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Post by slxpress on Apr 25, 2024 15:55:14 GMT -5
Word is he saw Eggleston hanging out with Destinee Hooker and it was all over.
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Post by katn on Apr 25, 2024 15:59:33 GMT -5
Word is he saw Eggleston hanging out with Desiree Hooker and it was all over. hooker đź«
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Post by Kearney Kingston on Apr 25, 2024 18:55:31 GMT -5
2024 Texas Longhorns
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page design by basil I’m not a Texas fan. I do wonder, as a club and HS coach, how can you keep 19 high level players satisfied - not to mention their families? Thanks. I gave a hard time keeping nine club players engaged and on board.
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Post by jwvolley on Apr 25, 2024 19:03:07 GMT -5
when will this cuttino experiment end, i beg you @karch?!?!?! Not to mention, Ashley Evans and Kendall White. WTH. There's a massive gap between Poulter/Hancock/Carlini/Gray to Evans, likewise at libero Wong/Hentz/Fleck to White. Why not free up spots for promising young players who will improve internationally, as opposed to players who are probably at their ceiling already I agree with the overall point, but Fleck has not really proven herself yet to be grouped like that. Her passing hasn't really been that good in the German league, there were times when *she* was getting pinched by her outsides and her form looks odd. That said, I fully endorse the agenda that Evans needs to go and I think after this summer White should as well.
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Post by ay2013 on Apr 25, 2024 19:32:30 GMT -5
I’m not a Texas fan. I do wonder, as a club and HS coach, how can you keep 19 high level players satisfied - not to mention their families? Thanks. I gave a hard time keeping nine club players engaged and on board. $$$ Your club players are paying YOU, of course you'll have to deal with outsized opinions and discontentment. But we are now in an era where college boosters are paying athletes. When people are getting paid, there is a lot of dissatisfaction they'll swallow. Also, it's not like they don't get to play high level volleyball day in and day out. The Texas B team is likely challenging for an at-large NCAA tournament berth. It’s a program that consistently wins at the highest level, and in addition to volleyball, the larger community really likes sports. Plus UT-Austin is a very good public undergrad program and Austin is a great city that offers students a lot of different experiences. On its face, it checks all the boxes. If I had a daughter that was good enough to play elite ball, and if someone wanted to pay her to ride the bench at UT-Austin, it's definitely an offer worth considering - other than the fact that nobody looks good in burnt orange.
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Post by hornfanaustin on Apr 25, 2024 22:30:30 GMT -5
I’m not a Texas fan. I do wonder, as a club and HS coach, how can you keep 19 high level players satisfied - not to mention their families? Thanks. I gave a hard time keeping nine club players engaged and on board. I think that any positive points I say about UT Austin could simply be replaced with [your school here] and they would be pretty similar.
What I will say is to look at the transfers in and transfers out during the JE timeline. And especially with today's portability, it's even more glaring.
Maybe this is hyperbole, but it's definitely said with Burnt Orange glasses on: The strength of UT that keeps that many high ranked or well regarded players together is the team environment.
Yup, roll your eyes now.
Think about the many ways that Madi Skinner said that she lost the love of volleyball and was looking for a place to find it again and specifically turned down the initial overtures from JE. And then she's credited him and the Texas team for bringing that love of volleyball back to her.
I view the team as a safe haven where players with "broken wings" have learned they can come and heal. And by broken wings, it could be toxic coaching staff at Tennessee which caused a majority of the team to transfer out at the end of the season (Tiffany Baker).
Or it could be something that went down the sophmore year at Kentucky that we'll never know (Madi Skinner).
Maybe getting pregnant in high school and wondering if your scholarship offer got pulled and finding out it was perfectly fine to bring your kid to practice some days (Haley Eckerman)
California girl going to the East Coast to play at some small private school, drop out after a year and away from college volleyball for one year to then get "preferred walkon" status at Texas and win the 2012 NC (Megan Futch)
Scholarship switcheroo (Akana and Caffey)
College pregnancy and scholarship games (Lauenstein)
Mental struggles after a lonely year of rehab and needing a fresh start (Ebony Nwanebu)
Meh. That's just my (burnt orange) view.
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Post by ay2013 on Apr 25, 2024 22:53:53 GMT -5
I’m not a Texas fan. I do wonder, as a club and HS coach, how can you keep 19 high level players satisfied - not to mention their families? Thanks. I gave a hard time keeping nine club players engaged and on board. I think that any positive points I say about UT Austin could simply be replaced with [your school here] and they would be pretty similar.
What I will say is to look at the transfers in and transfers out during the JE timeline. And especially with today's portability, it's even more glaring.
Maybe this is hyperbole, but it's definitely said with Burnt Orange glasses on: The strength of UT that keeps that many high ranked or well regarded players together is the team environment. Yup, roll your eyes now.
Think about the many ways that Madi Skinner said that she lost the love of volleyball and was looking for a place to find it again and specifically turned down the initial overtures from JE. And then she's credited him and the Texas team for bringing that love of volleyball back to her. I view the team as a safe haven where players with "broken wings" have learned they can come and heal. And by broken wings, it could be toxic coaching staff at Tennessee which caused a majority of the team to transfer out at the end of the season (Tiffany Baker).
Or it could be something that went down the sophmore year at Kentucky that we'll never know (Madi Skinner). Maybe getting pregnant in high school and wondering if your scholarship offer got pulled and finding out it was perfectly fine to bring your kid to practice some days (Haley Eckerman) California girl going to the East Coast to play at some small private school, drop out after a year and away from college volleyball for one year to then get "preferred walkon" status at Texas and win the 2012 NC (Megan Futch) Scholarship switcheroo (Akana and Caffey) College pregnancy and scholarship games (Lauenstein) Mental struggles after a lonely year of rehab and needing a fresh start (Ebony Nwanebu) Meh. That's just my (burnt orange) view.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s that deep for most of these women, and Texas is far from the poster child for a non-toxic volleyball environment, but that’s just me….without burnt orange colored glasses on. I’ll readily admit that UT-Austin has a lot of appeal for prospective players (as I mentioned above), but pretending it’s some popular haven to fix otherwise broken volleyball players seems like quite the stretch.
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Post by oldtimevbfan on Apr 26, 2024 10:16:00 GMT -5
I think that any positive points I say about UT Austin could simply be replaced with [your school here] and they would be pretty similar.
What I will say is to look at the transfers in and transfers out during the JE timeline. And especially with today's portability, it's even more glaring.
Maybe this is hyperbole, but it's definitely said with Burnt Orange glasses on: The strength of UT that keeps that many high ranked or well regarded players together is the team environment. Yup, roll your eyes now.
Think about the many ways that Madi Skinner said that she lost the love of volleyball and was looking for a place to find it again and specifically turned down the initial overtures from JE. And then she's credited him and the Texas team for bringing that love of volleyball back to her. I view the team as a safe haven where players with "broken wings" have learned they can come and heal. And by broken wings, it could be toxic coaching staff at Tennessee which caused a majority of the team to transfer out at the end of the season (Tiffany Baker).
Or it could be something that went down the sophmore year at Kentucky that we'll never know (Madi Skinner). Maybe getting pregnant in high school and wondering if your scholarship offer got pulled and finding out it was perfectly fine to bring your kid to practice some days (Haley Eckerman) California girl going to the East Coast to play at some small private school, drop out after a year and away from college volleyball for one year to then get "preferred walkon" status at Texas and win the 2012 NC (Megan Futch) Scholarship switcheroo (Akana and Caffey) College pregnancy and scholarship games (Lauenstein) Mental struggles after a lonely year of rehab and needing a fresh start (Ebony Nwanebu) Meh. That's just my (burnt orange) view.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s that deep for most of these women, and Texas is far from the poster child for a non-toxic volleyball environment, but that’s just me….without burnt orange colored glasses on. I’ll readily admit that UT-Austin has a lot of appeal for prospective players (as I mentioned above), but pretending it’s some popular haven to fix otherwise broken volleyball players seems like quite the stretch. Whether other schools have similar stories, one thing that Texas has done is used their available marketing reach (ie Longhorn Network) is broadcasting such stories for visibility. This I think has helped their recruitment of at least giving them a chance to win a recruit. Also, the current players are bought in to help recruit as well, Molly said in the documentary that JE texted her and Asjia to come to campus and help him recruit Madi Skinner on her visit. On their off time, they drove back to campus to meet with Madi. I think they helped her get over the hesitancy of going to Texas. These stories and documentaries are some of the things I'm going to miss with the loss of LHN.
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Post by katn on Apr 26, 2024 10:28:25 GMT -5
can we ever forget when akana's vision board (manifestations) became reality🏆...her story is way too cool...going to texas volleyball camp while in high school & then creating a vision board about winning the natty while @ texas...she was supposed to go to usc (but covid hit) & then went to the 🌽 instead...finding her way to texas with 2 x 🏆 ...those are sweet dreams...hook'em
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Post by eotexas5 on Apr 26, 2024 11:34:03 GMT -5
I think that any positive points I say about UT Austin could simply be replaced with [your school here] and they would be pretty similar.
What I will say is to look at the transfers in and transfers out during the JE timeline. And especially with today's portability, it's even more glaring.
Maybe this is hyperbole, but it's definitely said with Burnt Orange glasses on: The strength of UT that keeps that many high ranked or well regarded players together is the team environment. Yup, roll your eyes now.
Think about the many ways that Madi Skinner said that she lost the love of volleyball and was looking for a place to find it again and specifically turned down the initial overtures from JE. And then she's credited him and the Texas team for bringing that love of volleyball back to her. I view the team as a safe haven where players with "broken wings" have learned they can come and heal. And by broken wings, it could be toxic coaching staff at Tennessee which caused a majority of the team to transfer out at the end of the season (Tiffany Baker).
Or it could be something that went down the sophmore year at Kentucky that we'll never know (Madi Skinner). Maybe getting pregnant in high school and wondering if your scholarship offer got pulled and finding out it was perfectly fine to bring your kid to practice some days (Haley Eckerman) California girl going to the East Coast to play at some small private school, drop out after a year and away from college volleyball for one year to then get "preferred walkon" status at Texas and win the 2012 NC (Megan Futch) Scholarship switcheroo (Akana and Caffey) College pregnancy and scholarship games (Lauenstein) Mental struggles after a lonely year of rehab and needing a fresh start (Ebony Nwanebu) Meh. That's just my (burnt orange) view.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s that deep for most of these women, and Texas is far from the poster child for a non-toxic volleyball environment, but that’s just me….without burnt orange colored glasses on. I’ll readily admit that UT-Austin has a lot of appeal for prospective players (as I mentioned above), but pretending it’s some popular haven to fix otherwise broken volleyball players seems like quite the stretch.
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Post by pointtexas on Apr 26, 2024 19:03:52 GMT -5
I get that when people look at the roster and see players that would get more playing time at other schools can cry foul but I think most underestimate the draw of a competitive gym. Texas isn’t the only team that could field 2 solid teams, most top programs can, and it’s extremely enticing to players that want to get better faster!
The cream of the crop recruits and players often have eyes on the Olympics and professional leagues and the process of finding those girls are the same ones that occur in these competitive gyms. Pure and simple, if you want to be the best you have to play against the best everyday! This favors the top traditional teams that are already elite but with the portal I think you will see more San Diego’s pop up and make a run.
I think Texas is one of the few schools that rank high in tradition, family atmosphere, location and NIL opportunities…that’s hard to pass up.
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Post by rjaege on Apr 27, 2024 9:23:32 GMT -5
It's great to be on top and TX WVB IS. Although, Threepeat is definitely possible, it's tough to stay on top. TX also benefits from a very strong pool of in-state recruits.
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Post by slxpress on Apr 27, 2024 10:07:15 GMT -5
It's great to be on top and TX WVB IS. Although, Threepeat is definitely possible, it's tough to stay on top. TX also benefits from a very strong pool of in-state recruits. Some things I know: - your farts don’t stink when you’re winning national championships Suddenly everything your favorite program is doing is exactly the best way to do things and it’s going to be that way forever and ever and ever - but before that if you win a bunch but don’t win championships then there’s something about your favorite program that’s not clutch and there’s something inherently wrong with it - every program that wins multiple championships had some kind of inherent strength that led them to their success. Inherent strengths don’t matter if you’re not able to leverage them successfully. And everyone else has inherent strengths they’re trying to leverage as well. For example, the University of Nebraska has an entire state whose identity is wrapped up in some degree to the success of their sports programs - in particular football and women’s indoor volleyball. That didn’t happen by accident. There was a lot of purpose behind it that goes back decades. People who grew up in Nebraska or even the children of parents who grew up in Nebraska have a bond with the university of Nebraska and its sports teams that even outweighs wherever they matriculate for their undergraduate degree in an unusual and unique way. That doesn’t exist for any school in the state of Texas in the same way. It’s led to more eyeballs, greater attendance, higher interest, and frankly dominating recruiting success and the most robust NIL in the country. It’s a little odd to me to read you talking about the instate talent advantage Texas has, as accurate a statement as that might be.
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Post by hornfanaustin on Apr 27, 2024 10:25:34 GMT -5
It's great to be on top and TX WVB IS. Although, Threepeat is definitely possible, it's tough to stay on top. TX also benefits from a very strong pool of in-state recruits.
Only one team has ever done a three-peat and that's Penn State 2007-2010 on a way to (also) the only four-peat 2007-2011.
Love my Horns and I'm always sippin' the requisite Kool-Aid, but we'll see how it goes this Fall.
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Post by hornfanaustin on Apr 27, 2024 10:31:54 GMT -5
The only schools who have repeated (and their years):
Hawaii: 1982-83
Pacific: 1985-86
UCLA: 1990-91
Stanford: 1996-97
USC: 2002-03
Penn State: 2007-10
Penn State: 2013-14
Stanford: 2018-19
Texas: 2022-23
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