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Post by jayz34 on Dec 18, 2023 18:30:29 GMT -5
Someone riddle me this: when was the last time the national champion lost their first set of the tournament? I think nebraska v harvard in 2015?
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Post by bounce22 on Dec 18, 2023 18:32:23 GMT -5
Go ask JC … pretty sure he’ll come up with it 😁 Jesus Christ?? He maybe think of himself that way but I really don’t know
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Post by vbcoltrane on Dec 18, 2023 18:35:14 GMT -5
I appreciate the tri-cast yesterday - ABC, ESPN, ESPN+, the latter of which I bought a month of just for the tournament, and was hoping I didn't have to seek other options for the semis and finals since I don't have a cable package.
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Post by diggerdive on Dec 18, 2023 20:14:29 GMT -5
At 20/13 set 2 Harper shanks the pass, gets a decent set oos then hits way out and then insists there’s a touch despite it not even being close so JC loses a challenge.
Thank you Harper!!
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And for hitting out final point.
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Post by toomuchvb on Dec 18, 2023 21:13:56 GMT -5
Just watched Nebraska's post match presser and Lexi Rodriguez is a class act and is professional when she answers. I thought the same thing. I think it does help that she has been on that stage before, unlike the freshman who were still processing this huge deal. But she and Merb were 100% classy. Harper Murray is a freshman. Becca Allick is not a freshman. What other freshman spoke?
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Post by slxpress on Dec 18, 2023 21:14:48 GMT -5
At 20/13 set 2 Harper shanks the pass, gets a decent set oos then hits way out and then insists there’s a touch despite it not even being close so JC loses a challenge. Thank you Harper!! 😆 And for hitting out final point. At first I was thinking, "She didn't hit the last point out. That wasn't a hitting error. That was O'Neal serving an ace...oooooooh."
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Post by toomuchvb on Dec 18, 2023 21:17:54 GMT -5
What's the story on this match. Looks like the Nebraska passing and setting fell apart Yes. Yes, it did! 🚑🚑🚑
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Post by anOPINionATEDbeACH(hookemboo) on Dec 18, 2023 21:30:17 GMT -5
Wait, they didn't lose their first set in the tourney--it was a sweep of UNLV. Oop, I read that wrong. I thought you meant dropping the first set in the title match.
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Post by toomuchvb on Dec 18, 2023 21:49:45 GMT -5
Assume you think Texas played equally as well VS Tenn, K-St and even TCU as they did VS Stanford, Wisc and Nebraska then? I wasn't dissing Texas in any way, playing big on the biggest stage, they did that and did it well. My point in the 'perfect storm' was that Texas played near flawless volleyball and the others didn't play very well at all. Doing something no other team in history has done. 🤔🤔🤔 Some matches playing the way Stanford, Wisc and Nebr played would have been good enough to get a W, but not the way Texas was playing. If you want to take exception to that, then I can tell you the sky is blue and you will tell me it isn't, just because you think every post from a non-Texas fan is in some way trying to diss the Longhorns. Accept the complement and quit trying to poke holes into everyone else that isn't a longhorn fan. They played great and did something no other team in history was able to do. They had the best season in 2023, no doubts. My point is other teams also had great seasons. Do I really need to read another post from you with run-on sentences and no paragraphs? I’ll see how I’m feeling tomorrow. Here, here. Nice post, “ diggerdive” Agree with you that it’s one thing or another as the “reason” Texas was able to succeed and win it all—back-to-back! It was no perfect storm; there were no near flawless performances. The opponents fielded a team of Freshmen (2, and one was the #1 prep player in the country, the other has Team USA training and competition experience) through Juniors (4, including a transfer athlete) The expectations were so pervasive that Texas would trot out yet another team of superiorly gifted athletes who could attack with the best but lack the finesse to pass serves and control digs, let alone serve TWELVE ACES in a National Championship match! When those perceptions and expectations were upended, many found the match “boring” or felt Texas was playing out of their minds. On the contrary. Several players on the National Championship winning Texas Longhorns team had very ordinary performances achieving the kind of stats they might in any pre-season or conference match. They trusted their training and believed in themselves and their coaching enough (even through yellow and red card calls) to execute game plans and adjustments to deliver those winning results! Many teams had great seasons and didn’t make the Finals. One went as far as 33-2, when all was said and done. The National Championship winning Texas Longhorns kept upping the ante, through the closest of calls versus a determined Tennessee team to advance. Those other 30-some matches no longer mattered. As coaches so often say, in December it is a new season with zero wins and zero losses. There are just six games til the end of this post season tournament. One team is, after all, better than all the others at the end of the tournament. Texas is the best in 2023 and are the 2023 NCAA Women’s Volleyball National Champions! Congratulations!!
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Post by horns1 on Dec 18, 2023 22:31:34 GMT -5
Texas fans should thank Eggleston for this moment. The Texas team culture was not where it needed to be in 2021, and she single-handedly took it on her shoulders to bring in Skinner and to tell her that the two of them were going to change the team culture. I don't know that with Texas' former culture, this team finds it within themselves at 5-3 to look each other in the eyes and to work to get better each and every day. That type of mentality, you lose in four at best against Tennessee in the S16. Culture matters. The culture started to change for the better as soon as an "I" player announced her intentions to transfer. The players who remained and the incoming players worked together to make sure everyone understood there was no "I" in T-E-A-M.
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Post by knapplc on Dec 18, 2023 22:34:29 GMT -5
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Post by diggerdive on Dec 18, 2023 23:06:15 GMT -5
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Post by brybast on Dec 18, 2023 23:08:55 GMT -5
Texas fans should thank Eggleston for this moment. The Texas team culture was not where it needed to be in 2021, and she single-handedly took it on her shoulders to bring in Skinner and to tell her that the two of them were going to change the team culture. I don't know that with Texas' former culture, this team finds it within themselves at 5-3 to look each other in the eyes and to work to get better each and every day. That type of mentality, you lose in four at best against Tennessee in the S16. Culture matters. The culture started to change for the better as soon as an "I" player announced her intentions to transfer. The players who remained and the incoming players worked together to make sure everyone understood there was no "I" in T-E-A-M. Fields? Is there a rule against naming names here?
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Post by slxpress on Dec 18, 2023 23:17:36 GMT -5
The culture started to change for the better as soon as an "I" player announced her intentions to transfer. The players who remained and the incoming players worked together to make sure everyone understood there was no "I" in T-E-A-M. Fields? Is there a rule against naming names here? No rule. What will happen is that several people will come on and make innuendos about former Texas players bashing the Texas culture - specifically Elliott. Skylar Fields has thrown some shade at Elliott/Texas since transferring to USC. I haven't seen anything lately, but it will never surprise me to see something come up. She takes a great deal of pride in speaking her mind. As a Texas fan I don't really mind the innuendo. I don't mind former players throwing shade. I wish they wouldn't, but it's their life and their choice. If they feel like they had a bad experience and they want to hint about it, I feel like that's their prerogative. But the truth is there are tons of players/alums who have nothing but great things to say about Elliott and the culture he's built. People on staff rarely ever leave. Salima Rockwell left for her alma mater to coach under legendary Russ Rose, and Tonya Johnson left to be the head coach at Georgia Tech, came back, then left to be the head coach at her alma mater at LSU. It's just tough to hear anything that really bothers me about how Elliott runs the program one way or another. The players who love it stick around. The players who need a different opportunity for whatever reason leave. If they leave with some bitterness they have a right to their feelings, and how they choose to express it. But I'll say this. I've never seen Elliott make any kind of negative comments about anyone who has transferred out of his program. I'm very appreciative of that.
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Post by sunsuphornsup on Dec 18, 2023 23:40:42 GMT -5
Ok, I’ll admit, after watching the Nebraska press vidoe in full, I think we may be overreacting to Murray’s response and Allick’s demeanor. I think it’s just a lack of media savvy (which comes with maturity and experience) and coping with spectacularly losing a very important match on such a public platform. Even Cook’s comments didn’t come off that malicious to me. I think he could have chosen his words more carefully, but I’ve always felt he is not that great in front of the camera.
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