honeybadger88
Sophomore
Smrek bowled me out for a duck.
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Post by honeybadger88 on May 26, 2024 11:28:46 GMT -5
Was just watching the first set of the badgers game vs Nebraska on October 19, 2018 & Dana Rettke was making my jaw drop early on with her back row play. Boredom continues Didn't know Dana was capable of backrow plays. Pretty sure she's a 3ro player. Other than that, was surprising she didn't play much back row during her time here.
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Post by badgerguru on May 26, 2024 11:50:51 GMT -5
Was just watching the first set of the badgers game vs Nebraska on October 19, 2018 & Dana Rettke was making my jaw drop early on with her back row play. Boredom continues Didn't know Dana was capable of backrow plays. Pretty sure she's a 3ro player. Other than that, was surprising she didn't play much back row during her time here. The staff must have been trying something out with that particular team & match, Dana certainly was mainly a 3ro player. She only played back row because she was serving, went on a run & had two impressive plays in the back row that come to mind. A scramble play, diving sending the ball over the net while her back was also to the net. And an in system dig from a legit swing from Jazz Sweet I believe on the right side.
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Post by swaggyp on May 29, 2024 12:09:31 GMT -5
This isn't related to VB or the Fieldhouse, but because we did just spend a week or so a couple of weeks back talking about the ticket office, this change in Kohl Center seating has me rolling my eyes. I don't have nearly the budget for these god-level seats so it doesn't really affect me at all. x.com/TomOatesWSJ/status/1795815496031649820> Hard to believe the University of #Wisconsin Athletic Department would use the changes in the configuration of the ice sheet to extort even more money from courtside basketball season ticket-holders. I’m shocked.
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Post by robtearle on May 29, 2024 12:32:54 GMT -5
This isn't related to VB or the Fieldhouse, but because we did just spend a week or so a couple of weeks back talking about the ticket office, this change in Kohl Center seating has me rolling my eyes. I don't have nearly the budget for these god-level seats so it doesn't really affect me at all. x.com/TomOatesWSJ/status/1795815496031649820> Hard to believe the University of #Wisconsin Athletic Department would use the changes in the configuration of the ice sheet to extort even more money from courtside basketball season ticket-holders. I’m shocked. A bit of background for non-hockey fans: Ice rinks for hockey, surprisingly, are not very 'standardized'. The ice is always 200 feet long, but the width can vary, anywhere from 85 feet wide all the way up to 100 feet wide. Professional National Hockey League rinks are all 85 feet; international competition are mostly all 100 feet (and the Olympics are 100 feet). Otherwise it can vary. The two rinks at Wisconsin are/were neither of those standard sizes. The rink the women play on in Labahn Arena is 90 feet, the rink in the Kohl Center where the men play was 97 feet, but is being reduced to 85 feet. This is being done to align with the NHL, but also because it allows for increased seating for hockey. (The faceoff circles and other markings are always in the same positions relative to one another; there's just more ice around the outside before you get to the side boards on the bigger rinks.) But I'm not sure how or even if that also increases seating capacity for basketball. When they switch the KC over from hockey to basketball, there are rows of seats that collapse under the permanent hockey stands that get pulled out and folding chairs (?) are set up. So wouldn't the reconfiguration be simply replacing some of those pull-out rows with permanent rows? Is it just an excuse to 'renumber' the rows, and jack prices for essentially the same space under a different row number? I don't have regular tickets to anything at the KC, so I haven't seen details.
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Post by Del Bocavista on May 29, 2024 14:06:14 GMT -5
Recent athletic department moves make it seem to me that they expect fan interest (ie revenue) to drop off with this incoming "professional student athlete" model, concuurrent with major shuffling of rosters every year, and they want to try to capitalize before the well dries up.
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Post by vbdiva on May 29, 2024 14:55:39 GMT -5
She's here and will be training hard for the next 3 months in Madison.... Welcome to Badger VB Charlie! Attachments:
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Post by badgerbreath on May 29, 2024 16:55:24 GMT -5
She's here and will be training hard for the next 3 months in Madison.... Welcome to Badger VB Charlie! Haha. Did you happen to be sitting right behind her in the plane?
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Post by slxpress on May 29, 2024 17:41:52 GMT -5
She's here and will be training hard for the next 3 months in Madison.... Is that Landfair?
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Post by vbdiva on May 29, 2024 18:00:15 GMT -5
She's here and will be training hard for the next 3 months in Madison.... Is that Landfair? No, she was stollen from us with a fake ID, while drunk.
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Post by slxpress on May 29, 2024 18:08:10 GMT -5
No, she was stollen from us with a fake ID, while drunk. texasfight? Is that you?
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Post by greatlakesvballer on May 29, 2024 23:04:07 GMT -5
Recent athletic department moves make it seem to me that they expect fan interest (ie revenue) to drop off with this incoming "professional student athlete" model, concuurrent with major shuffling of rosters every year, and they want to try to capitalize before the well dries up. That's really effin sad. My interest feels like it's already dropping. 😠
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honeybadger88
Sophomore
Smrek bowled me out for a duck.
Posts: 109
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Post by honeybadger88 on May 30, 2024 9:49:00 GMT -5
Off topic and unrelated but our very own Anna Smrek and Dana Rettke have been modelling on Grandeur Models which is a modelling agency for tall athletic women founded and run by former Collegiate All American Basketballer Victoria McIntyre. Anna Smrek: grandeur-models.com/collections/anna-smrekDana Rettke: grandeur-models.com/collections/dana-rettkeWould've been great if Anna and Dana had photos together on those free collection they put out but they may have shot at a different day or you may have to subscribe to see them two modelling in the same photo (I didn't subscribe so I wouldn't know). Other volleyball names of note are. - Laurin Stivrins (Nebraska) - Tristin Savage (UCLA) - Sami Francis (Stanford) - Juliana Dalton (Wash/Pitt/Houston) - Delaney McSweeney (Iowa) - Emily McDaniel (San Diego) Folks rate Anna highly as the hottest tall girl on Grandeur Models Instagram and there was a hottest tall girl contest hosted on Deviantart by a tall girl fan account (the account who was hosting it has been taken down for unknown reasons and I know for sure Dana wasn't in that tournament but was planned to be in the next edition of it) which is a 32 tournament format of the hottest tall girls. Folks on Deviantart overwhelmingly voted for Anna on all her battles and she won without any of her opponents getting past 20% of the vote. I vividly remember she was up against Merete Lutz in the semi final which she won 90-10 and against Zehra Gunes in the grand final which Anna won 87-13.
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Post by c4ndlelight on May 30, 2024 9:55:16 GMT -5
WTF
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Post by badgerbreath on May 30, 2024 11:01:14 GMT -5
Hmmm. I understand that tall women have to fight social headwinds regarding sexist gender norms for beauty, and I enthusiastically support a fashion line that caters to tall women, but I'm not sure adapting one of the worst manifestations of the culture responsible for the norms is the way to go about promoting it.
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Post by savannahbadger on May 30, 2024 11:08:05 GMT -5
But I'm not sure how or even if that also increases seating capacity for basketball. When they switch the KC over from hockey to basketball, there are rows of seats that collapse under the permanent hockey stands that get pulled out and folding chairs (?) are set up. So wouldn't the reconfiguration be simply replacing some of those pull-out rows with permanent rows? Is it just an excuse to 'renumber' the rows, and jack prices for essentially the same space under a different row number? I don't have regular tickets to anything at the KC, so I haven't seen details. I got wind of this a couple weeks ago, but they’re actually reducing the number of seats and making the first few rows into premium seating. Not everything I heard has come to fruition yet, so take this with a grain of salt: seat donations for these rows were said to be in the multi-thousands of dollars, per year. The Atheltic Department knows to never let a good crisis go to waste.
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