Why is Penn State

[fanofbigten]

bringing in a setter transfer for this fall? Has Yanz left the program? The reportedly ex-Tennessee setter Chelsea Noble has a visit set up for this weekend at Penn State and from the talk she has already been offered a scholarship. Another thread had said she visited Purdue and Ohio State. Purdue had a freshman setter this past fall and another coming in this fall. Ohio State lost an all american setter but has a freshman that never played and a frosh coming in. Why does Penn State need another setter with the 2 good ones they have?

[AntennaMagnet]

Actually the athletic PSU hitters made an average PSU setter look pretty good. In fact, setting Hodge over and over and over again was fairly simple until she ran out of steam by the end of the season. Furthermore, PSU could not diversify its offense enough to run with the big dogs on the west coast. They need Sammy T the Second and I doubt any transfer or current player will come close to a bygone era.

[Reach]

Yanz is a better setter than Glass, glass is a better blocker and perhaps better defensively. Glass can't set the middle, Yanz can.

Its a tough pick, but I go with yanz setting and glass hitting on the right.

[fanofthegame]

Did Yanz redshirt last year? Maybe Mr. Rose will have Glass set & hit and either Yanz or this Tennessee setter would be the other setter in the back row. He has tons of guns to hit so the 6-2 seems to be a good way to get all his attackers on the floor. I just don't see having 3 scholarship setters on the roster at the same time and all 3 potentially being in the same class if the Tennessee kid has to redshirt because of the transfer.

[Keystonekid]

I was unaware that PSU is bringing in a transfer setter. In fact, PSU was and is unaware they are bringing in a transfer setter. I hate when players transfer to a school without the knowledge of the school.

[jgrout]

fanofthegame said:

if the Tennessee kid has to redshirt because of the transfer.

If a women's VB player obtains a release, the NCAA allows her to transfer to a new program without a redshirt year... but some conferences impose a redshirt year for intra-conference transfers. Back when I lived in Big Ten country, the conference would only let athletes sign one letter of intent within their jurisdiction (their own teams). It didn't matter whether an athlete ever reported (or started classes) at a program... once he (or she) signed, he (or she) could play for that program or walk on somewhere else after a redshirt year.

[VBCOACH]

tyorder1 said:

Yanz is a better setter than Glass, glass is a better blocker and perhaps better defensively. Glass can't set the middle, Yanz can.

Its a tough pick, but I go with yanz setting and glass hitting on the right.

Wrong. Hitting on the rightside will be 6' 4" redshirt freshman Blair Brown, who Russ says is "scary good."

[Reach]

vbcoach said:

tyorder1 said:

Yanz is a better setter than Glass, glass is a better blocker and perhaps better defensively. Glass can't set the middle, Yanz can.

Its a tough pick, but I go with yanz setting and glass hitting on the right.

Wrong. Hitting on the rightside will be 6' 4" redshirt freshman Blair Brown, who Russ says is "scary good."

I forgot about her. Yanz is still a better setter, a true setter.

[fanofbigten]

Keystone, Chelsea Noble, a player that was the starting setter all last year for Tennessee has been offered a scholarship by Penn State and is visiting this weekend officially. Her old club coaches and people around her know this and that she has also visited two other Big Ten schools and had offers. I am sure that the PSU coaching staff knows she is visiting this weekend.

[Go Iowa]

vbcoach said:

tyorder1 said:

Yanz is a better setter than Glass, glass is a better blocker and perhaps better defensively. Glass can't set the middle, Yanz can.

Its a tough pick, but I go with yanz setting and glass hitting on the right.

Wrong. Hitting on the rightside will be 6' 4" redshirt freshman Blair Brown, who Russ says is "scary good."

I'd run that 6-2 with Brown for Yanz. That way they're load in the front row all of the time.

[psuvb]

Penn State finishes 32-3 starting 2 freshmen, 2 sophomores, 1 junior and 1 senior with a sophomore libero. Glass and Hodge only two players who stayed on the court all the time. Hodge finishes with 551 kills, Fawcett 483, [glow=red,2,300]MIDDLE Harmotto 316[/glow], MIDDLE Walbridge 189, and RS Sayler 177. The team finishes hitting .323 and Glass is just a good blocker?

[OverAndUnder]

So what will be PSU's excuse in 2007 for missing the Final Four again?

[silversurfer]

If Yanz was the better setter, she would have been setting last year. She wasn't, so she didn't.

IF Penn State offered Noble a scholarship, that means Glass is out of a job, setting wise, and is going to become a hitter, or PSU thinks the 6-2 is the way to go, get Price back on the floor.

[D. B. Cooper]

silversurfer said:

IF Penn State offered Noble a scholarship, that means Glass is out of a job, setting wise.

Why? That's a pretty big assumption.

If PSU has offered Noble, that doesn't mean they're looking are a new starting setter. All it tells me is that PSU has an open scholarship with the transfer of Halloway to UCLA and instead of letting it go to waste, why not offer it to Noble. What do they have to lose? If she accepts it, maybe they get a better setter or maybe not but either way they keep her from going to another school that they have to compete against, i.e. OSU. IMO, top programs like to hoard talent, if they can really use them or not. It's better to have the kid sitting on your bench than across the net trying to beat you.

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Why is Penn State?

That's too deep for me.