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  1. 10 minutes ago, sbmcruise said:

    I’m frustrated with scholarship athletes (David Hamilton-scooter injury) (Sedona Prince-FIBA Americas Under-18 BASKETBALL) getting injured on their own time and then sitting out a year on scholarship and then deciding to move on without playing a minute for The University of Texas to make up for the year they spent on the dole. 

    I see your point, but personally I’m fine with it. 

  2. I’m glad you guys took the time out of your busy NBA coaching schedules to chime in on such things as rotations and so forth. Maybe all you excellent coaches can give Coach Aston some pointers on how to coach.

  3. 22 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Lexi Sun 7 kills, 6 errors, 33 total attack attempts, and .030 PCT. 

    She's why Nebraska lost tonight. Unreal talent but she's inconsistent as hell. Agree with the above poster Nebraska will struggle without Foecke. Sun hasn't shown the ability to carry a team. 

    In fairness to her she is only a Sophomore.

  4. 11 minutes ago, TexasDPT said:

    I agree...talented as hell...but cracks under pressure...not the player you want leading your team...

    So now that the season has ended what you think about Logan and Sun in terms of them as players and where they need to improve. I thought that Logan was great in the tournament.

  5. 11 minutes ago, TexasDPT said:

    ....Texas gets a new assistant coach?

    ....Texas starts offering more scholarships to defensive players?

    ....Texas gets a new head coach?

    Since the bottom one is obviously unlikely it is the first two. But I doubt that it happens because Elliott is just so comfortable with them.

  6. I sure I'm glad that I'm  past the stage that many on here are at and that's believing in these recruiting rankings /services. They have proven that they don't know what they're talking about.

    Also most of these recruits won't see the field for 2 years to see if they can actually play and only 2 or 3 will contribute right away anyway. Jordan, Jake, and Floyd are the highschool kids that I think will contribute right away. Especially Jordan because he plays a position of need and is enrolling early.

  7. 1 hour ago, TexasDPT said:

    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.

    Absolutely. The first thing he needs to do is to tell White to get rid of her serve.  But the problem is that those were issues coming into the season that they supposedly worked on. 

  8. I’m a frustrated fan just like you guys and I’m also tired of the team coming up short. But the bottom line is that Texas just hasn’t been good enough. There’s no excuses from me, if you’re great you find a way to win. And Texas hasn’t done that in the recent years. It doesn’t matter how high your recruiting class is ranked or how high a player was ranked playing against high school talent. They just haven’t been good enough.

    And I’m all for Coach Elliott maybe needing to bring in some fresh blood at the assistant positions. I just hope that the odds will eventually work in Texas’ favor because the more you put yourself in a position to win eventually you’re going to win.

  9. 12 hours ago, Sgt. Slaughter said:

    I agree. What I found especially troubling was his size as an 8th grader. He looked every part of 14 years old from what I had seen.

    I know highlight films are obviously intended to focus on postive plays but the first thing that I do when I’m watching a defensive lineman is to see whether or not he has a high motor. And I just didn’t see that in the highlights that I watched of Leal. But I certainly saw that in the Warren kid and the Sweat kid. 

  10. 3 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    I think other programs like penn state and Nebraska are on 4 year plans. Sure they’ll have down years where they’ll lose in the round of 16 but they give themselves a 2 year window where they will play for a national championship. Texas doesn’t really have down years but at the same time we don’t build the program for the future, it’s always for the present. Sounds great in theory but with 1 title in 30 years maybe it’s time to look at other models of program building?

    Some of you say things that don’t make sense. EVERY program is playing for the present in that particular year. And if Texas didn’t plan for the future how do you explain Elliott red shirting middle blockers in consecutive years when they could have easily contributed in their freshman year especially Butler? 

  11. 4 hours ago, SB5Horns said:

     

    Of course the players get credit. But, by your logic, Destinee should have won 2 NCs - and she almost did had it not been for back-to-back 0-2 collapses. 

     

    It’s not easy to win at the national level consistently.  Along with talent, training, and development, it does takes some luck - seeding, who comes out of other parts of the bracket, team health, etc. But it also takes a winning mindset to push through plateaus and adversity. Salima brought that experience and mindset. Just not sure that it took hold. 

     

    A buddy from the B1G asked me last night, “so what’s Texas’ excuse this year?”  We’re running out of excuses. This program could use some fresh blood so that it rivals the success of programs from John Cook and Russ Rose, and less like Mary Wise (and Bill Self). 

     

     

     

    Sure. I’ll buy maybe needing to bring in new assistants but I’m not buying your Salima point. 

  12. 41 minutes ago, SB5Horns said:

    Season-long lurker here. I attend some of the pre-game match discussions. A few people ask detailed questions about the game or team deficiencies. Service issues were discussed early in the season, for example. However, a majority of the people in the room don't understand the game that well and/or don't want to confront Elliott in that forum. 

    Regarding comments about Elliott as an elite coach, I don't think he has that reputation among the volleyball community (based on comments from those associated with volleyball, not just message boards). He is a fantastic recruiter, but is not known for player development or teaching strategy. He relies heavily on his staff for the detailed coaching: Johnson (offense) and Sullivan (defense). 

    Someone said this on this thread earlier in the season -- paraphrasing here: Elliott doesn't have to be the hands-on coach that teaches the players to get them to the next level. He can continue to be an excellent recruiting coach; however, that means he needs an outstanding staff to back him up. Right now, he doesn't have that so his weaknesses with defense/serve-receive and player development are very exposed now.  

    For example, I give a tremendous amount of credit to Salima Rockwell for the 2012 championship. We needed someone like that to help push the program past the ghosts of the major tournament collapses of 2008 and 2009.

    We need more assistant coaches like Salima on staff again (more likely), or we need to a new direction for head coach (unlikely). 

     

    So you’re going to give Salima credit for them winning it in 2012 and not Haley, Bailey, or Shadare? Or the same guy that is on the staff now and primarily responsible  for the back row/ defensive play that you and so many others are complaining about? So what about the other times Texas didn’t win when she was on the staff? 

  13. 2 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

    I will say this about Elliott. This is the group that Elliott needs to get his 2nd title. 

    Barring attrition we are going to have 3 more years of Gabriel, O'Neal, Butler, Eggleston, Petersen and the elite recruiting class coming in. 

    IMO Eggleston will be one of the best players in the country next year. She looked like a 17 year old most of the year but you could tell she started to figure things out at the end of the year. 

    There’s a lot of things that go into it and a lot of luck especially when it comes to injuries. It’s also about what the other top teams have returning or going and  is White going to return next year.

  14. Because I’m a loser I’ve gone back and watched the match. And I’m not an expert but through a set and a half I counted only 2 Times that BYU successfully dig a clean hard hit ball that wasn’t tip or slowed by the block and they controlled it to the 10 foot line or better. Again, I’m not saying Texas is great at ball control but it wasn’t like BYU was great in that area either like some you are saying.

  15. 7 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    They definitely care. That's just all fan nonsense. Do you really think coaches at that level are like "hey let's completely ignore one side of the ball and try to win"? 

     

    Agreed. And unlike Leach or kingsburry Coach Elliott has the ability to actually recruit quality defensive players.  

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