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Post by yupyupyup on Aug 5, 2020 22:43:06 GMT -5
How is this different from last year? Or literally any other year? Texas is always a contender for the national championship. Because I believe our biggest hindrances the last few years were ball control and (to a lesser extent) setting. And we got the top libero and top setter from this class and a top libero transfer. We’ll see! Plenty of teams with ‘top’ players in multiple positions!
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Post by szandana on Aug 5, 2020 23:42:27 GMT -5
It’s a definite upgrade. Texas looks to have a great team that looks good on paper, but so do other top teams. Last year we had ‘potential’ 3 first team All Americans in addition to a potential freshman of the year, and Texas crumbled early in playoffs. Texas looks good again on paper. Nothing solidifies anything. Last year was last year.
Gaining an experienced, senior Libero transfer like O'Brien improves the 2020 roster at one of the weakest positions in the past (including last season), thereby solidifying our chances to compete for a national championship.
Amazing! Was it 2 or 3 years ago that I began calling for a libero transfer? Never did I think you would see the void. Congrats.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Aug 6, 2020 0:45:15 GMT -5
Just some jersey numbers for the upcoming season for Madison and Nalani Madison - #1 Losia - #12
Interesting note here.. Melanie Parra's bio on her instagram says "UT ALUM🤘" 🤔 does that mean she is not coming? I mean you can't be an Alumni uless you actually went to the school so that is interesting.
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Post by jwvolley on Aug 6, 2020 1:09:25 GMT -5
Just some jersey numbers for the upcoming season for Madison and Nalani Madison - #1 Losia - #12 Interesting note here.. Melanie Parra's bio on her instagram says "UT ALUM🤘" 🤔 does that mean she is not coming? I mean you can't be an Alumni uless you actually went to the school so that is interesting. Alumna(o) means student in Spanish, no connotation about already having graduated. Alumnado is also a word used to refer to like the whole student body. So maybe she meant it to be in Spanish or there was simply a language barrier of sorts.
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Post by texastothehouse15 on Aug 6, 2020 1:23:56 GMT -5
Just some jersey numbers for the upcoming season for Madison and Nalani Madison - #1 Losia - #12 Interesting note here.. Melanie Parra's bio on her instagram says "UT ALUM🤘" 🤔 does that mean she is not coming? I mean you can't be an Alumni uless you actually went to the school so that is interesting. Alumna(o) means student in Spanish, no connotation about already having graduated. Alumnado is also a word used to refer to like the whole student body. So maybe she meant it to be in Spanish or there was simply a language barrier of sorts. Okay thank you for clearing that up. So I guess she has been accepted into Texas but I still am confused because preseason starts friday and she is still in Mexico.
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Post by jwvolley on Aug 6, 2020 1:42:17 GMT -5
Alumna(o) means student in Spanish, no connotation about already having graduated. Alumnado is also a word used to refer to like the whole student body. So maybe she meant it to be in Spanish or there was simply a language barrier of sorts. Okay thank you for clearing that up. So I guess she has been accepted into Texas but I still am confused because preseason starts friday and she is still in Mexico. Yeah I’m just giving her the benefit of the doubt on that one lol I can’t be totally sure what she meant and don’t know why she’s still in Mexico
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Post by Riviera Minestrone on Aug 6, 2020 1:44:36 GMT -5
Because I believe our biggest hindrances the last few years were ball control and (to a lesser extent) setting. And we got the top libero and top setter from this class and a top libero transfer. We’ll see! Plenty of teams with ‘top’ players in multiple positions! No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition!
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Post by SportyBucky on Aug 6, 2020 7:48:13 GMT -5
We’ll see! Plenty of teams with ‘top’ players in multiple positions! No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition! Wasn't Ashley Shook #6 on Prep volleyball a few years ago? And Sydney? Wasn't she second team prep AA? It doesn't take a whole lot to understand the amount of information some of the posters on this don't have and make up to justify their perceptions.
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Post by horns1 on Aug 6, 2020 7:55:17 GMT -5
Last year was last year.
Gaining an experienced, senior Libero transfer like O'Brien improves the 2020 roster at one of the weakest positions in the past (including last season), thereby solidifying our chances to compete for a national championship.
Amazing! Was it 2 or 3 years ago that I began calling for a libero transfer? Never did I think you would see the void. Congrats. So, because you begged for a Libero transfer 2-3 years ago (without being able to provide the names of any who were interested in transferring to Texas), and without knowing if a scholarship was available, you feel vindicated because we've added a grad-transfer libero 2-3 years later? Your logic never ceases to amaze me.
Guess you missed our coaches' pursuit and recruitment of UCSB libero transfer, Zoe Fleck, back in January. I was all for it. Our coaches know our scholarship situation, and where the roster can be improved.
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Post by Longhorn20 on Aug 6, 2020 8:04:55 GMT -5
No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition! Wasn't Ashley Shook #6 on Prep volleyball a few years ago? And Sydney? Wasn't she second team prep AA? It doesn't take a whole lot to understand the amount of information some of the posters on this don't have and make up to justify their perceptions. Yes and Chloe Collins was #10. Obviously Collins has had more success than Shook, but that doesn’t mean you throw rankings away completely. I’ll admit, I haven’t seen much of Cabello, but I honestly thought setting was much less of a problem than passing was last year and Iosia is legit. Let alone the transfer libero we got that has final four experience. We have three high-level setters and three high-level liberos on our roster next year that us filled with incredible hitters. I think we can justify our excitement in having better setting and passing than the last few years. And yes, I think that we have reason to be more excited than Stanford this year, whose first two contacts are almost completely untested.
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Post by horns1 on Aug 6, 2020 8:09:05 GMT -5
We’ll see! Plenty of teams with ‘top’ players in multiple positions! No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition! There's the king of "likes" on any negative Texas posts in this thread making his presence felt. Bet you have been dying to just tell us about our inadequacies. As I stated before, folks, beware of this Stanford wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.
Speaking of underperforming, didn't your Stanford team miss the Final Four from 2009 to 2015 altogether except for one season? That supposed #1 recruiting class at Stanford could only muster one Final Four in 4 years, but was quickly dispatched by Penn State. Texas was there every year from 2008 to 2016, except for 2011; that must have been killing you.
Instead of spending so much time on this thread wanting the worst for Texas, go cry in your wine that the Kathryn Plummer era at Stanford is over. It took someone special like her to pull Stanford out of its underperforming 7 year rut. Time will tell how they manage without her and Gray and Fitzmorris.
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Post by horns1 on Aug 6, 2020 8:15:33 GMT -5
Just some jersey numbers for the upcoming season for Madison and Nalani Madison - #1 Losia - #12 Interesting note here.. Melanie Parra's bio on her instagram says "UT ALUM🤘" 🤔 does that mean she is not coming? I mean you can't be an Alumni uless you actually went to the school so that is interesting. Glad to see that Melanie and Morgan have updated their IG pages a bit which seem to indicate positive news for Texas volleyball!
Hoping for the best for both of them and Texas.
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Post by yupyupyup on Aug 6, 2020 8:23:58 GMT -5
No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition! There's the king of "likes" on any negative Texas posts in this thread making his presence felt. Bet you have been dying to just tell us about our inadequacies. As I stated before, folks, beware of this Stanford wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.
Speaking of underperforming, didn't your Stanford team miss the Final Four from 2009 to 2015 altogether except for one season? That supposed #1 recruit class at Stanford could only muster one Final Four in 4 years, but was quickly dispatched by Penn State. Texas was there every year from 2008 to 2016, except for 2011; that must have been killing you.
Instead of spending so much time on this thread wanting the worst for Texas, go cry in your wine that the Kathryn Plummer era at Stanford is over. It took someone special like her to pull Stanford out of its underperforming 7 year rut. Time will tell how they manage without her and Gray and Fitzmorris. You seem so angry all of the time. Lol. Also it’s funny you’re disparaging Stanford as under performing when they are one of the most successful volleyball programs of all time. Much more successful then Texas. Sorry it’s just facts Karen. Also, just to say I find it weird when fans internalize their team’s wins or losses as if they had something to personally do with it. Or, to insult another team’s fans by personal attacks of their team’s failures. It makes no sense.
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Post by oldnewbie on Aug 6, 2020 8:25:51 GMT -5
We’ll see! Plenty of teams with ‘top’ players in multiple positions! No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition! TX, Florida, KY, Baylor, Utah, MN, Wisconsin, NE, PSU all Likely start in front of Stanford, which does not pencil them in to the regional final, let alone the final four. They have the talent on paper to get there by the end if they come together, but are very young and untested and have question marks everywhere. TX should start at or near the top.
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Post by yupyupyup on Aug 6, 2020 8:27:18 GMT -5
No one with any understanding of NCAA WVB/ a lick of historic knowledge can refute that UT has been near the top in recent years. BUT: surmounting that "hump"? There are roughly five programs that one can pencil-in to have a very good shot at reaching a Regional Final or FF. My alma mater, Stanford, is one of 'em. So is TX. Your team has underperformed the past few years: being swept in two Regional Finals and the third round exit in 2019. ^As yupyupyup said^...lotsa competition! There's the king of "likes" on any negative Texas posts in this thread making his presence felt. Bet you have been dying to just tell us about our inadequacies. As I stated before, folks, beware of this Stanford wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.
Speaking of underperforming, didn't your Stanford team miss the Final Four from 2009 to 2015 altogether except for one season? That supposed #1 recruiting class at Stanford could only muster one Final Four in 4 years, but was quickly dispatched by Penn State. Texas was there every year from 2008 to 2016, except for 2011; that must have been killing you.
Instead of spending so much time on this thread wanting the worst for Texas, go cry in your wine that the Kathryn Plummer era at Stanford is over. It took someone special like her to pull Stanford out of its underperforming 7 year rut. Time will tell how they manage without her and Gray and Fitzmorris. Also, when soupman says ‘underperformed’ the last few years, you don’t agree with that? I’m a Texas fan, and I would be first in line to say they definitely have under performed come tournament time. Why would you not agree with that, unless you think they should of lost when they did during the tournament.
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