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Post by satxhorn on Dec 2, 2022 1:05:39 GMT -5
The funny thing is she’s taking a picture with the Horns down sign with the score board behind her showing they got boat raced. Yeah definitely an Aggie. After the match, I went to the vending machines downstairs to get a drink for the road. The machines were next to the temporary locker room for FDU. Some of the FDU players passed by heading into the locker room. Wanted to say something polite and conciliatory, but figured anything I said could be misinterpreted so I kept my mouth shut. Glad I didn’t see this at the time. Might have said “enjoy your trip back to Jersey, classless Aggy” |
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Post by hornshouse23 on Dec 2, 2022 1:10:14 GMT -5
Can someone confirm? Does Caffey have a jersey??
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Post by diggerdive on Dec 2, 2022 1:16:37 GMT -5
I’m probably biased but on the rare occasions SKT decides to set Parra they’re typically of Salvation-Army-remainder-bin quality.
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Post by widdledumpling on Dec 2, 2022 1:19:52 GMT -5
Parra does NOT look happy To be fair, she never looks happy. But yeah, I don't know why she should, either. She hasn't even been a serving sub. I know she's feast or famine from the service line, but she really improved her backcourt game, and she's a high end pin attacker even while being undersized. In my personal opinion, Elliott shouldn't recruit another undersized attacker again. I know he had Amy Neal ten years ago, but he's simply too good at bringing in the 6'2 to 6'4 type of high end pins, and he values blocking ability in the front row too much. To me she's been Pilared. For me the thing about Pilar (and probably Parra) is that Pilar went off to have a blistering career at Arkansas, but like…even knowing how good she could be I couldn’t tell you who I would have moved from starting to make room for her |
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Post by uofaGRAD on Dec 2, 2022 1:28:10 GMT -5
I’m probably biased but on the rare occasions SKT decides to set Parra they’re typically of Salvation-Army-remainder-bin quality. as someone who loves both of them you’re so right😭 every time. guessing if they do A vs B in practice, Parra is getting infinitely more sets from Ewert than SKT |
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Post by asdf27 on Dec 2, 2022 1:37:35 GMT -5
I’m probably biased but on the rare occasions SKT decides to set Parra they’re typically of Salvation-Army-remainder-bin quality. okay I thought I was the only one who thinks this….it’s nothing against SKT but I think that that’s the problem when your starting setter doesn’t get a ton of reps with the reserves. Even on the one to Devin it didn’t seem like it was a good set. |
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Post by slxpress on Dec 2, 2022 2:08:01 GMT -5
To be fair, she never looks happy. But yeah, I don't know why she should, either. She hasn't even been a serving sub. I know she's feast or famine from the service line, but she really improved her backcourt game, and she's a high end pin attacker even while being undersized. In my personal opinion, Elliott shouldn't recruit another undersized attacker again. I know he had Amy Neal ten years ago, but he's simply too good at bringing in the 6'2 to 6'4 type of high end pins, and he values blocking ability in the front row too much. To me she's been Pilared. For me the thing about Pilar (and probably Parra) is that Pilar went off to have a blistering career at Arkansas, but like…even knowing how good she could be I couldn’t tell you who I would have moved from starting to make room for her Couldn't agree more. I was glad when Pilar transferred, too. To me it's like Hudson Card transferring as a QB at Texas. If he wants to play, he needs to do it somewhere else. He's certainly good enough. Same thing with Parra. She could be a 6 rotation starter on any number of teams. Go get the game reps and develop your game. |
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Post by donut on Dec 2, 2022 2:59:28 GMT -5
Some posts in this thread are representative of why people root against Texas.
I grew up in the Austin area in a fam full of A&M and Tech folks. I haven’t lived in Texas for over a decade, but Texas consistently boasts, shoves in your face, proclaims, etc., they are God’s gift to the Lone Star State, and the “horns up” hand sign is part of that. I’m saying this as someone who would have gone to Texas, over any other state school, without question (for many reasons, some of them including academics and politics).
The “horns down” sign started as a response to this superiority. For posters to call FDU (of all places) players classless for holding up a silly hand sign after a pretty gnarly defeat, is embarrassing. Texas is elite — you don’t get to boast that and then get riled up when players respond to that elitism with a harmless gesture.
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Post by slxpress on Dec 2, 2022 3:20:31 GMT -5
Some posts in this thread are representative of why people root against Texas. I grew up in the Austin area in a fam full of A&M and Tech folks. I haven’t lived in Texas for over a decade, but Texas consistently boasts, shoves in your face, proclaims, etc., they are God’s gift to the Lone Star State, and the “horns up” hand sign is part of that. I’m saying this as someone who would have gone to Texas, over any other state school, without question (for many reasons, some of them including academics and politics). The “horns down” sign started as a response to this superiority. For posters to call FDU (of all places) players classless for holding up a silly hand sign after a pretty gnarly defeat, is embarrassing. Texas is elite — you don’t get to boast that and then get riled up when players respond to that elitism with a harmless gesture. I laugh at this. None of us care what you think. I don't care if someone wants to do the horns down sign. I was seeing it back in the 70s when it started, when it was the Sooners' official hand sign way before television and the internet made it popular for everyone else, including the Aggies. But it is without a doubt a taunting gesture. It is intended as such. The "horns up" sign is not intended as a taunting gesture. It is intended as a gesture among Texas fans to signal their affiliation. That's the difference. For someone to throw up a taunting gesture after getting boatraced 25-6, 25-13, 25-13 is hilarious to me. You taking umbrage at any Texas fan poking fun at it is even more delightful! I hope you root against Texas the rest of the tournament. If Texas loses, I hope you take delight in it. And if Texas wins, I hope you gnash your teeth. I don't see any reason why Texas should be trying to make friends among fans who want to root against the team and program in the first place. If someone wants to root for Texas that's not affiliated with the school/program in some way I'm assuming there is some part of them that is contrarian, who enjoys rooting for the team that every one else can't stand. Which is great, too. We'll welcome anyone who wants to join in. But we'll also welcome all the folks who enjoy seeing the program lose, too. We embrace it. We'll see how it goes for you. |
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Post by katn on Dec 2, 2022 10:46:10 GMT -5
I’m probably biased but on the rare occasions SKT decides to set Parra they’re typically of Salvation-Army-remainder-bin quality. as someone who loves both of them you’re so right😭 every time. guessing if they do A vs B in practice, Parra is getting infinitely more sets from Ewert than SKT je commented that he mixes up the teams so they are more balanced (being more competitive) when they scrimmage...but still she probably does not get enough reps with skt |
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Post by braque on Dec 2, 2022 11:05:35 GMT -5
Some posts in this thread are representative of why people root against Texas. I grew up in the Austin area in a fam full of A&M and Tech folks. I haven’t lived in Texas for over a decade, but Texas consistently boasts, shoves in your face, proclaims, etc., they are God’s gift to the Lone Star State, and the “horns up” hand sign is part of that. I’m saying this as someone who would have gone to Texas, over any other state school, without question (for many reasons, some of them including academics and politics). The “horns down” sign started as a response to this superiority. For posters to call FDU (of all places) players classless for holding up a silly hand sign after a pretty gnarly defeat, is embarrassing. Texas is elite — you don’t get to boast that and then get riled up when players respond to that elitism with a harmless gesture. A grain of truth in this I think. Certainly Texas is big and mighty and strong enough to simply laugh off an FDU player doing the horns down after a beat down like that. (a) She may have just been being ironic and (b) who cares? The Texas VB fanbase (of which I am a member of long standing) can be a bit paranoid and jittery and neurotic, not to mention thin-skinned to the point of ridiculousness. We're very cocky when things are going well (see Instagram account) but our ability to maintain when things get rocky is limited indeed (see Instagram account). |
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Post by slxpress on Dec 2, 2022 11:14:32 GMT -5
Some posts in this thread are representative of why people root against Texas. I grew up in the Austin area in a fam full of A&M and Tech folks. I haven’t lived in Texas for over a decade, but Texas consistently boasts, shoves in your face, proclaims, etc., they are God’s gift to the Lone Star State, and the “horns up” hand sign is part of that. I’m saying this as someone who would have gone to Texas, over any other state school, without question (for many reasons, some of them including academics and politics). The “horns down” sign started as a response to this superiority. For posters to call FDU (of all places) players classless for holding up a silly hand sign after a pretty gnarly defeat, is embarrassing. Texas is elite — you don’t get to boast that and then get riled up when players respond to that elitism with a harmless gesture. A grain of truth in this I think. Certainly Texas is big and mighty and strong enough to simply laugh off an FDU player doing the horns down after a beat down like that. (a) She may have just been being ironic and (b) who cares? The Texas VB fanbase (of which I am a member of long standing) can be a bit paranoid and jittery and neurotic, not to mention thin-skinned to the point of ridiculousness. We're very cocky when things are going well (see Instagram account) but our ability to maintain when things get rocky is limited indeed (see Instagram account). That’s about you more than the Texas fan base. tristen has his one trick pony regarding Parra. You’ve become a one trick pony regarding the Instagram account not recognizing the Iowa State loss, even though they posted it on twitter. I’m not going to tell you to let it go, because we’re long past that. I’m going to tell you to lean into it, and quit making ANY posts that don’t mention it, so you can truly become a caricature of yourself. I’ll even help remind you of it. There’s no paranoia, jitteriness, or neuroticism from any Texas fans regarding the Houston kid attending Fairleigh Dickinson throwing the Horns down in Gregory Gym so she can post it on her Instagram and send it out to her Aggie family and friends in a Christmas card. That’s simply how it works. There’s a sh1t ton of neuroticism in you, though. I hope this obsession of your’s is fulfilling for you, because it’s an absolute beating for the rest of us, so my way of dealing with it is simply to label this as your tired old schtick. |
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Post by eyeroll2021 on Dec 2, 2022 11:14:37 GMT -5
Can someone confirm? Does Caffey have a jersey?? Not as of last night. I'm gonna assume that the NCAA jerseys were ordered/made at the same time as the normal-season jerseys, so Kayla is SOL |
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Post by braque on Dec 2, 2022 12:26:53 GMT -5
A grain of truth in this I think. Certainly Texas is big and mighty and strong enough to simply laugh off an FDU player doing the horns down after a beat down like that. (a) She may have just been being ironic and (b) who cares? The Texas VB fanbase (of which I am a member of long standing) can be a bit paranoid and jittery and neurotic, not to mention thin-skinned to the point of ridiculousness. We're very cocky when things are going well (see Instagram account) but our ability to maintain when things get rocky is limited indeed (see Instagram account). That’s about you more than the Texas fan base. tristen has his one trick pony regarding Parra. You’ve become a one trick pony regarding the Instagram account not recognizing the Iowa State loss, even though they posted it on twitter. I’m not going to tell you to let it go, because we’re long past that. I’m going to tell you to lean into it, and quit making ANY posts that don’t mention it, so you can truly become a caricature of yourself. I’ll even help remind you of it. There’s no paranoia, jitteriness, or neuroticism from any Texas fans regarding the Houston kid attending Fairleigh Dickinson throwing the Horns down in Gregory Gym so she can post it on her Instagram and send it out to her Aggie family and friends in a Christmas card. That’s simply how it works. There’s a sh1t ton of neuroticism in you, though. I hope this obsession of your’s is fulfilling for you, because it’s an absolute beating for the rest of us, so my way of dealing with it is simply to label this as your tired old schtick. Goodness gracious!! |
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Post by donut on Dec 2, 2022 12:27:57 GMT -5
Some posts in this thread are representative of why people root against Texas. I grew up in the Austin area in a fam full of A&M and Tech folks. I haven’t lived in Texas for over a decade, but Texas consistently boasts, shoves in your face, proclaims, etc., they are God’s gift to the Lone Star State, and the “horns up” hand sign is part of that. I’m saying this as someone who would have gone to Texas, over any other state school, without question (for many reasons, some of them including academics and politics). The “horns down” sign started as a response to this superiority. For posters to call FDU (of all places) players classless for holding up a silly hand sign after a pretty gnarly defeat, is embarrassing. Texas is elite — you don’t get to boast that and then get riled up when players respond to that elitism with a harmless gesture. I laugh at this. None of us care what you think. lmao you very clearly do. You wrote 5 paragraphs in response. I clearly struck a nerve. Also, y'all very clearly care what one student athlete thinks, since the "horns up" sign is so precious, you're calling turning it over "classless." That's all I really took issue with, but thanks for mansplaining taunting and fandom to me? |
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