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Js1

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  1. Good lord, we are so cooked
  2. He definitely needs to be suspended for a full year, but will the NBPA fight any potential suspension?
  3. That is a huge swing
  4. Yep, their passing broke down exactly at a bad time when they needed to take control and finish us I am keeping an eye out on the passing numbers for yesterday's match. But even near-perfect passing doesn't get you a win - Kentucky passed phenomenally (we'd kill for those numbers), but their freshman setter struggled to locate and they got swept by Pitt.
  5. That definitely gave us momentum. I also thought Louisville's passing broke down a little towards the end of the set and the 3 consecutive errors by Petersen to tie it at 12 were huge. Yeah, she got a kill then to make it 12-13, but Texas finished it off on a 4-1 run via a Louisville service error and 3 consecutive kills from Stafford, Spears and AVW That whole match was nuts - .144 for Louisville, .153 for Texas. Louisville hit almost .300 in set 1 and then never hit higher than .200 in any other set. Texas didn't hit .200 in a single set until set 5 28 attack errors for Louisville (15 Texas blocks), 35 for Texas (19 Louisville blocks) This match was really good experience and tape for when we face another really fucking physical block at aggy on Halloween.
  6. She's gone through some SHIT because she can't pick quality men Charlie first, now her new (soon to be ex) husband And she has a special needs child.
  7. "Just watch the highlights, so you can skip over the foul-baiting, 15-minute-long final two minutes of the 4th Q and the ref show when (insert star player) got an unwarranted tech/ejection"
  8. I am guessing when they do this again next year (SEC/ACC challenge), we will be playing somebody in a more ACC-friendly neutral site Texas will probably schedule Stanford again regardless and Kentucky/Louisville already play in the regular season for their in-state rivalry, so I don't think either of those match-ups would happen in the challenge. Would LOVE Texas to play Pitt somewhere on the east coast (Charlotte?), and you can pair that with something like Florida/Louisville or Kentucky/SMU (if we play Pitt) aggy graduates Cos-Okpalla, Hellmuth, Lednicky, Humprey, Underwood, Waak and Perkins, so I would bet Jamie will petition for his very young/inexperienced 2026 team to avoid SMU/Pitt/Louisville/Stanford
  9. The payments to KL during that time period were also marked CRITICAL. Prior to December 10, KL had only played 26% of LAC games (7/27). After the payment? 82% of games played (45/55) Of course, they can't prove his 20 games missed prior to the outstanding payment were truly due to "knee soreness" or KL refusing to play until he got paid. But it's a bad look that he got the payment and suddenly his knee was all better and he was able to play over 80% of the remaining games.
  10. I won't lay all the blame on Skinner - Elliot shoulders a lot of blame for last year. - Disengaged Skinner - Constant position battles (setter, RS) with fan/program favorites seemingly getting the shaft for the transfer instead (Swindle/Carlson and Rutherford/Devin) - Players seemingly pulled on a whim, often to be replaced by someone who fucked up too or worse (random times JE would yank one of the middles for Bunton, or pulled Madi out of backrow without talking to her) - Freshmen not really getting any chance when Wenaas or Rutherford were not doing well That was a shit show of epic proportions, and you saw it when we kept losing all these 5-set matches over and over. The team didn't fight for each other, like this one does.
  11. The first RPI Futures has Texas #2. Whoever posted it on VT didn't post the projected records, but I would guess Texas will be projected at 2-3 losses, considering we have already gotten through Wisconsin, Stanford and Louisville unscathed. The rest of our non-conf slate (ASU, TCU, Baylor) is at home, as well as Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, OU The two trip-up spots are road matches at Florida and aggy Nebraska Texas Pitt ASU Louisville Creighton Kentucky TCU Stanford SMU Other teams: 11 Wisconsin, 12 PSU, 15 aggy, 19 Florida, 21 Missouri, 22 Baylor, 26 Tennessee, 40 Auburn
  12. That feels like the point. It’s the only way the Xeno keeps winning
  13. Well we won back to back titles with stellar little and back row play. Fleck, Barnes, Halter + Logan and Skinner doing enough in those rotations Texas will have Gary at L next year and the top ranked 2025 libero who is taking a redshirt. So it seems the pipeline will continue
  14. Also 84 (!!) digs. By a Texas team?? 18 for Stafford 17 for Emma 12 for Ramsey 10 for Binney 9 for Ella
  15. Loved her in 2022 as a complement to Logan and then in 2023, but something felt super off about her in 2024. Her outside of volleyball stuff seemed to interest her a lot more
  16. I mentioned last night it was one of her worst serve receive matches. At one point, she was responsible for 75% of Louisville’s aces
  17. A runner up team and a title team. No reason this team can’t youth its way to the title match like 2023 Nebraska did (5 major contributors were sophomores and freshmen, besides a junior RS and junior libero)
  18. This team will have developed much more chemistry and experience by December. They are ahead of schedule, and there’s a lot of teachable moments. AVW needs to be a lot smarter with her shots - more tips and deep corner shots, stop trying to solely go cross court Bunton - get in the gym and get reps. I’m not impressed with her attacking
  19. Oops, Vandy got reverse swept. ACC wins 9-7
  20. Trying to piece together some of our most epic 5 set comebacks in the Elliot era in the 10 years. Multiple wins when down 4+ points in the 5th set. And the 3 consecutive years with a 5th set in the NCAAs (Florida, BYU, Utah) 2025 Louisville - down 11-7 in the 5th 2025 Stanford - down 10-5 in the 5th 2024 Ole Miss - down 13-7 in the 5th (this may have been our only 5-set match win in 2024, that team was super unclutch) 2023 Tennessee - down 24-23 in the 4th set, trailing 2-1. Won the 5th set in less dramatic fashion, but was in the NCAA tournament and we eventually won it all 2021 Washington - down 0-2, reverse swept them in the NCAA tournament, winning sets 4 and 5, -9 and -9 2019 UCSB - down 2-1, won sets 4 and 5, -18 and -10 (NCAA tournament) 2018 KSU - won set 5, 19-17, after being up 2-1 2017 KU - down 2-1, won set 5, 18-16 2017 Utah - won set 5, 16-14, after falling behind 2-1 in the NCAA tournament 2016 BYU - down 11-5 in the 5th set in the NCAA tournament 2015 Florida - down tied 13-13 in the 5th set in the NCAA tournament, Texas won 17-15
  21. Ow, my heart
  22. More like 10 more between now and the end of the month
  23. Also one of our better serving nights. Seemed a tad more aggressive with the aces.
  24. Stafford 20 kills, 19 digs, 3 aces, 1 block and the game winning assist to AVW What a beast. I liked watching her at Pitt. I LOVE watching her at Texas
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