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Post by vbkahuna on Aug 28, 2024 0:30:53 GMT -5
Overall Louisville was much better prepared and played more as a cohesive unit than Wisconsin. They also matched up very well on the front row with Wisconsin, which isn't used to seeing a big front row blocking theirs pretty consistently. Kudos to Louisville and its coaches.
As for Wisconsin, they have some real work to do. The freshman setter has talent but hasn't yet developed a rhythm and connection with her hitters. That will come. I see a bigger problem though with their back row in serve receive. It was pretty inconsistent and just exacerbated the problem with an inexperienced setter. It may take more than a few matches to iron things out, but I expect they will be a powerhouse again once they do.
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Post by ay2013 on Aug 28, 2024 0:31:41 GMT -5
Shall we make Ms. Landfair volleytalk famous and coin her name? To pull a "Landfair" or to be "Landfaired" is when a program expects a commitment from a player, but said player reneges before making the actual commitment, thus leaving the program in a lurch. I felt like Ayden Ames did that a little bit to Nebraska. But that was before they brought in Leyla Blackwell of all people to be a backup. I think the real lesson is that it pays to be able to run circles around everyone else in NIL money. It’s Nebraska by a country mile, then Texas waaay behind Nebraska, and then you can’t even see the next program after those two everyone else is so far behind. I don’t understand how this settlement is going to change things. Only that it’s going to change things a lot. But everything is in such flux. However, in terms of volleyball Nebraska simply dwarfs everyone else in resources. Outside of something like what happened to Nijaree Canady in softball, where Texas Tech grossly over paid her with a $1 million deal, Nebraska is going to win every portal battle if compensation is a factor. Nebraska really chopped Wisconsin at the knees with this one. No question about it. yep, everything is becoming so transactional. It's really hard to tell who is and isn't genuine about the things they say and do (and this applies to coaches/programs as well, surely). |
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Post by staticb on Aug 28, 2024 0:37:26 GMT -5
The settlement isn't meant to change things like the balance--it's just to give schools the right to run their own NIL Collectives and do things under the umbrella of the school. It will allow schools to market their own athletes and share in those profits. Schools with big followings will obviously make more--Nebraska and Texas have more fans who would buy volleyball player jerseys for example.
It might also force some mid-budget schools to choose what sports they want to be good at. Some might choose volleyball--after all if a football school is going to increase their scholarship count to 100, then they have to add more to women's sports somewhere. But you can't really change the NIL differential.
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Post by houstonbear15 on Aug 28, 2024 0:51:10 GMT -5
And her getting name dropped didn’t help her team win 😭 It’s gonna be very hard to beat a top 5 team while only getting 2 kills from your second OH spot. Like kudos to her for going out there and trying in her first match, but there was definitely an impact. TSC(?) Wisc. OH was not in the OH 2 Spot:she was playing the OH1 spot: so Franklin is in front row twice with smrek and the freshman is only with smrek 1 time: which means the hitter helping new OH carry the load is Franklin; i know franklin had bad ankle from USA thing: but her rapid weight loss seems to also have effected her ball velocity?? A guess: but Wisconsin’s issue will be low and shaky number of quality OH’s: and outside pressure, and a freshman setter with lots of expectations on her. Along with a tough pre-season schedule. Wisc stay into the process you’ll come out other end ok!!! I didn’t mean second OH as in OH2, but just as the second outside in the lineup complementary to Franklin, whoever it is. Regardless of if it’s Orzol or TSC, they’re gonna need to produce more than 0.5 kills/set. |
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Post by ay2013 on Aug 28, 2024 0:56:58 GMT -5
I picked Louisville to upset because of potential early setter connection issues for Wisconsin, and that played a part at times, but those 17 SERVICE ERRORS? That sealed their fate. Perhaps, but I think people are overrating the service errors in this match. First of all, Wisconsin was only a +8 in service errors for the match, and half of them came in just one set (set 2). Service errors are NOT a zero sum game as it relates to volleyball. Keeping the serve in play just gives the serving team a higher probability of winning the point (as opposed to the 0% chance in committing the error), but it's not a 100% chance the team is winning the point. Against a quality team, the odds that a serving team will win the point when the serve is in play is almost surely under 50%. So even if Wisconsin didn't committ those additional 8 service errors, you are probably only talking 3, maybe 4 additional points for Wisconsin anyway. In set 4, Wisconsin and Louisville both committed the same number of service errors (3) yet Louisville was +5 in points scored. The service errors did not seal Wisconsin's fate, their lack of kills from the LS sealed their fate. |
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Post by princessavb on Aug 28, 2024 0:58:54 GMT -5
Overall Louisville was much better prepared and played more as a cohesive unit than Wisconsin. They also matched up very well on the front row with Wisconsin, which isn't used to seeing a big front row blocking theirs pretty consistently. Kudos to Louisville and its coaches. As for Wisconsin, they have some real work to do. The freshman setter has talent but hasn't yet developed a rhythm and connection with her hitters. That will come. I see a bigger problem though with their back row in serve receive. It was pretty inconsistent and just exacerbated the problem with an inexperienced setter. It may take more than a few matches to iron things out, but I expect they will be a powerhouse again once they do. For Lville Cabello has been playing with the Cards for 8 months now and you can see they have a good connection with her, its been about a month for Charlie time will tell |
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Post by b1gvb23 on Aug 28, 2024 1:23:37 GMT -5
Neither libero was impressive but I feel like the two libero system along with using two DS’s was wayyyy too many subs for Wisconsin. They never got in rhythm and everything felt very chaotic. Ooh the way I thought you were including Elena Scott in this statement at first… Scott was brilliant! I know she was a setter but she truly makes Louisville shine out of system |
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Post by rjaege on Aug 28, 2024 3:43:16 GMT -5
I mean, it was supposed to be Landfair. Instead she's on the bench at Nebraska. It's tough to go after someone else when you think Landfair is all locked up, and then she isn't. Shall we make Ms. Landfair volleytalk famous and coin her name? To pull a "Landfair" or to be "Landfaired" is when a program expects a commitment from a player, but said player reneges before making the actual commitment, thus leaving the program in a lurch. Are you serious? Your name-calling mad at a prospective recruit that committed to another school? Keep that up I'm sure it will help future recruiting at WI ... NOT! You also accuse her of regeging, but I never heard her verbally commit to WI. Sounds like sour grapes AMUS. Again you are hurting your cause IMO. Edit: My bad. Suspect you are not a WI fan. Still no reason to rant over a SA's chose of schools IMO. |
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Post by ay2013 on Aug 28, 2024 3:48:31 GMT -5
Shall we make Ms. Landfair volleytalk famous and coin her name? To pull a "Landfair" or to be "Landfaired" is when a program expects a commitment from a player, but said player reneges before making the actual commitment, thus leaving the program in a lurch. Are you serious? Your name-calling mad at a prospective recruit that committed to another school? Keep that up I'm sure it will help future recruiting at WI ... NOT! You also accuse her of regeging, but I never heard her verbally commit to WI. Sounds like sour grapes AMUS. Again you are hurting your cause IMO. oh, uh I don't actually care about Wisconsin's recruiting, it was mostly a joke at Landfair. |
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Post by HOLIDAY on Aug 28, 2024 3:53:40 GMT -5
Are you serious? Your name-calling mad at a prospective recruit that committed to another school? Keep that up I'm sure it will help future recruiting at WI ... NOT! You also accuse her of regeging, but I never heard her verbally commit to WI. Sounds like sour grapes AMUS. Again you are hurting your cause IMO. oh, uh I don't actually care about Wisconsin's recruiting, it was mostly a joke at Landfair. Hey man of integrity as usual. |
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Post by ay2013 on Aug 28, 2024 4:40:53 GMT -5
oh, uh I don't actually care about Wisconsin's recruiting, it was mostly a joke at Landfair. Hey man of integrity as usual. coming from you?  |
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Post by skullars on Aug 28, 2024 5:40:54 GMT -5
Overall Louisville was much better prepared and played more as a cohesive unit than Wisconsin. They also matched up very well on the front row with Wisconsin, which isn't used to seeing a big front row blocking theirs pretty consistently. Kudos to Louisville and its coaches. As for Wisconsin, they have some real work to do. The freshman setter has talent but hasn't yet developed a rhythm and connection with her hitters. That will come. I see a bigger problem though with their back row in serve receive. It was pretty inconsistent and just exacerbated the problem with an inexperienced setter. It may take more than a few matches to iron things out, but I expect they will be a powerhouse again once they do. After watching the first three sets, I had the same assessment. I wasn’t too hyped on Wisconsin before the season, thought pre-season #3 was too high given some struggles they could have. Those struggles were on display last night. (1) Serve receive - haven’t seen numbers but by eye test the setter was scrambling off net all night. The dual liberal didn’t seem effective. (2) Setter/hitter connection - Even on good passes there seemed to be a lot of tips and timing was off (3) Service Errors - I didn’t anticipate this one pre-season but the errors were painful. This should however improve over the season but may also fluctuate Agree it will likely take more than a few matches to work out the deficiencies. |
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Post by milkmandan on Aug 28, 2024 6:18:12 GMT -5
IMO this loss is squarely on Sheffields inability to grab an OH from the portal. Blah setting is to be expected, it's the first match of the season - we saw poor setting in the Kentucky/Nebraska match as well. But the bigger problem is that Wisconsin doesn't have an outlet option on the left side for three rotations. For a program the caliber of Wisconsin, who has national championship aspirations, is coaching negligence not to have a viable option on the left side at all times. I mean, it was supposed to be Landfair. Instead she's on the bench at Nebraska. It's tough to go after someone else when you think Landfair is all locked up, and then she isn't. Is a team with Sarah Franklin, Anna Smrek, Devyn Robinson, and Connor Booth really whining about not having enough capable attackers? |
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Post by toonscivb on Aug 28, 2024 6:20:24 GMT -5
Watching the first set now. Understandable there is some bad connections with freshman setters in their first games. Louisville felt it harder than Wisconsin did at the start.
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Post by toonscivb on Aug 28, 2024 6:21:12 GMT -5
I am not looking forward for this site to host the National Championship come December. I don't need all the flashing lights during the lull in between points. Keep the lights on, its distracting as a viewer.
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