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Post by midwestfan on Mar 15, 2004 23:52:05 GMT -5
Scores: 30-19
30-21
30-21
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Mar 16, 2004 0:04:39 GMT -5
There may have been 100 in attendance.
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Post by just...theDH on Mar 16, 2004 12:34:19 GMT -5
Wow that one was certainly no contest, huh.
Pacificgirl, are you counting both teams and coaches, trainers, linesman, snack bar workers, and scorer's table staff in that number? lol
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Post by Rocky on Mar 16, 2004 13:14:15 GMT -5
I heard on the internet broadcast that Matt Gawlik was trying to get the wave going. Must have been difficult with only 100 in attendance. No wonder the broadcaster was laughing. ;D
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Post by just...theDH on Mar 16, 2004 13:44:45 GMT -5
Uh, it's MIKE Gawlik. But point well taken.
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Post by Rocky on Mar 16, 2004 13:48:38 GMT -5
My bad for the name. Good job by the libero to try to get the huge numbers motivated!
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Post by lalalaluuuke on Mar 16, 2004 19:30:25 GMT -5
ok so it was more like a ripple? or a splash?
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Post by georgia(pacific)girl on Mar 16, 2004 20:03:09 GMT -5
Including trainers, etc. maybe 115 in attendance...(it is spring break at pacific)
I didn't see Mikey trying to get the wave going, but, the match was pretty boring. I may have dozed off...
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Post by beachman on Mar 16, 2004 21:52:41 GMT -5
It is really sad that the MPSF teams have to play such a grueling schedule which always leaves at least a team or two that could easily whip anything from the EIVA or MIVA at home while the patsies from East of the Rockies get two entries in the FF!
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Post by midwestfan on Mar 16, 2004 22:03:48 GMT -5
Dude, give it a rest!  Do you honestly believe that the NCAA would keep men's volleyball around with, oh I don't know, maybe 12 teams from the West. I don't think so. There are not enough teams to run a tournament (like the women do), so until men's volleyball grows to that point, you are stuck with us "patsies". Get over it! |
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Post by beachman on Mar 17, 2004 9:19:25 GMT -5
Well Dude, maybe you are right  Maybe in another 10 to 20 years they will actually figure out the difference between a football and a volleyball, in the Midwest I mean ;D |
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Post by Smooth "954" Mike on Mar 17, 2004 10:23:17 GMT -5
Beachman - You seem to know more than Al Scates himself, when does your book come out. Maybe some of the midwest schools could hire you to come out and do a coaches clinic.
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Post by midwestfan on Mar 17, 2004 10:42:06 GMT -5
We have football in the midwest?  |
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Post by Saruman on Mar 17, 2004 10:55:57 GMT -5
Rutgers has very little depth....and they need to be at full strength to be competitive at all.
1. They are not at full strength.
2. Traveling is never easy and especially travelling where you are from a East Coast time Schedule. Statstics in any sport have proved this.
2b. Are these excuses....no way....just factors that might explain such a dismal performance for Rutgers
3. From anything that I've learned this year it is do not overreact to any result from any game in Men's Volleyball. I don't think we are done with the "teams not showing up syndrome"
4. The Final Four issue ist Tot! Forget it.
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Post by My2Sense on Mar 17, 2004 16:56:11 GMT -5
Dude, give it a rest! Do you honestly believe that the NCAA would keep men's volleyball around with, oh I don't know, maybe 12 teams from the West. I don't think so. There are not enough teams to run a tournament (like the women do), so until men's volleyball grows to that point, you are stuck with us "patsies". Get over it! There are years when a team/s from the East or Midwest deserve to be in the Final Four. IPFW had a great team a few short years ago. Penn ST. too. Lewis last year (if they were legal). But most years not. Lewis comes out here for their Western tour this year and gets beat up by lowly USC, UCLA and even Cal Baptist, then goes back home and beats the then #8 Ball St. The top 8 teams in the MPSF are better than Ball St. this year. But they or someone else of similar talent level will be awarded a FF slot. It isn't fair for anyone who isn't legitimately one of the top 4 teams in the country to not be in the Final Four. Excuse me all of you East of the Rockies, but that's just common sense. So what's the solution? There is clearly a need to have an 8 team tournament, where two or three of them can come from East of the Rockies, but the first round matches are seeded so the #1 ranked team plays the #8 team, the #2 team plays the #7 team, and so on. The remaining 4 then proceed to the LEGITIMATE Final Four tournament. This is a win win for everyone. This is a constant source of conversation out here. Everyone I talk with thinks the only way to keep everyone happy is to have an 8 team tournament. It's the best way to do it, and more teams will be able to play in the big dance. They'd be good for the sport and would attract more fans to important matches. The NCAA has kept the Eastern teams propped up long enough, much to the detriment of the successful and better teams who, on merrit, deserve the slots in the Final Four. An 8 team tournament would send only deserving teams to the FF, no matter what conference they're in. I would think the Eastern teams would welcome this opportunity that would actually give them more opportunities to earn legitimate FF slots. |
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Maybe in another 10 to 20 years they will actually figure out the difference between a football and a volleyball, in the Midwest I mean ;D
