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Post by katn on May 14, 2024 23:31:01 GMT -5
fritz was an assoc. head coach @ arkansas last season
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Post by xlumie on May 14, 2024 23:38:05 GMT -5
Super late to this but why does Texas have to two teams? Wouldn't that split the UT volleyball fanbase and alumni unnecessarily?
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Post by toomuchvb on May 14, 2024 23:48:18 GMT -5
Super late to this but why does Texas have to two teams? Wouldn't that split the UT volleyball fanbase and alumni unnecessarily? Could. Those two markets, cities, are hours from one another, though. LOVB is following the club footprints.
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Post by lineshotvb on May 15, 2024 12:01:52 GMT -5
Super late to this but why does Texas have to two teams? Wouldn't that split the UT volleyball fanbase and alumni unnecessarily? Texas will technically have 3 teams in 2025. Dallas franchise for the PVF... That's a huge market as well
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Post by schmidty on May 16, 2024 11:19:24 GMT -5
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Post by ddbb on May 16, 2024 11:29:08 GMT -5
omg who will terminate in atlanta? jk
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Post by Phaedrus on May 16, 2024 14:14:34 GMT -5
So which teams get the best coaches? in terms of success Bonitta: World Champion, 2x Champions League Champion, 2x Italian League Champion Barbolini: 2x World Cup Champion, 4x Champions League Champion, 5x Italian League Champion Paulo: 2x Olympic Gold Medalist, 9x Grand Prix (former VNL champion) as an assistant, 5x Brazilian League champion as head coach Tama: Olympic gold medalist, 3x VNL champion as an assistant, 1x German League champion as an assistant Matt: VNL Broze, World Cup Champion, 2x VNL silver as an assistant for USA men Fritz: i dont know lol Bonitta and Barbolini probably have the best international reputation. I've heard a lot of good things about Tama I am very curious about the split. Three international coaches and three Americans. Out of the three American coaches, two have international coaching experience but as assistants. One has only college experience, but is quite experienced in the college game. Observations: - The international coaches are used to international serve and pass, so it will be interesting to see how they react to American passers that just came out of college and who have not seen the kind of serving that the coaches are used to seeing. Or whether those teams will load up on international passers.
- What kind of game will the international coaches try to play? Will they play the games that they have been successful with or will they adjust to the personnel? I am mainly thinking about the pace and accuracy of the offense and its effect on the defense.
- Coach and player relationships. Internationally pro ball have a totally different environment than US Colleges. Interesting to see how the Americans will respond to the international coaches. The veterans will be used to it and they should understand it goes, but it is possible that they are taking a pay cut so that they can play in a different environment. The collegians may be in for a culture shock, how they react should be interesting as well.
- The makeup of the teams should be very interesting, how will the grizzled veterans deal with the newbies from college? How will the coaching staff work the roster? Would the vets balk at having to practice longer to train the newbies and to implement the game plans of the international coaches, versus saving their beat up bodies for the matches? PVF worked their way through it in 2024, but they only had one international coach, so in general the ethos is more of the US College program.
I guess we will see.
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Post by c4ndlelight on May 16, 2024 14:37:36 GMT -5
TBH, the gap in serve-and-pass from NCAA to pro is not as large as it was or is deemed. Serves have really gotten better, and passing is down all over the world. Great NCAA passers aren't routinely turning into relative shankapotamuses regularly anymore. It's still a gap, but not the immense chasm it was.
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Post by doodlebob on May 16, 2024 14:38:16 GMT -5
How are the teams decided for the players? I am seeing the announcements of the assignments, but what goes into the decision? Do the players have any say, is this recruiting or delegation by the top level of the league?
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Post by avid 2.0 on May 16, 2024 14:40:29 GMT -5
TBH, the gap in serve-and-pass from NCAA to pro is not as large as it was or is deemed. Serves have really gotten better, and passing is down all over the world. Great NCAA passers aren't routinely turning into relative shankapotamuses regularly anymore. It's still a gap, but not the immense chasm it was. and as of now, Amber Stivrins is the only one without pro passing experience. Kubik and Hoffman are the least experienced and they were 2.2 and 2.4 in Italy/France. I guess unless they add more or some are taken in January out of the ncaa.
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Post by avid 2.0 on May 16, 2024 14:40:58 GMT -5
How are the teams decided for the players? I am seeing the announcements of the assignments, but what goes into the decision? Do the players have any say, is this recruiting or delegation by the top level of the league? according to tom hogan they are asked their preferences, but its not guaranteed.
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Post by bbg95 on May 16, 2024 14:47:48 GMT -5
in terms of success Bonitta: World Champion, 2x Champions League Champion, 2x Italian League Champion Barbolini: 2x World Cup Champion, 4x Champions League Champion, 5x Italian League Champion Paulo: 2x Olympic Gold Medalist, 9x Grand Prix (former VNL champion) as an assistant, 5x Brazilian League champion as head coach Tama: Olympic gold medalist, 3x VNL champion as an assistant, 1x German League champion as an assistant Matt: VNL Broze, World Cup Champion, 2x VNL silver as an assistant for USA men Fritz: i dont know lol Bonitta and Barbolini probably have the best international reputation. I've heard a lot of good things about Tama - The international coaches are used to international serve and pass, so it will be interesting to see how they react to American passers that just came out of college and who have not seen the kind of serving that the coaches are used to seeing. Or whether those teams will load up on international passers.
For the most part, LOVB doesn't have players that are right out of college. I think it's just a couple at this point, and one is a middle (i.e. not a passer).
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Post by hangonsloopy on May 16, 2024 15:00:16 GMT -5
Has there been any information about the assistant coaches? Do we know what the size of the staffs will be and are there any big names being rumored to join?
I’m guessing if they’re hiring from the college pool that they must be moving to make hires right now if they haven’t already made them.
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Post by volleyman80 on May 16, 2024 22:55:14 GMT -5
Chausee has been rumored to LOVB Madison. Names I would want to see based on play this season: Lazareva, Hentz, Edmonds, Kipp, Cooper, Brown, Stone, Tomkom, TTA, McCage, Nunaviller... There are others but those are the ones that come to mind... Some of these names are have already resigned to PVF. Some are on the board for PVF. Some are franchise players which would be hard to leave that guaranteed money I don’t believe this is true. I have heard that PVF hasn’t started contract negotiations yet & they are not planning on doing this till the season is over. Players have been expressing interest in resigning , but nothing is on paper yet. LOVB filled a majority of their roster spots around January & that’s when the PVF players were forced to decide which league they wanted to play for. PVF was telling their players that contracts would be handled after the season. I have a hunch that they didn’t expect players to leave… For example, I am hearing that Grand Rapids will only have 4 to 5 returning players from their current roster .
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2024 23:00:55 GMT -5
TBH, the gap in serve-and-pass from NCAA to pro is not as large as it was or is deemed. Serves have really gotten better, and passing is down all over the world. Great NCAA passers aren't routinely turning into relative shankapotamuses regularly anymore. It's still a gap, but not the immense chasm it was. yea I agree besides the worlds top servers. Those obviously are different but not everyone in pro has some world class serve
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