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13 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

Congratulations to Kentucky on a hell of a comeback. 

 

And congrats to the Lady Longhorns on a well fought game. Can't wait to see you play again in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship!

Fuck Kenfucky and their skinhead coach. Why is the camera always on him and that fugly Hudson? She looks like a fucking crow. Texas just blew that. And, of course Texas got screwed by the ref's in the 5th. That overturn was BS. It clearly hit her finger and the finger moved back.

That serve where Bunton tried to knock the ball back to Texas changed the whole match.

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When you are up 23-19 in a set, you should win that set. Doesn’t always happen that way, and Texas has been on both sides of it, but it hurts to have that score and not win the set and in this case the match.  
 

and having it happen to stave off the match generally gives the team that managed to do it a lot of confidence and momentum in the following set.  Which can be big when the talent difference is small. 
 

disappointed that it happened, but hopefully the team can learn from it and be better for it in the ncaa and the next few seasons for the young players.  Some lessons are best learned the hard way. 

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3 hours ago, Js1 said:

Have no fear - the internet pitchforks have come out for Swindle, again, as if she was the only reason we lost.

Texas setters get blamed for EVERYTHING

At volleytalk?  Those are some ruthless, catty mofos.  "We just want Lexi to be happy."

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Just now, TwiceHorn said:

At volleytalk?  Those are some ruthless, catty mofos.  "We just want Lexi to be happy."

Yep. Any Texas “fan” who wants the drama that is Izzy Starck is a bad person. She quit on her team over an abusive boyfriend she’s still with. 

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1 minute ago, avidhornslurker said:

With how good and young this team is next year seems like one you go all in for a championship. What's the position you think they try to upgrade in the portal with? 

MB and/or libero/DS. 

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Boy am I not sold on Gary as the libero. I want to be. I like her. But I am not. She makes the spectacular play but not the routine play. 

Grab Texan Molly Tuozzo from Kentucky. Really make it personal. 

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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

Boy am I not sold on Gary as the libero. I want to be. I like her. But I am not. She makes the spectacular play but not the routine play. 

Grab Texan Molly Tuozzo from Kentucky. Really make it personal. 

It's clear to me she's not Emma or Zoe. And sometimes she goes into a serving error funk, which I don't understand because it's a simple dink over serve. Whether it's Molly or another Zoe somewhere Texas better get her. I real difference maker at MB like Cas-Ogwalla would be great too, but I know she's a Sr so I don't know who it is.

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1 hour ago, Hard Times said:

It's clear to me she's not Emma or Zoe. And sometimes she goes into a serving error funk, which I don't understand because it's a simple dink over serve. Whether it's Molly or another Zoe somewhere Texas better get her. I real difference maker at MB like Cas-Ogwalla would be great too, but I know she's a Sr so I don't know who it is.

Auguste from Florida. 

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3 hours ago, Hard Times said:

And sometimes she goes into a serving error funk, which I don't understand because it's a simple dink over serve. 

That's not really true, unless you mean the one time against Auburn where she had 5 serving errors. But the whole team was on a serving error funk, with 17 in total.

I honestly think the staff was trying to emphasize getting the ball lower towards the net. This was the second match after the back to back losses to A&M and Kentucky where I think they went into a bit of desperation mode regarding trying to make the serves more effective. Along with the 5 serving errors, she also had one that hit the tape and then fell for an ace. She had the 4 serving errors versus Georgia, and the 3 serving errors versus Kentucky, but only 32 serving errors overall. I don't have a complaint about her service errors. I just find her serves woefully ineffective.

The funny thing is, I think Binney's serves aren't that great and there are some numbers to back it up. Opponents are more adept at passing Binney's serves for optimal options for the setter more than any other server, but Texas scores more than 50% of the time when she's at the service line, which is by far best on the team. Elliott calls her the best server on the team. Which...I guess. The numbers matter. 

In any case, I don't really think we're getting Tuozzo. I just like fantasizing about it as a tweak to Kentucky. Plus she's really really good, and she's from Texas. 

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4 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

In any case, I don't really think we're getting Tuozzo. I just like fantasizing about it as a tweak to Kentucky. Plus she's really really good, and she's from Texas. 

She’s been brainwashed now that Texas is evil and Elliot is basically Hitler, Satan and bin Laden all rolled into one person. That’s how Kentucky sees our program currently

 

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The remarkable thing about both Emma and Zoe is that first, they reach damn near anything on or near the court.

But their ups are much more pass-like than, for example, Cat McCoy, who also reached most things on the court, but spewed the ball all over the damned place.

Emma's going to be tough to replace and we were lucky to get her after lucking into Zoe.

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Feels like just a couple of seasons ago this board lamented all the home grown liberos on the roster and pined for the midwestern girls that neb and wiscy have that seemed to dig everything. Now we want the Texan to come home?

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Feels like just a couple of seasons ago this board lamented all the home grown liberos on the roster and pined for the midwestern girls that neb and wiscy have that seemed to dig everything. Now we want the Texan to come home?

A good libero or DS is a good libero or DS, regardless of location. Fleck is a California girl, Tuozzo is from Texas, Halter is from Indiana, Lexi Rodriguez was from Illinois, Lainey Choboy is from NC

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34 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Feels like just a couple of seasons ago this board lamented all the home grown liberos on the roster and pined for the midwestern girls that neb and wiscy have that seemed to dig everything. Now we want the Texan to come home?

Like Tonto said to the Lone Ranger, I don't know about this we shit white man. 

I can't speak for whoever was posting, but there was a time when it seemed like Elliott would garnish the roster with local players for DS positions instead of recruiting nationally, and it didn't go great. But that doesn't mean local players aren't any good. It just means there should be a high standard regardless of where they're from, and I'm not sure we've had that for our back row players on a consistent basis during Elliott's tenure. Amazing pins and middles. Not so great at the other positions. 

The rumor I heard - and I want to emphasize this is a rumor, not fact - is that Elliott's former wife was extremely active in the local club scene, and that impacted the roster choices somewhat. But that would have been a while ago, and wouldn't really be germane to what you seem to be talking about. 

I'm just being goofy anyway. Tuozzo isn't a realistic option. 

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The impression I got, sometimes similar to some positions for high school football, is that Texas doesn’t produce great liberos because Texas volleyball doesn’t emphasize it- so don’t take them but rather look elsewhere in places where they demonstrate excellence when they get to the D1 level.  And we did, with fleck and halter and Gary and others, and our defense did improve. So it was just funny to see a Texan and want her on the team. 

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