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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 27, 2022 1:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 27, 2022 1:06:43 GMT -5
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Post by Cubicle No More ... on Nov 27, 2022 1:07:29 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2022 1:09:05 GMT -5
Congratulations to Cal Poly’s seniors. Especially Maia. I will miss watching her play and big west fans were lucky to watch her one last time. She was so intense and worked hard to become an all-American. |
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Post by jake on Nov 27, 2022 1:15:37 GMT -5
Maia Dvoracek Best All-American student-athlete in the country!!! |
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Post by raian13 on Nov 27, 2022 1:28:14 GMT -5
Maia Dvoracek Best All-American student-athlete in the country!!! I love your enthusiasm. |
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Post by practicesafesets on Nov 27, 2022 2:20:45 GMT -5
Unfortunate that Maia won't be making another trip to the tourney. She did ridiculously well for someone coming off of an injury. I hope she goes pro |
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Post by beachgrad on Nov 27, 2022 10:17:42 GMT -5
In LBSU post game presser Tyler stated that the BW approved a conference tourney and it would start next year or the year after. Hopefully the tourney makes its debut next season. Will be good for the conference for sure.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Nov 27, 2022 13:49:04 GMT -5
In LBSU post game presser Tyler stated that the BW approved a conference tourney and it would start next year or the year after. Hopefully the tourney makes its debut next season. Will be good for the conference for sure. I’m not in favor of a conference tournament, especially if Hawaii has to sacrifice a non conference week to fit in tournament play. A conference tournament only benefits the other Big West teams. It’s a terrible idea. |
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Post by gr8lakes on Nov 27, 2022 13:55:10 GMT -5
If there is a tournament they need to cut the number of conference games from 20 to 18, which is what basketball is planning to do.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2022 14:00:22 GMT -5
In LBSU post game presser Tyler stated that the BW approved a conference tourney and it would start next year or the year after. Hopefully the tourney makes its debut next season. Will be good for the conference for sure. I’m not in favor of a conference tournament, especially if Hawaii has to sacrifice a non conference week to fit it in tournament play. A conference tournament only benefits the other Big West teams. It’s a terrible idea. Yeah a conference tournament just seems like overkill with a 20 match conference schedule. But the pro is that it may help the Big West get more teams to the tournament. I still still think the better route for the Big West is for the top teams to beef up their RPI with a strong non-conference schedule and performance ala 2019. A conference tournament might sneak in a team who wouldn’t have a chance to make the tournament but what would they do with that chance? Better to actually start beating higher quality RPI opponents and bring those higher RPI points into the regular conference season. The Beach greatly improved this season and I really like Tyler. Unsurprisingly, when his team’s fate was sealed a few weekends before this he and his staff had to find ways to keep the team looking forward and motivated. Without any Hail Mary chance to make the postseason, I could see why his clamoring for a conference tournament seemed to increase. I don’t think we’d see Robyn making the sentiments he made if her team was in danger. She actually didn’t back in 2018 when there was a strong possibility that they wouldn’t make it. Not ripping on Tyler and Co for wanting a conference tournament just saying that I think there is a better way for the Big West to get more bids than playing each other again after such a long regular season. |
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Post by volleyguy on Nov 27, 2022 14:02:04 GMT -5
In LBSU post game presser Tyler stated that the BW approved a conference tourney and it would start next year or the year after. Hopefully the tourney makes its debut next season. Will be good for the conference for sure. I’m not in favor of a conference tournament, especially if Hawaii has to sacrifice a non conference week to fit in tournament play. A conference tournament only benefits the other Big West teams. It’s a terrible idea. When the Big West previously had a conference tournament, the Big West routinely had multiple bids to the NCAA tournament, and it didn't really make sense to have such a tournament. Bringing it back now is simply throwing in the towel on trying to elevate the Big West teams in the 2nd to 4th place range, and it's an attempt to make the last week or two of conference play meaningful. I can see why the non-conference champion teams want it, and why the conference champion doesn't, but in the end, it's mainly an admission that for the majority of Big West teams, mediocrity is here to stay. |
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on Nov 27, 2022 14:08:18 GMT -5
The conference would be assisting other teams at Hawaii’s expense. Hawaii would have gotten in to the NCAA’s even if UCSB won the Conference this year. I don’t see any benefit to Hawaii. And having an additional week of travel (or extended travel) to play in a conference tournament is useless to Hawaii.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Nov 27, 2022 14:08:50 GMT -5
In LBSU post game presser Tyler stated that the BW approved a conference tourney and it would start next year or the year after. Hopefully the tourney makes its debut next season. Will be good for the conference for sure. I’m not in favor of a conference tournament, especially if Hawaii has to sacrifice a non conference week to fit in tournament play. A conference tournament only benefits the other Big West teams. It’s a terrible idea. lol, without a conf tournament, Hawaii 'sacrificied' a week anyway not being able to get anybody to come to Hawaii the 4th week of non-conf. that last week of non-conf has been brutal for Big West teams to schedule as it is, and will likely get worse it's probably a bigger issue in 'sacrifice' for the LA teams that actually have a shot at hosting non-conference and getting some good Pac-12/WCC match-ups as oppossed to Hawaii. Beach & IRvine probably have the most to lose in terms of non-conference scheduling flexibility with a BWCT tournament the devil is in the details. would hope it is no more than 6 teams max. hosted by the #1 seed would be my preference. they may rotate sites, in which case I would think like MVB, Hawaii would host every 3 years, or at least once every 4. a conf tournament increases the odds for additional teams to get a bids. Now if one just assumes the Big West is stuck' as a one bid conference, then yeah don't bother. I would think to be more optimistic and a conf tournament would help, and in line with Beach VB, and MVB in the Big West, both which are tremendous tournaments four teams, or at most 6 with two byes for the top two seeds would be fine, and counteract the RPI drag from the overall conference. the difficulty with WVB is the last week with T-Giving, not being ideal. The Conference can start with matches this year a four team tourney would have been Beach, Poly, SB, Hawaii - and even if Hawaii had lost, they would have made the tourney, so hard to see how a BWCT would have hurt anybody, it would have helped the conference I'm ambivalent either way. There's likely to be a scenario where a #1 seed gets knocked out of berth at some point, reality and statistics. if it's not the site of the #1 hosts, I simply don't like holding it in Hawaii even on a rotating basis, because it's simply prohibitive for any team from Hawaii to have fan support, due to that uniqueness. But I get the realities if the Big West goes that route. If they can hold it Sun-Tues before thanksgivoing, IMO that would be the best scenarios |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2022 14:09:41 GMT -5
I’m not in favor of a conference tournament, especially if Hawaii has to sacrifice a non conference week to fit in tournament play. A conference tournament only benefits the other Big West teams. It’s a terrible idea. When the Big West previously had a conference tournament, the Big West routinely had multiple bids to the NCAA tournament, and it didn't really make sense to have such a tournament. Bringing it back now is simply throwing in the towel on trying to elevate the Big West teams in the 2nd to 4th place range, and it's an attempt to make the last week or two of conference play meaningful. I can see why the non-conference champion teams want it, and why the conference champion doesn't, but in the end, it's mainly an admission that for the majority of Big West teams, mediocrity is here to stay. You said very easily what I was having such difficulty saying up above lol! |
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