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Post by hornshouse23 on Dec 17, 2023 19:52:32 GMT -5
*they lost because the libero got hurt *Texas won the one full set the libero played in and the rest were sketchy at best Not you liking that disaster of a post. I’ve had too many truly to really I didn’t separate those two thoughts
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Post by Reach on Dec 17, 2023 19:53:22 GMT -5
Who was he being shady to and what did he say that was shady? They asked about what he thought about how asjia played. He said she had some illegal throws and made comments about how she’s playing in her 6th year and implied that it wasn’t fair to his freshmen that asjia had all this extra rep playing with the women’s national volleyball team all summer. Kelsey Robinson played as a liberal for the national team while at Nebraska, no? Surely they have been others over the years?
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Post by widdledumpling on Dec 17, 2023 19:54:19 GMT -5
Is this the lowest score in the rally era? The last set tied for the lowest score in the 25 point era, tied with the first set of the Texas Oregon match in 2012. I don’t know about the point total across all three sets
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Post by bounce22 on Dec 17, 2023 19:55:01 GMT -5
Nebraska players thought they had it in the bag and Texas played without any pressure.. a recipe for disaster with Nebraska young players. Listening to the presser, I’m not sure some of them learned tonight’s lesson. Bekkas face in the send said it all. She was SHOOK I don’t blame them for thinking they had it in the bag (they’ve been good all season) but they still had to play the game Pretty sure they didn’t think they had it in the bag but, yes , they were confident in themselves. For good reason.Quite simply, they yawped all over themselves in the last two sets and Texas rolled. Combine the two and you get the Amelie Arena Alamo (no animals were harmed in the making of this post)
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Post by kc8413 on Dec 17, 2023 19:55:06 GMT -5
They asked about what he thought about how asjia played. He said she had some illegal throws and made comments about how she’s playing in her 6th year and implied that it wasn’t fair to his freshmen that asjia had all this extra rep playing with the women’s national volleyball team all summer. Kelsey Robinson played as a liberal for the national team while at Nebraska, no? Surely they have been others over the years? Hmm I don’t think Kelsey played a significant role as a libero for team USA. Logan Tom was only a freshmen when she played for Team USA as an OH in the Olympics.
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Post by naujack85 on Dec 17, 2023 19:56:15 GMT -5
Congrats to Texas, but my God Jenna Wenaas has to be the worst OH2 to ever win a championship lol. She did play well today though and that made Texas essentially unbeatable
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Post by donut on Dec 17, 2023 19:56:31 GMT -5
Texas fans just need to say SEE 2023 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP to any haters. No need to bash Tennessee.
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Post by Reach on Dec 17, 2023 19:56:43 GMT -5
Kelsey Robinson played as a liberal for the national team while at Nebraska, no? Surely they have been others over the years? Hmm I don’t think Kelsey played a significant role as a libero for team USA. Logan Tom was only a freshmen when she played for Team USA as an OH in the Olympics. I don’t mean in any tournaments but I thought they had kesley in the gym as a practice player early on ..
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Post by vup on Dec 17, 2023 19:56:45 GMT -5
Yuck.
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Post by toomuchvb on Dec 17, 2023 19:57:09 GMT -5
How is Madisen Skinner only a junior when she’s played 2 years with Kentucky and this is her second season with Texas. One season at Kentucky, winning championship with her sister.
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Post by dokterrudi on Dec 17, 2023 19:57:14 GMT -5
Wow.
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Post by mibadger on Dec 17, 2023 19:57:21 GMT -5
personally I’m fine with how the players reacted. It’s a big match, you’re gonna be in your feels for the good and bad. As far as coach goes… you’re literally like 60. Stop being shady to someone your granddaughter’s age. Lead by example, coach. Cook has always been a sore loser and obviously his players are feeding off that. It still does take away that he’s likely the best coach in the ncaa. I don’t know if this is necessarily true anymore. The quality of coaching goes up every year. You can only stay at the top so long.
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Post by northwoods on Dec 17, 2023 19:57:33 GMT -5
What was clear this weekend, is someone on Texas bench did an outstanding job of identifying hitting tendencies and weaknesses in reception. Then clearly prepared their players to exploit them.
The Texas Libero was sitting on ever angle Franklin hit & ditto for Murray’s shot selection. And the serving was executed right on the weak passers like clockwork…. The Badgers & Husker passers could have risen to the occasion & made a game of it, but the coaching prep was exceptional.
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Post by donut on Dec 17, 2023 19:58:09 GMT -5
How is Madisen Skinner only a junior when she’s played 2 years with Kentucky and this is her second season with Texas. One season at Kentucky, winning championship with her sister. Huh? She played two seasons at UK. Transferred after the second.
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Post by yupyupyup on Dec 17, 2023 19:59:39 GMT -5
I loved it. Showed their fire and how much it meant to them. Would you rather just hear coached and canned responses? I mean have some type of humbleness to your responses. I’m more disappointed in a 60 year old head coach throwing shade towards Texas and Asjia. He was more of a sore loser than the players and that’s sad. He can go take his bad attitude and his loss and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. Disagree they just lost minutes earlier and were devastated. I don’t know if you’ve ever been an athlete and experiencing a great loss, I loved their fire. As a coach I would love their responses. Give the players a break, it’s the petty and hypocritical response from cook at the tail end, I have trouble with
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