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Post by big10+4 fan on Sept 30, 2019 10:00:37 GMT -5
Logic doesn’t always play out with these polls. Fingers crossed Wait for it....wait for it....the GBR crowd will come by with some comments. No, I think most, if not all of us, agree Baylor should be #1.
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Post by esneed on Sept 30, 2019 10:33:49 GMT -5
Baylor is very good because they look at everything in their recruiting. They evaluate players based on the hitting but makes sure the hitter can play defense (most can't). They recruit good defenders that can score from back row or from serving. They recruit players that can do more and some non-traditional - GIA serves!
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Post by houstonbear15 on Oct 2, 2019 20:44:31 GMT -5
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Post by WahineFan44 on Oct 3, 2019 14:07:01 GMT -5
I was one of those, "is Baylor really number one" people, but upon watching them dismantle a good Oklahoma team, Ill be the first to say I was wrong. This team is legit. They just all play well together, like a well Oiled machine. OH2 and Opp may still be a little weak for them, but they have the potential. Minus Hawaii, rooting for this team to go all the way and win it.
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Post by ay2013 on Oct 3, 2019 14:27:27 GMT -5
Baylor is very good because they look at everything in their recruiting. They evaluate players based on the hitting but makes sure the hitter can play defense (most can't). They recruit good defenders that can score from back row or from serving. They recruit players that can do more and some non-traditional - GIA serves! This seems a bit premature given what Baylor has done over the years. Baylor is very good now because Yossiana Pressley turned out to be very good. Or are you making the representation that players like Pressely and Milana were specifically wooed into the program because they could play good defense?
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Post by eotexas5 on Oct 3, 2019 14:36:14 GMT -5
Baylor is very good because they look at everything in their recruiting. They evaluate players based on the hitting but makes sure the hitter can play defense (most can't). They recruit good defenders that can score from back row or from serving. They recruit players that can do more and some non-traditional - GIA serves! This seems a bit premature given what Baylor has done over the years. Baylor is very good now because Yossiana Pressley turned out to be very good. Or are you making the representation that players like Pressely and Milana were specifically wooed into the program because they could play good defense? I agree here. TCU and maybe even Texas A&M have had better recruiting classes and have not yet had the same success as Baylor. I think what Pressley is for Baylor is what McCall is for TCU. Take Pressley out of this Baylor team and it's completely different. I'm hoping McCall returns soon and the Frogs make a run. Better for the Big 12 especially with Kansas being down.
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Post by lovevolley on Oct 3, 2019 15:14:10 GMT -5
Baylor is very good because they look at everything in their recruiting. They evaluate players based on the hitting but makes sure the hitter can play defense (most can't). They recruit good defenders that can score from back row or from serving. They recruit players that can do more and some non-traditional - GIA serves!
Gia also passes!! Don’t know why they don’t play her 6 rotations. When she was at Maryland, she was a major threat from the back row!!
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Post by houstonbear15 on Oct 3, 2019 16:18:33 GMT -5
This seems a bit premature given what Baylor has done over the years. Baylor is very good now because Yossiana Pressley turned out to be very good. Or are you making the representation that players like Pressely and Milana were specifically wooed into the program because they could play good defense? I agree here. TCU and maybe even Texas A&M have had better recruiting classes and have not yet had the same success as Baylor. I think what Pressley is for Baylor is what McCall is for TCU. Take Pressley out of this Baylor team and it's completely different. I'm hoping McCall returns soon and the Frogs make a run. Better for the Big 12 especially with Kansas being down. The whole “take Pressley out of Baylor” thing is TIRED. 1) People said the same thing about Katie Staiger but Baylor still managed to host when she had an injury-ridden senior season. 2) Take Plummer from Stanford, Rettke from Wisconsin, Quade from Illinois, Edmond from Kentucky- OF COURSE things are gonna be a little different if a team doesn’t have their star 3) BUT we don’t know who replaces them as a recruit. There’s no telling who would end up at Baylor had Pressley never came. 4) We aren’t living in a what if world, so the what if Pressley wasn’t there isn’t relevant on the court until she’s no longer there 5) Stafford is the returning two-time All-American from last season, not Pressley
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Post by houstonbear15 on Oct 3, 2019 16:20:29 GMT -5
Baylor is very good because they look at everything in their recruiting. They evaluate players based on the hitting but makes sure the hitter can play defense (most can't). They recruit good defenders that can score from back row or from serving. They recruit players that can do more and some non-traditional - GIA serves!
Gia also passes!! Don’t know why they don’t play her 6 rotations. When she was at Maryland, she was a major threat from the back row!! Since Pressley doesn’t pass much, they need the best passers out on the court. Bramschreiber is a better passer/defender than Milana. They don’t need her offense from the backrow enough to lose Bramschreiber’s defense
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 3, 2019 16:48:53 GMT -5
TCU without McCall, as we’ve seen, is not a tourney team. The same is not true for Baylor and Presley. The way some of y’all talk about Baylor being a one-trick squad is downright disrespectful to Lock-in, Stafford, and company. There are three 1st or 2nd team all-Americans on this team, plus a top 3 freshman middle in the country. Very silly to equate them to TCU.
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Post by houstonbear15 on Oct 3, 2019 17:00:01 GMT -5
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Post by WahineFan44 on Oct 3, 2019 17:02:53 GMT -5
OH NO! Prayers to everyone on campus that they remain safe. Twitter said possible shooter at Aparment nearby and he might be on the run
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Post by houstonbear15 on Oct 3, 2019 17:06:35 GMT -5
OH NO! Prayers to everyone on campus that they remain safe. Twitter said possible shooter at Aparment nearby and he might be on the run I’m a current student and live about 3 streets over from where this is occurring. I swore I heard gunshots but my roommate didn’t think so. I’m safe at home but unsure exactly what is going on
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Post by ay2013 on Oct 3, 2019 17:37:38 GMT -5
I agree here. TCU and maybe even Texas A&M have had better recruiting classes and have not yet had the same success as Baylor. I think what Pressley is for Baylor is what McCall is for TCU. Take Pressley out of this Baylor team and it's completely different. I'm hoping McCall returns soon and the Frogs make a run. Better for the Big 12 especially with Kansas being down. The whole “take Pressley out of Baylor” thing is TIRED. 1) People said the same thing about Katie Staiger but Baylor still managed to host when she had an injury-ridden senior season. 2) Take Plummer from Stanford, Rettke from Wisconsin, Quade from Illinois, Edmond from Kentucky- OF COURSE things are gonna be a little different if a team doesn’t have their star 3) BUT we don’t know who replaces them as a recruit. There’s no telling who would end up at Baylor had Pressley never came. 4) We aren’t living in a what if world, so the what if Pressley wasn’t there isn’t relevant on the court until she’s no longer there 5) Stafford is the returning two-time All-American from last season, not Pressley Well, for what it's worth, "I" didn't compare Baylor to TCU. I was responding to the the post that said that "Baylor is very good because they look at everything in their recruiting. They evaluate players based on the hitting but makes sure the hitter can play defense (most can't). They recruit good defenders that can score from back row or from serving. They recruit players that can do more and some non-traditional" To me, that's de-emphasizing what Pressely is doing for this team right now. I don't think that Baylor is where they are because the coaching staff had a crystal ball to determine which HS hitters can play defense. This isn't to suggest that Baylor wouldn't be a quality team with quality players sans Pressley (by all accounts they would be), but I don't think they are "very good" without Pressley. That's just my opinion though. completely separately (but I'm bored and feel like a good VT argument) I don't see what Staiger and Baylor hosting in 2017 has to do with anything. She was available in the preseason which is where Baylor established the SOS and record to win the matches necessary to host. If you are saying that Baylor is good enough to only drop a few matches in the big 12 without it's star player, then fine, I'd agree with that, but that fact doesn't make Baylor "very good", it speaks to the lack of depth in the Big 12 in any given year which is hit or miss after Texas. Colorado beat that Baylor team pretty handily on Baylors home floor.
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Post by raian13 on Oct 3, 2019 17:42:47 GMT -5
TCU without McCall, as we’ve seen, is not a tourney team. The same is not true for Baylor and Presley. The way some of y’all talk about Baylor being a one-trick squad is downright disrespectful to Lock-in, Stafford, and company. There are three 1st or 2nd team all-Americans on this team, plus a top 3 freshman middle in the country. Very silly to equate them to TCU. True. Stanford and McGhee are very good on their own right.
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