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Post by hornfanaustin on Jan 14, 2024 23:29:42 GMT -5
The real question about Europe is will JE and staff be actively recruiting potential athletes or have they sworn of foreign athletes after Parra and Malual I will have to disagree with you. Parra was nothing but a good teammate who wanted to be at Texas, contributed, but had to go to get more playing time. What it should be, instead is " Parra Luketic and Malual"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2024 23:51:45 GMT -5
The real question about Europe is will JE and staff be actively recruiting potential athletes or have they sworn of foreign athletes after Parra and Malual I will have to disagree with you. Parra was nothing but a good teammate who wanted to be at Texas, contributed, but had to go to get more playing time. What it should be, instead is " Parra Luketic and Malual" I wasn’t intending it as an anti Parra statement more as a they didn’t break into the starting lineup/left early statement. Apologies if it came off that way
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2024 18:12:44 GMT -5
With Spring semester classes starting tomorrow, I'm surprised there have been no official releases from Texas announcing the transfer signings of Averi Carlson, Reagan Rutherford, and Whitney Lauenstein. Could they all be non-scholarship players and simply relying on NIL funds? I thought Rutherford might be most likely of the three to not be a scholarship player as she is most like just going to be enrolled at Texas through December 2024.
Football team received a verbal commitment from an Alabama transfer football player yesterday, and that same day (Sunday) Texas officially announced his signing.
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Post by stevehorn on Jan 15, 2024 18:41:02 GMT -5
With Spring semester classes starting tomorrow, I'm surprised there have been no official releases from Texas announcing the transfer signings of Averi Carlson, Reagan Rutherford, and Whitney Lauenstein. Could they all be non-scholarship players and simply relying on NIL funds? I thought Rutherford might be most likely of the three to not be a scholarship player as she is most like just going to be enrolled at Texas through December 2024. Football team received a verbal commitment from an Alabama transfer football player yesterday, and that same day (Sunday) Texas officially announced his signing. I'm doubtful that the scholarship status makes a difference by now. Even if they aren't on a ship this spring, I would think they have satisfied by now any requirements needed to release an announcement. Just based on the past, it seems that the volleyball program often is just slow on making announcements. On the matter of ships, I wouldn't be shocked if all three weren't on a ship this spring. I wouldn't be surprised if at least four of the departing seniors were not on a ship in the fall so it's at least a possibility that only ship opened up for the spring and that went to Ames. Now this is speculation, but I think a possibility.
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Post by stevehorn on Jan 15, 2024 18:45:27 GMT -5
I will have to disagree with you. Parra was nothing but a good teammate who wanted to be at Texas, contributed, but had to go to get more playing time. What it should be, instead is " Parra Luketic and Malual" I wasn’t intending it as an anti Parra statement more as a they didn’t break into the starting lineup/left early statement. Apologies if it came off that way There is still a bit of a difference between a North American recruit that played three seasons for us and is still in college vs. two European recruits that stayed for at most one semester and left to turn pro.
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2024 18:54:57 GMT -5
With Spring semester classes starting tomorrow, I'm surprised there have been no official releases from Texas announcing the transfer signings of Averi Carlson, Reagan Rutherford, and Whitney Lauenstein. Could they all be non-scholarship players and simply relying on NIL funds? I thought Rutherford might be most likely of the three to not be a scholarship player as she is most like just going to be enrolled at Texas through December 2024. Football team received a verbal commitment from an Alabama transfer football player yesterday, and that same day (Sunday) Texas officially announced his signing. I'm doubtful that the scholarship status makes a difference by now. Even if they aren't on a ship this spring, I would think they have satisfied by now any requirements needed to release an announcement. Just based on the past, it seems that the volleyball program often is just slow on making announcements.
On the matter of ships, I wouldn't be shocked if all three weren't on a ship this spring. I wouldn't be surprised if at least four of the departing seniors were not on a ship in the fall so it's at least a possibility that only ship opened up for the spring and that went to Ames. Now this is speculation, but I think a possibility. I wouldn't say it's been slow; just inconsistent (as it pertains to transfers). Texas had the following official releases: - Madi Skinner (January 13, 2022) - Zoe Fleck (December 16, 2021) Since I'm not finding official releases announcing the signings of Jenna Wenaas and Keonilei Akana, I guess there weren't any. I definitely remember no official releases when Bergmark and Caffey came on board.
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Post by stevehorn on Jan 15, 2024 19:02:00 GMT -5
I'm doubtful that the scholarship status makes a difference by now. Even if they aren't on a ship this spring, I would think they have satisfied by now any requirements needed to release an announcement. Just based on the past, it seems that the volleyball program often is just slow on making announcements.
On the matter of ships, I wouldn't be shocked if all three weren't on a ship this spring. I wouldn't be surprised if at least four of the departing seniors were not on a ship in the fall so it's at least a possibility that only ship opened up for the spring and that went to Ames. Now this is speculation, but I think a possibility. I wouldn't say it's been slow; just inconsistent (as it pertains to transfers). Texas had the following official releases: - Madi Skinner (January 13, 2022) - Zoe Fleck (December 16, 2021) Since I'm not finding official releases announcing the signings of Jenna Wenaas and Keonilei Akana, I guess there weren't any. I definitely remember no official releases when Bergmark and Caffey came on board. Inconsistent would be accurate. With as active that Texas Volleyball is on social media, the lack of announcements on transfers is certainly odd, though they seem to be much better about recruits signing.
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Post by photos1 on Jan 15, 2024 19:34:14 GMT -5
With Spring semester classes starting tomorrow, I'm surprised there have been no official releases from Texas announcing the transfer signings of Averi Carlson, Reagan Rutherford, and Whitney Lauenstein. Could they all be non-scholarship players and simply relying on NIL funds? I thought Rutherford might be most likely of the three to not be a scholarship player as she is most like just going to be enrolled at Texas through December 2024. Football team received a verbal commitment from an Alabama transfer football player yesterday, and that same day (Sunday) Texas officially announced his signing. Huge difference; Sark is proud to make the college football world believe Texas is surpassing Alabama and now that Saban is gone, Sark is even taking Saban’s players; on the other hand, Elliott is stinging from all the background talk in Tampa relating to him buying, poaching, under-developing and over signing players. What Elliott is doing is absolutely within the rules, but recruiting all these players who will never play or develop beyond the practice squad and then bring in transfers to play actual matches is a bit unseemly. Since their great championship win over Nebraska’s freshman, a lot of great things are being associated with Texas volleyball and their coach and staff, but the truth is, they were one point away from being sent home in the round of 16 last December and if that had happened I doubt any statues would be under construction. And instead of praising Elliott, the volleyball world would be savaging him for building teams by poaching players, over-signing transfers, under-developing recruits and buying his roster. But his team of seniors graduates and 24 year-olds got hot for 3 matches and won the championship, so good for Texas 🥳 . . . but Elliott is still the coach who over-signs, over-promises, over-pays and under-develops recruits, but good for him, good for Texas. it is curious though, why Sark is celebrating the signing of his players and Elliot is silent. 🏐
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Post by horns1 on Jan 15, 2024 19:37:44 GMT -5
With Spring semester classes starting tomorrow, I'm surprised there have been no official releases from Texas announcing the transfer signings of Averi Carlson, Reagan Rutherford, and Whitney Lauenstein. Could they all be non-scholarship players and simply relying on NIL funds? I thought Rutherford might be most likely of the three to not be a scholarship player as she is most like just going to be enrolled at Texas through December 2024. Football team received a verbal commitment from an Alabama transfer football player yesterday, and that same day (Sunday) Texas officially announced his signing. Huge difference; Sark is proud to make the college football world believe Texas is surpassing Alabama and now that Saban is gone, Sark is even taking Saban’s players; on the other hand, Elliott is stinging from all the background talk in Tampa relating to him buying, poaching, under-developing and over signing players. What Elliott is doing is absolutely within the rules, but recruiting all these players who will never play or develop beyond the practice squad and then bring in transfers to play actual matches is a bit unseemly. Since their great championship win over Nebraska’s freshman, a lot of great things are being associated with Texas volleyball and their coach and staff, but the truth is, they were one point away from being sent home in the round of 16 last December and if that had happened I doubt any statues would be under construction. And instead of praising Elliott, the volleyball world would be savaging him for building teams by poaching players, over-signing transfers, under-developing recruits and buying his roster. But his team of seniors graduates and 24 year-olds got hot for 3 matches and won the championship, so good for Texas 🥳 . . . but Elliott is still the coach who over-signs, over-promises, over-pays and under-develops recruits, but good for him, good for Texas. it is curious though, why Sark is celebrating the signing of his players and Elliot is silent. 🏐 Even with Nebraska's $5 million collective, they still can't win a national title since like 2017! Who's buying players and bragging about it to the media?
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Post by hookem1 on Jan 15, 2024 21:51:56 GMT -5
i ain’t reading all that
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Post by hornshouse23 on Jan 15, 2024 22:47:56 GMT -5
who had the chicken? I thought the chicken was nice.
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Post by biodogtexas on Jan 15, 2024 22:56:41 GMT -5
With Spring semester classes starting tomorrow, I'm surprised there have been no official releases from Texas announcing the transfer signings of Averi Carlson, Reagan Rutherford, and Whitney Lauenstein. Could they all be non-scholarship players and simply relying on NIL funds? I thought Rutherford might be most likely of the three to not be a scholarship player as she is most like just going to be enrolled at Texas through December 2024. Football team received a verbal commitment from an Alabama transfer football player yesterday, and that same day (Sunday) Texas officially announced his signing. Huge difference; Sark is proud to make the college football world believe Texas is surpassing Alabama and now that Saban is gone, Sark is even taking Saban’s players; on the other hand, Elliott is stinging from all the background talk in Tampa relating to him buying, poaching, under-developing and over signing players. What Elliott is doing is absolutely within the rules, but recruiting all these players who will never play or develop beyond the practice squad and then bring in transfers to play actual matches is a bit unseemly. Since their great championship win over Nebraska’s freshman, a lot of great things are being associated with Texas volleyball and their coach and staff, but the truth is, they were one point away from being sent home in the round of 16 last December and if that had happened I doubt any statues would be under construction. And instead of praising Elliott, the volleyball world would be savaging him for building teams by poaching players, over-signing transfers, under-developing recruits and buying his roster. But his team of seniors graduates and 24 year-olds got hot for 3 matches and won the championship, so good for Texas 🥳 . . . but Elliott is still the coach who over-signs, over-promises, over-pays and under-develops recruits, but good for him, good for Texas. it is curious though, why Sark is celebrating the signing of his players and Elliot is silent. 🏐 What ignorant nonsense. You have no idea what you're talking about. The actual answer to the original question is just as simple as the people running Texas Volleyball social media accounts aren't great at their jobs. Some players like Rutherford were announced, some weren't. Some recruits were announced, even though they shouldn't have been. The rest is whiny sour grapes. Pitt had 4 transfers. Wisconsin had 7 transfers. Nebraska had 1 and just brought in 3 more for next season. Texas had 5 and will have 5 next season. Jerrit Elliot and TExas Volleyball aren't doing anything to any degree more than any other team out there. They're just doing it better. So well, apparently, that fans of other teams out there can't think clearly anymore.
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Post by jwvolley on Jan 15, 2024 23:02:09 GMT -5
Huge difference; Sark is proud to make the college football world believe Texas is surpassing Alabama and now that Saban is gone, Sark is even taking Saban’s players; on the other hand, Elliott is stinging from all the background talk in Tampa relating to him buying, poaching, under-developing and over signing players. What Elliott is doing is absolutely within the rules, but recruiting all these players who will never play or develop beyond the practice squad and then bring in transfers to play actual matches is a bit unseemly. Since their great championship win over Nebraska’s freshman, a lot of great things are being associated with Texas volleyball and their coach and staff, but the truth is, they were one point away from being sent home in the round of 16 last December and if that had happened I doubt any statues would be under construction. And instead of praising Elliott, the volleyball world would be savaging him for building teams by poaching players, over-signing transfers, under-developing recruits and buying his roster. But his team of seniors graduates and 24 year-olds got hot for 3 matches and won the championship, so good for Texas 🥳 . . . but Elliott is still the coach who over-signs, over-promises, over-pays and under-develops recruits, but good for him, good for Texas. it is curious though, why Sark is celebrating the signing of his players and Elliot is silent. 🏐 What ignorant nonsense. You have no idea what you're talking about. The actual answer to the original question is just as simple as the people running Texas Volleyball social media accounts aren't great at their jobs. Some players like Rutherford were announced, some weren't. Some recruits were announced, even though they shouldn't have been. The rest is whiny sour grapes. Pitt had 4 transfers. Wisconsin had 7 transfers. Nebraska had 1 and just brought in 3 more for next season. Texas had 5 and will have 5 next season. Jerrit Elliot and TExas Volleyball aren't doing anything to any degree more than any other team out there. They're just doing it better. So well, apparently, that fans of other teams out there can't think clearly anymore. Photos is nonsensical. Minor correction though: Nebraska has brought in two*transfers this off-season, not three.
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Post by WahineFan44 on Jan 16, 2024 0:01:43 GMT -5
who had the chicken? I thought the chicken was nice. I truly hope people get this reference
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Post by volleyguy on Jan 16, 2024 0:15:32 GMT -5
who had the chicken? I thought the chicken was nice. I had it with fava beans and a nice Chianti [insert slurping noise].
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