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Post by StanfordFan on Nov 9, 2006 20:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by jgrout on Nov 9, 2006 21:21:56 GMT -5
Though Barboza is a complete player having a first-team All-American season, she's a sophomore and Thompson and Meriwether are seniors. I think it will come down between those two for POY, with the one who leads a second-half road upset of Stanford being the front-runner. If neither does (or... shudder... both do), perhaps we'll have Pac-10 Co-POYs (as OPP Kerri Walsh and MB Lauren Cacciamani were National Co-POYs in 1999).
Though Newcombe has been more important to Oregon than Carico has been to USC, as a lefty setter who can spike, Carico already creates significant matchup problems. I would go with Carico.
P.S. Did anyone notice that last week's column was almost invisible. I found it by guessing the URL (not really all that hard). With the conference office in Walnut Creek (not too far from Cal), could an Old Blue have "axed" a column saying "Stanford Is In The Driver's Seat" as a "Big Spike" prank? I've seen stranger things...
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Post by fanofpac10 on Nov 10, 2006 1:25:18 GMT -5
Wow- impressively detailed article, And I agree!
Thompson is deserving of the POY award and I would love to see it go to a setter. Merriweather is a clear favorite too - she is pretty much unstoppable. I would vote for Thompson and Merriweather as co-POY. But, if Stanford wins the pac 10, it will go to Barboza. The interesting thing to me, is that while Barboza was still a high school player, she was already known as the next 'greatest' collegiate/Olympic player - and she is. Thompson and Merriweather have only become great since they arrived in college. That, and because they are seniors, makes me hope either or both of them are honored with this award.
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Post by pedro el leon on Nov 10, 2006 2:31:32 GMT -5
P.S. Did anyone notice that last week's column was almost invisible. I found it by guessing the URL (not really all that hard). With the conference office in Walnut Creek (not too far from Cal), could an Old Blue have "axed" a column saying "Stanford Is In The Driver's Seat" as a "Big Spike" prank? I've seen stranger things... what's the url? I was wondering about that... and fanofpac10, Thompson was great before college too, she just never got the recruiting buzz that many other players received. she led her high school team to 3 state titles and her club team to like 7th at the nationals. |
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Post by BearClause on Nov 10, 2006 2:42:00 GMT -5
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Post by cbrown1709 on Nov 10, 2006 3:10:52 GMT -5
she led her high school team to 3 state titles and her club team to like 7th at the nationals. Didn't her club team win JOs one year with Stevie, Christal and Courtney? |
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Post by StanfordFan on Nov 10, 2006 12:45:53 GMT -5
I wouldn't be terribly upset if Barboza or Larson didn't get POY this year. Unless they're leaps and bounds above more senior players, I have no problem with spreading the wealth around and giving the award to juniors or preferably seniors who are also dominant.
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Post by jgrout on Nov 10, 2006 14:28:47 GMT -5
Last week's column was only linked to the Pac-10 volleyball page this week. The URLs for that site's Web pages are so regular that one can find everything they create, linked or not. As for the "conspiracy theory"... I started that on our own Web board as a pre-Big Spike gag (and is there ever a bad time for a Stanford fan to rag Cal?).
P.S. There is a reason conference HQ is near Cal (fifteen or so miles east in Walnut Creek). When the old Pacific Coast Conference (a ten-team conference with Idaho and Montana instead of Arizona and Arizona State) splintered over cheating accusations (largely accurate), Cal's then-Chancellor, Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg, fresh from his experiences as Cal's athletic representative, founded the AAWU (USC, UCLA, UW, Cal and Stanford). After Washington State and the Oregon schools joined, it became the Pac-8 (and, later, the Pac-10).
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Post by BearClause on Nov 10, 2006 14:37:38 GMT -5
Last week's column was only linked to the Pac-10 volleyball page this week. The URLs for that site's Web pages are so regular that one can find everything they create, linked or not. As for the "conspiracy theory"... I started that on our own Web board as a pre-Big Spike gag (and is there ever a bad time for a Stanford fan to rag Cal?). For the most part I find that the regulars on this board don't typically bring many "traditional rivalry" gags/spats to this board. If you want that, there's always the Booty for that. We've got people here who follow both UCLA and USC (OK - maybe just bigfan). Perhaps the most back in forth here has been between Florida and Hawaii fans, but it's still primarily a discussion about the volleyball and less about ancillary matters. |
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