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  1. Washington St (home) beat #6 Washington in five sets. Washington held off match points in set 4 and won that set, 46-44. Wow! Wash St was pretty resilient to come back from losing that long 4th set to win the match.

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  2. Once our serve zeroed in on Baird, she wilted. Hambly didn’t sub and left her in the bad row. It was pretty much over then (except for the mental lapse at the end of the 3rd.) I guess he figured give her the experience in a tough match in “preseason”, or his alternatives were worse.

    Still, a nice win! Always good to beat Tree.

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  3. Definitely better than the wet farts the last few years.
    The other thing the "doomsayers" (i.e. me)  have to admit is that when a team falters and loses, it's almost always going to look like we do when we lose.  The system breaks down. passing, defense, bad sets, blocked attacks, the centre cannot hold, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
    We didn't lose this one solely because of poorer back row play. UK was a better, better balanced team and their setter was the core of it.  I might suspect that Curry didn't get tons of national love because SEC, but she was about the equal of Barnes.
    I am optimistic that JE gets it, at least more than he has in the past.
    I'm invested in this sport more than football, and even baseball.  I woke up this morning feeling bummed like I did after my hs teams lost big games, and like I used to after football games.

    This, although I’m actually not as grumpy this year as in years past. Not playing the “what if”s in my mind as much. The back row could have been better, but the quick and loaded UK hitters had a lot to do with that too.

    Would love to see a stat on block touches from this match compared to others. The back row aren’t used to seeing untouched missiles sent their way all night.

    Also interesting to see someone else say they are invested in volleyball more than football. Been like that for me for some time now.
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  4. There's been some talk about finding a place for him. 
    This is the kind of thing where CDC earns his money.
    Even if we don't keep Morrison, maybe someone else can be found. The JE/Sullivan combo for back row hasn't gotten it done, for sure.

    Wow, that would be fantastic! Hope CDC can pull it off.
  5. The same issues every year - serve receive and ball control/back row play. Without fail.  But:
    2009 we ran into the PSU dynasty
    2016 was the start of the Stanford run 
    2015/2021 just sucked. 
    2012 was great but we got lucky the best setter in volleyball got hurt in the FF against Oregon and they lost 

    Agree. I don’t think our serve/receive in this year’s tournament was as bad as some years though. Stumbler was unstoppable. We didn’t get a lot of block touches that the back row is used to.
  6. So was this year just because we were young or is there just something about Elliott where he’s good enough to get to the FF/NC but for some reason just can’t close?

    I don’t think we had major weaknesses this year. We had a very good team. UK was just the better team this year.
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