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Post by Fight On! on May 5, 2020 21:29:36 GMT -5
A slightly awkward conversation with New USC Head Coach Brad Keller What is awkward in your opinion?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2020 22:29:51 GMT -5
A slightly awkward conversation with New USC Head Coach Brad Keller What is awkward in your opinion? It's a joke. Brad told Kevin of his talent for awkward conversations, especially with potential recruits. Having known Keller for some time he wasn't exaggerating; if you leave a gap in the conversation, he'll fill it!
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Post by bigfan on May 6, 2020 8:37:27 GMT -5
This WSU team is going to challenge for the 2020 Pac-12 title. Pukis, Lusby, Jehlarova, Williams and co. are a very good team. Prediction noted, but just to be clear, do you mean Kalyah Williams? Timmer
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2020 8:58:04 GMT -5
Prediction noted, but just to be clear, do you mean Kalyah Williams? Timmer Eh, she's OK... She hit .169, terminated 32% and passed a 51.8%. She wouldn't see the floor on any of the top three rosters in the Pac next year though. None of the Cougars pins would. That alone makes it hard for them to be contenders in 2020.
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Post by jwvolley on May 6, 2020 9:02:21 GMT -5
Eh, she's OK... She hit .169, terminated 32% and passed a 51.8%. She wouldn't see the floor on any of the top three rosters in the Pac next year though. None of the Cougars pins would. That alone makes it hard for them to be contenders. That’s the beauty of a team coming together though and outperforming the sum of their parts.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2020 9:08:09 GMT -5
Eh, she's OK... She hit .169, terminated 32% and passed a 51.8%. She wouldn't see the floor on any of the top three rosters in the Pac next year though. None of the Cougars pins would. That alone makes it hard for them to be contenders. That’s the beauty of a team coming together though and outperforming the sum of their parts. They don't even have enough parts! Right now there's only 1 MB on the roster and only 1 in the incoming class. Give Dalton some seasoning, all the current starters have at least 2 years remaining of eligibility; 2021/22 I could see WSU being a contender but right now they don't have an OH1, L or MB2 on the roster. And that's not even considering their lack of depth.
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Post by bigfan on May 6, 2020 9:35:33 GMT -5
Eh, she's OK... She hit .169, terminated 32% and passed a 51.8%. She wouldn't see the floor on any of the top three rosters in the Pac next year though. None of the Cougars pins would. That alone makes it hard for them to be contenders. That’s the beauty of a team coming together though and outperforming the sum of their parts. This is what really impressed me when they wiped out USC........they play so well as a team. The chemistry of all these freshmen was amazing. I really like this team for the 2020 season. If you don't go follow Stanford.
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Post by blue-footedbooby on May 6, 2020 16:31:28 GMT -5
Since we're talking Pac-12 I thought I would take a stab at what a pre-season All-Pac might be.
OH: Drews, Kipp, May, Botkin, Mirkovic (Pac is going to have another stellar group of OHs this year) Opp: Koeber S: Powell, Torres MB: Lailah Smith, Anderson, JEHLÁROVÁ L: Fleck, Nuneviller
The preseason team had 14 players last year so I went with 14. I took a risk with Botkin assuming she gets back to form. I'm assuming 'viller ends up as a L. If not then I would add ? Ndiaye
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Post by jwvolley on May 6, 2020 16:55:18 GMT -5
Since we're talking Pac-12 I thought I would take a stab at what a pre-season All-Pac might be. OH: Drews, Kipp, May, Botkin, Mirkovic (Pac is going to have another stellar group of OHs this year) Opp: Koeber S: Powell, Torres MB: Lailah Smith, Anderson, JEHLÁROVÁ L: Fleck, Nuneviller The preseason team had 14 players last year so I went with 14. I took a risk with Botkin assuming she gets back to form. I'm assuming 'viller ends up as a L. If not then I would add ? Ndiaye Nuneviller is an OH
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Post by vballfreak808 on May 6, 2020 16:59:43 GMT -5
Since we're talking Pac-12 I thought I would take a stab at what a pre-season All-Pac might be. OH: Drews, Kipp, May, Botkin, Mirkovic (Pac is going to have another stellar group of OHs this year) Opp: Koeber S: Powell, Torres MB: Lailah Smith, Anderson, JEHLÁROVÁ L: Fleck, Nuneviller The preseason team had 14 players last year so I went with 14. I took a risk with Botkin assuming she gets back to form. I'm assuming 'viller ends up as a L. If not then I would add ? Ndiaye In preseason teams, a majority of the time, they do not factor in newcomers (unless its the Big 12), so transfers and especially freshmen will not make it onto the team. Nuneviller will likely remain at outside with Murphy remaining at libero and a newcomer in Morse fighting Wetton for playing time. OH: Botkin, Drews, May, McClure, Mirkovic OPP: Dreschel, Koerber MB: Anderson, Forte, Jehlarova, Sanders S: Kaha'aha'aina-Torres, Lazaro, Powell I went with no liberos since 9 of the 12 teams have lost their starters, 1 most likely to lose their spot, the other 2 are good but not on great teams.
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Post by blue-footedbooby on May 6, 2020 18:27:47 GMT -5
OH: Botkin, Drews, May, McClure, Mirkovic OPP: Dreschel, Koerber MB: Anderson, Forte, Jehlarova, Sanders S: Kaha'aha'aina-Torres, Lazaro, Powell I went with no liberos since 9 of the 12 teams have lost their starters, 1 most likely to lose their spot, the other 2 are good but not on great teams. I didn't say I was totally mimicking the pac-12 only in the numbers. And I sure hope you're wrong about Nuneviller. She doesn't seem to be the asset at OH as she was when she Libbed.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2020 18:30:28 GMT -5
OH: Botkin, Drews, May, McClure, Mirkovic OPP: Dreschel, Koerber MB: Anderson, Forte, Jehlarova, Sanders S: Kaha'aha'aina-Torres, Lazaro, Powell I went with no liberos since 9 of the 12 teams have lost their starters, 1 most likely to lose their spot, the other 2 are good but not on great teams. I didn't say I was totally mimicking the pac-12 only in the numbers. And I sure hope you're wrong about Nuneviller. She doesn't seem to be the asset at OH as she was when she Libbed. Brooke will stay at OH. Murphy is a solid Libero and now Savvy has graduated Brooke might be the best passing OH in the conference. She can affect the game more at OH.
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Post by davethecoug on May 6, 2020 18:38:07 GMT -5
See, this is why it was actually a good non-conference schedule. Washington St. needed those soft weekends to get in rhythm, get confident, and learn how to play as a team. I don't think they come together as a team and are as successful in the PAC if they were taking lots of losses against a tougher pre-conference schedule (the Iowa loss opening weekend wasn't close - 75-60 sweep). The schedule bought them time to gel and gave them confidence. Of course. It all depends on your goal as a program. I don't disagree with that reasoning at all, but the poster above was saying that Wazzu's Coaches attempted to schedule a good RPI schedule based on 2-year winning%'s that was of moderate strength. And even with that theory, Wazzu still could have found a favorable scheduling situation in Week 4. They were coming off a season where they were a Top 16 seed! It wasn't even like they wanted to stay in Pullman for the non-conference. At the end of the day (season), it is very possible that Washington State could have easily been left out of the tournament instead of Cal. That would be very unfortunate for how Washington St. performed in the PAC. There is definitely a balance between scheduling soft(er) and scheduling for a Top 4 seed. Oregon had a Top 4 seed schedule and didn't make the tournament. Iguess I would have looked like a bad coach too, because there's no way I would have turned down that schedule. Sorry, I didn't realize that non-conference scheduling was so easy.
I have no inside knowledge on what the Wazzu Coaches were attempting with the schedule. However, I was suggesting that a 10+% drop in year to year Win % for a collection of 12 different teams is unusual. I would expect some teams to improve and others to get worse, but the average win % should be similar. The mathematicians on this forum could probably calculate what a typical range of win % should be expected.
Wazzu typically plays one non-con weekend at home (which is what they did in 2019). I see that USC also only played one weekend at home. Are you suggesting that Wazzu Athletics has so much money that they should be paying more teams to come to the Palouse?
I apologize for not realizing that teams like Dayton, VCU, and American are waiting for a call from Wazzu to schedule a match (sarcasm alert!). You seem to be suggesting that it is easy to pick and choose non-con opponents. That may be true for California teams like USC, but I don't think it's true for a team in a remote corner of Washington. Last summer, I seem to remember posters on this forum complaining about teams that had backed out of playing in their favorite teams tournament. Should coaches be criticized when a tournament host adds a low RPI team to their tournament?
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Post by blue-footedbooby on May 6, 2020 18:47:38 GMT -5
I didn't say I was totally mimicking the pac-12 only in the numbers. And I sure hope you're wrong about Nuneviller. She doesn't seem to be the asset at OH as she was when she Libbed. Brooke will stay at OH. Murphy is a solid Libero and now Savvy has graduated Brooke might be the best passing OH in the conference. She can affect the game more at OH. She's got a ways to go with her hitting accuracy if she wants to be next years Simo # Player sp k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa se 11 Simo, Savvy 102 308 3.02 68 883 .272 13 0.13 19 20 5 Nuneviller, Brooke 113 331 2.93 149 1017 .179 17 0.15 29 39
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Post by duckfan on May 6, 2020 18:55:38 GMT -5
Brooke will stay at OH. Murphy is a solid Libero and now Savvy has graduated Brooke might be the best passing OH in the conference. She can affect the game more at OH. She's got a ways to go with her hitting accuracy if she wants to be next years Simo # Player sp k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa se 11 Simo, Savvy 102 308 3.02 68 883 .272 13 0.13 19 20 5 Nuneviller, Brooke 113 331 2.93 149 1017 .179 17 0.15 29 39 Yes but you’re comparing senior numbers to her rookie year as an OH in pac 12. Plus she played half a season on a bum ankle because there wasn’t a healthy 6 rotation Oh to sub for her. I’d expect to see improvement this year. Unless everyone goes backwards from all this time off. Will be interesting to see who can get in shape the fastest.
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