2005 is NEBRASKA'S YEAR

[vbfan]

2005 will be the year Nebraska rolls to the title. With the major graduations of most of the top teams this season.

1) USC - Adams, Burdine
2) OSU - Gordon
3) Minnesota - Martin, Bratford, Taatjes
4) Florida - Williams, Chatman, Moscovic
5) Washington - Tomasevic
6) Stanford- Ogonna

I don't see anyone challenging them next year and when they get Jordan Larson, they will put Salemua at Libero and then they will be unstoppable.

[Deleted]

Definitely the frontrunner, but USC has lots of talent and Stanford is adding Barboza.

Both PSU and Minnesota have nice recruiting classes coming in and Hawaii has a lot coming back. Florida also has much talent.

But Jordan Larson will upgrade Nebraska's ball control considerably. They will be awfully good.

[silversurfer]

Yes, Nebraska will be awfully good. But USC does nothing but reload, with Gysin and Copenhagne playing bigger roles and impact frosh.

I just hate to make outlandish statements such as "next year's their year" with soooo much up in the air.

[huskervbfan]

To carry this a bit further, the following table shows the latest Pablo rankings down to #25 and all of the current "probable starting seniors" from Rich Kern site. UCLA loses none also and have already shown what they can do with what they have.

[huskervbfan]

Rk	Team	Name	Pos
1	Nebraska	None
2	Washington	Sanja Tomasevic	OH
3	Penn State	Syndie Nadeau	OH
3	Penn State	Tabatha Eshleman	DS
3	Penn State	Ashley Pederson	OH
4	Florida A&M	Tereza Arellano	OH
4	Florida A&M	Mariela Portocarrero	S
4	Florida A&M	Ivelina Petkova	OH
5	Stanford	Leahi Hall	DS/L
5	Stanford	Jennifer Hucke	OH/RS
5	Stanford	Ogonna Nnamani	OH
6	Minnesota	Trisha Bratford	OH
6	Minnesota	Erin Martin	OH
6	Minnesota	Lindsey Taatjes	S
7	Ohio State	Maya Mapp	MB
7	Ohio State	Stacey Gordon	OH
8	Texas	Bethany Howden	MB/OH
8	Texas	Mira Topic	OH
9	Ohio	Briana Adamovsky	S
9	Ohio	Ashley Elliott	MB/OH
10	USC	Alicia Robinson	OH
10	USC	Keao Burdine	OH
10	USC	Emily Adams	MB
11	Colorado State	Bri Frech	MB
11	Colorado State	Katie Jo Shirley-Cahoon	OH
11	Colorado State	Melissa Courtney	S
12	San Diego	Devon Forster	OH
12	San Diego	Kristen Hurst	RS
13	Louisville	Bing Sun	OH
14	UC Santa Barbara	Mari Bell	S
14	UC Santa Barbara	Kristin Nelson	L
15	Missouri	None
16	Florida	Sherri Williams	MB
16	Florida	Michelle Chatman	MB/RS
16	Florida	Lauren Moscovic	S
17	Georgia Tech	Jayme Gergen	MB
17	Georgia Tech	Laura Kuhn	MB
17	Georgia Tech	Lynnette Moster	OH
17	Georgia Tech	Lauren Sauer	OH
17	Georgia Tech	Marisa Aston	DS
18	St. Marys	Lindsey Bogason	RS
18	St. Marys	Stacey O'Connor	MB
19	Texas A&M	Melissa Munsch	MB/OH
19	Texas A&M	Carrie Moreira	OH
20	Kansas State	Gabby Guerre	S
20	Kansas State	Valeria Hejjas	OH
20	Kansas State	Lisa Martin	MB
21	UCLA	None
22	Tennessee	Whitney Gifford	MB/OH
22	Tennessee	Michelle Piantadosi	OH
23	Arizona	Jolene Killough	MB
23	Arizona	Kelli Mulvany	DS
24	Wichita State	Karen Augspurger	L
24	Wichita State	Sara Younes	RS
25	Illinois	Kathleen Bazzetta	DS/L
25	Illinois	Lauren Harks	L/OH
25	Illinois	Erin Virtue	S

[Deleted]

That's not right for UCLA.

Zartman for one.

Ringel (sometime starter), McFarland.

Cullen and Murphy?

[huskervbfan]

silversurfer said:

Yes, Nebraska will be awfully good. But USC does nothing but reload, with Gysin and Copenhagne playing bigger roles and impact frosh.

I just hate to make outlandish statements such as "next year's their year" with soooo much up in the air.

I hate to but I have to agree. Many thought Nebraska was the team to beat this year but USC took care of that. On paper, Nebraska does look pretty solid next year but who knows what may happen next year.

[dishdaball]

[quote author=(R)uffda! link=board=general&thread=1102895445&start=1#0 date=1102895901]Definitely the frontrunner, but USC has lots of talent and Stanford is adding Barboza.

Both PSU and Minnesota have nice recruiting classes coming in and Hawaii has a lot coming back. Florida also has much talent.

But Jordan Larson will upgrade Nebraska's ball control considerably. They will be awfully good.[/quote]

Stanford is also adding Erin Waller, Alex Fisher, and Foulke Andreakwo (sp) Look for another group of strong frosh on the Farm...........

[huskervbfan]

[quote author=(R)uffda! link=board=general&thread=1102895445&start=5#0 date=1102900427]That's not right for UCLA.

Zartman for one.

Ringel (sometime starter), McFarland.

Cullen and Murphy?[/quote]

The site has Zartman as a Junior. Is that the wrong roster?

[huskervbfan]

Yep, in checking the UCLA site, it looks like last year's roster.

[beachman]

UCLA loses 5 seniors I believe including Zartman.....
Question for the Nebraska fans?? How many who have purchased tickets already will cancel out on the trip? Anyone from Nebraska have a guess on this one?

[arthur]

I am bowing out. Will take my nephews to Disneyland instead. But, I am a solid NU and volleyball fan!

[gatorattack]

As much as I'd like to see it next year----Florida lost a great chance this year.

Next year eventhough talented and adding McCray to the right side they still have a relatively slow setter (ie. Goldhan at Stanford) that is great with accurate passes and only average when having to move. Mary,---recruit some great passers to help your setter out.

Florida looses the heart of the team that took them to the Final Four 2 times and insiders here say there is growing discontentment among some players and with the coaching staff.

[Rich Kern]

Beachman said:

UCLA loses 5 seniors I believe including Zartman.....

I got a message indicating I had bad info on my site. I see they were right I have it fixed now. Looks like UCLA has four seniors and will be losing three normal starters as pointed out by (R)uffda! above.

[roofed!]

Off the top of my head, UCLA has 5, not 4, seniors: Zartman, Ringel, Murphy, Cullen and McFarland.