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Post by eyeroll2021 on Sept 27, 2023 9:59:06 GMT -5
I think BYU has looked like the better team so far, but I’m rooting for a Longhorn sweep. A shame this couldn’t be a home and home. Also, I wish this was the last match of the conference season instead of one of the first. I think if it was a home and home each team would win at home. I watched the Stanford Texas match and I don't think BYU will handle the pressure and crowd of Gregory anywhere near as well as Stanford did. I hope BYU continues to play well, but sometimes BYU looks all world at home and much less confident on the road. We'll see. I fear it could be a Longhorn sweep.  I'm not convinced that BYU will be fazed by Gregory. In terms of space around the sides of the court and crowd volume, I don't think it's that much different than their home gym (other than the second story). I'm hella nervous about this week's games. More so for Thursday because of possible slow starts, late game, smaller/less energetic crowd. But both will be tough. |
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Post by eotexas5 on Sept 27, 2023 10:07:41 GMT -5
I remember the 2014 matchup. Texas mostly just ran into arguably the best blocking team in NCAA history (3.85 blocks/set on the season, which is the 25-point era record by quite a bit). They had 17 blocks that night. That plus Jennifer Hamson (22 kills on .241) and Alexa Gray (19 kills on .421). On the other side of the net, Chiaka Ogbogu was dominant, recording 14 kills while hitting .500. But BYU was able to keep everyone else in check for the most part. Weird Texas team. Bell on the right along with Cerame, Dalton setting in a 6-2, Neal and Eckerman (who had I think maybe not as great of a senior season compared to her two prior) as the left sides. Obviously worked out for them mostly, but just odd in my internal archives thinking back. I feel like Dalton showed up in Austin just broken. Not sure what her HS career was like, physically, but I remember talking with one of my friends who grew up in Colorado playing against her and she was deemed as like the best player in Colorado history. She was supposed to come in and set and then immediately had multiple hip surgeries and always had limited playing time because of that. Would've been interesting to think about those four years with a healthy Dalton. Had that been in the case, Collins wouldn't have seen much of the floor, I imagine. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2023 10:22:58 GMT -5
Horns will have a very tough weekend.
BYU bringing the pain.
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Post by hammer on Sept 27, 2023 11:04:52 GMT -5
Texas got a break with these matches as they don't have to travel to Provo and take on BYU at Smith Fieldhouse. Stanford 2018 lost only one match and it was in that building. Absolutely. It's so weird, too. You wouldn't think the league office would be too keen to do Texas any favors on their way out. The commissioner is openly rooting for Texas to lose. I will say Texas campaigned for a home and home schedule, but got out voted by schools that wanted to curb travel costs. Which is exactly the the kind of thing Texas wanted to get away from by leaving the conference. Texas has a mega budget, and wants a conference commissioner who unadulteratedly panders to that, whereas in the Big 12 the commissioner has always needed to be attuned to all the conference members, some of which do not have a humongous athletic budget. Especially once Nebraska and A&M left the conference. We'll clearly have a reshuffling of the deck in pre-conference matches next year with the considerable number of teams shifting conferences next season. Maybe that's a chance for Texas to set up a home and home in alternating years with BYU. |
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Post by slxpress on Sept 27, 2023 11:37:31 GMT -5
Absolutely. It's so weird, too. You wouldn't think the league office would be too keen to do Texas any favors on their way out. The commissioner is openly rooting for Texas to lose. I will say Texas campaigned for a home and home schedule, but got out voted by schools that wanted to curb travel costs. Which is exactly the the kind of thing Texas wanted to get away from by leaving the conference. Texas has a mega budget, and wants a conference commissioner who unadulteratedly panders to that, whereas in the Big 12 the commissioner has always needed to be attuned to all the conference members, some of which do not have a humongous athletic budget. Especially once Nebraska and A&M left the conference. We'll clearly have a reshuffling of the deck in pre-conference matches next year with the considerable number of teams shifting conferences next season. Maybe that's a chance for Texas to set up a home and home in alternating years with BYU. Who knows? I really like having Stanford and Minnesota on the schedule, so as long as those two don't drop off I'm open to any number of schools being added. |
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Post by hornfanaustin on Sept 27, 2023 11:59:41 GMT -5
Weird Texas team. Bell on the right along with Cerame, Dalton setting in a 6-2, Neal and Eckerman (who had I think maybe not as great of a senior season compared to her two prior) as the left sides. Obviously worked out for them mostly, but just odd in my internal archives thinking back. I feel like Dalton showed up in Austin just broken. Not sure what her HS career was like, physically, but I remember talking with one of my friends who grew up in Colorado playing against her and she was deemed as like the best player in Colorado history. She was supposed to come in and set and then immediately had multiple hip surgeries and always had limited playing time because of that. Would've been interesting to think about those four years with a healthy Dalton. Had that been in the case, Collins wouldn't have seen much of the floor, I imagine. Nicole Dalton was certainly a team player and a favorite of mine. But yeah, that was my first indication that the highly ranked "savior" setter that was going to start for 4 years might not pan out. |
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Post by hornfanaustin on Sept 27, 2023 12:32:59 GMT -5
in 2016 that was a nail-biter (25-23, 25-14, 24-26, 22-25 & 16-14)...texas was up 2 sets, well you know we've been there before & byu battled back the next 2 sets...so i was watching the match on the longhorn network & the score was 11-14 something happened with my satellite reception i originally thought texas lost the match...i didn't get to see the ending (on replay) until sometime later on...i remember byu was leading 11-5 in the 5th set but the horns stormed back to win...loved it I'm surprised this video has been up as long as it has:
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Post by Longhorn20 on Sept 27, 2023 15:02:49 GMT -5
Weird Texas team. Bell on the right along with Cerame, Dalton setting in a 6-2, Neal and Eckerman (who had I think maybe not as great of a senior season compared to her two prior) as the left sides. Obviously worked out for them mostly, but just odd in my internal archives thinking back. I feel like Dalton showed up in Austin just broken. Not sure what her HS career was like, physically, but I remember talking with one of my friends who grew up in Colorado playing against her and she was deemed as like the best player in Colorado history. She was supposed to come in and set and then immediately had multiple hip surgeries and always had limited playing time because of that. Would've been interesting to think about those four years with a healthy Dalton. Had that been in the case, Collins wouldn't have seen much of the floor, I imagine. See, I think if healthy, she would have been way more useful as a 6 rotation Opp like McNeal. Wouldn’t have been as terminal, but could have really stabilized our passing. I honestly think we win in 2013 if she is playing/passing 6 rotations at the opposite. Our passing is what killed us in the F4. |
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Post by uofaGRAD on Sept 27, 2023 15:48:07 GMT -5
the one person on BYU we know won’t be phased by Gregory is Hiapo lol
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Post by eotexas5 on Sept 27, 2023 15:53:32 GMT -5
in 2016 that was a nail-biter (25-23, 25-14, 24-26, 22-25 & 16-14)...texas was up 2 sets, well you know we've been there before & byu battled back the next 2 sets...so i was watching the match on the longhorn network & the score was 11-14 something happened with my satellite reception i originally thought texas lost the match...i didn't get to see the ending (on replay) until sometime later on...i remember byu was leading 11-5 in the 5th set but the horns stormed back to win...loved it I'm surprised this video has been up as long as it has:
I'll never forget Olmstead covering her mouth and saying "I can't believe you're gonna call that right now..." when Haddock was clearly under the net lol |
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Post by eotexas5 on Sept 27, 2023 16:00:11 GMT -5
that was such a crazy day for volleyball though. I remember that was when all four regionals were in the same time zone, if I can remember correctly. I remember Penn State having a match point in the third set against Nebraska, only for them to come back and have a reverse sweep. I was in the office watching this match and almost through my computer when we finally won.
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 27, 2023 16:06:21 GMT -5
Nice! A matchup of two teams that both lost to Washington State.
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Post by bbg95 on Sept 27, 2023 16:08:29 GMT -5
Nice! A matchup of two teams that both lost to Washington State. Your Huskies lost to Washington State too. And UTEP and Pepperdine and Arizona State. |
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Post by BOBšković on Sept 27, 2023 16:10:49 GMT -5
Who do we think starts? molly or devin?
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 27, 2023 16:10:51 GMT -5
Nice! A matchup of two teams that both lost to Washington State. Your Huskies lost to Washington State too. And UTEP and Pepperdine and Arizona State. Not sure what the Huskies have to do with it, but if you are suggesting that they are equivalent to Texas and BYU this season, then I'll take that as a compliment. |
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