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2020 Texas Volleyball (Hopefully)


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Just now, OU Sucks said:

And didn't help that all the corn fans were rooting against us, too. But we just made too many big errors at important times in the match. And Kentucky played crazy good.

That’s ok, next year it’ll be tOSU fans rooting against us bc it’s in Columbus 

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Just now, Pancho said:

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?


a lot of unforced errors in the 4th set. Not pinning those on the coach. But sets 2 and 3 definitely have some questions. And Stumler having a career night doesn’t reflect well. 

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Just now, Pancho said:

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?

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 

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4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

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?

Elliiott has a defensive/back row blind spot.  We got better this year with the addition of volunteer coach Morrison and a complete lagniappe in Morgan O'Brien.

We don't have elite littles.  They played much better than usual for Texas this year, but not good enough.

We lost the same way we've lost the last eight years:  poor back row play.

ETA:  Iosia is probably one of the best littles we've recruited, but she's young.  O"Brien was a definite step up, but ultimately not like Curry or the Wisky Libero.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

Elliiott has a defensive/back row blind spot.  We got better this year with the addition of volunteer coach Morrison and a complete lagniappe in Morgan O'Brien.

We don't have elite littles.  They played much better than usual for Texas this year, but not good enough.

We lost the same way we've lost the last eight years:  poor back row play.

Doesn't seem that will change about Elliott. Just have to live with it. It would be hard to justify replacing him as the coach.

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3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

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 

We were up 2 sets to 0 against PSU too. ugh. Certainly glad we got our lone title this century in 2012 but given the number of times we've been to the final 4, we should have 3 or 4 titles by now just by law of averages. Could be on Elliot, could be very bad luck, combo of both. But defense wins championships in volleyball and thats certainly why UK won tonight. We were the bigger team, but they kept balls alive that would normally be kills

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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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Just now, SATXHorn said:


I think it’s changing. Can you imagine 6 months or a full year with Morrison?

Yeah, he didn't really change anything for years, signaling that he thought coaching and recruiting was fine.  Fine like this:

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And he thought he would bring in the next Sarah Palmer.  Which never happened.

Now, hopefully, he's seen some of the light.

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