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  1. ....Texas gets a new assistant coach? ....Texas starts offering more scholarships to defensive players? ....Texas gets a new head coach?
  2. And Furd returns everyone except 1 of their MBs. They are gonna make another run next season. Nebraska loses it's heart and hardest worker in Foecke and are going to have to break in a new libero and Outside hitter. Sun doesn't have the consistency to carry the team IMO....they won't make it back to the Final Four --- I'm calling it now!
  3. Haha...Cook being a dick and trying to ruin Stanford's celebration
  4. Stanford's setter is Shookin' her sets again...
  5. I just don't see how Elliott, Erik, and Tonya can watch this match and NOT make changes to the way they coach defense.
  6. That's a big frame taking a lot of swings for her team and also playing defense....plus, she plays beach in the spring and then usually beach for Team USA in the summer....she actually had to opt out of USA duties because of meniscus surgery this past summer.
  7. Damn, Nebraska is not letting anything hit the floor.
  8. Stanford's setter is pulling a Shook....can't locate the ball right now.
  9. Plummer looks gassed... She's no longer taking rips on the ball while NU is swinging away.
  10. I wanna see Butler or O'Neal develop a slide attack like Stivrins....she's unstoppable on that attack.
  11. I'm impressed with how much Sun has improved with her floor defense and serving.
  12. This is the worst I've seen Hentz play....she is so used to controlling hits going at her, but she can't control them coming from Foecke.
  13. And they probably haven't dealt with a very good defensive team that can slow down Plummer, so they are having to go to other players.
  14. I wonder if Elliott is watching this match and just thinking, "man, i wish my team could pass, serve, and play defense like this..."
  15. Sun having flashbacks of last year's regional final match against Stanford...
  16. She wants a 3rd Title along with a 3rd MVP in a Championship match.
  17. I think Sun's overall back row play and serve-receive have already improved a lot since being at Nebraska. She looks more comfortable defensively and is digging balls that usually bounced in front of her at Texas. The training is definitely part of it, but I also think Cook let her play through her lows in the back row/serve-receive instead of taking her out (which Elliott did) even though it cost them some matches IMO. I think she's prone to have breakdowns in her game, but Nebraska's overall team defense will overcome those deficiencies. Elliott's tenure has produced some dominant front-row college players but in the 18 years he has been here, none have really been true passing, six-rotation players except for Mira Topic, Ashley Engle, Sha'Dare McNeal, Amy Neal, and now Micaya White (who is still too inconsistent at times). With the college rules of allowing 15 substitutions per set, Elliott has made his success by getting big, high-jumping, hard-hitting pin hitters like Hooker, Faucette, Webster, Eckerman, Bell, Prieto-Cerame, Nwanebu, and Bedart-Ghani who only played front but didn't have the skills to play in the back row. (Hooker didn't have the opportunity to develop b/c of Track&Field and Nwanebu b/c of her chronic back injury). Thus, Texas gets labeled as getting the top athletes but not the top volleyball players.... It would be nice if Elliott could develop complete players but at the minimum, his focus in the upcoming season should be improving the team's overall serving and floor defense.
  18. Nebraska's floor defense and tough serving can weather potent offenses.... but I hope Stanford stomps a huge fuckin' mudhole in them.
  19. Watching the final four, Texas really needs to improve on its serving and back row defense/ball control to compete for another title.
  20. I remember Elliott saying that Austin and other cities in Texas (Dallas and San Antonio?) put in bids to host the final four for the 2018-2021 seasons, and he complained that all sites were awarded in Big Ten states. 2018- Minneapolis 2019- Pittsburgh 2020- Omaha 2021- Columbus (Ohio)
  21. He claims he can't get top-ranked teams to come to Austin...unless they are sponsored tournaments like the Vert Challenge.
  22. Also, I think Micaya's ankle injury in the previous match may have been more severe than they let on. There weren't any designed back row attacks (or any that I can remember) in the BYU match. There were several times when I thought Jhenna should have set Micaya in the back row but didn't, and that definitely limited the offense. Serve-receive passing was definitely better this year and having a setter that could actually locate the ball with consistent tempo and height really helped out the players. It's the other aspects of the game Texas needs to continue to improve: ball-control/floor defense (actually digging up hard-driven balls to the setter) and serving tougher and more consistently (Micaya).
  23. So why is Texas consistently the worst top ten ball control team year in/year out? Watch every elite 8 match and compare Texas' ball control/back row defense to the other elite teams....the drop-off is significant. We win most matches because we have a bevy of elite hitters and typically very good blocking that can overpower teams. But when we go up against teams with similar hitters, we lose because ball control sucks.
  24. Honestly, I think it's coming from up top (Elliott)....it's been his M.O. to develop terminal hitters and blockers...the same effort needs to be placed on serve-receive and back row defense....it'd be even better if he could consistently train his OHs to be true 6-rotation players like Jones-Perry.
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