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Post by WahineFan44 on Dec 11, 2023 14:24:39 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed
This is clearly not a back up setter committ.
This is a "we want someone new committ"
Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win.
It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO.
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Post by widdledumpling on Dec 11, 2023 14:28:56 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO. Woah, hold your horses! There's not a commit of any kind Also, idk, but was Ewert a "we want something new commit" to try to unseat SKT? I don't know, I just don't see her coming here. If she did there would be 4 setters on the roster.
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Post by hookem1 on Dec 11, 2023 14:29:33 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO. Okay let’s slow down she hasn’t committed anywhere lol
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Post by valley18 on Dec 11, 2023 14:31:10 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO. My friends and I were just talking about this LOL. We understand needing a backup setter but a setter with the caliber of Carlson is something. Idk what Carlson plans are but I doubt she goes anywhere to just ride the bench. We were saying that Ella should talk to the coaching staff and try to get a good explanation as to why they need someone like Carlson to come in
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Post by slxpress on Dec 11, 2023 14:31:30 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO. There’s no commitment, yet. The role of the coaching staff is to make the roster better. That is not necessarily my role as a fan. Every fan gets to do it differently, and the truth is I get emotionally attached to players. Like I did Kahahawai. I am also emotionally attached to Swindle and to Halter. I’d also like to get a chance to see what Byrd can do. If the staff decides it’s important to bring in high caliber talent at any of those positions, I get it. But there’s still going to be a part of me that wants to see Swindle as the starting setter and Halter as the starting libero, because the truth is I get a kick out of rooting for them.
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Post by Longhorn20 on Dec 11, 2023 14:32:03 GMT -5
I don’t think anyone comes to Texas (or Nebraska, Wisconsin, Stanford, etc.) thinking they will easily have a starting spot. Part of a coach’s job is to create the best team possible. I don’t doubt for a second that more competition wouldn’t push Ella to be even better - that just seems like her personality.
I also think Elliott has seen what happens when you only have one scholarship setter on the roster and they get hurt - I think that is fair to consider also.
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Post by longhorn9214 on Dec 11, 2023 14:32:05 GMT -5
FOR REAL HOLD YOUR HORSES
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Post by basil on Dec 11, 2023 14:33:36 GMT -5
maybe Marina is transferring after this season to try and play somewhere on scholarship
who knows what the deal is
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Post by horns1 on Dec 11, 2023 14:34:13 GMT -5
IMO our immediate need is a MB first. Didn't we fill that immediate need with Ayden? I know we love having more experience, but Nebraska has shown this year what you can do if you give your all-world freshmen a chanceI think true freshmen middles being ready to play at a high level is the exception, not the rule. For us, redshirt freshman Mariana Singletary started the first 2 matches in Cali this season while Asjia was injured; she had a lot of inexperienced moments. As great as Rachel Adams turned out to be for us, her true freshman season was very raw even though she was a starter on our national semi-final team back in 2008. Ames and Bunton will have no starting experience this season; Singletary will be a junior academically, but very limited collegiate playing time. I would like to see us add an experienced upperclassmen MB to balance out the (in)experience level.
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Post by horns1 on Dec 11, 2023 14:36:07 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO.
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Post by widdledumpling on Dec 11, 2023 14:37:40 GMT -5
Something I feel like is often missed about last year: Texas not only had the best A team in the country, we had the best B team in the country. Ewert started 4 years at CO and Bergmark would be many schools' primary MB (and was for Cal for 3(?) years). Parra goes without saying. Deandra is starting for GT this year.
IMO that's a huge reason we won the natty that year.
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Post by slxpress on Dec 11, 2023 14:39:19 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO. My friends and I were just talking about this LOL. We understand needing a backup setter but a setter with the caliber of Carlson is something. Idk what Carlson plans are but I doubt she goes anywhere to just ride the bench. We were saying that Ella should talk to the coaching staff and try to get a good explanation as to why they need someone like Carlson to come in Not saying that conversation won’t take place, or hasn’t taken place already, but I would have a pretty quick explanation for her. “Our job is to the team as a whole. When we recruited you we made it clear that we loved your talent, your character, and felt you fit exactly what we’re looking for in the Texas culture. We still feel that way. We feel like you helped lead us into the Final Four and hopefully beyond. As you know, our goal is to be competing for national championships every single year. You have to be aware of how fragile our situation is at setter right now. You’ve been nursing an injury for the last third of the season now. What if you couldn’t play? We want someone on the roster who can step in for the national championship match and lead us to victory. We’re not as confident as we’d like to be we have that right now. No offense to Crownover or any one else on the roster, but being the setter for a national championship team is a very high bar. You’ll have to compete for your position just like everyone else does. We firmly believe you thrive on competition and this will help make everyone better. Iron sharpens iron. We do appreciate you bringing this up with us. I love our authenticity with one another. Do you have any other questions?”
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Post by slxpress on Dec 11, 2023 14:42:32 GMT -5
Something I feel like is often missed about last year: Texas not only had the best A team in the country, we had the best B team in the country. Ewert started 4 years at CO and Bergmark would be many schools' primary MB (and was for Cal for 3(?) years). IMO that's a huge reason we won the natty that year. Parra. Pierce. Singietary. Heinrich. Miller. Kahahawai. As great as that A team was, to amass that kind of talent among the backups was insane. There’s a good chance we never see that kind of overall talent on a roster again.
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Post by WahineFan44 on Dec 11, 2023 14:51:07 GMT -5
If I was ella i would be pissed This is clearly not a back up setter committ. This is a "we want someone new committ" Look I get it, texas wants the best of the best, I dont blame elliot. His job is to win. It just truly feels like he has no trust in his players IMO. There’s no commitment, yet. The role of the coaching staff is to make the roster better. That is not necessarily my role as a fan. Every fan gets to do it differently, and the truth is I get emotionally attached to players. Like I did Kahahawai. I am also emotionally attached to Swindle and to Halter. I’d also like to get a chance to see what Byrd can do. If the staff decides it’s important to bring in high caliber talent at any of those positions, I get it. But there’s still going to be a part of me that wants to see Swindle as the starting setter and Halter as the starting libero, because the truth is I get a kick out of rooting for them. I said exactly that. Elliots JOB is to make the roster better. its to win. Hes doing exactly that. My comment may been too premature but it seems clear that texas is showing interest in carlson. Im just saying if I was Ella, I would not be the most happy. Again from an outside perspective, it just seems like Elliot does not really have faith in the players he recruited. If texas was working with what other programs got, I would understand wanting a top talent. Like for some teams, a top ten prep outside is a once in a lifetime get. For texas, they have plenty riding their bench. Im not saying elliot is wrong for going after Carlson. I just can see why recruits might feel some way (not saying they do but I can see it)
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Post by slxpress on Dec 11, 2023 15:00:13 GMT -5
There’s no commitment, yet. The role of the coaching staff is to make the roster better. That is not necessarily my role as a fan. Every fan gets to do it differently, and the truth is I get emotionally attached to players. Like I did Kahahawai. I am also emotionally attached to Swindle and to Halter. I’d also like to get a chance to see what Byrd can do. If the staff decides it’s important to bring in high caliber talent at any of those positions, I get it. But there’s still going to be a part of me that wants to see Swindle as the starting setter and Halter as the starting libero, because the truth is I get a kick out of rooting for them. I said exactly that. Elliots JOB is to make the roster better. its to win. Hes doing exactly that. My comment may been too premature but it seems clear that texas is showing interest in carlson. Im just saying if I was Ella, I would not be the most happy. Again from an outside perspective, it just seems like Elliot does not really have faith in the players he recruited. If texas was working with what other programs got, I would understand wanting a top talent. Like for some teams, a top ten prep outside is a once in a lifetime get. For texas, they have plenty riding their bench. Im not saying elliot is wrong for going after Carlson. I just can see why recruits might feel some way (not saying they do but I can see it) It’s not clear Elliott is going after Carlson, nor what the speculative interest might entail. She’s a very talented player so it’s pretty easy to see why there may be interest. Your post indicated there was a commitment already. I know you know there’s no commitment yet, so I can only assume you were posting hypothetically, but it’s an important distinction you failed to make. You’re perfectly allowed to assume what would it mean if Carlson were to commit to Texas, but it’s perfectly natural to get a lot of pushback from Texas fans when that hasn’t happened yet. Which is exactly what you’re seeing.
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