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Just now, Gut Wagon said:

What a strange set. Not our finest work so far. 

We look Alabama set 1 drunk

16-18. TO Texas

Posted
Just now, TonyTexas said:

These announcers make the NPR ladies from SNL seem dynamic. 

Time for my annual “Alex Loeb has become awful since he moved from LHN to the mothership” 

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Lol omg come on Shelby, you call our games all the time. Elliot didn’t replace his setter and RS, it’s the double sub we’ve done all year 

Maybe she needs to say platform again

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2 minutes ago, morehornsepower said:

Update for those of us who can’t watch?  :)

7-5 Texas in the 3rd. Up 2-0

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On 10/20/2025 at 11:11 PM, SL Xpress said:

Abby Wonder Wal for the two matches last week:

Arkansas - 13 kills 2 errors 28 attacks .393 hitting percentage
OU - 15 kills 5 errors 25 attacks .400 hitting percentage
ntage
 

21 kills, 2 errors, 45 swings, .422

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Posted
38 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

The freshmen hitters bailed the team out as Torrey was pretty bad. 16 kills, 9 errors, .171

The rotations allowed Vander Wal to go against the 5'10 (I'm unconvinced she was actually 5'10, but that was what she was listed at) setter. Stafford was lined up against Placide, their best player. 

The numbers were still the numbers. I'm glad for Vander Wal and Stafford can do better. But it's not like there wasn't a reason for it.

In part because Vander Wal got chewed up by Placide's serve at the end of the 3rd set, Elliott changed the rotation for the 4th set with Vander Wal starting out from the service line. This allowed Stafford to line up over the setter for a couple of rotations, and her numbers improved. 

Placide played an outstanding match. It will be interesting to see what that bodes for Lednicky versus A&M on Friday. 

The thing is, Vander Wal is doing a great job of limiting her errors. She's probably doing the best on the team at tooling hits off the block, which is combining nicely with her cross court game. I felt coming in Vander Wal was a better prospect than Spears based on international play. Vander Wal was the best player I saw on the US teams in those competitions. But Spears is so athletically gifted, with height, explosiveness off the floor, a thunderous arm. She comes out of that back row and it reminds me of JR Richard pitching for the Astros in the 70s, when it felt like he was halfway to home plate by the time he released his pitch. 

We'll see if it continues, but I have high hopes. She'll have to get better at serve receive, though.

But we ate up Harper Murray in that 2023 national championship match, when Murray was just a freshman, and she's easily one of the best serve receive outside hitters in the country. The difference is Murray has been a 6 rotation OH since day one. Elliott doesn't like having a bunch of 6 rotation pins. At most he has two pins serving, and sometimes it's only one. Texas is not really the place to go if you want to be trained to be a 6 rotation OH unless you're the chosen one, like Eggleston or Skinner. Right now Stafford is filling that role, and she has another year to go. 

In any case, I love our 3 freshmen "starters." I'm excited to see all 3 of them develop into the players they were meant to be. I was saddened Harvey didn't get playing time against Ole Miss, but I don't know what the thinking is there. Bunton showed real promise at times. 

Our blocking is still moribund, though. 

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1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

The freshmen hitters bailed the team out as Torrey was pretty bad. 16 kills, 9 errors, .171

16 kills is a bad day of the office for Stafford. 

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