SEC 2024: The Season Era

[scfastpitch]

Sept 6, 2024 21:40:44 GMT -5 sclawman said:

The SEC website sucks. How did they manage to redesign it and make it worst?

I agree that the new one sucks . I had learned to navigate my way around on the old one and was happy with it . They changed something that didn't need changing as far as I'm concerned .

[gopherhim]

FSU @ Auburn match thread for Sunday 9/8 12pm central

volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/100368/florida-state-auburn-sept-12pm

[boxcariii]

Dear Ole Miss. If you can't be bothered to televise or even provide decent stats in your tourney for the neutral games, just don't have one in the future. Thank you, volleyball fans.

[baytree]

match thread is here for the instate rivalry match volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/100527/georgia-tech-fri-sep-secn

[uofaGRAD]

SEC has a pretty cool, long commercial promoting SEC volleyball with Femininomenon by Chappell Roan in the back

[vbshrink]

Ok, let's hear folks' reactions to the non-con performances for their favorite SEC squads.

Alabama (8-3) - played almost no one of note until FSU, which swept them in 3 closer-than-expected sets (well, 2 were closer than expected)
Arkansas (10-2) - Creaky. Loss to Tulsa was ugly, but the RS-Fr and Soph pins have shown some signs of life.
Auburn (10-1) - another weak schedule, but a nice home win over FSU and a road sweep by Minny still has me wondering about them.
Florida (9-2)- Stucky's back. Are the Gators? Some pretty mediocre performances early. Are they rounding into form right on time?
UGA (6-4) - biggest mystery to me. At times they look great, at others pretty shaky.
Kentucky (6-5) - super tough schedule, some bright spots, but some questions about everyone not named DeLeye. Three match skid entering conference play.
LSU (8-3) - loss to Troy looks bad; San Diego and Baylor losses ok. Doesn't look like a cohesive team.
Miss St (6-3) - mediocre performance against weak schedule, not impressive
Mizzou (8-3) - Did not see the L to South Dakota coming, but nice wins over NC State and Illinois.
Oklahoma (6-2) - Only 8 matches, some decent results. Shelton can be dominant on the OH.
Ole Miss (10-2) - weak schedule reveals little. The games I saw, there seemed to be some issues with Ratliff and Brgoch's connection with the new setter.
South Carolina (9-2) - The loss to Wake Forest was eye catching, but they have some nice wins (3-0 vs Clemson, 3-1 vs Duke).
Tennessee (7-3) - looked very good until they faced regional powerhouse (checks notes) Wofford. Good bounce back, though? Very soft early SEC schedule.
Texas (5-3) - More creaky than expected, with losses to Minnesota, Stanford, and ... Miami (insert eyes emoji).
Texas A&M (9-1) - weak schedule except for the L to Wisconsin, hard to get a good feel. Texas awaits.

[agean09]

www.secsports.com/news/2024/09/sec-volleyball-players-of-the-week-sept-23

Gotta say, I know Parks was just filling in until Stucky came back, but jeez that girl was thrown to the curb by everyone 😅

[nakedcrayon]

TAMU is better than last season but how that translates in the win loss column will be interesting

Lednicky has put up some good numbers and the middles are one of the better pairs in the SEC but OH position makes too many errors or doesnt have the hitting percentage that is needed to move up the ladder

[Stargazer]

I really don't have an idea of how the top of this conference will be ordered by the end of conference play. Gotta think Texas wins it, they seem to be figuring things out

But Kentucky has won 7(?) years in a row and Florida has the Set and Smash Duo (Stucky and Martin) back

I see the winner of this conference having 2/3 conference losses

EDIT: Also A&M looks sneaky good

[trojansc]

New Hampshire was robbed and should have beat Texas A&M.

[Stargazer]

Sept 24, 2024 12:36:57 GMT -5 trojansc said:

New Hampshire was robbed and should have beat Texas A&M.

Being up 14-9 and not being able to close is crazy to me

[nakedcrayon]

Sept 24, 2024 12:36:57 GMT -5 trojansc said:

New Hampshire was robbed and should have beat Texas A&M.

while i would agree that the call went the wrong way on the challenge that wouldnt have eneded the match

and they way they gave away 7 points in a row to lose isnt saying that TAMU wouldnt have won that match

just like TAMU didnt win on the challeneg they still had to win one more point... the issue is NH wasnt ready to being the final point mentally and I would think that TAMU wouldnt have been in that same situation if the call hadnt been reversed

[volleynerd]

SEC-OND SEASON

TEAM (non-con)	MATCH 1	MATCH 2
Auburn (10-1)	v. Kentucky*	v. Alabama*
Texas A&M (9-1)	v. Texas	v. Missouri
Arkansas (10-2)	v. Georgia*	v. Ole Miss*
Ole Miss (10-2)	@ Arkansas*
Florida (9-2)	@ Oklahoma	v. Kentucky^
South Carolina (9-2)	v. Mississippi State*
Oklahoma (6-2)	v. Florida	v. Tennessee
Tennessee (8-3)	v. Alabama*	@ Oklahoma
LSU (8-3)	v. Missouri	v. Texas*
Missouri (8-3)	@ LSU	@ Texas A&M
Alabama (8-4)	@ Tennessee*	@ Auburn*
Mississippi State (6-3)	@ South Carolina*
Texas (5-3)	@ Texas A&M	@ LSU*
Georgia (6-4)	@ Arkansas*
Kentucky (6-5)	@ Auburn*	@ Florida^

* on SECN
 ^ on ESPN 

WED SEPT 25
Alabama @ Tennessee 7PM SECN
Georgia @ Arkansas 9PM SECN

THU SEPT 26
Florida @ Oklahoma 7PM

FRI SEPT 27
Mississippi State @ South Carolina 7PM SECN
Texas @ Texas A&M 7:30PM
Missouri @ LSU 8PM
Kentucky @ Auburn 9PM SECN

SUN SEPT 29
Kentucky @ Florida 1PM ESPN
Ole Miss @ Arkansas 1PM SECN
Tennessee @ Oklahoma 3PM
Texas @ LSU 3PM SECN
Missouri @ Texas A&M 3PM
Alabama @ Auburn 5PM SECN

[bustominkus]

Georgia loses in 5 to Arky after starting down 0-2. Georgia’s offensive rhythm is all over the place, which is a shame with some of the arms they have. I thought Arkansas passed mostly well. Wasn’t really all that impressed with either team tonight though, but Georgia was without a starting OH and another attacker went down in the 3rd set.

The middle of the SEC is going to be a mess. It seems like fourth place is up for grabs between Tennessee, TAMU, Mizzou, Georgia, and Arkansas.

[avid 2.0]

now what in the world happened in this georgia arkansas match

Lovett with 82 swings.... Fischer with 76??