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Post by haw2991 on Sept 20, 2014 1:31:50 GMT -5
Lol, Dave took a small shot at Rus.
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Post by volleyballfan99 on Sept 20, 2014 1:35:08 GMT -5
One thing I can say about Kendra Koelsch, she has very quick feet for a tall person. Her feet seem a lot quicker then Tayler Higgins.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Sept 20, 2014 1:37:07 GMT -5
soon after 9/11, the ncaa moved away from allowing seeds to host. but prior to that, seeds were guaranteed to host as well. Was there a reason for not allowing seeds an automatic host? yeah the reason was 9/11. (and it was terrible that they'd use that excuse to begin with). but soon after 9/11, the ncaa used the excuse of wanting to "limit travel" to justify send seeds on the road. even when there were no longer concerns about flying teams all over for the tournament, the ncaa stuck to that simply as a cost-saving measure. the effect of all this is that the tournament started becoming more and more regionalized since that time. and that's how we've seen an imbalance and unequal distribution in the brackets some years. imo
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Post by mcman27 on Sept 20, 2014 1:38:22 GMT -5
Was having an issue with stats... Can anyone post some key player/team stats?
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Post by volleyballfan99 on Sept 20, 2014 1:47:05 GMT -5
Was there a reason for not allowing seeds an automatic host? yeah the reason was 9/11. (and it was terrible that they'd use that excuse to begin with). but soon after 9/11, the ncaa used the excuse of wanting to "limit travel" to justify send seeds on the road. even when there were no longer concerns about flying teams all over for the tournament, the ncaa stuck to that simply as a cost-saving measure. the effect of all this is that the tournament started becoming more and more regionalized since that time. and that's how we've seen an imbalance and unequal distribution in the brackets some years. imo That is why PSU plays so many patsies in Tournament play. If anyone has noticed, PSU was not that great until after 9/11. NCAA going to regional selections allowed PSU to basically walk through the Tournament until the Regional Finals. Whereas other teams around the national had to battle from the get go in the Tournament.
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Post by fetchin on Sept 20, 2014 1:48:17 GMT -5
yeah the reason was 9/11. (and it was terrible that they'd use that excuse to begin with). but soon after 9/11, the ncaa used the excuse of wanting to "limit travel" to justify send seeds on the road. even when there were no longer concerns about flying teams all over for the tournament, the ncaa stuck to that simply as a cost-saving measure. the effect of all this is that the tournament started becoming more and more regionalized since that time. and that's how we've seen an imbalance and unequal distribution in the brackets some years. imo That is why PSU plays so many patsies in Tournament play. If anyone has noticed, PSU was not that great until after 9/11. NCAA going to regional selections allowed PSU to basically walk through the Tournament until the Regional Finals. Whereas other teams around the national had to battle from the get go in the Tournament. Is this some kind of joke?? PSU won a championship in 1999!!! And would have won it in 1998 as well if it wasn't for Misty May being incredible.
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Post by vb4me on Sept 20, 2014 1:50:21 GMT -5
Why would Hawaii play a team like Northern Arizona twice. Seems like a waste of time when Wisconsin plays Washington, Stanford plays Penn State, Florida plays USC. Getting a "W" doesn't mean you're getting better and so far the Hawaii schedule has only included three quality opponents. As for Higgins, maybe if she was getting better passes she could run an offense.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Sept 20, 2014 1:54:35 GMT -5
yeah the reason was 9/11. (and it was terrible that they'd use that excuse to begin with). but soon after 9/11, the ncaa used the excuse of wanting to "limit travel" to justify send seeds on the road. even when there were no longer concerns about flying teams all over for the tournament, the ncaa stuck to that simply as a cost-saving measure. the effect of all this is that the tournament started becoming more and more regionalized since that time. and that's how we've seen an imbalance and unequal distribution in the brackets some years. imo That is why PSU plays so many patsies in Tournament play. If anyone has noticed, PSU was not that great until after 9/11. NCAA going to regional selections allowed PSU to basically walk through the Tournament until the Regional Finals. Whereas other teams around the national had to battle from the get go in the Tournament. um, no. regardless of their opponents in the tournament, penn st has always field strong teams. they went to 3 straight finals from 1997-1999, going toe-to-toe with teams like stanford and long beach st, before breaking through to win the program's first ncaa title in 1999. let's not mistake the quality of penn st.'s teams from that era for the quality of their early round opponents, even before penn st built the dynasty they have now. their program's history runs very deep. there's no need to diminish the history before penn st.'s recent run.
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Post by mcman27 on Sept 20, 2014 1:54:40 GMT -5
Why would Hawaii play a team like Northern Arizona twice. Seems like a waste of time when Wisconsin plays Washington, Stanford plays Penn State, Florida plays USC. Getting a "W" doesn't mean you're getting better and so far the Hawaii schedule has only included three quality opponents. As for Higgins, maybe if she was getting better passes she could run an offense. Because they had an open weekend in the schedule and NAU agreed? Oh, and this schedule seems about right for this young Wahine team, I think we already established that.
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Post by WahineFan44 on Sept 20, 2014 1:54:47 GMT -5
Why would Hawaii play a team like Northern Arizona twice. Seems like a waste of time when Wisconsin plays Washington, Stanford plays Penn State, Florida plays USC. Getting a "W" doesn't mean you're getting better and so far the Hawaii schedule has only included three quality opponents. As for Higgins, maybe if she was getting better passes she could run an offense. Hawaii schedule is far better than psu
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Post by volleyballfan99 on Sept 20, 2014 1:57:54 GMT -5
Why would Hawaii play a team like Northern Arizona twice. Seems like a waste of time when Wisconsin plays Washington, Stanford plays Penn State, Florida plays USC. Getting a "W" doesn't mean you're getting better and so far the Hawaii schedule has only included three quality opponents. As for Higgins, maybe if she was getting better passes she could run an offense. Northern Arizona was a last minute addition to the schedule. Dave could not get 3 teams in here for a forth tournament and Pepperdine who he had schedule here pulled out at the last minute. Dave did not want to leave this weekend open and did not want to travel to the mainland knowing the Wahine had to open Conference play on the road.
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Sept 20, 2014 2:03:51 GMT -5
Why would Hawaii play a team like Northern Arizona twice. Seems like a waste of time when Wisconsin plays Washington, Stanford plays Penn State, Florida plays USC. Getting a "W" doesn't mean you're getting better and so far the Hawaii schedule has only included three quality opponents. As for Higgins, maybe if she was getting better passes she could run an offense. some of the matchups you mention are part of conference vs. conference challenges. they're set up by the conference, not necessarily matches that the individual schools scheduled themselves. it seems like this has started to be a trend now. hawaii has always had a free weekend after their 3 early season tournaments, and before the conference season begins. and they've usually invited a team down here to play a pair of matches (pepperdine has come down a lot for these, BYU has come down recently, cal poly, i believe used to come down (when they fielded stronger teams). last year, hawaii went on the road for the first time in a long while during this weekend in the "preseason." nau is a first. but they come in here with a great win/loss record and will go back and be competitive (if not, win) the big sky. i always prefer seeing tougher teams on the schedule, but given the makeup of this year's hawaii team, i don't mind having nau on the schedule.
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Post by Seahawks 1972 on Sept 20, 2014 2:13:41 GMT -5
Who do u think will be Hawaii's toughest opponent in the Big West this year? Themselves ;-)
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Sept 20, 2014 2:22:56 GMT -5
Was having an issue with stats... Can anyone post some key player/team stats? magill, 11k .500 4 blocks taylor, 11k .208, 2 aces, 5 blocks, 9 digs greeley, 7k .111, 3 digs olevao, 6K .357, 4 aces, 10 digs adolpho, 6k .750, 4 blocks higgins, 31 assists, team hit .298 mendoza, 14 digs, 2 aces i like that hawaii hit well as a team. a rarity this season. and i liked seeing adolpho have a good night.
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Post by LanaiBoy on Sept 20, 2014 2:27:36 GMT -5
Interesting that in this particular match, Hawaii went to primarily Kalei Greeley and Nikki Taylor for the out-of-system, "garbage" sets, including some to the back-row for Nikki. I thought the team would use Manu-Olevao for this task.
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