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Post by bvolley17 on Oct 27, 2024 17:40:28 GMT -5
Today’s highlights:
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Post by bvolley17 on Oct 27, 2024 17:41:07 GMT -5
And Friday’s highlights
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Post by volleyheels10 on Oct 28, 2024 7:20:32 GMT -5
Gotta give props to the coaching staff. From team development and the transfer bought in, they have done a good job turning around this program. The culture is better and the volleyball IQ is better. This will greatly help with recruiting in the next few seasons. Unless I have my formulating wrong...if we take care of the teams below us, we should be solidly in the tournament at this point. IF we are able to swipe a Stanford, Louisville, Pitt, SMU match we may have a slim shot of hosting still.
Massey: #21 (Up 5 Spots)
Evollve: #33
KPI: #15!
Still need to work on getting the middles, namely Jackie, more involved on offense, but we are playing some really good volleyball. I am so glad we have Safi and Thorpe for two more years.
Any idea on if Yardimici is eligible to redshirt? She only played in 4 matches I believe before injury...she could slide into the R2 spot next year nicely....
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Post by volleyheels10 on Oct 28, 2024 8:24:09 GMT -5
I wish UNC would get the Taraflex flooring. It is pathetic that mid-major teams in the Sunbelt have it and we don’t. Preach. Carolina blue would look awesome. I don’t think we’ll host this year obviously with our back half schedule being a gauntlet. But starting this year you can’t host if you don’t have it. So someone will have to invest in it at some point in the near future in the event we get back into the Top 16 regularly (Still a long way to go for that, but just saying and being hopeful). Would love Taraflex! I think we have POTENTIAL to get back to TOP 16. We lose obviously one of the best in program history in Shaff, but we have some solid arms coming in and I believe that some transfers will see what we have done so far this year with the portal and we may see better interest in higher quality players. Interested to see how we can do against Ga Tech/Stanford at home. |
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Post by volley4ever on Oct 28, 2024 9:09:36 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see what we do in the portal. I would love for this team to knock off GT on Sunday. This will be the best team we have played though.
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Post by volleyheels10 on Oct 28, 2024 10:01:45 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see what we do in the portal. I would love for this team to knock off GT on Sunday. This will be the best team we have played though. I actually think that FSU and Miami are better than GA Tech....Ga Tech is banged up on the RS and Setter position. I think FSU and Miami are well rounded teams in all positions. We need to handle Clemson Friday, but if we serve tough I dont see GA Tech beating us. They struggle to terminate on the OH when OOS and cant use the middle. I really like the athleticism that Bridget Malone has. Not saying she is replacing Mabrey but she will be a good outside hitter for us. i also am interested to see how we fill gaps with the portal. |
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Post by bvolley17 on Oct 28, 2024 15:24:04 GMT -5
Stayed at No. 25 in the rankings… FSU dropped to No. 23.
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Post by bvolley17 on Oct 28, 2024 20:56:19 GMT -5
Congrats to Mabrey on her ACC POW honors!
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Post by trianglevolleyball on Oct 28, 2024 21:48:30 GMT -5
This schedule is really great to get to a 5 or 6 seed, with the home matches against Miami/Ga Tech/ FSU. Unfortunately it’s not good for seeding because we are going to get that brutal away streak of Pitt/SMU/Louisville on the road, and with a weaker non-conference a marquee win would really help. Also sucks that Duke is our travel partner rather than NC State, NC State would’ve given Stanford more to think about.
Still, there are some very vulnerable seeds outside the top 10 UNC could get sent to if they just take care of business. And the matches against tough conference teams now that they’ve built confidence will be great for prep.
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