This isn't really about the Director's Cup, as much as it is another comparison of baseball and volleyball. I always hoped volleyball would somehow magically put it together in the postseason and then steamroll through the Final Four the way they did the year before. Obviously, it never happened.
I always thought the baseball team was put together with chewing gum and bailing wire to some degree. Just a clutch team that seemed to do what it took all season long, with heroics from everyone up and down the lineup. But I never thought of us as a potential juggernaut, particularly after we lost our one true stud starting pitcher. The volleyball team had the talent. Just something was off all season long. Didn't even win the conference, which I thought was practically a given, while the baseball team did, in a sport the SEC has been better at than volleyball traditionally (nothing against Kentucky, who has absolutely been a great program, along with Florida).
Skinner for one, IMO, should have been the best player in the country by far, and she simply wasn't able to attain that level for a variety of reasons.
In any case, it's not over either way, but I am nervous about our track and field performances. To carry the metaphor further, I feel like we have a huge lead in the 4X100 with the baton handed off to our anchor, but USC has the equivalent of Johnny Lam Jones on their side.