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Post by star035 on Mar 10, 2006 11:02:32 GMT -5
Was the PhD student for Arizona the 5 foot nothing outside or the one with a full head of gray hair...cause that dude with the gray hair is either really unlucky or a little old to be playing club whether he is a grad student or not. The guy with the gray hair. I recall that he's listed as 6'3". I talked to him for a while, and he is actually a very nice guy ...he was quite interested in discussing midwest v'ball.
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Post by gobears on Mar 10, 2006 14:13:54 GMT -5
Info on Cal's Al Glitz from last year. He was studying ...at the London School of Economics (no academic slouch there!!!) ....wanted to get his grad degree from a top school in the US. So he researched great US schools who had decent club vball teams. Didn't take him long to settle on Berkeley. We hadn't heard of him till he walked into open tryouts....hello, I am Al. I am a grad student here and would like to play. Yes he played adult vball in England while going to school there.
Same story with the Danish grad student we had in 2001. And the Argentine player before that.
They walk in the door....hello we say.....who are you? nice to meet you.
As far as keeping a US undergrad player so we might have finished higher last year??? Are you serious? Nobody there was better than Al. And certainly no one here in Berkeley. And how many teams would have loved to have finished in the top 10? Sure we all want to win the whole thing, but putting down a team that finished 3rd for 5th or top 10? Get a grip...
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Post by mumvb on Mar 11, 2006 0:55:41 GMT -5
Haha, sorry Cal guys...
I didn't mean to give the impression that I believe you're bringing in foreign guys to run your club. I guess ringer really was the wrong word to use.
All I meant to imply was that to be a great team, you have to take advantage of the talent that you are given, because in club... there is no recruiting. A team goes from #1 and drops off the map almost every year.
And as for putting down the top 10? That's more for the U of I comparison. I mean, you're right, there's nothing wrong with a yearly #3 finish... but the fact is, you can't go around telling the #1 team in the nation (and last years runner-up) that they should run their team similarly. What they're doing is obviously working... just look at the results.
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