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Post by liberovb10 on Aug 23, 2023 2:33:54 GMT -5
oh cripes, here we go! the injury bug attacks again!
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Post by volleyaudience on Aug 23, 2023 14:12:28 GMT -5
Greatly appreciate when the creator of a team thread includes recruits on the roster page. Very helpful. Thank you.
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Post by alt on Aug 24, 2023 10:10:38 GMT -5
I feel horrible for Taylor. To be diagnosed with an autoimmune while she’s away from the comforts of home and family. It must be so tough, I can’t even begin to imagine how she just feel. I was excited to see her play, hopefully she gets out there soon. I think Tamas kinda gets his own medicine here. He’s recruited way too many middle hitters with only two viable OH’s… Man, he really messed this roster up. We are not going to get far with ) middles on our team I’m not sure what he’ll do with all these MB to switch them over to RS? We need a legitimate OH or else he’ll just see everything crumble. IMO he should have let Collins go and used that scholarship for a transfer OH.
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Post by ilalum92 on Aug 25, 2023 5:43:00 GMT -5
Did I read that the ILL vs NIU match will be streamed on ESPN +. If so, I will be watching so will give an update for everyone.
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Post by vball778 on Aug 25, 2023 7:22:52 GMT -5
Just adding to my frustrations here -- this is the second year in a row where Illinois has not hosted a home tournament. That can't help from a recruiting perspective either.
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Post by pointillinois on Aug 25, 2023 10:24:39 GMT -5
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Post by oldmanvb on Aug 25, 2023 10:48:31 GMT -5
At least we have three home games before the B1G season starts. As I recall, last year our first home match was Maryland at the start of the B1G season.
As I read the complaints about roster structure and all the middles, complaints with which I generally agree, I see we have a middle in each of our next two recruiting classes, and only one pin. Our one recruit pin is generally perceived to be an opposite, although she says she has also hit left side in her biographical comments. Having watched video of Philpot and Pitcel, they appear to me to be very different from the middles Tamas has been recruiting the last few years. It seems to me we have had a progression of big but slow middles. With the possible exception of Bingham, both Philpot and Pitcel appear to be much quicker than the middles recently recruited, something I believe is a good thing. Hard to tell from online video, but that is what it looks like to me.
Coupled with the recent recruitment of DSs, I think roster construction is moving in the right direction, some lessons apparently having been learned. Unfortunately it is probably going to take several years to get the roster to where it should be, a situation hampered by the low number of available scholarships. I don’t know how or where Tamas is going to find pins to enable us to effectively complete but it has to be done.
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Post by ilalum92 on Aug 25, 2023 12:27:28 GMT -5
Is anyone doing a match thread???
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Post by pointillinois on Aug 25, 2023 12:56:10 GMT -5
Is anyone doing a match thread??? exit237a said they had one ready to go last week.
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Post by inpaign on Aug 25, 2023 15:30:48 GMT -5
Looked like Kennedy might’ve suffered a minor injury this week in practice. Still feel as though there’s a good chance she plays tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
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Post by ilalum92 on Aug 25, 2023 16:05:00 GMT -5
Is anyone doing a match thread??? exit237a said they had one ready to go last week. I did not see one on the Match Thread post.
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Post by liberovb10 on Aug 25, 2023 17:13:14 GMT -5
Looked like Kennedy might’ve suffered a minor injury this week in practice. Still feel as though there’s a good chance she plays tomorrow. Fingers crossed! TDB Barnes Collins if they’re all injured, just throw in the towel…i’m done.
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Post by inpaign on Aug 25, 2023 17:38:10 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I just recently discovered Volleytalk this week so I'm happy to be here. I am close with one of the assistant coaches families and have a pretty good idea of what's going on within the team. I'll give y'all as much insight as I can (if I can figure out how to use this site ha!) while maintaining my anonymity. I will say that we will hopefully be receiving some help on the pin for THIS YEAR. Some of the logistics need to be figured out, but you will see what I'm referring to relatively soon. Go Illini!
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Post by ilalum92 on Aug 25, 2023 18:46:31 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I just recently discovered Volleytalk this week so I'm happy to be here. I am close with one of the assistant coaches families and have a pretty good idea of what's going on within the team. I'll give y'all as much insight as I can (if I can figure out how to use this site ha!) while maintaining my anonymity. I will say that we will hopefully be receiving some help on the pin for THIS YEAR. Some of the logistics need to be figured out, but you will see what I'm referring to relatively soon. Go Illini! You are about to incite a riot on the ILLINOIS 2023 VT talk dropping that tidbit without any hints or tips. LOL Welcome to the board
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Post by oldmanvb on Aug 25, 2023 19:21:35 GMT -5
Should we put together an NIL package for inpaign to support a flow of information?
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