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Post by horns1 on Jul 21, 2020 19:46:25 GMT -5
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Post by szandana on Jul 24, 2020 18:10:30 GMT -5
I re-watched the NCAA match against Louisville, and I am not someone who places the blame squarely on Elliot’s shoulders. I do think he has done a good job, and I do believe this match was an outlier. Louisville, in my opinion, is a lower top 40 program, they play a very frenetic style, and occasionally even less capable teams can get hot and beat a better team. And they did deserve to win the match. Texas is clearly a top 5 program, but very few would argue (despite the number of final four appearances) there could be a greater number of championships. Texas will always have one of the top 5 rosters in any given season. With that being said, I also feel that Texas will remain in a holding pattern until real changes in training are made. I don’t know what coach is responsible for training a specific skill, but I would be curious to know who trains passing and setting. These aspects appear to be the primary causes for their lack of success at the final four, and until changes are made to improve those areas, they will continue to see the same results. As a passing team, I think that the systems they have use lack refinement, given the length of athletes they have recruited they have failed in adapting their systems and training methods to help those athletes accel as passers. I think changing the starting position for some the passers would be a good place to start. I also think they can do a better job of developing setters. I am not sure who’s department this is, but I don’t recall any setter in the past decade that had above average footwork, most lacked the accuracy to really manage the offense. Recruiting a better setting prospect necessarily guarantees a better outcome over their four years. Cabello will likely provide a bigger block, but I think initially she is likely to struggle with motility especially changing directions and squaring under the ball in faster transition situations. Time will tell. Frenetic style? Louisville as well as Santa Barbara showed Texas exactly where Div 1 volleyball has trended. Athletic players! Louisville without their best by far player confused Texas and wore them out. Texas barely escaped Santa Barbara. Elliott thought he could get away with his power up and bully em tactics. As usual Texas predictable receiving and pass strategy failed. Elliott is in charge of setters. Cabello would have a bigger block than Gabriel. So does Ashley. Pretty good block at that. That has not been a concern for the coaches. Elliott has always felt comfortable putting up his smallest setter against the opponents go to left side hitter. Oh, Rockwell will never coach with Elliott and Sullivan again. You are so right about lack of refinement in the Texas passing system. Completely predictable starting with the slow 20' high first touch. I do like the recruits that might bring some back row skills. Wonder if Iosia is anything like her sister. I do disagree with you on Texas being a top five team. I pick em as 7 or 8 this year if they play.
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Post by horns1 on Jul 24, 2020 18:25:58 GMT -5
I re-watched the NCAA match against Louisville, and I am not someone who places the blame squarely on Elliot’s shoulders. I do think he has done a good job, and I do believe this match was an outlier. Louisville, in my opinion, is a lower top 40 program, they play a very frenetic style, and occasionally even less capable teams can get hot and beat a better team. And they did deserve to win the match. Texas is clearly a top 5 program, but very few would argue (despite the number of final four appearances) there could be a greater number of championships. Texas will always have one of the top 5 rosters in any given season. With that being said, I also feel that Texas will remain in a holding pattern until real changes in training are made. I don’t know what coach is responsible for training a specific skill, but I would be curious to know who trains passing and setting. These aspects appear to be the primary causes for their lack of success at the final four, and until changes are made to improve those areas, they will continue to see the same results. As a passing team, I think that the systems they have use lack refinement, given the length of athletes they have recruited they have failed in adapting their systems and training methods to help those athletes accel as passers. I think changing the starting position for some the passers would be a good place to start. I also think they can do a better job of developing setters. I am not sure who’s department this is, but I don’t recall any setter in the past decade that had above average footwork, most lacked the accuracy to really manage the offense. Recruiting a better setting prospect necessarily guarantees a better outcome over their four years. Cabello will likely provide a bigger block, but I think initially she is likely to struggle with motility especially changing directions and squaring under the ball in faster transition situations. Time will tell. Frenetic style? Louisville as well as Santa Barbara showed Texas exactly where Div 1 volleyball has trended. Athletic players! Louisville without their best by far player confused Texas and wore them out. Texas barely escaped Santa Barbara. Elliott thought he could get away with his power up and bully em tactics. As usual Texas predictable receiving and pass strategy failed. Elliott is in charge of setters. Cabello would have a bigger block than Gabriel. So does Ashley. Pretty good block at that. That has not been a concern for the coaches. Elliott has always felt comfortable putting up his smallest setter against the opponents go to left side hitter. Oh, Rockwell will never coach with Elliott and Sullivan again. You are so right about lack of refinement in the Texas passing system. Completely predictable starting with the slow 20' high first touch. I do like the recruits that might bring some back row skills. Wonder if Iosia is anything like her sister. I do disagree with you on Texas being a top five team. I pick em as 7 or 8 this year if they play. Are you ever happy with anything Coach Elliott and Texas volleyball do? After all these years, it still baffles me that you bother to follow the program when it clearly makes you so miserable. If you haven't figured it out yet, Jerritt Elliott will be the head coach at Texas for as long as he wants, despite your feelings to the contrary.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jul 24, 2020 19:00:38 GMT -5
I re-watched the NCAA match against Louisville, and I am not someone who places the blame squarely on Elliot’s shoulders. I do think he has done a good job, and I do believe this match was an outlier. Louisville, in my opinion, is a lower top 40 program, they play a very frenetic style, and occasionally even less capable teams can get hot and beat a better team. And they did deserve to win the match. Texas is clearly a top 5 program, but very few would argue (despite the number of final four appearances) there could be a greater number of championships. Texas will always have one of the top 5 rosters in any given season. With that being said, I also feel that Texas will remain in a holding pattern until real changes in training are made. I don’t know what coach is responsible for training a specific skill, but I would be curious to know who trains passing and setting. These aspects appear to be the primary causes for their lack of success at the final four, and until changes are made to improve those areas, they will continue to see the same results. As a passing team, I think that the systems they have use lack refinement, given the length of athletes they have recruited they have failed in adapting their systems and training methods to help those athletes accel as passers. I think changing the starting position for some the passers would be a good place to start. I also think they can do a better job of developing setters. I am not sure who’s department this is, but I don’t recall any setter in the past decade that had above average footwork, most lacked the accuracy to really manage the offense. Recruiting a better setting prospect necessarily guarantees a better outcome over their four years. Cabello will likely provide a bigger block, but I think initially she is likely to struggle with motility especially changing directions and squaring under the ball in faster transition situations. Time will tell. Frenetic style? Louisville as well as Santa Barbara showed Texas exactly where Div 1 volleyball has trended. Athletic players! Louisville without their best by far player confused Texas and wore them out. Texas barely escaped Santa Barbara. Elliott thought he could get away with his power up and bully em tactics. As usual Texas predictable receiving and pass strategy failed. Elliott is in charge of setters. Cabello would have a bigger block than Gabriel. So does Ashley. Pretty good block at that. That has not been a concern for the coaches. Elliott has always felt comfortable putting up his smallest setter against the opponents go to left side hitter. Oh, Rockwell will never coach with Elliott and Sullivan again. You are so right about lack of refinement in the Texas passing system. Completely predictable starting with the slow 20' high first touch. I do like the recruits that might bring some back row skills. Wonder if Iosia is anything like her sister. I do disagree with you on Texas being a top five team. I pick em as 7 or 8 this year if they play. 7 or 8? Absolutely not! Texas was a top 4 program last season and honestly I feel like they are upgrading from last years team and 2021 will be an even bigger upgrade. Please inform me of 6 or 7 teams that are above Texas. In all honesty I can truly say Wisconsin is ahead of Texas as of now but not for long and that's it. Nebraska is not better or Baylor. Minnesota is close but other than that nobody is on the level that Texas is on. Honestly you might want to go support Baylor
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Post by stanfordvb on Jul 24, 2020 19:56:03 GMT -5
Louisville has been in and out of the top 25 (in the 20-25 range) for like 3 seasons now, I’d say they are ranked closer to 20-30s than lower 40s... they had a couple bad losses mis year in 2019 after losing their star player but have made huge strides since DBK took over, and that 2019 team didn’t graduate a single starter and is bringing in a great libero and OH who will both likely see the court in their first season... Texas just wasn’t in a good post season flow, they almost lost to UCSB in 5 and then were taken down by Louisville.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jul 25, 2020 1:56:45 GMT -5
Louisville has been in and out of the top 25 (in the 20-25 range) for like 3 seasons now, I’d say they are ranked closer to 20-30s than lower 40s... they had a couple bad losses mis year in 2019 after losing their star player but have made huge strides since DBK took over, and that 2019 team didn’t graduate a single starter and is bringing in a great libero and OH who will both likely see the court in their first season... Texas just wasn’t in a good post season flow, they almost lost to UCSB in 5 and then were taken down by Louisville. Agreed because Texas normally dominates in those rounds but as soon as we went to 5 with UCSB I knew we were not where we needed to be mentally. Don't get me wrong they are a great team and had a great scouting report against us but we just didn't look ready to play and it cost us the next round.
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Post by szandana on Jul 25, 2020 12:26:18 GMT -5
Frenetic style? Louisville as well as Santa Barbara showed Texas exactly where Div 1 volleyball has trended. Athletic players! Louisville without their best by far player confused Texas and wore them out. Texas barely escaped Santa Barbara. Elliott thought he could get away with his power up and bully em tactics. As usual Texas predictable receiving and pass strategy failed. Elliott is in charge of setters. Cabello would have a bigger block than Gabriel. So does Ashley. Pretty good block at that. That has not been a concern for the coaches. Elliott has always felt comfortable putting up his smallest setter against the opponents go to left side hitter. Oh, Rockwell will never coach with Elliott and Sullivan again. You are so right about lack of refinement in the Texas passing system. Completely predictable starting with the slow 20' high first touch. I do like the recruits that might bring some back row skills. Wonder if Iosia is anything like her sister. I do disagree with you on Texas being a top five team. I pick em as 7 or 8 this year if they play. Are you ever happy with anything Coach Elliott and Texas volleyball do? After all these years, it still baffles me that you bother to follow the program when it clearly makes you so miserable. If you haven't figured it out yet, Jerritt Elliott will be the head coach at Texas for as long as he wants, despite your feelings to the contrary. love watching Texas. They play some high level teams. Fun seeing Stanford play. Also liked all the athletic teams like Baylor, Rice, and Louisville last year. Would rather see Sullivan go than Elliott. Bad fit for women's volleyball. Also need to do what the BB team did. Went more for an athletic trainer than a strength coach.
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Post by szandana on Jul 25, 2020 12:40:25 GMT -5
Frenetic style? Louisville as well as Santa Barbara showed Texas exactly where Div 1 volleyball has trended. Athletic players! Louisville without their best by far player confused Texas and wore them out. Texas barely escaped Santa Barbara. Elliott thought he could get away with his power up and bully em tactics. As usual Texas predictable receiving and pass strategy failed. Elliott is in charge of setters. Cabello would have a bigger block than Gabriel. So does Ashley. Pretty good block at that. That has not been a concern for the coaches. Elliott has always felt comfortable putting up his smallest setter against the opponents go to left side hitter. Oh, Rockwell will never coach with Elliott and Sullivan again. You are so right about lack of refinement in the Texas passing system. Completely predictable starting with the slow 20' high first touch. I do like the recruits that might bring some back row skills. Wonder if Iosia is anything like her sister. I do disagree with you on Texas being a top five team. I pick em as 7 or 8 this year if they play. 7 or 8? Absolutely not! Texas was a top 4 program last season and honestly I feel like they are upgrading from last years team and 2021 will be an even bigger upgrade. Please inform me of 6 or 7 teams that are above Texas. In all honesty I can truly say Wisconsin is ahead of Texas as of now but not for long and that's it. Nebraska is not better or Baylor. Minnesota is close but other than that nobody is on the level that Texas is on. Honestly you might want to go support Baylor I do support Baylor. For those of you that have missed it, I support high level volleyball. Am just not a homey. Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore. Minn, Wisconsin, Penn State, Stanford still, Baylor, Nebraska, Washington, and more. Texas does not play high level volleyball consistently. love to watch the player of the year types from the good teams that Elliott schedules. Yossiana Pressley and Plummer last year. Wow 2 in one year.
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Post by eotexas5 on Jul 25, 2020 13:44:39 GMT -5
7 or 8? Absolutely not! Texas was a top 4 program last season and honestly I feel like they are upgrading from last years team and 2021 will be an even bigger upgrade. Please inform me of 6 or 7 teams that are above Texas. In all honesty I can truly say Wisconsin is ahead of Texas as of now but not for long and that's it. Nebraska is not better or Baylor. Minnesota is close but other than that nobody is on the level that Texas is on. Honestly you might want to go support Baylor I do support Baylor. For those of you that have missed it, I support high level volleyball. Am just not a homey. Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore. Minn, Wisconsin, Penn State, Stanford still, Baylor, Nebraska, Washington, and more. Texas does not play high level volleyball consistently. love to watch the player of the year types from the good teams that Elliott schedules. Yossiana Pressley and Plummer last year. Wow 2 in one year. Baylor? You've gotta be kidding me. Last year was Texas' earliest exit in quite sometime. The past three seasons not being among the final four teams has been tough on JE and the team, I'm sure. To make the claim that "Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore" is dumb. And then you bring up Baylor, Washington, and Minnesota...please
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Post by horns1 on Jul 25, 2020 16:52:46 GMT -5
7 or 8? Absolutely not! Texas was a top 4 program last season and honestly I feel like they are upgrading from last years team and 2021 will be an even bigger upgrade. Please inform me of 6 or 7 teams that are above Texas. In all honesty I can truly say Wisconsin is ahead of Texas as of now but not for long and that's it. Nebraska is not better or Baylor. Minnesota is close but other than that nobody is on the level that Texas is on. Honestly you might want to go support Baylor I do support Baylor. For those of you that have missed it, I support high level volleyball. Am just not a homey. Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore. Minn, Wisconsin, Penn State, Stanford still, Baylor, Nebraska, Washington, and more. Texas does not play high level volleyball consistently. love to watch the player of the year types from the good teams that Elliott schedules. Yossiana Pressley and Plummer last year. Wow 2 in one year. Yeah, Texas just doesn't play up to your standards; not sure why you watch them, other than to focus on the opponent, apparently.
Texas doesn't "schedule" Baylor by choice; they are part of the mandatory Big 12 schedule. The game in Austin was not competitive; the game in Waco went the distance, as did our match at Stanford. Nice reach, though.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Jul 25, 2020 18:36:04 GMT -5
7 or 8? Absolutely not! Texas was a top 4 program last season and honestly I feel like they are upgrading from last years team and 2021 will be an even bigger upgrade. Please inform me of 6 or 7 teams that are above Texas. In all honesty I can truly say Wisconsin is ahead of Texas as of now but not for long and that's it. Nebraska is not better or Baylor. Minnesota is close but other than that nobody is on the level that Texas is on. Honestly you might want to go support Baylor I do support Baylor. For those of you that have missed it, I support high level volleyball. Am just not a homey. Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore. Minn, Wisconsin, Penn State, Stanford still, Baylor, Nebraska, Washington, and more. Texas does not play high level volleyball consistently. love to watch the player of the year types from the good teams that Elliott schedules. Yossiana Pressley and Plummer last year. Wow 2 in one year. Stanford?? Lmao I promise Stanford wouldn't take a set off of Texas if they were to play in 2020. Stanford is not even close to the team they were without Gray, plummer and Hentz so that's how I know you have lost your mind. Baylor got swept by Texas very convincingly and lost in 5 sets. You notice every one of Texas loses in 2019 came from 5 sets which tells you how good Texas really is. As far as Nebraska that's absolute BS along with Minnesota and penn state and especially that Washington comment. Wisconsin and Texas are at the top right now and then maybe Nebraska and Baylor.
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Post by stanfordvb on Jul 25, 2020 18:40:03 GMT -5
I do support Baylor. For those of you that have missed it, I support high level volleyball. Am just not a homey. Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore. Minn, Wisconsin, Penn State, Stanford still, Baylor, Nebraska, Washington, and more. Texas does not play high level volleyball consistently. love to watch the player of the year types from the good teams that Elliott schedules. Yossiana Pressley and Plummer last year. Wow 2 in one year. Stanford?? Lmao I promise Stanford wouldn't take a set off of Texas if they were to play in 2020. Stanford is not even close to the team they were without Gray, plummer and Hentz so that's how I know you have lost your mind. Baylor got swept by Texas very convincingly and lost in 5 sets. You notice every one of Texas loses in 2019 came from 5 sets which tells you how good Texas really is. As far as Nebraska that's absolute BS along with Minnesota and penn state and especially that Washington comment. Wisconsin and Texas are at the top right now and then maybe Nebraska and Baylor. I think wisco is the team to beat next year with Texas as a close second, but Texas needs to continue to be able to play to the level of talent they have which they didn’t a few too many times last season. Texas might have the most individually talented roster in the country for 2020 with wisco, but wisco plays together much better
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 18:48:49 GMT -5
I do support Baylor. For those of you that have missed it, I support high level volleyball. Am just not a homey. Texas can't even get out of the regionals anymore. Minn, Wisconsin, Penn State, Stanford still, Baylor, Nebraska, Washington, and more. Texas does not play high level volleyball consistently. love to watch the player of the year types from the good teams that Elliott schedules. Yossiana Pressley and Plummer last year. Wow 2 in one year. Stanford?? Lmao I promise Stanford wouldn't take a set off of Texas if they were to play in 2020. Stanford is not even close to the team they were without Gray, plummer and Hentz so that's how I know you have lost your mind. Baylor got swept by Texas very convincingly and lost in 5 sets. You notice every one of Texas loses in 2019 came from 5 sets which tells you how good Texas really is. As far as Nebraska that's absolute BS along with Minnesota and penn state and especially that Washington comment. Wisconsin and Texas are at the top right now and then maybe Nebraska and Baylor. lol everyone said UCSB, Louisville, and Rice wouldn’t take a set off Texas last year and well we all know how that went lol.
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Post by horns1 on Jul 25, 2020 19:29:08 GMT -5
Stanford?? Lmao I promise Stanford wouldn't take a set off of Texas if they were to play in 2020. Stanford is not even close to the team they were without Gray, plummer and Hentz so that's how I know you have lost your mind. Baylor got swept by Texas very convincingly and lost in 5 sets. You notice every one of Texas loses in 2019 came from 5 sets which tells you how good Texas really is. As far as Nebraska that's absolute BS along with Minnesota and penn state and especially that Washington comment. Wisconsin and Texas are at the top right now and then maybe Nebraska and Baylor. lol everyone said UCSB, Louisville, and Rice wouldn’t take a set off Texas last year and well we all know how that went lol. Who's "everyone"? Feel free to link the thread where "everyone" stated that.
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Post by horns1 on Jul 25, 2020 19:31:58 GMT -5
Stanford?? Lmao I promise Stanford wouldn't take a set off of Texas if they were to play in 2020. Stanford is not even close to the team they were without Gray, plummer and Hentz so that's how I know you have lost your mind. Baylor got swept by Texas very convincingly and lost in 5 sets. You notice every one of Texas loses in 2019 came from 5 sets which tells you how good Texas really is. As far as Nebraska that's absolute BS along with Minnesota and penn state and especially that Washington comment. Wisconsin and Texas are at the top right now and then maybe Nebraska and Baylor. I think wisco is the team to beat next year with Texas as a close second, but Texas needs to continue to be able to play to the level of talent they have which they didn’t a few too many times last season. Texas might have the most individually talented roster in the country for 2020 with wisco, but wisco plays together much betterOh, brother. Folks on here keep stating that we don't have an elite setter on the roster. So I'm for sure confused about our most individually talented roster in the country for 2020.
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