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Post by tedheise on Jul 21, 2023 20:12:15 GMT -5
I'm just sad the Cornhuskers won't be playing at Huff this year, and my wife and I will miss our annual trip to Champaign.
If memory serves, you're overdue for a return to Champaign! We'll miss hosting you and the rest of the Husker faithful this year- the atmosphere is especially electric when Nebraska comes to Huff. Best wishes to Nebraska this season (for every other match than your November 12th one, of course)!
I think we were there last year, but could be wrong. Hope the Illini have a great season!
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Post by exit237a on Jul 22, 2023 13:59:55 GMT -5
Fellow Illinois fans- I know we don't have a ton of data about our new Illini but setting that aside, I'd love to see some premature opening day lineup predictions or preferred lineups!
I may or may not already be drafting a *very* early match thread for the opener, which got me thinking about possible lineups : )
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Post by Pasquale on Jul 22, 2023 14:56:17 GMT -5
S: Mosher RS: Burbage M: Collins M: Bohm OH: Terry OH: De Boer L: Barnes DS: Barry
I have a feeling passing and defense will be much better this year. Hopefully, everyone is healthy. Looking forward to a fun and competitive season.
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Post by liberovb10 on Jul 22, 2023 15:40:50 GMT -5
S: Mosher RS: Burbage M: Collins M: Bohm OH: Terry OH: De Boer L: Barnes DS: Barry I have a feeling passing and defense will be much better this year. Hopefully, everyone is healthy. Looking forward to a fun and competitive season. i’d throw Pan in as a DS for Burbage and Barry for DeBoer
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Post by pointillinois on Jul 22, 2023 15:44:50 GMT -5
S: Mosher RS: Burbage M: Collins M: Bohm OH: Terry OH: De Boer L: Barnes DS: Barry I have a feeling passing and defense will be much better this year. Hopefully, everyone is healthy. Looking forward to a fun and competitive season. I agree with this. The battles IMO: M2: Bohm v. Bingham OH: De Boer v. Stephenson Pan has experience, so it will be interesting to see if they can push either Barnes or Barry.
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Post by exit237a on Jul 22, 2023 16:04:15 GMT -5
S: Mosher RS: Burbage M: Collins M: Bohm OH: Terry OH: De Boer L: Barnes DS: Barry I have a feeling passing and defense will be much better this year. Hopefully, everyone is healthy. Looking forward to a fun and competitive season. I agree with this. The battles IMO: M2: Bohm v. Bingham OH: De Boer v. Stephenson Pan has experience, so it will be interesting to see if they can push either Barnes or Barry.
Someone posted a while back wondering if Dean would redshirt this season but I'd think she'll be in the mix for playing time, too, with no returning starter at the second MB position. Wish we could be flies on the Huff wall when practices start up to watch those battles you highlighted!
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Post by oldmanvb on Jul 22, 2023 17:17:53 GMT -5
I agree with you. I also think Pan will get a significant amount of playing time. DeBoer is clearly not ready to play six rotations, Barry will play back row for her. Whether Burbage plays six rotations will be determined by game situations. She will serve and hit from the right back when in the back row. Pan will come in for her, particularly if they cannot figure out a way to hide Burbage in serve receive. I think Bingham plays some opposite if Burbage is not available for any reason.
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Post by ilalum92 on Jul 22, 2023 19:39:38 GMT -5
Bella OH from Marist committed to NW. Let’s say a few Rosary’s we get an OH this class to shore up the pins. We are really thin.
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Post by ilalum92 on Jul 22, 2023 19:42:22 GMT -5
S: Mosher RS: Burbage M: Collins M: Bohm OH: Terry OH: De Boer L: Barnes DS: Barry I have a feeling passing and defense will be much better this year. Hopefully, everyone is healthy. Looking forward to a fun and competitive season. I agree with this. That 2nd MB spot is going to be a dog fight with Bohm/Bingham/Dean. Even more so as Mosher loves to push the middle. Something we have not done in a few years. Collins can run a slide. What about the other 3? Has anyone seen them?
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Post by oldmanvb on Jul 22, 2023 21:26:32 GMT -5
Was Bella someone we were recruiting? We need someone to put a bug into the coach’s office so we can get some information and reduce the anxiety level out here.
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Post by exit237a on Jul 22, 2023 23:33:17 GMT -5
S: Mosher RS: Burbage M: Collins M: Bohm OH: Terry OH: De Boer L: Barnes DS: Barry I have a feeling passing and defense will be much better this year. Hopefully, everyone is healthy. Looking forward to a fun and competitive season. I agree with this. That 2nd MB spot is going to be a dog fight with Bohm/Bingham/Dean. Even more so as Mosher loves to push the middle. Something we have not done in a few years. Collins can run a slide. What about the other 3? Has anyone seen them? I think both Bohm and Bingham ran slides this spring and I’m pretty sure Sarah ran at least one slide route when she got a start last season- think that was the Maryland away game. I don’t remember seeing many slides all the way out to the pin in Dean’s old prep footage but I could be mistaken. Plus that’s two years ago at this point anyway. Really looking forward to the three of them pushing each other, competing for playing time this season.
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Post by exit237a on Jul 24, 2023 18:50:01 GMT -5
With the season opener only about a month away, I've started to think about VolleyTalk match thread construction. I've been making threads for Illinois matches for the past three seasons and am happy to keep doing so this season, unless someone else would like to take that over. Thought I'd throw that out there in case someone wanted to get involved that way : )
Can't wait for the season to start! So many new aspects to the 2023 Illini- a few key returners and a lot of unknowns. Really looking forward to seeing how they come together over the course of the season.
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Post by slxpress on Jul 24, 2023 18:54:29 GMT -5
With the season opener only about a month away, I've started to think about VolleyTalk match thread construction. I've been making threads for Illinois matches for the past three seasons and am happy to keep doing so this season, unless someone else would like to take that over. Thought I'd throw that out there in case someone wanted to get involved that way : ) Can't wait for the season to start! So many new aspects to the 2023 Illini- a few key returners and a lot of unknowns. Really looking forward to seeing how they come together over the course of the season. Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Edit: it’s just that your match thread posts are so well done. Not actually trying to keep it from someone else that wants to do it.
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Post by exit237a on Jul 24, 2023 19:04:59 GMT -5
With the season opener only about a month away, I've started to think about VolleyTalk match thread construction. I've been making threads for Illinois matches for the past three seasons and am happy to keep doing so this season, unless someone else would like to take that over. Thought I'd throw that out there in case someone wanted to get involved that way : ) Can't wait for the season to start! So many new aspects to the 2023 Illini- a few key returners and a lot of unknowns. Really looking forward to seeing how they come together over the course of the season. Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Edit: it’s just that your match thread posts are so well done. Not actually trying to keep it from someone else that wants to do it. Thanks for the kind words, friend!
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Post by Pasquale on Jul 24, 2023 22:51:03 GMT -5
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