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I just wanted to make out a little but she kind of— finished your thought.
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Truly a Jekyll and Hyde game. Dog shit, 1st half. World-beaters (or cock beaters...hey-o), 2nd half
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Relying on Auburn for anything is an easy path to disappointment
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thats the temperature, he's cooking cobbler
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NCAA website says first 2 rounds are Dec 4 and 6 UT WBB plays UNC on Dec 4 at 6pm. So we are either playing early or late
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That's a horrible analogy. Let's take those same ten teams again, and let's talk about how often they score in serve receive, in order: Nebraska 70% SMU 67.1% Stanford 66.3% Texas A&M 66.1% Wisconsin 65.9% Kentucky 65.8% Pitt 65.4% Texas 65.2% Arizona State 63.8% Louisville 62.4% ______________________________________________ What I'm trying to say is that getting it over the net isn't enough. You have to score. Now, you don't have to score a whole lot. You don't even have to score 50% of the time. You just have to score when you're at the service line more than the opponent does. But as I keep saying, by the time you get to the Elite Eight, all of these teams are really good at siding out, often times on the first ball over the net. Texas is excellent at this. This is the most critical statistic in all of volleyball. This list makes up 8 of the top 10 teams in the country in this category. Arizona State is 14th, and Louisville is 28th. But Louisville is ranked 5th in points scored from the service line, so that helps them. Remember, it's not about preventing the other team from scoring on their serve. It's merely about scoring more from your serve than the opponent does. ________________________________________________ What this means is that not all points are equal. So if a server hits a serve that puts the opponent on their heels, and Texas scores, but the next serve goes directly into the net, that's a positive for Texas. 50% points scored on a service rotation means Texas will almost certainly advance. Frankly anything above 40% means good things. I will admit that if a server is consistently hitting their first serve out of play - like what Nya Bunton will do on a consistent basis - then that becomes harmful, it doesn't matter how much pressure her serve puts on the opponent. And she leads the team in that category, even if she's one of the worst in terms of the service rotation being productive i.e. scoring (it doesn't help that she's terrible in defense on the back row - literally if it's hit at her it's basically an automatic point for the other team). It is not difficult to make sure every serve makes it in the field of play. Simply serve underhanded. It might not be 100%, but it would be awfully close. But no one does that. At any level of the sport. Why is that? Are coaches at every level just stupid? No. They understand they have to score points during their service rotation, and that's very difficult. _________________________________________________ Melanie Parra wasn't even in the service rotation on the 2022 national championship team. Her greatest value came on the practice court where the team had to learn to receive her serves. She's a bad example, since she wasn't utilized. Both the 2022 and the 2023 teams were murderer's row from the service line. The national championship in 2023 came in large part from the dominance of the Texas serve. I've also often said rating servers by their aces is not a great measurement. Servers should be rated based on the productivity of their service rotations. For example, Binney's serve doesn't do a lot for me, but we score more than 50% of the time when she's at the service line, and that does a whole lot for me. Aces can be very helpful, and it's certainly a leading indicator that a server has some oomph to their serve, but it's not an end all be all. The problem is that's the stat kept in the box score, and scoring percentage isn't, so that's what we focus on.
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It's the '20s. Just blame it on your algorithm.
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Dammit I have to switch to whiskey now don’t I
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I have covid. My brain is slow as fuck. I have to miss the surly tailgate. Have pity on me fuck sticks. Okie lite got a good one. ☝️
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But, where do you, Kiffin, and Sark rank on the thirsty meter?
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Your oven clock says 5:14 ... are you just slightly from the future? At 6:30 tell us how the first quarter went.
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Sark just said I guess to the reporter covering the UT game and the reporter repeated on ABC just now that “if Texas wins tonite it will be a joke and a travesty if Texas doesn’t get into the playoffs.” I get it. He wants the team fired up with a chip. But losing to Florida after a BYE week was the joke and travesty, Steve, you human paraquat. 😂
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Js1 replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
The reaction so far appears to be “uh ok” Not really the type of hire to rejuvenate a very dejected fanbase. -
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I'm out of my element here, like a child wandering into the middle of a movie, but my son wants a setup for Christmas and I'm trying to figure it out. It'll be going off with him to his dorm somewhere next year, so the use case isn't going to be audiophile hipsterism cred, but something functional and space-efficient that won't hurt too much if it gets screwed up. I quickly eliminated the all in one units as I understand they're hot garbage. What I was leaning toward at this point was something with a built in phono amp and bluetooth transmitter. That way I could get him a pair of portable bluetooth speakers which could serve a dual purpose when he wants to take them to do outdoors stuff. Or if he wants to get some wired speakers at some point, he could go that route. Wirecutter, which seems reasonably reliable, likes the JBL Spinner BT for that purpose, but any other ideas or thoughts about that plan? I'd like to keep it in the neighborhood of $400 for the turntable.
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UGA with a good record helps our SOS. UGA winning the SEC really helps it.
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Hank Potter’s story: http://www.doolittle-raid.net/the-raiders/lieutenant-henry-a-potter
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He isn’t entertaining offers from other teams that might be interested until UNT’s post season is done.
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And we want to expand the base at Soto Cano in Honduras.
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13-3 UGA at the half. Not looking good
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Eric Morris is gonna do what now?
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NFL Week 13; Thanksgiving-style
shadow_operative2.0 replied to shadow_operative2.0's topic in Football
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We even have a 4- slice toaster, we’re the Jefferson’s moving on up.
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