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Post by bkedane on Feb 5, 2024 8:53:32 GMT -5
So, where is Johnny Neeley? He chose to leave coaching to pursue opportunities in business.
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Post by marnvbc2 on Feb 5, 2024 20:19:31 GMT -5
Guess I wasn't fast enough to get my preview's out before the official announcement: byucougars.com/news/2024/01/11/four-newcomers-join-byu-during-winter-semesterA few observations from this, though: (1) Having a Bower on campus after graduating early might bode well for her chances of possibly being the #1 setter come fall. I really like Silina Damuni, and I also think Alex will be elite as well; so an interesting battle there for sure; (2) Interesting to me that Hoybjerg is listed as a MB and not an Outside, and that she is listed at all for Spring. I think the MB move might be the Allie Hake's replacement plan as I think Abby is a bit undersized to be a high level D1 MB but we will see, and I think the fact that she is joining the team now tells us her injury is fully in the rear view mirror--good news for her! (3) I really like that Johnson will have the Spring to make her case to be a significant factor in the DS/Libero conversation. In my opinion, this is easily our biggest area of need, so getting her in sooner to help her get acclimated is only a good thing. My .02 The Alex Bower/Damuni question will tell us a lot about Heather's instincts going forward. A move to Damuni will signal that Heather has given thought to the ramifications of that move and is doing what is best for the BYU volleyball program. If A Bower starts then there will turmoil in Denmark for many years. Is there no official statement from BYU on Neeley not being with the program any longer? No comments from Heather? Strange for a long-time assistant coach to be gone and not be going to another program, while disappearing from the BYU vb home page? It is odd that Hoybjerg is listed as a MB. But, this roster is pin hitter heavy and it is head scratching to me on why, year after year, Heather continues to load up on pins and be short-handed on back row passers. It doesn't bother her at all to have 4-6 pin hitters that don't play and won't play, but there is a continual shortage of talented passers (even untalented) on the roster. I would have 5-6 pins max and 6-7 passers with the issues BYU has had in the passing dept on performance and talent evaluation. They ought to just throw as many passers into the mix and see if 1-2 are legit. The only new recruit that I am calling BYU on the carpet for is Mortenson (sp?). She is not even close to the needed quality at OH. Legacy recruit that could be a walk on to help her mom's feelings but the roster spot should go to a DS!
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Post by marnvbc2 on Feb 5, 2024 20:20:58 GMT -5
So, where is Johnny Neeley? He chose to leave coaching to pursue opportunities in business. Is that the story they are sticking to?
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Post by marnvbc2 on Feb 5, 2024 20:47:04 GMT -5
How the setting situation resolves is perhaps the most important issue. Unlike marnvbc2 I have not been in the spring practice gym to know which setter is doing better. I'm surprised by the suggestion that the coaches won't start the better of the two in the Fall. That not common in high level D1 play is it? Coaches at this level mostly try to win in my experience. I haven't been in the gym either. You only need to watch these two setters in club to see who is the better athlete, better defender, best foot speed, best jumping ability, best block, best serve, best ball placement and best feel for the game. Oh and one of them played at the highest level of open club and the other never did. You won't need to wait to see who the better setter is. Here I go again but the one girl on this present roster that is listed 2 inches above her actual height is ..... just guess?? You have to be kidding me. Watch Damuni and A Bower stand next to each other on the court (or anyway else) and tell me which one is 2 inches taller than the other. BTW A Bower is older than Damuni but she did graduate early from the Bower home school to be at BYU in Jan.
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Post by bkedane on Feb 6, 2024 7:49:43 GMT -5
He chose to leave coaching to pursue opportunities in business. Is that the story they are sticking to? A friend of his told me that this is what he said about leaving coaching. Is this a cover story for something else?
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Post by bkedane on Feb 6, 2024 10:38:26 GMT -5
How the setting situation resolves is perhaps the most important issue. Unlike marnvbc2 I have not been in the spring practice gym to know which setter is doing better. I'm surprised by the suggestion that the coaches won't start the better of the two in the Fall. That not common in high level D1 play is it? Coaches at this level mostly try to win in my experience. I haven't been in the gym either. You only need to watch these two setters in club to see who is the better athlete, better defender, best foot speed, best jumping ability, best block, best serve, best ball placement and best feel for the game. Oh and one of them played at the highest level of open club and the other never did. You won't need to wait to see who the better setter is. Here I go again but the one girl on this present roster that is listed 2 inches above her actual height is ..... just guess?? You have to be kidding me. Watch Damuni and A Bower stand next to each other on the court (or anyway else) and tell me which one is 2 inches taller than the other. BTW A Bower is older than Damuni but she did graduate early from the Bower home school to be at BYU in Jan. I do not know much about how BYU does things. At programs I do know well, however, coaches don't pick starters based on how players performed in club season. And they certainly don't pick based on whether players' club teams played "open" level or not - that says more about the club team than the individual player. They choose starters based on what is happening in the practice gym. That's why I thought you were in the gym this Spring. If BYU doesn't play its best players, as you seem to think they won't, then they will presumably drop off quite a bit and the coach will be fired. I do not predict that this will happen.
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Post by marnvbc2 on Feb 6, 2024 17:56:23 GMT -5
Well, bk - I do agree with you that in 95% of the cases that coaches generally play who they think can get them a win. But sometimes they don't for reasons that are personal (personality) or because they are scared of offending future recruits or parents. Since you haven't noticed, BYU has dropped off in their level of play over the last 5 years. All while most BYU people feel that we had the best setter in BYU history leading the team. Not playing the best players is somewhat an issue on this team, but a bigger issue is that the staff continuously recruits players who aren't good enough on the back row. That is an 8 year on-going issue. Then they compound the problem by taking girls who aren't anything close to impact players (in other positions like pin hitters) and sucking up roster spots that could be given to players that might provide solid passing play. Jaidyn Kaka, Tristyn Moser, Sydnie Martindale, Morgan Bower, Callie Whitney, Abbey Dayton, Grace Wee, Madi Allen, Gretchen Reinert, Aria McComber, Hannah Billeter, Kelsey Knudsen, Brielle Miller, Kamile Hiapo etc. I could list the OH's who were bad passers (Madi Rob) and Heather tried to get away with playing them on the back row because of how bad the BR passers actually were. I am not naming Mary Lake because she was recruited and signed by Shawn Olmstead.
If you look at this list you will see Allen (Heather ran her off demanding that she play L rather than her natural position), McComber and Hiapo who thrived. BYU got the last 2 girls through the transfer portal after they were trained by another program and overlooked by BYU. That leaves really just 1 girl in 8 years who was recruited and had a big impact (for 2 yrs) before hitting the transfer portal to San Diego ..... and promptly went back to DS and played in the final 4 .... on arguably the second best team in the nation. When Shawn was coaching the women, he would run 5-6 pin hitters on the roster. Heather has gradually upped that amount to 9 girls. You can't run a program like that unless Heather and Co hit on every DS/L without a mistake. That isn't realistic and it isn't happening. Eden Bower, is the latest to play meaningful time who isn't good enough to be a starter on this team. Claire Little should have started and Heather should have stayed with her through tough freshman matches like every other big time program does. Every time Heather could insert Eden unto the court, she would. Stowell is better than Eden and took away the starting job from Eden 2 years ago when Eden was handed the starting OH2 role as a freshman and couldn't perform at a high level at all. It is crazy that the Bower connection has had such an impact on this program, but it has and it hasn't taken BYU up a level at all. I can go on ..... but people need to see the trend on these issues and quit putting blue goggles over their eyes. My point about club is that you can certainly see who has elite protentional and who doesn't at that level. Damuni has it and Alex Bower doesn't(she is average). Kalia might be the setter come fall .... that would be better for BYU than Bower but not as good as Damuni. I have coached against them all and people thought I was crazy when I said Eden Bower wouldn't be elite and when I said that M Lee could start on day 1 at MB or Opp. People were mad when I pointed out that it was embarrassing to keep Prior on the bench and play Gimmer at all! A high level USA vb commentator came to BYU and questioned the whole thought process of a particular lineup and suggested that Whitney Bower play DS when she came back from injury. I agreed with him and people were mad .... except Erin Livingston and the MB's who preferred ball placement over flashy dumps. Heather wasted Damuni's redshirt last year so that she wouldn't be able to cover up A Bower. No other competitive reason to play Damuni at all. Crazy! If A Bower gets the starting job, save this post to look back on because she will not beat good teams and Heather will lose credibility with the entire roster except Eden, Alex and Carolyn Bower.
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Post by VB48 on Feb 6, 2024 18:36:58 GMT -5
In regard to Kaieva Johnson transfer. I tend to watch some Utah Volleyball so I do remember watching her play this last year. In particular, I remember her from their Utah State match early in the season and the Stanford match late in the season. She actually did play a lot of backrow for Utah as a DS. She played both in right back and center back for Utah at times. By the end of the season she was a regular DS and seemed to be rotating with Gibaldo; earlier in the season I think she rotated more often with the Opposite. In the middle of the season, she didn't play as much. For example, she didn't play much against BYU. So here are my small sample impressions, done without stats, and subject to all kinds of cognitive biases. I actually think she's a pretty solid add. My small sample impression is that she's ahead of both both Billeter and Miller as passers, has a nice platform, and has good coverage range. I don't remember her serving much. Is she going to become an elite or near elite backrow player, I doubt it (she does seem quite athletic so it's possible). I do think she's likely to be a solid backrow player for the next three years. I think she's the type of player that would be near ideal in the role as the number two backrow little behind a very good libero. We played against her club team and I agree with you pelagius. Johnson is a good passer and better than Miller and Billeter. From what I was told she wanted to go to BYU out of hs but Miller was recommended by the owner of Club V as the best DS. She wasn't! That doesn't excuse BYU from watching and evaluating her. I think Johnson's club team had the MB, Jepsen who went to Pitt. The current UVU assistant coach was head coach of the top V team and well .... you can see how his talent evaluation is at the college level. Johnson will work her way into the lineup and be a quality DS. I can't find my notes but I don't think she has a great serve so we will see how that works out. What makes you believe the owner of Club V recomended Miller over Johnson to BYU?
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Post by silverchloride on Feb 6, 2024 19:40:27 GMT -5
So, where is Johnny Neeley? He chose to leave coaching to pursue opportunities in business. I really liked Jonny talked with him at tournaments many times over the years. My DD was on their radar and her teammate is now at BYU. Obviously this is anecdotal and don't know first hand about him actually coaching, but I wish him well in whatever he has next.
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Post by bkedane on Feb 6, 2024 19:41:43 GMT -5
Well, bk - I do agree with you that in 95% of the cases that coaches generally play who they think can get them a win. But sometimes they don't for reasons that are personal (personality) or because they are scared of offending future recruits or parents. Since you haven't noticed, BYU has dropped off in their level of play over the last 5 years. All while most BYU people feel that we had the best setter in BYU history leading the team. Not playing the best players is somewhat an issue on this team, but a bigger issue is that the staff continuously recruits players who aren't good enough on the back row. That is an 8 year on-going issue. Then they compound the problem by taking girls who aren't anything close to impact players (in other positions like pin hitters) and sucking up roster spots that could be given to players that might provide solid passing play. Jaidyn Kaka, Tristyn Moser, Sydnie Martindale, Morgan Bower, Callie Whitney, Abbey Dayton, Grace Wee, Madi Allen, Gretchen Reinert, Aria McComber, Hannah Billeter, Kelsey Knudsen, Brielle Miller, Kamile Hiapo etc. I could list the OH's who were bad passers (Madi Rob) and Heather tried to get away with playing them on the back row because of how bad the BR passers actually were. I am not naming Mary Lake because she was recruited and signed by Shawn Olmstead. If you look at this list you will see Allen (Heather ran her off demanding that she play L rather than her natural position), McComber and Hiapo who thrived. BYU got the last 2 girls through the transfer portal after they were trained by another program and overlooked by BYU. That leaves really just 1 girl in 8 years who was recruited and had a big impact (for 2 yrs) before hitting the transfer portal to San Diego ..... and promptly went back to DS and played in the final 4 .... on arguably the second best team in the nation. When Shawn was coaching the women, he would run 5-6 pin hitters on the roster. Heather has gradually upped that amount to 9 girls. You can't run a program like that unless Heather and Co hit on every DS/L without a mistake. That isn't realistic and it isn't happening. Eden Bower, is the latest to play meaningful time who isn't good enough to be a starter on this team. Claire Little should have started and Heather should have stayed with her through tough freshman matches like every other big time program does. Every time Heather could insert Eden unto the court, she would. Stowell is better than Eden and took away the starting job from Eden 2 years ago when Eden was handed the starting OH2 role as a freshman and couldn't perform at a high level at all. It is crazy that the Bower connection has had such an impact on this program, but it has and it hasn't taken BYU up a level at all. I can go on ..... but people need to see the trend on these issues and quit putting blue goggles over their eyes. My point about club is that you can certainly see who has elite protentional and who doesn't at that level. Damuni has it and Alex Bower doesn't(she is average). Kalia might be the setter come fall .... that would be better for BYU than Bower but not as good as Damuni. I have coached against them all and people thought I was crazy when I said Eden Bower wouldn't be elite and when I said that M Lee could start on day 1 at MB or Opp. People were mad when I pointed out that it was embarrassing to keep Prior on the bench and play Gimmer at all! A high level USA vb commentator came to BYU and questioned the whole thought process of a particular lineup and suggested that Whitney Bower play DS when she came back from injury. I agreed with him and people were mad .... except Erin Livingston and the MB's who preferred ball placement over flashy dumps. Heather wasted Damuni's redshirt last year so that she wouldn't be able to cover up A Bower. No other competitive reason to play Damuni at all. Crazy! If A Bower gets the starting job, save this post to look back on because she will not beat good teams and Heather will lose credibility with the entire roster except Eden, Alex and Carolyn Bower. What's the evidence that BYU's play has dropped off in the last 5 years? BYU's ranking, by various ranking systems, has remained high. Statistical measures have remained high and steady. The win/loss record has remained good. I'm not a BYU fan [or enemy]. No blue glasses here. Maybe the program is as corrupt and/or as poorly led as you say. If it really is full of corruption and favoritism I hope you've reported this to the proper administrator. So far these alleged problems aren't showing up in the team performance from what the results show. Maybe the collapse is coming soon as you predict. Or maybe not.
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Post by silverchloride on Feb 6, 2024 20:28:55 GMT -5
Well, bk - I do agree with you that in 95% of the cases that coaches generally play who they think can get them a win. But sometimes they don't for reasons that are personal (personality) or because they are scared of offending future recruits or parents. Since you haven't noticed, BYU has dropped off in their level of play over the last 5 years. All while most BYU people feel that we had the best setter in BYU history leading the team. Not playing the best players is somewhat an issue on this team, but a bigger issue is that the staff continuously recruits players who aren't good enough on the back row. That is an 8 year on-going issue. Then they compound the problem by taking girls who aren't anything close to impact players (in other positions like pin hitters) and sucking up roster spots that could be given to players that might provide solid passing play. Jaidyn Kaka, Tristyn Moser, Sydnie Martindale, Morgan Bower, Callie Whitney, Abbey Dayton, Grace Wee, Madi Allen, Gretchen Reinert, Aria McComber, Hannah Billeter, Kelsey Knudsen, Brielle Miller, Kamile Hiapo etc. I could list the OH's who were bad passers (Madi Rob) and Heather tried to get away with playing them on the back row because of how bad the BR passers actually were. I am not naming Mary Lake because she was recruited and signed by Shawn Olmstead. If you look at this list you will see Allen (Heather ran her off demanding that she play L rather than her natural position), McComber and Hiapo who thrived. BYU got the last 2 girls through the transfer portal after they were trained by another program and overlooked by BYU. That leaves really just 1 girl in 8 years who was recruited and had a big impact (for 2 yrs) before hitting the transfer portal to San Diego ..... and promptly went back to DS and played in the final 4 .... on arguably the second best team in the nation. When Shawn was coaching the women, he would run 5-6 pin hitters on the roster. Heather has gradually upped that amount to 9 girls. You can't run a program like that unless Heather and Co hit on every DS/L without a mistake. That isn't realistic and it isn't happening. Eden Bower, is the latest to play meaningful time who isn't good enough to be a starter on this team. Claire Little should have started and Heather should have stayed with her through tough freshman matches like every other big time program does. Every time Heather could insert Eden unto the court, she would. Stowell is better than Eden and took away the starting job from Eden 2 years ago when Eden was handed the starting OH2 role as a freshman and couldn't perform at a high level at all. It is crazy that the Bower connection has had such an impact on this program, but it has and it hasn't taken BYU up a level at all. I can go on ..... but people need to see the trend on these issues and quit putting blue goggles over their eyes. My point about club is that you can certainly see who has elite protentional and who doesn't at that level. Damuni has it and Alex Bower doesn't(she is average). Kalia might be the setter come fall .... that would be better for BYU than Bower but not as good as Damuni. I have coached against them all and people thought I was crazy when I said Eden Bower wouldn't be elite and when I said that M Lee could start on day 1 at MB or Opp. People were mad when I pointed out that it was embarrassing to keep Prior on the bench and play Gimmer at all! A high level USA vb commentator came to BYU and questioned the whole thought process of a particular lineup and suggested that Whitney Bower play DS when she came back from injury. I agreed with him and people were mad .... except Erin Livingston and the MB's who preferred ball placement over flashy dumps. Heather wasted Damuni's redshirt last year so that she wouldn't be able to cover up A Bower. No other competitive reason to play Damuni at all. Crazy! If A Bower gets the starting job, save this post to look back on because she will not beat good teams and Heather will lose credibility with the entire roster except Eden, Alex and Carolyn Bower. I believe Claire would have continued as a starter, but wasn't she injured?
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Post by bbg95 on Feb 6, 2024 21:50:08 GMT -5
What's the evidence that BYU's play has dropped off in the last 5 years? BYU's ranking, by various ranking systems, has remained high. Statistical measures have remained high and steady. The win/loss record has remained good. I'm not a BYU fan [or enemy]. No blue glasses here. Maybe the program is as corrupt and/or as poorly led as you say. If it really is full of corruption and favoritism I hope you've reported this to the proper administrator. So far these alleged problems aren't showing up in the team performance from what the results show. Maybe the collapse is coming soon as you predict. Or maybe not. Marn is a poster that for the last few years has pretended like they're some kind of BYU women's volleyball insider. When in reality, I'm pretty sure they have virtually zero inside knowledge. They also have a bizarre axe to grind with Heather Olmstead and the entire Bower family that I can't possibly begin to understand. Anyway, you should take anything they say about BYU WVB, and especially anything about Olmstead or the Bowers, with a grain of salt.
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Post by marnvbc2 on Feb 7, 2024 16:30:33 GMT -5
Well, bk - I do agree with you that in 95% of the cases that coaches generally play who they think can get them a win. But sometimes they don't for reasons that are personal (personality) or because they are scared of offending future recruits or parents. Since you haven't noticed, BYU has dropped off in their level of play over the last 5 years. All while most BYU people feel that we had the best setter in BYU history leading the team. Not playing the best players is somewhat an issue on this team, but a bigger issue is that the staff continuously recruits players who aren't good enough on the back row. That is an 8 year on-going issue. Then they compound the problem by taking girls who aren't anything close to impact players (in other positions like pin hitters) and sucking up roster spots that could be given to players that might provide solid passing play. Jaidyn Kaka, Tristyn Moser, Sydnie Martindale, Morgan Bower, Callie Whitney, Abbey Dayton, Grace Wee, Madi Allen, Gretchen Reinert, Aria McComber, Hannah Billeter, Kelsey Knudsen, Brielle Miller, Kamile Hiapo etc. I could list the OH's who were bad passers (Madi Rob) and Heather tried to get away with playing them on the back row because of how bad the BR passers actually were. I am not naming Mary Lake because she was recruited and signed by Shawn Olmstead. If you look at this list you will see Allen (Heather ran her off demanding that she play L rather than her natural position), McComber and Hiapo who thrived. BYU got the last 2 girls through the transfer portal after they were trained by another program and overlooked by BYU. That leaves really just 1 girl in 8 years who was recruited and had a big impact (for 2 yrs) before hitting the transfer portal to San Diego ..... and promptly went back to DS and played in the final 4 .... on arguably the second best team in the nation. When Shawn was coaching the women, he would run 5-6 pin hitters on the roster. Heather has gradually upped that amount to 9 girls. You can't run a program like that unless Heather and Co hit on every DS/L without a mistake. That isn't realistic and it isn't happening. Eden Bower, is the latest to play meaningful time who isn't good enough to be a starter on this team. Claire Little should have started and Heather should have stayed with her through tough freshman matches like every other big time program does. Every time Heather could insert Eden unto the court, she would. Stowell is better than Eden and took away the starting job from Eden 2 years ago when Eden was handed the starting OH2 role as a freshman and couldn't perform at a high level at all. It is crazy that the Bower connection has had such an impact on this program, but it has and it hasn't taken BYU up a level at all. I can go on ..... but people need to see the trend on these issues and quit putting blue goggles over their eyes. My point about club is that you can certainly see who has elite protentional and who doesn't at that level. Damuni has it and Alex Bower doesn't(she is average). Kalia might be the setter come fall .... that would be better for BYU than Bower but not as good as Damuni. I have coached against them all and people thought I was crazy when I said Eden Bower wouldn't be elite and when I said that M Lee could start on day 1 at MB or Opp. People were mad when I pointed out that it was embarrassing to keep Prior on the bench and play Gimmer at all! A high level USA vb commentator came to BYU and questioned the whole thought process of a particular lineup and suggested that Whitney Bower play DS when she came back from injury. I agreed with him and people were mad .... except Erin Livingston and the MB's who preferred ball placement over flashy dumps. Heather wasted Damuni's redshirt last year so that she wouldn't be able to cover up A Bower. No other competitive reason to play Damuni at all. Crazy! If A Bower gets the starting job, save this post to look back on because she will not beat good teams and Heather will lose credibility with the entire roster except Eden, Alex and Carolyn Bower. What's the evidence that BYU's play has dropped off in the last 5 years? BYU's ranking, by various ranking systems, has remained high. Statistical measures have remained high and steady. The win/loss record has remained good. I'm not a BYU fan [or enemy]. No blue glasses here. Maybe the program is as corrupt and/or as poorly led as you say. If it really is full of corruption and favoritism I hope you've reported this to the proper administrator. So far these alleged problems aren't showing up in the team performance from what the results show. Maybe the collapse is coming soon as you predict. Or maybe not. bk- I haven't said that the program is corrupt. I do say that the leadership has (over 8 years) had fatal flaws in the selection of back row passers. They also recruit an unusually high number of pin hitters who can't pass and/or can't hit at an elite level and because they carry too many pins they can't carry more back row passers. Passing has killed BYU vb over the last 8 years. bbg loves the Bowers and makes excuses/sticks up for them when needed. Carolyn Bower owns the Idaho Crush and carries an outsized influence on BYU vb. Morgan Bower came to BYU and stayed on the roster for 4 years and contributed zero to the defense. She sucked up a roster spot the whole time. The BYU head coach was a Libero in college and she can't select talent at all in that area. She won't listen to anyone on that subject .... that doesn't mean she is corrupt. As far as results dropping off .... last 5 years haven't produced a team that won a sweet 16 match. Sometimes (2) they lost in the round of 32. The 5 years prior .... they had a national championship match and a final 4 appearance etc. That is my measuring stick. Of course they lost more matches this past year than they have in many years but they also played better competition. I don't think there is a collapse coming but I think that they will struggle in all the same areas .... they have in the last 5 years. I don't see anyway the passing gets better than last season. I am concerned about the setting competition being legit. BYU had a better setter than Whitney Bower in the Meyer girl and they lost her to the transfer portal because she knew she was better than Whitney and wasn't give a shot at playing time. People in the program were closed lipped about the issue but everyone knows she was better than Bower. It was a big risk to offend the Bower family. How do you recruit a top 4 setter and expect her to sit behind Bower for 4 years and stay at BYU? Just another example of poor coaching, but not corrupt coaching. Eventually, the competition is the best teaching tool and will expose all poor decision making. We shall see when the starting setter is named.
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Post by 900sqftdad on Feb 8, 2024 2:01:29 GMT -5
What's the evidence that BYU's play has dropped off in the last 5 years? BYU's ranking, by various ranking systems, has remained high. Statistical measures have remained high and steady. The win/loss record has remained good. I'm not a BYU fan [or enemy]. No blue glasses here. Maybe the program is as corrupt and/or as poorly led as you say. If it really is full of corruption and favoritism I hope you've reported this to the proper administrator. So far these alleged problems aren't showing up in the team performance from what the results show. Maybe the collapse is coming soon as you predict. Or maybe not. Marn is a poster that for the last few years has pretended like they're some kind of BYU women's volleyball insider. When in reality, I'm pretty sure they have virtually zero inside knowledge. They also have a bizarre axe to grind with Heather Olmstead and the entire Bower family that I can't possibly begin to understand. Anyway, you should take anything they say about BYU WVB, and especially anything about Olmstead or the Bowers, with a grain of salt. Bingo… Or just a wild parent who’s kid has gotten a raw deal in their mind and has a bone to pick, or just maybe Marn just has a lot of bad days who knows I’m sure Heather is terrible and doesn’t know volleyball as well as Marn does
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Post by azvb on Feb 8, 2024 14:08:02 GMT -5
I’m not in the gym, obviously, but here is what bothered me the last 2-3 seasons:
*Pryor or Stowell should have played over Grimmer.
*The setter that went to Long Beach should have played over Bower. I only say this after watching LB. She’s very good. Bower should have been the libero.
*Stowell should have played OH (when Claire got hurt) or OPP over Pryor.
*Total waste of a year playing Damuni as a serving sub.
* I HATED when Mia hit a high C ball on serve receive. They did the same thing with Gneiting.
*I HATED when Pryor would bend down and scurry from left front to OPP on serve receive. Let her hit a quick!
*Hiapo should have been offered a 4 year scholarship.
Upcoming season I’d like to see:
*Pryor in the middle, Mia OPP.
*Stowell and Claire in the battle for OH2. Not Eden.
*A 3rd coach. Why didn’t we have one last year?
*Erin Livingston passing 500 balls before, 500 ball after practice.
Climbing off my soapbox now. I’m old, been out of the game for a while, so maybe I’m wrong.
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