ISU, Iowa, Neb,The Weakest Non-Conference Schedule

[dishdaball]

God has spoken......thanks calabria for enlightening the rest of us idiots....

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It's like complaining about an orange because it doesn't taste like an apple.

But OK. There's two separate discussions here: 1) how US VB compares to the rest of the world (although is it elite VB or comparable levels?) and 2) the relative merits of programs in the US. Since we can't schedule anything other than programs in the US, I'm not sure why 1) was brought up--at least in the way it was introduced in this topic.

[silversurfer]

calabriavb said:

Maybe my evaluations can be compared to the following:

Translation: "Let me avoid answering your question by providing a long-winded, snooty analogy."

A few years ago we drove our nieces to see the Nutcracker performed by the American Ballet Theatre in New York.

Oh lord...is this guy really writing this? Why am I reading this?

Our nieces really enjoyed themselves but we felt the performance they saw wasn't as good as my wife and I had seen in Moscow years earlier.

Translation: "See how I cleverly inject the fact that I've been to Moscow? This makes me better than you."

It is difficult to explain...

Translation: "Everyone here is too stupid to understand my complex analysis of ballet."

"...but the rhythm, movement, and overall production by our standards was not very good.

"And our standards are, like, so totally WAY up there."

Some years later we took our nieces to see the Bolshoi Theatre and let them develop their own opinions...

Gee, how...charitable of you.

the performance in Moscow illicit emotion from our nieces that the ABT could not and to me this made the Bolshoi performnace better than the ABT production.

Bottom line: "I am so snooty, I can barely stand to be in the same room with any of you people."

I do not believe many of the people on this site have anything to compare college VB with other than with other college volleyball?

Well-disguised insult.

I have been blessed to have seen university volleyball in many countries and believe that if most Americans could also see "other" volleyball they may come to the same conclusions.

Translation: "Stupid, crude Americans. So uncultured, so unrefined, unlike me. I've seen ballet!"

American college volleyball has some of the best athletes in the world, "but" IMHO very rarely do I see these athletes playing "together" at a level that I have seen at other universities around the world.

That's one of the greatest non-answer answers I've read in a long time. Way to go.

[islandgirl]

carlkeenar said:

Can't help myself...

calabriavavamalamadingdong, who in your opinion is a good college team this year.

(this ought to be good)

Who, in your VAST experience, meets your HIGHLY VAUNTED standards? Since the rest of us, obviously, have no idea what we're talking about in saying that Stanford, Penn State, and Hawaii are good.

Please, GRACE us with your divine knowledge...(holding breath)

There ARE none, silly! 'Cause if they played any non-US international team they would get laughed off the court.

Geez, haven't you been paying attention?

[Barefoot In Kailua]

calabriavb, when you start a collegiate thread on the collegiate forum and then say you don't think Stanford, Penn State, or Hawai'i is very good, you'll lose credibility.

[dorothymantooth]

Most countries outside the US don't have collegiate volleyball, let alone good college sports. It is a ridiculous comment on so many levels.

[lilred]

SilverSurfer: Your analyis was hilarious. I got a sideache. In all seriousness though it appears that all the idiots understand the main point. The subject of relativity <---not spelled correctly cause I am one of the idiots.

Now to the original poster. Let me get you started on your next post. Instead of starting out how everyone in the US does not measure up to your exacting standards, you might start out something like this.

While NU is doing reasonably well compared to their peers, i.e. other US college teams, I feel that compared to the rest of the world that US Collegiate volleyball is inferior to International volleyball because.........