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Post by cbrown1709 on Jan 27, 2023 9:45:30 GMT -5
Let's play pretend. Who would she start over? If Francis is healthy, not her lol most likely Vicini. That is my issue, Vicini's later speed is pretty good. How is Ofoegbu's?
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Post by tnp101 on Jan 27, 2023 10:25:15 GMT -5
Maybe I missed this, but when did Stanford actively pursue transfers? We have quite a few transfer in Football with the new coach Troy. It is a way to go if they want to be competitive. Football can do it. Why can't VB? I remember hearing Muir said something that we needed to adapt and looked into the portal as well given that the SA's are qualified academically.
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Post by Word on Jan 27, 2023 11:27:30 GMT -5
Maybe I missed this, but when did Stanford actively pursue transfers? We have quite a few transfer in Football with the new coach Troy. It is a way to go if they want to be competitive. Football can do it. Why can't VB? I remember hearing Muir said something that we needed to adapt and looked into the portal as well given that the SA's are qualified academically. Think of Ofoegbu similar to a Gates situation. She's a very academic kid hoping for a great masters program. The fact that she is an elite volleyball player only makes the fit better. And personally I would think Ofoegbu would immediately be the top middle for Stanford. She may have a learning curve as the level gets higher, but she was touching near 10'10" entering college. Surround her with elite pins to open up hitting angles and watch out.
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Post by bobbk on Jan 27, 2023 13:18:05 GMT -5
Actually Stanford Football has one transfer right now. Hopefully more next month during the signing period But other sports have had transfers. Some grad some undergrad.
However Stanford does have a newer philosophy
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Post by cbrown1709 on Jan 27, 2023 15:33:15 GMT -5
Well maybe there is hope that Ofoegbu is waiting on admissions.
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Post by SakiBomb25 on Jan 27, 2023 15:42:33 GMT -5
We have quite a few transfer in Football with the new coach Troy. It is a way to go if they want to be competitive. Football can do it. Why can't VB? I remember hearing Muir said something that we needed to adapt and looked into the portal as well given that the SA's are qualified academically. Think of Ofoegbu similar to a Gates situation. She's a very academic kid hoping for a great masters program. The fact that she is an elite volleyball player only makes the fit better. And personally I would think Ofoegbu would immediately be the top middle for Stanford. She may have a learning curve as the level gets higher, but she was touching near 10'10" entering college. Surround her with elite pins to open up hitting angles and watch out. Well a middle’s lateral speed is more important than how high she can touch because you want a middle who can close the block. It does not good if your middle can touch 10-10, but can’t close the block, imho. Though I also suppose it depends is she expected to be more of an offensive middle or defensive middle?
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Post by stanfankev on Jan 27, 2023 18:03:04 GMT -5
Even if we don't snag a good middle for '23 (and it looks like we won't), we'll be ok with Vicini and Francis. If they improve just a little bit I'll feel good about the middle situation.
Plus if defense improves and someone steps up as the terminal OH, we'll be scary. Scary good.
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Post by oldnewbie on Jan 27, 2023 18:31:09 GMT -5
Even if we don't snag a good middle for '23 (and it looks like we won't), we'll be ok with Vicini and Francis. If they improve just a little bit I'll feel good about the middle situation. Plus if defense improves and someone steps up as the terminal OH, we'll be scary. Scary good. You don't really even need them to improve substantially, just to be healthy and play.
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Post by hipsterfilth on Jan 27, 2023 18:45:00 GMT -5
Even if we don't snag a good middle for '23 (and it looks like we won't), we'll be ok with Vicini and Francis. If they improve just a little bit I'll feel good about the middle situation. Plus if defense improves and someone steps up as the terminal OH, we'll be scary. Scary good. You don't really even need them to improve substantially, just to be healthy and play. This may be an unpopular opinion, but it seems to me that the connection with Miner just needs more reps, which makes sense, esp given Francis just played middle regularly for the first time last season. I know Vicini lacks some physicality, but I think that's just a confidence thing. I don't think they need to improve all that much esp if even one of the OH's coming in prove to be a bit more consistently terminal than Baird.
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Post by ay2013 on Jan 27, 2023 19:17:19 GMT -5
Even if we don't snag a good middle for '23 (and it looks like we won't), we'll be ok with Vicini and Francis. If they improve just a little bit I'll feel good about the middle situation. Plus if defense improves and someone steps up as the terminal OH, we'll be scary. Scary good. You don't really even need them to improve substantially, just to be healthy and play. Exactly. Stanford only had 1 dumb loss last year which was @ Oregon. The other losses were to San Diego, in 5, where they actually outscored San Diego (and a match they could have won in 4 with only a two point difference), Penn State, also in 5, even when Penn State had a season-high blocking match and the service ace/error differential was -11 for Stanford and +3 for Penn State, to Texas (who won the title), and Louisville (national runner up). Taking into account general improvement year over year that most teams do, Stanford doesn't need to reinvent the wheel here. These point differentials are mostly at the margins - like service errors in better point-scoring rotations
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Post by cbrown1709 on Jan 28, 2023 10:35:27 GMT -5
You don't really even need them to improve substantially, just to be healthy and play. Exactly. Stanford only had 1 dumb loss last year which was @ Oregon. The other losses were to San Diego, in 5, where they actually outscored San Diego (and a match they could have won in 4 with only a two point difference), Penn State, also in 5, even when Penn State had a season-high blocking match and the service ace/error differential was -11 for Stanford and +3 for Penn State, to Texas (who won the title), and Louisville (national runner up). Taking into account general improvement year over year that most teams do, Stanford doesn't need to reinvent the wheel here. These point differentials are mostly at the margins - like service errors in better point-scoring rotations I consider San Diego a dumb loss.
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Post by Word on Jan 28, 2023 16:47:17 GMT -5
Think of Ofoegbu similar to a Gates situation. She's a very academic kid hoping for a great masters program. The fact that she is an elite volleyball player only makes the fit better. And personally I would think Ofoegbu would immediately be the top middle for Stanford. She may have a learning curve as the level gets higher, but she was touching near 10'10" entering college. Surround her with elite pins to open up hitting angles and watch out. Well a middle’s lateral speed is more important than how high she can touch because you want a middle who can close the block. It does not good if your middle can touch 10-10, but can’t close the block, imho. Though I also suppose it depends is she expected to be more of an offensive middle or defensive middle? I guess my response was more to whoever posted that Francis would be the clear best middle even if Onye came. I think Stanford will be very happy with Onye ends up there and she will make them better.
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Post by cbrown1709 on Jan 30, 2023 13:25:00 GMT -5
I guess Ofoegbu visited Pitt this weekend.
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Post by bobbk on Feb 7, 2023 21:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by cbrown1709 on Feb 8, 2023 0:30:50 GMT -5
And Jess Robinson to Duke.
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