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Post by SportyBucky on Dec 30, 2023 0:44:49 GMT -5
🤣 Robinson is a converted middle. Skinner was an outside moved to the right. 🙄 Robinson now playing RS (albeit originally MB).  Skinner was RS at Kentucky, but now is an OH at Texas. Now, I don’t think Robinson has much of a chance at OH, I’m just saying there is sort of a precedent. Sorry but it's an idiot's argument. Skinner played outside her entire career and can pass. Ribainsin has not and cannot. She played middle her entire competitive career until college. She won best blocker as mb on team usa u-18. 🙄 |
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Post by badgerguru on Dec 30, 2023 1:02:07 GMT -5
Ella definitely taking a visit to UCLA, posted a picture on her instagram story of the beach
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Post by robtearle on Dec 30, 2023 4:22:14 GMT -5
Ella definitely taking a visit to UCLA, posted a picture on her instagram story of the beach In particular, Santa Monica, north from the pier. |
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Post by chibadgerfan on Dec 30, 2023 4:33:24 GMT -5
Robinson now playing RS (albeit originally MB). Skinner was RS at Kentucky, but now is an OH at Texas. Now, I don’t think Robinson has much of a chance at OH, I’m just saying there is sort of a precedent. Sorry but it's an idiot's argument. Skinner played outside her entire career and can pass. Ribainsin has not and cannot. She played middle her entire competitive career until college. She won best blocker as mb on team usa u-18. 🙄 In the NCAA Championship broadcasts, the commentators mentioned that Skinner at one time played opposite. I wrote at the outset that Robinson was originally a middle. I don’t think she’ll become an outside. |
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Post by allisonbadger on Dec 30, 2023 9:06:09 GMT -5
After doing a little digging and seeing that TL is a Graphic Design major, I looked at UW's graduation requirements for Graphic Design majors and the last 24 credits of the program have to be completed at UW. So perhaps it's not Minn preventing her from transferring but rather she can't transfer to UW because of UW's specific graduation requirements. guide.wisc.edu/undergraduate/education/art/art-bs/art-graphic-design-bs/ That just means she may need to retake some classes at UW if she didn't graduate at MN. I'm sure all of those credits don't transfer. That's probably true, but either way, her transfer feels poorly thought out from the academic side. Either she has to stay at MN for the spring semester (likely without the possibility of training with the team) or she basically commits to 2 semesters more at UW to meet that 24 credit requirement. Which is all a moot point because Punzel said she isn't coming to UW anyway. |
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Post by savannahbadger on Dec 30, 2023 10:11:33 GMT -5
More and this feels like we dodged a potential bullet by not taking TL. If any of the academic stuff is true, that might be something that doesn’t fit with Badger work ethic & culture.
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Post by jeepers on Dec 30, 2023 10:17:37 GMT -5
More and this feels like we dodged a potential bullet by not taking TL. If any of the academic stuff is true, that might be something that doesn’t fit with Badger work ethic & culture. Academic All-Big Ten (2021; 2022; 2023) Part of the National Honor Society and an honor roll student all four years in high school. The issue at hand seems to be that she is at the point in her degree where she can't just plug out at Minnesota and plug in somewhere else. That happens when you're getting close to finishing and not taking entry level courses. What is with all the TL slander? Jeez. If you want to see how she doesn't fit in at Wisconsin it's how she only digs about half the balls that land at her feet and she'd rather tip than tool. |
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Post by comet on Dec 30, 2023 10:18:23 GMT -5
More and this feels like we dodged a potential bullet by not taking TL. If any of the academic stuff is true, that might be something that doesn’t fit with Badger work ethic & culture. I think you're misunderstanding. Taylor is an excellent student and is set to graduate in May. She is a graphic design student so I'm assuming her last semester will be a final project. It's probably hard to transfer to a new school right before you graduate so the school is maybe saying stay until May to finish or you'll have to retake some classes, etc. |
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Post by SportyBucky on Dec 30, 2023 10:39:29 GMT -5
Sorry but it's an idiot's argument. Skinner played outside her entire career and can pass. Ribainsin has not and cannot. She played middle her entire competitive career until college. She won best blocker as mb on team usa u-18. 🙄 In the NCAA Championship broadcasts, the commentators mentioned that Skinner at one time played opposite. I wrote at the outset that Robinson was originally a middle. I don’t think she’ll become an outside. I'm not saying she didn't...but she also played outside BEFORE KY moved her to opposite. It's. Because she was playing as a freshman with her sister and another professional-caliber outside. 🙄 In other words, she was an outside most of her career up until that point. Robinson was always a middle. You don't just pick up outside skills as a middle. I'll be hanging up this call now. |
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Post by volleyball90 on Dec 30, 2023 10:49:24 GMT -5
They have run the 6-2 for two years….now it’s time to embrace The 3 Middle Offense! I've had this thought several times! Has this been run at D1 level? I love this idea. |
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Post by robtearle on Dec 30, 2023 10:57:35 GMT -5
I've had this thought several times! Has this been run at D1 level? I love this idea. Can somebody give the 25-words description of what a three-middle offense is, and what advantage it would afford the 2024 UW team? My maybe faulty understanding is that Minnesota circa 2016 ran one with Molly Lohman and the Tapp sisters, but I could certainly be wrong on that. |
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Post by badgerguru on Dec 30, 2023 11:02:53 GMT -5
Does anyone know, or is able to find, the academic requirements by Nebraska for TL? Are they the same as WI or are they able to accept her
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Post by robocop21 on Dec 30, 2023 11:12:50 GMT -5
Has this been run at D1 level? I love this idea. Can somebody give the 25-words description of what a three-middle offense is, and what advantage it would afford the 2024 UW team? My maybe faulty understanding is that Minnesota circa 2016 ran one with Molly Lohman and the Tapp sisters, but I could certainly be wrong on that. Usually with a 3 middle offense, one player plays middle all 3 rotations, one plays right side for 2 rotations and one middle, and then the 3rd player plays middle for 2 rotations and one rightside. |
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Post by robtearle on Dec 30, 2023 11:18:42 GMT -5
Can somebody give the 25-words description of what a three-middle offense is, and what advantage it would afford the 2024 UW team? My maybe faulty understanding is that Minnesota circa 2016 ran one with Molly Lohman and the Tapp sisters, but I could certainly be wrong on that. Usually with a 3 middle offense, one player plays middle all 3 rotations, one plays right side for 2 rotations and one middle, and then the 3rd player plays middle for 2 rotations and one rightside. That's what Minn was doing with Lohman and the Tapp sisters in 2016. What is the advantage for the 2024 UW team? Unless I'm not seeing it, it doesn't solve the problem that one of Devyn/Smrek/CC/Booth doesn't get on the court, does it? And you still sub the libero for two of them, and DS for the third, right? So no particular difference in terms of sub count? So what's the advantage? |
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Post by robocop21 on Dec 30, 2023 11:50:53 GMT -5
Usually with a 3 middle offense, one player plays middle all 3 rotations, one plays right side for 2 rotations and one middle, and then the 3rd player plays middle for 2 rotations and one rightside. That's what Minn was doing with Lohman and the Tapp sisters in 2016. What is the advantage for the 2024 UW team? Unless I'm not seeing it, it doesn't solve the problem that one of Devyn/Smrek/CC/Booth doesn't get on the court, does it? And you still sub the libero for two of them, and DS for the third, right? So no particular difference in terms of sub count? So what's the advantage? Yea it worked well with that 2016 Minnesota team because the tapps were versatile enough to play those two spots. It won’t help get anyone new on the court though for Wisconsin, they’ll have to sit one of those four if they run a 5-1. I could see Booth being the full time middle and then Smrek and Devyn playing the middle/rightside position. I think CC is on the bench behind those other 3. |
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