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Post by swaggyp on Sept 5, 2024 9:30:52 GMT -5
Happy birthday to frequent Badger poster and long time Volleytalker wiscvball . I hope you have a great day!
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 5, 2024 12:12:01 GMT -5
Joncast Podcast: Arias with Sheffield post Fiserv spotify interview. This is a good overview of what Sheff thinks are problems, the constraints they are under vis a vis practice time, and his approach to dealing with the 0-3 beginning. open.spotify.com/episode/1GrC7ZE2xWWrP4Jozit4fk?si=8e8191b2c6dd46bcHere is another with LC on LOVB that is only on youtube for some reason.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 5, 2024 12:43:53 GMT -5
"I was really, really pleased the way we've been passing the first three matches."
The context was the pressure they were under from "the sick and nasty" Stanford serves, and how much better and more difficult serving is generally now as opposed to years ago.
But it is still a startling statement.
(Around 15:30 or so. More around 23 minutes)
The difference in perception down on the floor vs what somebody in the seats might be seeing. "What Stanford was throwing at us was the best serving I've ever seen."
Trinity: Seeing serving quality that she's just never seen before; "her eyes haven't had to respond to that". "On slower balls, her technique is really good, really sound. Good platform. Her issue is the speed of play, of some of the balls."
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 5, 2024 13:05:38 GMT -5
I think we passed ok this past weekend. People are looking for perfection when it can't be had. Sarah's numbers are astounding. Schumacher was good to very good. Orzol was a little off from her usual self, as Sheff mentioned, but that is due to lack of practice.
I think he's right that the problem were the connections which haven't had time to form because they can't play 6 on 6, and the transition game in general. He made a point of empty swings allowing other teams to transition more easily.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 5, 2024 13:16:15 GMT -5
He also made a completely different point about the speed of the Fiserv matches. I'm not sure a serving clock was as much problem as Sheff seems to think, but it was remarkable to me how the production lost the rhythm of the match, and the engagement of the crowd as a result - more so than any match I've ever been to. The musical interludes were too long, the time outs were too long, the engagement of the fans with the match was constantly being interrupted with false restarts. I would start yelling when I thought there was going to be a restart, and then the music would pop up again, people who were standing would sit down and they wouldn't get up because they weren't sure what to expect. I'm not sure what was going on, but it did not help the experience in the arena. Sheff mentions 4 minutes to find out if a ball was in out out on challenge review. Those definitely went too long, but at the field house (just eg) they have a whole routine of sing a long music that keeps the crowd engaged.
There needs to be a better rhythm. I really missed the energy of a student section too.
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Post by Wiswell on Sept 5, 2024 13:43:29 GMT -5
Let's face it. These alternative venues suck. You are sacrificing a home game for some kind of other experience.
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Post by swaggyp on Sept 5, 2024 15:24:44 GMT -5
Let's face it. These alternative venues suck. You are sacrificing a home game for some kind of other experience. The alternative venue may suck and I guess to some degree you're sacrificing a home game against a cupcake for a neutral site game against a big time program, but it's not like those three schools were gonna agree to come to the Field House. (ETA: I thought Fiserv was a great venue. If the made-for-TV experience made the in-arena experience worse, that's a trade off you have to make. The worst part about the Fiserv experience IMO was that they seemed to be surprised that people wanted to eat in between matches. Who could have guessed!)
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Post by robtearle on Sept 5, 2024 15:48:01 GMT -5
Let's face it. These alternative venues suck. You are sacrificing a home game for some kind of other experience. The alternative venue may suck and I guess to some degree you're sacrificing a home game against a cupcake for a neutral site game against a big time program, but it's not like those three schools were gonna agree to come to the Field House. (ETA: I thought Fiserv was a great venue. If the made-for-TV experience made the in-arena experience worse, that's a trade off you have to make. The worst part about the Fiserv experience IMO was that they seemed to be surprised that people wanted to eat in between matches. Who could have guessed!) Six years to the day earlier, in 2018, #2 Texas did indeed come to the Field House.
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Post by swaggyp on Sept 5, 2024 17:23:14 GMT -5
The alternative venue may suck and I guess to some degree you're sacrificing a home game against a cupcake for a neutral site game against a big time program, but it's not like those three schools were gonna agree to come to the Field House. (ETA: I thought Fiserv was a great venue. If the made-for-TV experience made the in-arena experience worse, that's a trade off you have to make. The worst part about the Fiserv experience IMO was that they seemed to be surprised that people wanted to eat in between matches. Who could have guessed!) Six years to the day earlier, in 2018, #2 Texas did indeed come to the Field House. Thanks for the reminder. I was there. This was when coaches still wore ties.
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Post by pepperjack on Sept 5, 2024 18:07:48 GMT -5
Happy birthday to frequent Badger poster and long time Volleytalker wiscvball . I hope you have a great day! Happy Birthday, wiscvball!
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Post by SportyBucky on Sept 5, 2024 18:13:08 GMT -5
Six years to the day earlier, in 2018, #2 Texas did indeed come to the Field House. View AttachmentThanks for the reminder. I was there. This was when coaches still wore ties. 🙄
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Post by pepperjack on Sept 5, 2024 20:40:09 GMT -5
Did y’all know that Coach Luke Fickell’s (Badger Football Head Coach) daughter plays volleyball at Indiana?
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Post by 25or624 on Sept 5, 2024 20:54:27 GMT -5
Punzel has a couple of articles on WSJ tonight. This comes from the article about Charlie:
One of the issues impacting the team’s connectivity has been the series of ankle injuries that have sidelined outside hitters Sarah Franklin and Julia Orzol and right side Anna Smrek at times and still impacts their availability in practice.
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Post by badgerbreath on Sept 5, 2024 21:15:02 GMT -5
Punzel has a couple of articles on WSJ tonight. This comes from the article about Charlie: One of the issues impacting the team’s connectivity has been the series of ankle injuries that have sidelined outside hitters Sarah Franklin and Julia Orzol and right side Anna Smrek at times and still impacts their availability in practice.Sarah did an interview with Arias where she basically said (cheerfully of course) she hoped to be completely recovered by mid season, so it's clearly still affecting her. Orzol did one where she said she felt great and was pain free, but gave the impression she was not moving well yet, so not sure if she meant pain free while playing or during the rest of the day. When they say they feel "great" you always have to take that with a grain of salt. Sheff really gave the impression that practice time is very limited coming into the season due to late arrivals and injuries, and now schedules. It's going to be a long haul.
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Post by ndodge on Sept 6, 2024 8:00:32 GMT -5
Punzel also says at bottom of article that TCU will be on espn+ but I still don’t see it on espn schedule. I hope he’s right !
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