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Post by Burly Ives on Sept 8, 2024 13:33:02 GMT -5
The thing I wonder is what happens with CC if Anna does come back. The badgers just looked so much more poised as a team when she was in the middle. It’s all the little things she does. She’s got good hands, anticipates and moves well, can dig when she’s playing RB and can set. Everything holds together better. Booth is a still a bit of a wild card when she is in there and it sometimes causes confusion just because she is so long. When the badgers sometimes start to lose cohesion as they’ve been doing, I feel like you want CC in there to get it back more e quickly. CC is a hard one because she is so good all around but isn’t a stand out at anything except blocking, but all the other options are also good blockers so her advantage there isn’t very big. That being said, she has been playing very well this year and looks a lot more dynamic as a hitter. She is getting more opportunities from the setter then she had last year for instance. I mean she had 12 kills against TCU. Has she ever went double digits previously? Carter Booth has more elite athletic ability she just needs to up the IQ part of her game otherwise CC will continue to play a sizeable role and cut into Carter's time especially when Smrek gets back to full strength ( which will send Dev back over to a logjam and middle at that point).
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Post by Burly Ives on Sept 8, 2024 13:45:31 GMT -5
How many folks subscribe to a streaming service for Badger volleyball?
For those that do how many total Badger volleyball games can I see and what is the breakdown? Should I get BigTen+ and Espn+? Does that get me all the games? Are any Badger volleyball games supposed to be on MyNetwork affiliates to air over the air on digital subchannels at all? TY.
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Post by tablealgebra on Sept 8, 2024 13:46:11 GMT -5
I should explain myself more. If Anna played the whole 2 matches, she is ready. If Anna was re-injured, tell the fans. Fans don't necessarily need details involving privacy; all fans need is if a player is ready to go or not. If the player is ready to go but you bench her, be ready for some criticism. Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 8, 2024 13:55:16 GMT -5
How many folks subscribe to a streaming service for Badger volleyball? For those that do how many total Badger volleyball games can I see and what is the breakdown? Should I get BigTen+ and Espn+? Does that get me all the games? Are any Badger volleyball games supposed to be on MyNetwork affiliates to air over the air on digital subchannels at all? TY. Once non-conf is over, ESPN Plus wouldn't do any good. In fact, all the rest of the non-conf is home matches. That means everything until the NCAA tournament will be either on 'regular' TV or BTN Plus. And those that aren't on BTN Plus live will be there as a replay the next day.
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Post by badgervb982597 on Sept 8, 2024 14:10:43 GMT -5
I should explain myself more. If Anna played the whole 2 matches, she is ready. If Anna was re-injured, tell the fans. Fans don't necessarily need details involving privacy; all fans need is if a player is ready to go or not. If the player is ready to go but you bench her, be ready for some criticism. Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it. She played poorly in 2 games.. in which nobody played well, unless you can name people who played great?? A lot of it was due to very poor setting, it’s more likely the injury played a part and while the current players are playing great in these games, why move things around while it’s working? I think it’s clear Smrek will be back starting, it’s just a matter of time. There are plenty of players who “deserved” to be benched if you take that approach. But credit to CC who’s been playing well, but unfortunately she just doesn’t have the IT factor in the long term over Devyn booth and Smrek but would do well as a sub when needed.
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Post by savannahbadger on Sept 8, 2024 14:11:40 GMT -5
How many folks subscribe to a streaming service for Badger volleyball? For those that do how many total Badger volleyball games can I see and what is the breakdown? Should I get BigTen+ and Espn+? Does that get me all the games? Are any Badger volleyball games supposed to be on MyNetwork affiliates to air over the air on digital subchannels at all? TY. Between FB & VB, I tend to subscribe to BTN+ and ESPN+ for just a few months of the year plus January of the next. I think Peacock might be getting involved too for some fall sports, but I’ll have to make that on a match by match decision.
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Post by badgervb982597 on Sept 8, 2024 14:11:51 GMT -5
How many folks subscribe to a streaming service for Badger volleyball? For those that do how many total Badger volleyball games can I see and what is the breakdown? Should I get BigTen+ and Espn+? Does that get me all the games? Are any Badger volleyball games supposed to be on MyNetwork affiliates to air over the air on digital subchannels at all? TY. Once non-conf is over, ESPN Plus wouldn't do any good. In fact, all the rest of the non-conf is home matches. That means everything until the NCAA tournament will be either on 'regular' TV or BTN Plus. And those that aren't on BTN Plus live will be there as a replay the next day. The thing is during the regular season games are either on BTN or BTN plus, and for me at least, it’s extremely hard to watch BTN anywhere so I subscribe to Fubo Tv and pause it when needed
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 8, 2024 14:13:41 GMT -5
I should explain myself more. If Anna played the whole 2 matches, she is ready. If Anna was re-injured, tell the fans. Fans don't necessarily need details involving privacy; all fans need is if a player is ready to go or not. If the player is ready to go but you bench her, be ready for some criticism. Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it. Booth was playing worse, where’s the benching until last night? And she is fully healthy too unlike Anna. Like going into the Baylor’s game Booth was hitting .210 or so with .65 blocks/set, as a middle. Those are terrible numbers and yet there were barely whispers about benching her, and yet there were so many posts about benching Anna after two games while injured with a brand new setter lol. Also, for all the “Anna was playing so badly” so Sheff was “correct in benching her” crowd, we’d be at minimum 1-4 right now without her and probably 0-5. For all the changes Sheff was “right” to make subbing out Anna according to y’all, without Anna these changes are at 0% effectiveness. You know who else has had awesome depth but don’t do musical chair into the conference season? Texas and Nebraska, whose B-team is prob nearly as good as their A team. Depth is a good thing, but depth where you’re playing platoon with your front row players is not. That makes it a) extremely hard to build chemistry and connection, stuff that matters against the elite teams (and prob one of reasons why our block has been so gapping early in the season. Literally blocking in different positions next to different people so often.). It’s literally the same reason why our back row looked so bad the first few game until he finally put in a single libero. B) it creates some doubt in the back of the players’ heads where they know they can get subbed out if they’re playing badly instead of being allowed to work through it, easily leading them to being more pressed or playing more timidly. And even Sheff has to admit Devyn was not pleased when she was pulled yesterday and this time they won so all is good, but what happened the next time this happen and they lose? Resentment? Some anger? Those little things can easily build and destroy a team. As John Madden says, if you have two QBs, you actually have none. Pick your starters and stick with it.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 8, 2024 14:27:24 GMT -5
Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it. Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it. You know who else has had awesome depth but don’t do musical chair into the conference season? Texas and Nebraska, I doubt that that is true for Texas, who swapped setters during the match vs UW, and have been swapping them ever since. But I'll let somebody more familiar with their lineups last year respond more definitively. But Nebraska in 2021, when they played UW for the championship, played 'musical chairs' between four outsides all year long. They ended the regular season at the Field House with different outsides playing than those who played during the NCAAs. Landfair started in place of Krause this week in the loss to SMU.
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Post by badgervb982597 on Sept 8, 2024 14:31:24 GMT -5
You know who else has had awesome depth but don’t do musical chair into the conference season? Texas and Nebraska, I doubt that that is true for Texas, who swapped setters during the match vs UW, and have been swapping them ever since. But I'll let somebody more familiar with their lineups last year respond more definitively. But Nebraska in 2021, when they played UW for the championship, played 'musical chairs' between four outsides all year long. They ended the regular season at the Field House with different outsides playing than those who played during the NCAAs. Landfair started in place of Krause this week in the loss to SMU. That’s also part of Nebraska’s problem though the last few years has been their offense and efficiency in pins. Separately, I find it interesting how for the past like 5 years they get the top recruits and pin hitters every year and every year they’re always underwhelming in their offensive production and efficiency as the supposed best players coming into college. They’re still great don’t get me wrong and much improved the past year with beasons % but it makes me wonder why Nebraska always has this problem
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Post by badgerbadgerbadger on Sept 8, 2024 14:41:43 GMT -5
You know who else has had awesome depth but don’t do musical chair into the conference season? Texas and Nebraska, I doubt that that is true for Texas, who swapped setters during the match vs UW, and have been swapping them ever since. But I'll let somebody more familiar with their lineups last year respond more definitively. But Nebraska in 2021, when they played UW for the championship, played 'musical chairs' between four outsides all year long. They ended the regular season at the Field House with different outsides playing than those who played during the NCAAs. Landfair started in place of Krause this week in the loss to SMU. Great...and I wonder what happened to their attack from those outsides lol? Maybe the inability to terminate from the left (still a problem to this day) had something to do with that. Not to mention...that Nebraska team's strengths were not their outsides, it was their triple liberos + Hames providing impenetrable floor D + tenacious serving. For us, if our block is a mess and our middles are off, we won't make the final four, no matter how talented Sarah Franklin is. Like our block has literally been the identity of this program. As for Texas, I mean...I said into the conference season. With these 2 losses, I'm expecting JE to probably choose a setter soon (or go 6-2) heading into the conference season. Last year, he stuck with Wenaas and Phillips despite loud calls for Kahahawai.
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Post by tablealgebra on Sept 8, 2024 14:44:22 GMT -5
Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it. Booth was playing worse, where’s the benching until last night? And she is fully healthy too unlike Anna. Like going into the Baylor’s game Booth was hitting .210 or so with .65 blocks/set, as a middle. Those are terrible names and yet there were barely whispers about benching her, and yet there are so many posts about benching Anna after two games while injured with a brand new setter lol. Also, for all the “Anna was playing so badly” so Sheff was “correct in benching her” crowd, we’d be at minimum 1-4 right now without her and probably 0-5. For all the changes Sheff was “right” to make subbing out Anna according to y’all, without Anna these changes are at 0% effectiveness. You know who else has had awesome depth but don’t do musical chair into the conference season? Texas and Nebraska, whose B-team is prob nearly as good as their A team. Depth is a good thing, but depth where you’re playing platoon with your front row players is not. That makes it a) extremely hard to build chemistry and connection, stuff that matters against the elite teams (and prob one of reasons why our block has been so gapping early in the season. Literally blocking in different positions next to different people so often.). It’s literally the same reason why our back row looked so bad the first few game until he finally put in a single libero. B) it creates some doubt in the back of the players’ heads where they know they can get subbed out if they’re playing badly instead of being allowed to work through it, easily leading them to being more pressed or playing more timidly. And even Sheff has to admit Devyn was not pleased when she was pulled yesterday and this time they won so all is good, but what happened the next time this happen and they lose? Resentment? Some anger? Those little things can easily build and destroy a team. As John Madden says, if you have two QBs, you actually have none. Pick your starters and stick with it. Congratulations at your bid at becoming this thread's angriest poster.
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Post by tablealgebra on Sept 8, 2024 14:47:35 GMT -5
I doubt that that is true for Texas, who swapped setters during the match vs UW, and have been swapping them ever since. But I'll let somebody more familiar with their lineups last year respond more definitively. But Nebraska in 2021, when they played UW for the championship, played 'musical chairs' between four outsides all year long. They ended the regular season at the Field House with different outsides playing than those who played during the NCAAs. Landfair started in place of Krause this week in the loss to SMU. Great...and I wonder what happened to their attack from those outsides lol? Maybe the inability to terminate from the left (still a problem to this day) had something to do with that. Not to mention...that Nebraska team's strengths were not their outsides, it was their triple liberos + Hames providing impenetrable floor D + tenacious serving. For us, if our block is a mess and our middles are off, we won't make the final four, no matter how talented Sarah Franklin is. Like our block has literally been the identity of this program. As for Texas, I mean...I said into the conference season. With these 2 losses, I'm expecting JE to probably choose a setter soon (or go 6-2) heading into the conference season. Last year, he stuck with Wenaas and Phillips despite loud calls for Kahahawai. God you're such a mess. Everything proves your point, whether it actually proves anything or not. It is the second week of the season and you're trying to argue that Sheffield shouldn't sub because - what? Nebraska switched outsides in 2021? Like, I can't even follow, basically your argument is "I'm right because everything proves I'm right." Just stop.
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Post by robtearle on Sept 8, 2024 14:49:55 GMT -5
I doubt that that is true for Texas, who swapped setters during the match vs UW, and have been swapping them ever since. But I'll let somebody more familiar with their lineups last year respond more definitively. But Nebraska in 2021, when they played UW for the championship, played 'musical chairs' between four outsides all year long. They ended the regular season at the Field House with different outsides playing than those who played during the NCAAs. Landfair started in place of Krause this week in the loss to SMU. Great...and I wonder what happened to their attack from those outsides lol? Maybe the inability to terminate from the left (still a problem to this day) had something to do with that. Not to mention...that Nebraska team's strengths were not their outsides, it was their triple liberos + Hames providing impenetrable floor D + tenacious serving. For us, if our block is a mess and our middles are off, we won't make the final four, no matter how talented Sarah Franklin is. Like our block has literally been the identity of this program. As for Texas, I mean...I said into the conference season. With these 2 losses, I'm expecting JE to probably choose a setter soon (or go 6-2) heading into the conference season. Last year, he stuck with Wenaas and Phillips despite loud calls for Kahahawai. Mentioning Hames also works against your claim. 2021 was the year Kennedi Orr was "given the keys to the car". Then they played with a 6-2 with Orr, Hames and Anni Evans, before finally going back to Hames.
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Post by 25or624 on Sept 8, 2024 14:52:18 GMT -5
Be ready for some criticism from her biggest fan, more like. Anna was playing really badly the first two games. Sheffield was right to bench her. But at this point, I don't think there's a great lineup you can stick with - when playing at their best, Devyn, Anna and Carter are all better players than CC, but CC is much more likely to be playing at her best. So expect more musical chairs for at least the rest of the non-conference season. And honestly, even during the season expect if any of those players are playing poorly for them to get benched. It's a real luxury having one more difference-maker than you have room for in the starting lineup, and I think we should use it. Booth was playing worse, where’s the benching until last night? And she is fully healthy too unlike Anna. Like going into the Baylor’s game Booth was hitting .210 or so with .65 blocks/set, as a middle. Those are terrible names and yet there were barely whispers about benching her, and yet there are so many posts about benching Anna after two games while injured with a brand new setter lol. Also, for all the “Anna was playing so badly” so Sheff was “correct in benching her” crowd, we’d be at minimum 1-4 right now without her and probably 0-5. For all the changes Sheff was “right” to make subbing out Anna according to y’all, without Anna these changes are at 0% effectiveness. You know who else has had awesome depth but don’t do musical chair into the conference season? Texas and Nebraska, whose B-team is prob nearly as good as their A team. Depth is a good thing, but depth where you’re playing platoon with your front row players is not. That makes it a) extremely hard to build chemistry and connection, stuff that matters against the elite teams (and prob one of reasons why our block has been so gapping early in the season. Literally blocking in different positions next to different people so often.). It’s literally the same reason why our back row looked so bad the first few game until he finally put in a single libero. B) it creates some doubt in the back of the players’ heads where they know they can get subbed out if they’re playing badly instead of being allowed to work through it, easily leading them to being more pressed or playing more timidly. And even Sheff has to admit Devyn was not pleased when she was pulled yesterday and this time they won so all is good, but what happened the next time this happen and they lose? Resentment? Some anger? Those little things can easily build and destroy a team. As John Madden says, if you have two QBs, you actually have none. Pick your starters and stick with it. Let's get an opinion from a Badger player. Maybe she can shed some light on this matter:
Senior middle blocker Caroline Crawford, who played throughout the match [TCU], said that versatility is one of the Badgers’ prime assets.
“Anyone on our team can be thrown in at any position at any time,” said Crawford, who finished with a season-high 12 kills. “We run our offense and defense very similar to the women’s national team, where people can rotate in and out. You saw Carter rotate in to block and you saw a 6-2 mixed in. Being able to have any have any player on the bench come off and join the game and automatically contributing I think is a huge part of our game.
This is not going to change, even if the Coaching Essentials For Volleyball Fans Handbook doesn't approve.
Go Badgers
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