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Post by robonthemic on Feb 12, 2024 21:17:50 GMT -5
Episode 208, College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s Top 20, Week 6 Recap & Week 7 Preview, 2/12/24 More lower AVCA-ranked-teams have taken down higher-ranked teams, but the pane all agree that these are not upsets! No. 1 Long Beach St. dueled No. 4 UCLA with a split leaving only one remaining undefeated team-- Grand Canyon! Strong performances by Grant Sloane of UCLA, Hilir Henno of UCI, Mason Briggs of Long Beach St. and Kevin Schuele of McKendree to name a few take stage in our discussions! As teams enter Week 7 most teams have started conference play-- except the Big West! Stay listening to catch the "Whatcha Watchin'" segment as the panel selects some good matches to keep your eyes on-- like GCU taking on BYU in Provo! iTunes: apple.co/49e6cM8Podbean: bit.ly/42AimwzYouTube: |
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Post by booster26 on Feb 12, 2024 21:40:08 GMT -5
Schuele plays for McKendree
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Post by ManapuaSurprise on Feb 13, 2024 0:31:09 GMT -5
robonthemic, here's a question you could ask the panel (and since Coach Hosack is reading this, maybe he can chime in): At what point in the pre-conference schedule do you go - "Well we won't get an at-large so I'll play my bench to develop them for conference play, even if we lose some games..." ?
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Post by robonthemic on Feb 13, 2024 0:48:26 GMT -5
Schuele plays for McKendree That's what happens when you try to write on the fly... thanks for the heads up. |
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Post by CoastalVB on Feb 13, 2024 1:02:49 GMT -5
Thanks, Rob.
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Post by robonthemic on Feb 13, 2024 1:10:34 GMT -5
robonthemic, here's a question you could ask the panel (and since Coach Hosack is reading this, maybe he can chime in): At what point in the pre-conference schedule do you go - "Well we won't get an at-large so I'll play my bench to develop them for conference play, even if we lose some games..." ? I'm sure he's lurking on here, but I'll try my best to remember for next week |
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Post by ManapuaSurprise on Feb 13, 2024 1:36:54 GMT -5
robonthemic, here's a question you could ask the panel (and since Coach Hosack is reading this, maybe he can chime in): At what point in the pre-conference schedule do you go - "Well we won't get an at-large so I'll play my bench to develop them for conference play, even if we lose some games..." ? I'm sure he's lurking on here, but I'll try my best to remember for next week someone here said that's what UCSB is doing. But is it worth it to lose games to give your bench the PT? |
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Post by soljah808 on Feb 13, 2024 4:37:48 GMT -5
To answer Hosacks question on Hawaii's road record:
61-28 since 2015. 69% winning percentage.
They are 134-12 at home since 2015. 92% winning percentage.
Yes, not as successful on the road vs being at home. But anyone including any head coach would take winning close to 3/4 of your road matches....any day of the week. Lol
UCLA road record since 2015: 68-44 (61%)
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Post by wilbur on Feb 13, 2024 16:11:05 GMT -5
I'm sure he's lurking on here, but I'll try my best to remember for next week someone here said that's what UCSB is doing. But is it worth it to lose games to give your bench the PT? I suggested UCSB might be doing that after Daemen but I am not sure all of the line up changes were just experimentation now based on recent matches. Playing the statistically or gut feel most successful line up at the moment is not always the best line up for the long term. The idea is to develop players so they can contribute as starters or roll players when it matters late in the season due to injury or other situations when the starters are not getting it done. It can also be good to normalize subbing out a starter and have them learn to keep their confidence and be ready to go back in and also play without fear of being subbed out. It is good for a team to learn how to play together regardless of who is on the floor. Rick from UCSB does have a history of being aggressive with lineup revisions and it has worked out some years. All coaches do it to some extent, Speraw and Kniffen seem to tinker a lot, especially in the early half of the season. Al Scates was great at developing and using the super subs. The #1 goal of most top teams, if not all, is to win the NCAA championship. If there is some sacrifice early that a coach thinks will give an overall advantage to do that, they absolutely will. |
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Post by ohevtk on Feb 13, 2024 17:18:29 GMT -5
To answer Hosacks question on Hawaii's road record: 61-28 since 2015. 69% winning percentage. They are 134-12 at home since 2015. 92% winning percentage. Yes, not as successful on the road vs being at home. But anyone including any head coach would take winning close to 3/4 of your road matches....any day of the week. Lol UCLA road record since 2015: 68-44 (61%) also worthwhile to note that 7 of those 28 road losses were in 2016 alone and another 6 in 2017, so the away win/loss percentage is weighed down by the early portion of the timeframe. The only other year with "many" road losses is 2022 with 5 losses in away games. But even then, two of those losses were against Ball St when Thelle, Voss, and Galloway didn't travel due to covid restrictions and Humler missed the first game. |
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Post by thor on Feb 13, 2024 17:38:37 GMT -5
Jay Hosack looks like an old banana slug with that shirt on. BTW that is an insane home record, road record is not too shabby either. Nice work digging that up Soljah
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Post by soljah808 on Feb 13, 2024 18:14:39 GMT -5
Jay Hosack looks like an old banana slug with that shirt on. BTW that is an insane home record, road record is not too shabby either. Nice work digging that up Soljah Right because people love to rag on Hawaii for its road record thinking its not great. Yeah it may not be super stellar like their home record but many head coaches including Hosack would die for home and road records like that for long periods of time. Lol |
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Post by noblesol on Feb 13, 2024 19:56:23 GMT -5
Jay Hosack looks like an old banana slug with that shirt on. BTW that is an insane home record, road record is not too shabby either. Nice work digging that up Soljah Right because people love to rag on Hawaii for its road record thinking its not great. Yeah it may not be super stellar like their home record but many head coaches including Hosack would die for home and road records like that for long periods of time. Lol Hosack Away W% is something like 54% (2016-2023), and Home W% around 58%. Playing mostly traditionally weaker eastern teams, most of which are about five times closer to GMU than Hawaii's nearest west coast opponents. GMU in 2023 played a total of four away matches (3-1) plus two neutrals (1-1). Hawai'i in 2023 played ten matches away (10-0) plus three neutrals (2-1). |
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Post by passserve on Feb 13, 2024 23:56:56 GMT -5
What line up did UCI play in the second match against USC?
I looked at the stats and saw Flexen didn't play. He hit 417 in the first match before it looked like he was injured. Tangutar had 18 attacks in the 1st match and played well. In the second match he only had 3 attacks. Was he a serving sub in the second match?
Who was the second outside in the second match for UCI vs USC? Did the Big West Freshman of the year playing middle last year move to OH for the second match? That seems like an unusual move if that is what happened.
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