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Post by gopherhim on Nov 18, 2024 16:00:58 GMT -5
I saw this survey floating around on Facebook. A Carlson student shared it in the Gopher fan group. Sharing here for those not on social media. Not sure if it went out in any emails. Sorry if it's old news to you. Gopher athletic department wants to know fan opinions on things like NIL, Title IX, conference realignment, etc. Questions like "Do you believe Gopher Athletics faces any challenges in recruiting or retaining student-athletes compared to other programs?" and "Do you believe universities should distribute athletic revenue to their student-athletes?" Hot topics in a rapidly changing landscape, so share your thoughts with the U if you haven't already. umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_85KAcn0i5vw7o3Q?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3g5XEUHHUGsr2_OWmBG_LTXEfojiwMBJ5yV5b5TB9QLIu8Z-cmOmuEvUg_aem_VeuY-ONm-jxCKP0nk1FGlg |
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Post by comet on Nov 18, 2024 16:08:00 GMT -5
I saw this survey floating around on Facebook. A Carlson student shared it in the Gopher fan group. Sharing here for those not on social media. Not sure if it went out in any emails. Sorry if it's old news to you. Gopher athletic department wants to know fan opinions on things like NIL, Title IX, conference realignment, etc. Questions like "Do you believe Gopher Athletics faces any challenges in recruiting or retaining student-athletes compared to other programs?" and "Do you believe universities should distribute athletic revenue to their student-athletes?" Hot topics in a rapidly changing landscape, so share your thoughts with the U if you haven't already. umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_85KAcn0i5vw7o3Q?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3g5XEUHHUGsr2_OWmBG_LTXEfojiwMBJ5yV5b5TB9QLIu8Z-cmOmuEvUg_aem_VeuY-ONm-jxCKP0nk1FGlgI did this survey already, I appreciate them reaching out about it to hear fans opinions. It's an interesting topic. |
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Post by mcmike on Nov 19, 2024 0:03:50 GMT -5
I think Ideally we'd have a stat that grades the impact of the serve on scoring a point. Did the serve put the opponent out of system or "force" an error, overpass, trap set into a block, etc.
Then we'd need to adjust by quality of opponent passers, since clearly it's probably easier to put a team like Michigan OOS, than a team like Nebraska. This seems to be the approach of Evollve's "vs. an average team" metrics.
All I have to work with is the primitive post-match play-by-play, which typically does not show each volley in a point. Some schools seem to be moving to this, so maybe I could refine the categories to include "first ball" actions, rather than "whole point" actions, if there is a better source.
MN scored a point on a McGhie serve. The play by play shows a hitting error by the MB trying unsuccessfully to rescue a near overpass. The serve was essentially an ace. As you said "I think Ideally we'd have a stat that grades the impact of the serve on scoring a point. Did the serve put the opponent out of system or "force" an error, overpass, trap set into a block, etc." Maybe the SA stat should include service winners where a second contact is a failure that ends the point. You cannot score two points in the stat book for an overpass that is terminated, but really, isn't that also an 'ace'?
I rewatched the second set to get a sense of where 13 hitting errors came from. No doubt a few were errant 3rd contacts. A good chunk were due to sets that basically forced a pin to try to defeat a well formed block. We measure a setter's prowess by assists/set, but we don't tally the 'demerit' sets that lead to free balls, tips instead of bigger swings, or become trap sets.
Baseball announcers tell you the speed of a batted ball, how well a pitcher avoids batters' barrels. How much of a team's H% is based on the prowess of your pins & MBs and how much on your setters' set quality? |
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Post by mcmike on Nov 19, 2024 1:03:36 GMT -5
Oh those rose colored glasses
AVCA top 25 16
Massey 17
Volleytalk 19
There's hope ... and then there's the latest Bracketology just out:
4 seeds (13-16) Ga. Tech, KY, Utah, TCU
5 seeds (17-20) Fla, Baylor, USC, Ore
6 seeds (21-24) MN., Mo, BYU, Tx A&M
"Minnesota must win out to have any hope of hosting. Even if they do,
they lost to like every bubble seed (USC, Purdue, Oregon, TCU, Baylor)"
It seems like so long ago that we lost in overtime to Baylor & TCU. OUCH.
In the grand scheme of things the easiest path to a regional semi-final might be as a 6th seed
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Post by pavsec5row10 on Nov 19, 2024 9:55:20 GMT -5
Oh those rose colored glasses AVCA top 25 16 Massey 17 Volleytalk 19 There's hope ... and then there's the latest Bracketology just out: 4 seeds (13-16) Ga. Tech, KY, Utah, TCU
5 seeds (17-20) Fla, Baylor, USC, Ore
6 seeds (21-24) MN., Mo, BYU, Tx A&M"Minnesota must win out to have any hope of hosting. Even if they do, they lost to like every bubble seed (USC, Purdue, Oregon, TCU, Baylor)" It seems like so long ago that we lost in overtime to Baylor & TCU. OUCH. In the grand scheme of things the easiest path to a regional semi-final might be as a 6th seed I'd put Baylor above TCU currently, but yeah those h2h losses to everybody are nails in our seeding coffin. I wouldn't hate being sent to Lawrence and playing Hawai'i in the first round. (3) Kansas vs. SE Missouri State Hawaii* vs. (6) Minnesota* |
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Post by BigDigEnergy on Nov 19, 2024 10:24:29 GMT -5
If we don't get to host the 1st/2nd round, I hope we get at least the #5 or #6 seeds.
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Post by douglass9 on Nov 19, 2024 10:41:29 GMT -5
I took the survey and still think the athletic dept. Is run for it' employees. I counted 270 and 280 scholarships given out. On line it said it costs about 30,000 to go to the U and live on campus. 280 x 30,000 = 8,400,000. Athletic budget last year about 130,000,000 which means about 6 t0 7 percent is spent on school costs. My numbers may be off but even if you increase it still looks bad.
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Post by comet on Nov 19, 2024 13:35:48 GMT -5
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCj7RxAyJ4K Encouraging (or discouraging?) to see most sites have us in the 14-17 range. Evollve #15 Pablo #14 AVCA #16 Massey #17 💩 RPI #28 I wish we could have pulled off one or two of the TCU/Baylor/USC matches to get us over this large hump we're facing regarding hosting. Also, 43.9% good pass. 🙈 |
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Post by GoGophs on Nov 19, 2024 14:39:28 GMT -5
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCj7RxAyJ4K Encouraging (or discouraging?) to see most sites have us in the 14-17 range. Evollve #15 Pablo #14 AVCA #16 Massey #17 💩 RPI #28 I wish we could have pulled off one or two of the TCU/Baylor/USC matches to get us over this large hump we're facing regarding hosting. Also, 43.9% good pass. 🙈 Ya the passing jumped out to me too lol but the OOS efficiency kind of evens it out! They're also doing well shutting out opponents who are OOS |
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Post by JT on Nov 19, 2024 15:00:23 GMT -5
I took the survey and still think the athletic dept. Is run for it' employees. I counted 270 and 280 scholarships given out. On line it said it costs about 30,000 to go to the U and live on campus. 280 x 30,000 = 8,400,000. Athletic budget last year about 130,000,000 which means about 6 t0 7 percent is spent on school costs. My numbers may be off but even if you increase it still looks bad. I agree that the overwhelming (call it 90-ish percent) of the Athletic Budget goes for non-school costs. Not sure that I agree that that means it's run "for its employees." There's a lot of non-schooling, non-personnel expense involved as well. Flights, hotels, food, facilities take up a lot, too. Also, I'm not sure whether all of the educational support costs are included in the athletic budget. If they are, that adds up as well. But yeah -- college athletics is a business, which uses colleges and students as source material. |
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Nov 19, 2024 15:13:05 GMT -5
Gophers are probably the best OOS team in the country, our out-of-system is a lot more out than some of those other squads lol. I think all three pins had some rips from balls bumpset from service line against Michigan.
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Post by PpprPrtnr on Nov 19, 2024 16:06:39 GMT -5
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Post by GoGophs on Nov 19, 2024 19:42:30 GMT -5
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Post by mcmike on Nov 19, 2024 20:57:59 GMT -5
Team Metrics from Volleydork (Massey sort) Encouraging (or discouraging?) to see most sites have us in the 14-17 range. Evollve #15 Pablo #14 AVCA #16 Massey #17 💩 RPI #28 I wish we could have pulled off one or two of the TCU/Baylor/USC matches to get us over this large hump we're facing regarding hosting. Also, 43.9% good pass. 🙈 maybe not surprising that our OOS attack % is in the top 5%... our good pass % is worst among the Massey top 20 the difference between H% and opponent H% is greater than .100 for the top 9. ours is 14th of 17 at .073 by these metrics you'd think that Creighton is the best team in the country. They are second in H% differential at .196 Pitt is they are the only team whose differential between H%s is over .200, nearly .250!! Dayton at #20 is the other non power-4 conference team in the top 20. They also hit over .100 pt better than their opponents. The problem with seeding Creighton is that their competition in the Big East, save Marquette, is essentially nil. What were their H% splits in their challengingly scheduled non-conference? Stanford's Hambley is committed to high pressure serving with its concomitant SE increase (thus the bottom 5% in SA/SE ratio) does a casual fan have access to the volleydork addressable database? |
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Post by VT Karen on Nov 19, 2024 21:06:22 GMT -5
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