WI vs IL? My goodness, babe! J. Tawa: this poster has - since I first joined 13 months back - shown Very Little 'street cred'. You have THAT, at least. As a former player/AC, I have insights which reveal to me who here are posers, and who are not phonies. That patriotic volleyball avatar- plus his pontifications - notwithstanding, said dude is clueless.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2018 23:10:05 GMT -5
Let me get this straight: You are an "All-American" on VT and took the time to sign in or at least reply in order to offer your anonymous opinion that a player who had a terrific year did not impress you greatly. Do I have that right? Why, why, why would you do that? What did you accomplish? It couldn't have made you feel better. I know for a fact that it made no one else feel better. So, why? What was the point? I can promise you that no one, NO ONE, gives your unsolicited opinion any credence. All it does is make us all worse off for having read it and me doubly worse off for being so pissed off that I felt the need to respond. Please and this goes for you as well as all others who feel the need to contribute on forums: respond productively or for goodness sake refrain. It's a forum, not a fan club. It serves, in some cases, as an outlet for people who want to express an opinion in a world where hardly anyone else cares about vb. Nothing wrong with that. I agree that an opinion to the effect of I think she's great/I don't think she's great, without more is rather content-less and thus not interesting to the rest of us. So be it. I don't see why anyone should feel a need to make sure his responses are productive, which is to say, positive. GET HIM
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Post by azvb on Jan 1, 2019 12:01:47 GMT -5
So, who didn’t make this list, but turned out pretty good. I’ll start:
Roni Jones-Perry Lyndsey Haddock-Eppich
Both COMPLETELY off the radar in 2015
Continue........
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Post by naujack85 on Jan 1, 2019 18:43:02 GMT -5
IMHO, this class is less talented than the 2014 class. I don't see any Washingtons or Franttis on this class however Foecke (Nebraska) and Smith/Hodson can always make a case here. I just don't think this is a stronger class in general. I would take Poulter any day though than any setter on that 2014 class. And this class probably has better liberos than last year. As for 2016-2017, I am hearing a lot of strong players coming out of California and Texas. It will be a dogfight to recruit and sign them. I don't think you can say Frantti was looked at in that light coming in, she was highly regarded, but not considered a Washington or Alhassan type talent. She's just been so good in matches thus far that its changed perception retroactively. Pretty hilarious reading old posts and seeing how far from reality they can end up being (my own included). While Frantti was clearly an important part of the 2014 championship, many players around her on that team definitely inflated her overall ability (see Hancock and Courtney). Her career afterwards was essentially that of a middling player who was mediocre in just about all aspects of the game. Never even made an all B1G team, and really seemed to flounder in tight situations. Now looking back, comparing Frantti to Foecke? Laughable.
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Post by gogophers on Jan 1, 2019 22:50:03 GMT -5
So, who didn’t make this list, but turned out pretty good. I’ll start: Roni Jones-Perry Lyndsey Haddock-Eppich Both COMPLETELY off the radar in 2015 Continue........ Wow. I didn't know this. What is the explanation? As far as I can tell, RJP wasn't even in the next 150, much less the top 100, and yet she ended touted by many as deserving of NPOY. I can't recall any other first team AA, who wasn't a Senior Ace top 100.
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Post by WahineFan44 on Jan 1, 2019 22:57:35 GMT -5
So, who didn’t make this list, but turned out pretty good. I’ll start: Roni Jones-Perry Lyndsey Haddock-Eppich Both COMPLETELY off the radar in 2015 Continue........ Wow. I didn't know this. What is the explanation? As far as I can tell, RJP wasn't even in the next 150, much less the top 100, and yet she ended touted by many as deserving of NPOY. I can't recall any other first team AA, who wasn't a Senior Ace top 100. Chloe Mann. Karsta Lowe.
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Post by gogophers on Jan 1, 2019 23:10:28 GMT -5
Wow. I didn't know this. What is the explanation? As far as I can tell, RJP wasn't even in the next 150, much less the top 100, and yet she ended touted by many as deserving of NPOY. I can't recall any other first team AA, who wasn't a Senior Ace top 100. Chloe Mann. Karsta Lowe. Thanks for the enlightenment. KL was, at least, in the 101-250 group. Mann appears to be truly off the radar.
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Post by huskervolleyball on Jan 1, 2019 23:21:45 GMT -5
So, who didn’t make this list, but turned out pretty good. I’ll start: Roni Jones-Perry Lyndsey Haddock-Eppich Both COMPLETELY off the radar in 2015 Continue........ Wow. I didn't know this. What is the explanation? As far as I can tell, RJP wasn't even in the next 150, much less the top 100, and yet she ended touted by many as deserving of NPOY. I can't recall any other first team AA, who wasn't a Senior Ace top 100. Christina Houghtelling IIRC wasn’t a senior ace and won NPOY in 2005
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Post by horns1 on Jan 1, 2019 23:40:09 GMT -5
I'm not that impressed, sorry. Let me get this straight: You are an "All-American" on VT and took the time to sign in or at least reply in order to offer your anonymous opinion that a player who had a terrific year did not impress you greatly. Do I have that right? Why, why, why would you do that? What did you accomplish? It couldn't have made you feel better. I know for a fact that it made no one else feel better. So, why? What was the point? I can promise you that no one, NO ONE, gives your unsolicited opinion any credence. All it does is make us all worse off for having read it and me doubly worse off for being so pissed off that I felt the need to respond. Please and this goes for you as well as all others who feel the need to contribute on forums: respond productively or for goodness sake refrain. That's what this poster does all the time on here.
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