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23 hours ago, Steven Avery said:

SMU is essentially put together the core of the TAV Black team from the class of 24 that also had Spears and Suli Davis playing up. Suli has just committed to SMU, they already have Favor and Livings, adding Ames will just be another piece to that puzzle. 

As for setting, maybe one day coaches will be more concerned with being able to set bad passes to still be able to run middles and an effective offense.  In the portal I would be looking for setters that set their middles to a high hitting % and cross check that with what passing rating that teams backrow had. IE if the team passed below a 2 but yet the middles still hit over .300 that tells me that setter is very skilled at getting the balls to the middle from anywhere on the court.  Maybe you give up some block but whats more important? 

I'd really like to see better serving. I do not know where that comes from. I would also like to see another Sullivan on staff that can develop the middles and make them a priority in the offense. I don't think future national team coaches that stay on staff for 10+ years grow on trees, but I do not believe we have anyone on staff who makes the position the same kind of priority he did, and I believe it's affecting our roster, development, and match emphasis. 

The stats from the Wisconsin game were posted. They had 50% first ball side outs in the first set. 52% FBSO in the second set. That's not a setting issue. We weren't even getting a chance to perform an attack. 

Going on another serving error harangue, Wisconsin committed 10 serving errors to our 6. Wisconsin, along with Stanford, were one of the leaders in serving errors per set on the year at 2.9. But every one of those first ball side outs had the same effect on the outcome as serving the ball right into the net. So while we didn't commit as many serving errors, our serves were milquetoast that gave our side no opportunity to score during our serving rotation.

Our passing was dogshit. Including Halter. The only match that approached it in terms of poor performance was Stanford. Now, there's an argument to be made a great setter betters the ball even with bad passing, but that's not what was going on on the other side of the net. Wisconsin was regularly scoring on shitty second contacts because Colyer and Vajagic were fucking wizards with their roll shots. Again, not a setter issue.

Which is not to say there's not a setter issue. I admit Swindle is not some kind of be all end all. But to blame our ills on her is missing other really key flaws on this team. 

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Posted (edited)
9 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

I'd really like to see better serving. I do not know where that comes from. I

I like to think it comes from more coaching of serving than I ever saw at the club level. I was consistently blown away by how little effort was put into coaching such a massive component of volleyball success. During warmups for practice, they'd serve for x number of minutes, and I rarely saw a coach give any meaningful form tips or impart any knowledge about how or why we serve this way or that way etc. It all boiled down to a few minutes of relatively unsupervised serving at each practice, and then at tourneys, coach telling everyone "We gotta serve tougher". OK, that's cool Corch. Now how about you actually teach them how to do that effectively and give them some more specific instruction and direction than "serve tougher, but keep it in".

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9 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

Which is not to say there's not a setter issue. I admit Swindle is not some kind of be all end all. But to blame our ills on her is missing other really key flaws on this team. 

Blaming the setter is like blaming the pitcher, the QB and the PG. it’s just easier 

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Yeah anyone blaming the setters in the loss to Wisconsin was apparently watching something different from what I saw.

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