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Post by robonthemic on Feb 5, 2024 14:58:36 GMT -5
Episode 207, College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s Top 20, Week 5 Recap & Week 6 Preview, 2/5/24With the play that transpired in Week 5 of the 2024 D1-2 Men's Volleyball season we have to call this "The Tumultuous Top 20!" There were many good battles discussed from this last week along with our Coaching Panel's insights. Too much to write in a description that's for sure! As always the panel picks their top performers of the week and we recognize some key milestones for Head Coach Alan Knipe of Long Beach St. and Sr. OH, Jacob Pasteur of Ohio St. Stay listening to catch the "Whatcha Watchin'" segment as the MIVA and Conference Carolinas battle in conference play while UCLA & Long Beach St. look to assert themselve as the top dog in the NCAA! iTunes: bit.ly/49eLKdQPodbean: bit.ly/3HJU3CNYouTube:
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Post by robonthemic on Feb 5, 2024 14:59:07 GMT -5
For the record, I didn't intro the GCU/BYU series properly-- I was looking too far ahead!
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Post by robonthemic on Feb 5, 2024 15:02:53 GMT -5
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Post by robonthemic on Feb 5, 2024 23:42:34 GMT -5
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Post by shankapotamus on Feb 6, 2024 18:43:36 GMT -5
robonthemic why don't you ask the coaches their thoughts on the way that teams have scheduled early on in the season? Charleston was called out on this episode but let's be honest. Long Beach St. and Hawaii haven't had the toughest of schedules and if it weren't for the SB tournament, GCU's hasn't been that tough either. I can't be the only one thinking this.
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Post by kekoagoldenbear on Feb 7, 2024 0:28:34 GMT -5
robonthemic why don't you ask the coaches their thoughts on the way that teams have scheduled early on in the season? Charleston was called out on this episode but let's be honest. Long Beach St. and Hawaii haven't had the toughest of schedules and if it weren't for the SB tournament, GCU's hasn't been that tough either. I can't be the only one thinking this. Hawaii has always scheduled this way since 2022. As Charlie noted, he was tasked to schedule 18 home games. Scheduling in sports involves various considerations, and having a challenging schedule may not necessarily guarantee a national title. Plus the latter part of their schedules does get tougher for all 3 teams. Teams often have to balance factors like travel logistics, player availability, and the competitiveness of opponents. Additionally, a tough schedule can certainly prepare a team well for postseason play, but success ultimately depends on various factors such as player performance, injuries, and other unpredictable elements. |
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Post by 808empath on Feb 7, 2024 0:37:06 GMT -5
robonthemic why don't you ask the coaches their thoughts on the way that teams have scheduled early on in the season? Charleston was called out on this episode but let's be honest. Long Beach St. and Hawaii haven't had the toughest of schedules and if it weren't for the SB tournament, GCU's hasn't been that tough either. I can't be the only one thinking this. Hawaii has always scheduled this way since 2022. As Charlie noted, he was tasked to schedule 18 home games. Scheduling in sports involves various considerations, and having a challenging schedule may not necessarily guarantee a national title. Plus the latter part of their schedules does get tougher for all 3 teams. Teams often have to balance factors like travel logistics, player availability, and the competitiveness of opponents. Additionally, a tough schedule can certainly prepare a team well for postseason play, but success ultimately depends on various factors such as player performance, injuries, and other unpredictable elements. Not to mention the addition of new guys at key positions to implement. And Coach Wade always makes it a point to try to grow the game by bringing in these new teams. It was mentioned in one of the broadcasts I think it was Kanoa that said that the Tusculum HC reached out to ask if he could bring his team out to Hawaii for a couple of matches and Coach Wade told him I can probably get you into a schedule in 2024. |
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Feb 7, 2024 0:53:48 GMT -5
Beach has purposely scheduled schools that in the past it wouldn't, most early in the schedule, so not a great SOS this year
Beach has the toughest part of the non-conf in February with UCLA twice, Lewis, Penn State.
more of a timing thing really
granted in recent past there were series with USC and Stanford and not this year. but first time since the Big West formed to play Pepperdine in non conf. Beach probably could have schedule a couple tougher games, they've just made an effort to schedule the Coastal Carolina, and now NEC teams now to play teams from every conference. That takes away a couple weekends that in the past might have had a tougher SOS.
not really a big deal. in the MPSF days, Pepperdine would have like only 2 non-conference games and never left the state except when having to go to either Hawaii or BYU once a year.
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Post by ManapuaSurprise on Feb 7, 2024 1:12:03 GMT -5
robonthemic why don't you ask the coaches their thoughts on the way that teams have scheduled early on in the season? Charleston was called out on this episode but let's be honest. Long Beach St. and Hawaii haven't had the toughest of schedules and if it weren't for the SB tournament, GCU's hasn't been that tough either. I can't be the only one thinking this. Hawaii has always scheduled this way since 2022. As Charlie noted, he was tasked to schedule 18 home games. Scheduling in sports involves various considerations, and having a challenging schedule may not necessarily guarantee a national title. Plus the latter part of their schedules does get tougher for all 3 teams. Teams often have to balance factors like travel logistics, player availability, and the competitiveness of opponents. Additionally, a tough schedule can certainly prepare a team well for postseason play, but success ultimately depends on various factors such as player performance, injuries, and other unpredictable elements. People always forget Hawaii have to fly 5-6 hrs just to get to the nearest teams-- about the same travel distance UCLA & USC football have to fly in the new Big Ten.... and we all heard the media criticizing that saying students shouldnt have to travel that far (while it's been the norm for Hawaii for decades!)
I dunno about you folks, but I feel flying east to mainland is more taxing than flying west to Hawaii. But they dont count that in strength of schedule
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Post by gofaster88 on Feb 7, 2024 8:19:21 GMT -5
Hawaii has always scheduled this way since 2022. As Charlie noted, he was tasked to schedule 18 home games. Scheduling in sports involves various considerations, and having a challenging schedule may not necessarily guarantee a national title. Plus the latter part of their schedules does get tougher for all 3 teams. Teams often have to balance factors like travel logistics, player availability, and the competitiveness of opponents. Additionally, a tough schedule can certainly prepare a team well for postseason play, but success ultimately depends on various factors such as player performance, injuries, and other unpredictable elements. People always forget Hawaii have to fly 5-6 hrs just to get to the nearest teams-- about the same travel distance UCLA & USC football have to fly in the new Big Ten.... and we all heard the media criticizing that saying students shouldnt have to travel that far (while it's been the norm for Hawaii for decades!)
I dunno about you folks, but I feel flying east to mainland is more taxing than flying west to Hawaii. But they dont count that in strength of schedule
I don't know about that. A 7pm start in Hawaii would be a 10pm start for the teams flying in from Cali. That has to be tougher for the players. Tusculum is east coast time, so the first match would've been 1am for them and the second match at 11pm. That's not easy to adjust to for players who normally would be asleep probably. |
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Post by volleydino on Feb 7, 2024 10:58:24 GMT -5
People always forget Hawaii have to fly 5-6 hrs just to get to the nearest teams-- about the same travel distance UCLA & USC football have to fly in the new Big Ten.... and we all heard the media criticizing that saying students shouldnt have to travel that far (while it's been the norm for Hawaii for decades!)
I dunno about you folks, but I feel flying east to mainland is more taxing than flying west to Hawaii. But they dont count that in strength of schedule
I don't know about that. A 7pm start in Hawaii would be a 10pm start for the teams flying in from Cali. That has to be tougher for the players. Tusculum is east coast time, so the first match would've been 1am for them and the second match at 11pm. That's not easy to adjust to for players who normally would be asleep probably. It is much harder to adjust to the time zone if you are flying east versus if you are flying west. It is easy to go to sleep later. Many people can adjust in a single night. It is much harder to go to sleep earlier. |
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Post by ManapuaSurprise on Feb 7, 2024 13:15:26 GMT -5
I don't know about that. A 7pm start in Hawaii would be a 10pm start for the teams flying in from Cali. That has to be tougher for the players. Tusculum is east coast time, so the first match would've been 1am for them and the second match at 11pm. That's not easy to adjust to for players who normally would be asleep probably. It is much harder to adjust to the time zone if you are flying east versus if you are flying west. It is easy to go to sleep later. Many people can adjust in a single night. It is much harder to go to sleep earlier. Agree. Like if you fly out of Boston at 9 am, you arrive in Hawaii around 2 pm. You just stay up until night time, sleep 8 hrs, and you're adjusted the next morning. If you fly out of Hawaii 9 am, you arrive in Boston around midnight but your body feels like it's dinner time. So you end up sleeping like 3 am then feel groggy if you gotta wake up 7 am |
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Post by ohevtk on Feb 7, 2024 13:23:04 GMT -5
It is much harder to adjust to the time zone if you are flying east versus if you are flying west. It is easy to go to sleep later. Many people can adjust in a single night. It is much harder to go to sleep earlier. Agree. Like if you fly out of Boston at 9 am, you arrive in Hawaii around 2 pm. You just stay up until night time, sleep 8 hrs, and you're adjusted the next morning. If you fly out of Hawaii 9 am, you arrive in Boston around midnight but your body feels like it's dinner time. So you end up sleeping like 3 am then feel groggy if you gotta wake up 7 am Not to mention just waking up period the following days. Waking up at 8am on the east coast means you're waking up at 2am/3am in Hawaii. Unless you can get rid of jet lag immediately, functioning the next morning is nearly impossible. Have had to do way too many week-long conferences in Florida that started at 7:30am every day. And had to listen to mainland people complain about their 1 -2 hour time difference at those conferences  |
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Post by ManapuaSurprise on Feb 7, 2024 14:24:16 GMT -5
Agree. Like if you fly out of Boston at 9 am, you arrive in Hawaii around 2 pm. You just stay up until night time, sleep 8 hrs, and you're adjusted the next morning. If you fly out of Hawaii 9 am, you arrive in Boston around midnight but your body feels like it's dinner time. So you end up sleeping like 3 am then feel groggy if you gotta wake up 7 am Not to mention just waking up period the following days. Waking up at 8am on the east coast means you're waking up at 2am/3am in Hawaii. Unless you can get rid of jet lag immediately, functioning the next morning is nearly impossible. Have had to do way too many week-long conferences in Florida that started at 7:30am every day. And had to listen to mainland people complain about their 1 -2 hour time difference at those conferences lol same, which is why i fly in early and be a 36-hr-awake zombie the first day there to reset my bioclock |
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Post by noblesol on Feb 7, 2024 15:26:41 GMT -5
I moved to Hawai'i when work necessitated sometimes flying up to five time zones west, and sometimes up to five time zones east. Traveling west was always easier. Traveling west there was no need for a recovery day schedule. We sometimes squeezed in some meetings and work upon the day of arrival. Traveling east always ate up an entire day just to get there, and sometimes another day to properly adjust.
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