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Post by chancelucky on Oct 26, 2014 15:14:10 GMT -5
Lot of 5 set matches this weekend with Georgia Tech playing two of them. They came back from 0-2 against Syracuse, went up 2-0 with UNC and lost the last 3. FSU went 0-2 on the road with Pitt and somehow came back.
Georgia Tech looked very good the first 2 sets against UNC. One would have easily thought GT was the ranked team and UNC was the also ran in the ACC. Van Gunst appeared to be having very little trouble with the UNC rightside block. Coach Sagula got thrown out of the match late in the second set. UNC made some radical lineup shifts. Nelson went to the left to allow both Treacy and McCorkle to play right. Nordhoff played middle. The match suddenly turned around. I guess this means UNC not only has a deep bench, they have a deep coaching staff :}. At the end of set 2 the blocks were 4-4 at the end of set 5 it was UNC 13 and Tech 5. Going "big" may well have been the difference.
Definite reminder that the ACC is a very deep conference. Georgia Tech looked very good those first 2 sets.
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Oct 27, 2014 15:59:36 GMT -5
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 27, 2014 15:59:36 GMT -5
Senior Class Awards Finalists were announced today and the ACC is represented well with 3 of the 10 finalists. Go to the website and vote for Savannah Leaf of Miami, Katie Mosher of FSU and Chaniel Nelson of UNC.
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Post by volleyvolleyfan on Oct 27, 2014 17:13:04 GMT -5
Senior Class Awards Finalists were announced today and the ACC is represented well with 3 of the 10 finalists. Go to the website and vote for Savannah Leaf of Miami, Katie Mosher of FSU and Chaniel Nelson of UNC. Very happy for these 3 top athletes within the ACC... they represent our conference very well !!
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Post by volleyvolleyfan on Oct 27, 2014 17:16:53 GMT -5
AVCA Coaches Poll...Week #9
FLORIDA STATE moves up to # 3 HIGHEST RANKING IN ACC HISTORY !!! UNC stays at # 9 DUKE stays at # 21
Pittsburg getting votes (12)
Good to see TOP 25 recognition for the ACC
It continues to remain very tight at the top of the ACC....
WEEKLY ACC HONORS are swept by FSU.. CONGRATS to 2nd time winners: Walch and Freshman, Kubura !!
Also announced today.. national Senior CLASS Awards Finalists... FSU's MOSHER, UNC's, Neilson and Mimai's, Leaf... All TOP LEVEL ATHLETES in the ACC and IMO will be named to ALL ACC 1st team
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Post by Vballin on Oct 27, 2014 22:42:58 GMT -5
Time for me to start watching more ACC matches. Conference is looking stronger.
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Post by 2playsref on Oct 27, 2014 23:42:28 GMT -5
Sagula will be suspended against Miami on Friday night. Interesting to see if that effects the match.
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 27, 2014 23:46:39 GMT -5
Just checked the NCAA stats, the ACC has top ten performers in:
Blocks/set(#8 Karis Watson CU, #9 Burrington FSU, #10 Neuenfeldt UNC) Kills/set(#10 Leaf Miami) Points/set(#10 Leaf Miami) Digs/set(#9 Karelov Duke) Hit%(#5 Amanda Orchard Pitt, #10 Tess Clark L'Ville) Assists/set(#6 Kelsey Williams Duke)
Plus Taner of UNC checks in at #19 on the aces/set list
The ACC is really having it's banner season, now hopefully they can get 5 teams into the tournament then squeeze two or maybe three to the Sweet 16. I did not realize Leaf was having such a stellar year, 4.7 kills per set on 0.302 hitting is great, plus 2.4 dps and the best passer on the team. She looks like the frontrunner for player of the year, but Walch, Sklar and Nelson aren't far behind.
If they do the All-ACC teams like they did last year with 7 people regardless of position, I think it would look like this halfway through the conference season:
Leaf, OH Miami Walch, OH FSU Sklar, OH Duke Burrington, MB FSU Nelson, RS UNC Williams, S Duke Karelov, L Duke
If they don't want Duke to have three on the first team, Sklar may get knocked own in favor of a second middle (Sims?, Neuenfeldt?, Orchard?, Clark?) or possibly a second libero to reward Mosher since she's a senior. I think Walch will keep her spot due to how she played in early season upsets for FSU and to reward their excellent strong season, despite how she compares unfavorably with Leaf and Sklar in conference-only stats. Not sure if I would call Williams top 7 in the ACC, but being two full assists per set ahead of any other setter (mostly because the other three top 4 teams run 6-2's) should get her some recognition.
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 27, 2014 23:52:07 GMT -5
Sagula will be suspended against Miami on Friday night. Interesting to see if that effects the match. Eve Rackham took over nicely on Sunday vs. Georgia Tech after Sagula was thrown out, making a move that Sagula hadn't all year by putting Chaniel Nelson on the left side even though she's a lefty to get her more sets and add some termination. She is a very talented coach and I'm wondering if she may get poached by another school for a head coaching gig soon, or if she's being groomed to take over UNC when Sagula retires. It sucks to have your head coach suspended for a game, but Rackham should be able to stabalize things.
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Post by big10vb on Oct 28, 2014 9:24:03 GMT -5
Sagula will be suspended against Miami on Friday night. Interesting to see if that effects the match. Why will Sagula be suspended against Miami? Does this have something to do with him getting kicked out against GT?
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Post by austintatious on Oct 28, 2014 9:34:41 GMT -5
Sagula will be suspended against Miami on Friday night. Interesting to see if that effects the match. Why will Sagula be suspended against Miami? Does this have something to do with him getting kicked out against GT? Any participant disqualified from a match must sit out the following scheduled match.
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Post by volleyvolleyfan on Oct 28, 2014 10:13:55 GMT -5
To be ejected from a match, Sagula must have behaved in a most unusual manner. What happened...I was at the Pitt match on Friday night and the Pitt coach got a yellow card... but to be ejected?? Can someone please share..
Trianglevolleyball...were you at the match? UNC is your favorite team..what happened?
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Post by n00b on Oct 28, 2014 11:09:08 GMT -5
To be ejected from a match, Sagula must have behaved in a most unusual manner. What happened...I was at the Pitt match on Friday night and the Pitt coach got a yellow card... but to be ejected?? Can someone please share.. Trianglevolleyball...were you at the match? UNC is your favorite team..what happened? The match is available for replay on ESPN3 if you want to check it out yourself. (Play starts at the 1:16:00 mark of the video) At 10-10 in the 3rd set (with UNC trailing 0-2), UNC's RS attacked a ball that went off Georgia Tech's right back defender then landed out of bounds. Somehow, none of the four officials saw the deflection, awarded the point to Georgia Tech and Sagula flipped out. It was certainly a drawn out process. Sagula jumped out of his chair and yelled and immediately got a Yellow Card. That didn't slow him down at all, he continued to yell, and went actually onto the court by a few feet which prompted the Red Card. It still didn't phase him and after another 10 seconds or so, he got tossed.
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Post by 2playsref on Oct 28, 2014 11:10:22 GMT -5
The play happened at 10-10 of the 3rd set. Clear touch from the GT setter on a ball that sailed out. Everyone in the gym saw it except the 8 eyes that needed to see it. Was one of several very interesting decisions by refs in the match. Match can be seen on watchespn.com
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Post by 2playsref on Oct 28, 2014 11:25:19 GMT -5
To be ejected from a match, Sagula must have behaved in a most unusual manner. What happened...I was at the Pitt match on Friday night and the Pitt coach got a yellow card... but to be ejected?? Can someone please share.. Trianglevolleyball...were you at the match? UNC is your favorite team..what happened? The match is available for replay on ESPN3 if you want to check it out yourself. (Play starts at the 1:16:00 mark of the video) At 10-10 in the 3rd set (with UNC trailing 0-2), UNC's RS attacked a ball that went off Georgia Tech's right back defender then landed out of bounds. Somehow, none of the four officials saw the deflection, awarded the point to Georgia Tech and Sagula flipped out. It was certainly a drawn out process. Sagula jumped out of his chair and yelled and immediately got a Yellow Card. That didn't slow him down at all, he continued to yell, and went actually onto the court by a few feet which prompted the Red Card. It still didn't phase him and after another 10 seconds or so, he got tossed. If thats's what happened, Then UNC got a huge break from officials who threw Sagula out of game, as funny as that sounds. A red card should have made it 12-10 and then the yellow/red together should have made it 13-10. Its hard to see card sequence from officials from tv feed but if thats how it played out then both GT bench and refs were asleep at wheel.
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Oct 28, 2014 11:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 28, 2014 11:27:48 GMT -5
To be ejected from a match, Sagula must have behaved in a most unusual manner. What happened...I was at the Pitt match on Friday night and the Pitt coach got a yellow card... but to be ejected?? Can someone please share.. Trianglevolleyball...were you at the match? UNC is your favorite team..what happened? I watched it online, very very poor reffing throughout the match. Not sure if it had to do with the gyms atmosphere, but several questionable calls went GT's way. It was clearly getting in Sagula and the players heads the first couple sets and that completely blown call was probably Just the last straw for Sagula. Unprofessional behavior but I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same if a call like that was made when I was playing.
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