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Post by CaliforniaVBfan on Apr 6, 2003 21:03:43 GMT -5
Unconfirmed rumors have it that former Stanford women's head volleyball coach Don Shaw has been spotted watching the men's team.  |
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Post by sweetieVBfan on Apr 6, 2003 21:34:56 GMT -5
that may be because former stanford women's coach don shaw IS the coach of the men's team.
am i missing some kind of sarcasm here?
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Post by FanOfStanford on Apr 6, 2003 23:43:33 GMT -5
For the sake of volleyball, I don't want to feed some intended sarcasm. But I have also been wondering about Don Shaw since he took over the men's team. He seems to just sit and watch the games during competition and doesn't seem to get involved. Is this his new coaching style? What happened to the best ever girls' coach in the US?
I did watch something really strange last weekend. I visited my sister in LA and we went to watch the Cardinal/Long Beach match where the Cardinal unexpectedly won in four. Great celebration anticipated. My sister and I happened to run into the Cardinal Team in a nearby restaurant. They shared a long table with some fans/friends/parents and the assistant coaches and everybody seemed to have a really good time. At a nearby table was Don Shaw with some other people and he never paid any attention to the team, nor did the team pay attention to him. They were so disconnected all evening that my sister said that this could not possible be the team's coach, maybe I just mistook him for somebody else.
Can somebody clue me in?
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Post by Charlie on Apr 7, 2003 13:15:24 GMT -5
At a nearby table was Don Shaw with some other people and he never paid any attention to the team, nor did the team pay attention to him. They were so disconnected all evening ... I'm puzzled why you think this is unusual. From both sides. it seems perfectly normal to me. The players probably want to have a little fun, and having a head coach in their face might not be conducive to that. And the coach might like to just let the players be young college kids and do their thing. Coaches like Don Shaw and Al Scates don't try to be best buddies with their players. If you saw a middle-aged high school coach not sitting with his players after a tournament, would you think that this is unusual? Again, same thing - they live in two different worlds. |
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Post by Insider on Apr 7, 2003 13:38:52 GMT -5
I agree with Charlie. This isn't that unusual. Besides, let the players hang with family and friends and let the coach do the same.
Coaches who have been around (and been successful) have their own ways of doing things.
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Post by sweetieVBfan on Apr 7, 2003 14:21:48 GMT -5
alright alright, i get the sarcasm now. i wasn't very knowledgeble with don shaw's coaching tactics i guess.
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Post by hwy101 on Apr 7, 2003 15:22:44 GMT -5
I do notice that Shaw's coaching the Stanford's women's team is a much different style from his coaching of the men's team. With his women's team, he was much more vocal. He is more subdued with the men's team although there are instances were he could be very intense. My take on this: in a Rollshot interview, he says that men are much more aggressive than women. So he probably feels the need to pump up the women players more than the men.
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Post by Rollshot on Apr 7, 2003 15:40:58 GMT -5
In a joint study by Stanford and Northwestern, several Ph.D candidates actually conducted field studies and concluded that, yes indeed, boys are different from girls. Former East German scientists at Georgia Tech have read the report and are disputing the findings.
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Post by Jewel on Apr 8, 2003 15:53:16 GMT -5
I met Don Shaw once. He's very tall.
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Post by sweetieVBfan on Apr 8, 2003 20:59:59 GMT -5
I met Don Shaw once. He's very tall. that is a wonderful observation. |
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Post by vbguest on Apr 9, 2003 18:20:49 GMT -5
Shaw will finally show what he is made of with his own recruits
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Post by Insider on Apr 9, 2003 19:34:24 GMT -5
I find it humorous that people on this site talk about coaches like Shaw and Scates like they have something to prove, or show "what they're made of". They have nothing to prove to anyone, especially to the anonymous pseudo-experts (myself included) of Volleytalk.
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Post by vbducky on Apr 9, 2003 20:11:27 GMT -5
I agree ( insider ). How can anyone believe anything that is posted on this site , that they don't have first hand knowledge of . Most are from players during breaks from studying , just making jokes. I was reading the girls site and the same thing goes on over there. Let's keep all comments truthful and non harming.
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