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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 13:55:50 GMT -5
She also starts every game by Lilley setting her first to establish her and she hits the first slide out of bounds and then is fine. It’s like clock work though lol. Happens so often
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 13:56:10 GMT -5
Yaayy. Only 5 hours to go and we got to 30 pages ilikecorn. Every page added between now and 5 pm PT is gravy. |
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Post by VolleyballMag on Apr 24, 2021 14:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by hornshouse23 on Apr 24, 2021 14:12:42 GMT -5
Honestly same. Respect for both of these programs. May the team that shows up the best win tonight! |
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Post by ilikecorn on Apr 24, 2021 14:14:57 GMT -5
Yaayy. Only 5 hours to go and we got to 30 pages ilikecorn . Every page added between now and 5 pm PT is gravy. It was dirty work but it had to be done. |
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Post by stevehorn on Apr 24, 2021 14:17:46 GMT -5
Then you are calling a number of knowledgeable posters on this board idiots. You like quoting yourself and calling yourself out? LOL! No, but seriously, I think what is not being said here is that there was a reasonable logic behind the thinking. I think the reason many people thought playing in the Fall was a disadvantage is because those schools would have fewer matches in the Spring to get back up to speed. The problem is that a lot of schools (i.e., WI, PSU, NE), who only played in the Spring, had a bunch of late season matches canceled due to Covid. This, IMO, negated any advantage they had of playing all their matches in the Spring. I'm curious to see how this issue plays out in the NCAA D1 women's soccer tournament, which begins next week. IMO the disadvantages of playing in the fall still existed. For example, Texas did have fewer matches and a shorter time period of full practice weeks to get into "tournament" shape. The highest caliber team it was able to play in the spring was Baylor. Now some of the spring advantages didn't turn out to be as great for some teams due to lost matches, but that possibility could have happened to Texas since other Big 12 teams did lose matches in the spring due to COVID. It could be that a possible advantage was not whether a team played in the fall or not, but the amount of COVID disruption in the spring, especially in the last month. IMO there really isn't anything definitive to the argument one way or another. Even if we had a normal fall season, Texas and Kentucky would have still entered the season as Top 5 teams. It wouldn't have been a shocker if either or both ended up in the championship game in that scenario. Didn't appear that playing in the fall helped teams get into the tournament nor really advance further than reasonable expectations. |
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Post by diggerdive on Apr 24, 2021 14:19:00 GMT -5
Your paragraph about Elliott has a typo - I think you meant 2016. :-) |
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Post by slxpress on Apr 24, 2021 14:37:50 GMT -5
You like quoting yourself and calling yourself out? LOL! No, but seriously, I think what is not being said here is that there was a reasonable logic behind the thinking. I think the reason many people thought playing in the Fall was a disadvantage is because those schools would have fewer matches in the Spring to get back up to speed. The problem is that a lot of schools (i.e., WI, PSU, NE), who only played in the Spring, had a bunch of late season matches canceled due to Covid. This, IMO, negated any advantage they had of playing all their matches in the Spring. I'm curious to see how this issue plays out in the NCAA D1 women's soccer tournament, which begins next week. IMO the disadvantages of playing in the fall still existed. For example, Texas did have fewer matches and a shorter time period of full practice weeks to get into "tournament" shape. The highest caliber team it was able to play in the spring was Baylor. Now some of the spring advantages didn't turn out to be as great for some teams due to lost matches, but that possibility could have happened to Texas since other Big 12 teams did lose matches in the spring due to COVID. It could be that a possible advantage was not whether a team played in the fall or not, but the amount of COVID disruption in the spring, especially in the last month. IMO there really isn't anything definitive to the argument one way or another. Even if we had a normal fall season, Texas and Kentucky would have still entered the season as Top 5 teams. It wouldn't have been a shocker if either or both ended up in the championship game in that scenario. Didn't appear that playing in the fall helped teams get into the tournament nor really advance further than reasonable expectations. To me the greatest tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the effect it has had on women's volleyball. It makes complete sense to me to use that as a crutch regarding the competitiveness of the season. As opposed to simply being grateful we had any kind of season whatsoever. Sincerely, I'm just glad we had so few tragedies surrounding Covid as it relates to college sports. How much of an impact it made on the competitiveness of the year should be a silly conceit as far as I'm concerned. |
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Post by alhorford90 on Apr 24, 2021 14:53:00 GMT -5
Lol To me the greatest tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the effect it has had on women's volleyball. You don't actually mean this, right? Do you want to clarify? |
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Post by dodger on Apr 24, 2021 14:58:08 GMT -5
Kentucky literally hasn’t lost the serve pass game once this season. I don’t see them getting out passed by Texas. If Texas wins it’s because of their block and OOS scoring. Or it's because Texas in system scoring is more effective than Kentucky's in system scoring. Which is tied to blocking, but not entirely. Texas has never needed to be an elite passing team. They've just needed to be better than barely adequate. Which they have been this year for once. It's a combination of talent in the backrow and an additional coaching staff member that's made the difference. Doesn't mean Texas wins, but they're not as difficult to watch for fans of good back court play as they have been in other Final Four/national championship game incarnations. Well thats not actually correct now is it?! |
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Post by slxpress on Apr 24, 2021 15:06:45 GMT -5
Or it's because Texas in system scoring is more effective than Kentucky's in system scoring. Which is tied to blocking, but not entirely. Texas has never needed to be an elite passing team. They've just needed to be better than barely adequate. Which they have been this year for once. It's a combination of talent in the backrow and an additional coaching staff member that's made the difference. Doesn't mean Texas wins, but they're not as difficult to watch for fans of good back court play as they have been in other Final Four/national championship game incarnations. Well thats not actually correct now is it?! You want to clarify? I don't know which part of that post is not actually correct in your mind, so if you'd help me out I'd be appreciative. |
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Post by bigfan on Apr 24, 2021 15:11:15 GMT -5
Volleytalk makes Texas a heavy favorite to win the title with about 67% of the vote.
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Post by audiovol on Apr 24, 2021 15:21:22 GMT -5
If Texas can't win something is wrong, they have two of the best coaches in the world and the most physical athletes in the nation and a head coach doing his best Laurel of Laurel and Hardy impression...
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Post by slxpress on Apr 24, 2021 15:23:44 GMT -5
If Texas can't win something is wrong, they have two of the best coaches in the world and the most physical athletes in the nation and a head coach doing his best Laurel of Laurel and Hardy impression... It's ridiculous anyone even wants to be associated with the guy, really. |
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Post by huskervolleyball on Apr 24, 2021 15:30:33 GMT -5
It'll be so iconique if Kentucky wins a natty before Florida, Minny and Wisky. I'm here for that loool.
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