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Post by mibadger on Dec 17, 2023 20:02:36 GMT -5
One season at Kentucky, winning championship with her sister. Huh? She played two seasons at UK. Transferred after the second. 2 at Kentucky and one was covid. 2 at Texas. Has the extra covid year left.
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Post by VT Karen on Dec 17, 2023 20:02:42 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. Okay, so he commented on some of the throws which he has always done. The truth of the matter is that Asjia is playing in her 6th year and did have a great stint with Team USA over the summer which probably did bolster her game and changed the way she sees the competition. I'm not sure how this is shade.
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Post by gibbyb1 on Dec 17, 2023 20:04:03 GMT -5
Someone somewhere said Norah sis was recruited for Nebraska but hated it and didn’t go. Imagine Norah instead of ally my good Sis saw the red flags 🚩 Yes. Winning, pro careers, NIL money…….are there jaded players? Of course there are, the overwhelming number of players would rave about their experience.
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Post by ebes1099 on Dec 17, 2023 20:04:18 GMT -5
Please everybody who are referencing the Tenn match and their lost of their libero, she played in the first set and they lost. Yea but... give it a rest. And the rest of you who cry a Fluke..poor losers. Wonder why so many ? Tenn players are in the transfer portal. Boy oh boy we just aren't giving enough collective credit to the Longhorns. Boo hoo! The biggest underdogs the world has ever seen. Congrats. No amount of praise is going to be enough for many Texas fans. Book em Danno right up there with John Cook in bitterness over this Texas win. Guys been taking shots at Texas celebrating too much after wins since the Stanford game.
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Post by northwoods on Dec 17, 2023 20:04:26 GMT -5
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 He should take notes from how Sheffield conducted himself post match…
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Post by stanfordvb on Dec 17, 2023 20:04:40 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 vanjak was pretty rough for stanford in 2016. I think if we're talking about worst in their position to win a natty we might be looking at setter for 2023. im also not very familiar with college vb before 2008 so I might be totally off
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Post by toomuchvb on Dec 17, 2023 20:05:04 GMT -5
…and all transferred into and helped Nebraska. Funny, none of them were playing when they beat Texas in 2015 Got players who couldn’t …. Never mind. Congratulations to Texas! Well played in all phases!
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Post by gibbyb1 on Dec 17, 2023 20:05:19 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 [br Do you actually believe they thought they’d show up and win? That’s bonkers.
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Post by dokterrudi on Dec 17, 2023 20:05:50 GMT -5
The first or second serve of the match was right at Rodriguez. And it was lights out from that point on. There were great plays made but this win is all about the serving.
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Post by donut on Dec 17, 2023 20:06:04 GMT -5
I am by no means a Jerritt Elliott fan, but I can't help but compare his post-match remarks when UT lost to UK in the finals to John Cook's here. All of Elliott's remarks were incredibly complimentary of UK and UK's performance. And that was a much closer game.
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Post by volleyl0ver on Dec 17, 2023 20:06:25 GMT -5
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 [br Do you actually believe they thought they’d show up and win? That’s bonkers. Yes and apparently Harper Murray thinks they have the next 3 in the bag
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Post by gibbyb1 on Dec 17, 2023 20:06:57 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. . Let’s give the credit to some dude watching video, and not the Texas players who balled out. Coaches get too much credit and blame.
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Post by kc8413 on Dec 17, 2023 20:07:08 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. Okay, so he commented on some of the throws which he has always done. The truth of the matter is that Asjia is playing in her 6th year and did have a great stint with Team USA over the summer which probably did bolster her game and changed the way she sees the competition. I'm not sure how this is shade. You can listen to the press conference. The tone in which it was said kind of implied that it was an unfair advantage, insinuating that she maybe shouldn’t have continued to play college ball given its ber sixth year and her experience with the national team. That was at least how I took it. Based on other commenters responses, I think many of us interpreted his response the same way.
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Post by toomuchvb on Dec 17, 2023 20:07:40 GMT -5
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 Always depends on who is doing the talking. Congratulations to Texas on an outstanding fight and back to back NCAA Championship!!
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Post by gibbyb1 on Dec 17, 2023 20:08:28 GMT -5
[br Do you actually believe they thought they’d show up and win? That’s bonkers. Yes and apparently Harper Murray thinks they have the next 3 in the bag This is laughable.
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