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Post by Island on Oct 5, 2004 16:22:12 GMT -5
yeah, I posted that message rather late in the night and I forgot to proofread it. You already notice the spelling errors. I meant Nevada.
As for the pressure of fans, that really isn't what I'm saying. I think we can make it to the Final four but I also know that our ceiling is not even close to being fulfilled just like you pointed out jus4me. We are not even close to peaking and we are at #4?! This team is a project and is still improving and learning. They got a good lesson last weekend and I expect them to smoothen out considerably. The fact that their progress and their execution under pressure is above many programs right now doesn't mean they can't improve. This team won't sit on their laurels and I expect the ranking to motivate them. I know there is a special quality about this team, jus4me, I'm pretty sure I've posted about it in previous posts. Maybe I'm just a worrier, so if it seems I'm complaining, rest assured that it is just surprise. I'm puzzled who would vote for us after not voting #1 after victories over top 25 teams, then voting for us after winning at Fresno and Nevada.
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Post by SaltNPepper on Oct 5, 2004 16:39:21 GMT -5
I'm puzzled who would vote for us after not voting #1 after victories over top 25 teams, then voting for us after winning at Fresno and Nevada. You can't look a Hawaii in a vacuum. The previous week, Minnesota had 40 first place votes and Penn State had 2. This week, those two teams on got 1 vote. Those other 41 votes had to go somewhere. Most went to Washington, but not everyone is sold on Washington yet, so USC got 1 and Hawaii got two. The votes for Hawaii had less to do with their victories and more to do with the other teams losses.
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Post by Island on Oct 5, 2004 16:57:28 GMT -5
I know that. I just don't see the losses making that much of a difference unless we are using a six degrees of separation formula here. Hawaii has not played a single team from the Big 12, SEC or Big Ten. Why would voters who gave #1s to Penn. State and Minnesota give a vote to us? I'm not selling Hawaii short, I think they are a great team but it seems peculiar people are voting us over Washington unless they played us. Matthies? Banachowski? Rubio? Feller? They are all on the poll. So is Deitre Collins but that's just speculation. You are right that if the coaches of Bethune-Cookman and Wisconsin-Green Bay look at result and feel that they'll give it to someone else, they are entitled to. It stills leaves me weirded out.
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Post by wang pu on Oct 6, 2004 1:35:38 GMT -5
Oregon State should be getting some votes. Started off slow, but win over San Diego and Nevada, and went 5 with St Marys. #38 in last Pablo. And too think I was the only one following OSU volleyball.....
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Post by wang pu on Oct 6, 2004 1:38:30 GMT -5
I'm also really surprised that the Wahine has moved up to number 4. That is really surprising. I personally don't think the Wahine should be that high. I honestly think being ranked 6th last week was still too high for the Wahine. I feel there are still a lot of teams out there that are better than the Wahine. And one correction from your post Island: Hawai`i played Fresno State and Nevada not Rice. Plus you have to factor in, if teams previously ranked above UH lose and Hawaii wins, then not only does Hawaii at least stay in the same spot, but the higher ranked team may fall below Hawaii. So, not so much that Hawaii is doing something great, just the other teams are not doing so great.
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Post by SaltNPepper on Oct 6, 2004 7:02:01 GMT -5
Why would voters who gave #1s to Penn. State and Minnesota give a vote to us? If not Hawaii, who then? If they wanted to still give their vote to an undefeated team, they had 4 choices: Washington - previous rank of 2; Hawaii - previous rank of 5; Ohio State - previous rank of 16; or Texas - previous rank of 18: As you would expect, most went to Washington, but I don't think it is very surprising at all that Hawaii picked up a couple.
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