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sunset87

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  1. Anyone else notice that Butler seems a little slow to the block. Athleticism isn't the problem, I think she just has a hard time reading the setters. When she does get there she puts up a formidable block. She is just a bit raw, which explains the red-shirt. Against good setters (Stanford, Wiscy) the block is just not effective at all. And it's not just Butler, they didn't slow down or take away any of the hitters against Tree or Wiscy. If this team can't put up a good block against the elite teams they are in trouble because, as has been mentioned several times, the setting, serving and out of system defense is far inferior to the better teams they've faced. On the plus side, Peterson looks like the real deal and if Shook can get some consistency setting Butler in the middle, that looks unstoppable and should free up the pins.
  2. So it sounds like identifying high level liberos is a problem, maybe like trying to recruit and project good OL prospects in football. I was not aware of that. Even so, the other top level teams are better overall, at passing and defense at all positions. Either the Texas coaches are not spending the time and effort practicing or they're not as good at developing some of these other skills. I don't like how it went down and am not close to the program at all, but there was speculation that some of these issues are why Sun left...Overall development, yada, yada.
  3. The only facet of the match that UT was the equal to Stanford was hitting...that's it. Against elite competition it becomes painfully obvious that this team is consistently inferior in serving, passing and setting. Against Stanford they were also out blocked by a large margin, which is a little unusual. But the same thing happened against Wiscy. Of course a good setter can make blockers look bad. The new libero looks pretty good, especially for a freshman. Why doesn't Elliot recruit a few liberos, let them compete for the libero position and move the others to DS? You can't win with just a bunch of big athletic hitters. They've got a least 2 or 3 sitting on the bench that will rarely see the court for their entire careers. Elliot's teams are consistently out classed against high level competition in the other fundamentals of the game. I mean he's a good recruiter and coach but he has some blind/weak spots that need some introspection.
  4. I think the timing for setting the middles is the most difficult. They're trying to play fast, so the set needs to be hit on the way up or at it's peak to beat the block, unlike most outside sets. And every middle hitter jumps differently so the timing is just tougher to get down. They should get better as the season goes on, and hopefully they will develop a slide attack. Going to need that to keep the block honest.
  5. Herman has some petty, narcissistic traits. He's going to make some enemies (see Urban Meyer) and probably deserves some blame on this. There's just a little too much smoke for me to think otherwise. However, I don't like how Elliot handled the situation, putting coaches and a program on blast with tons of room for speculation. But none of this type stuff will matter if Herman gets things turned around. Although, there is a line that can be crossed (see Art Briles) which I don't think will happen with Herman. It's been said before, Saban and Meyer arguably the two most successful active college football coaches, can be or are complete assholes. They live in the grey area. Yet no one cares, because they win. I doubt this is the last time something like this happens involving Tom. I don't give a shit, if he wins and keeps the UT name and program in good standing.
  6. I was leaning towards the Sapphire...appreciate the help.
  7. I am new to all of this, but I have been doing some research and I’m trying to decide which card to get. I would like to get a card primarily for travel rewards. We would be traveling mostly domestically and would use SWA probably about 75% of the time and American and United the rest (those are the only airlines that fly out of our local airport). I already have the SWA Chase Visa, but want to add another. I used the credit card matching tool on thepointsguy website and was pre-approved and most interested in the Capital One Venture, Chase Sapphire Preferred, and the Bank of America Travel Rewards. I wouldn’t consider the BofA card except that I am in the top tier of rewards because I bank there. Also, I’m not locked into those three, they are just some of the ones that appeared when I did the matching tool. We don’t travel a ton at this point (kids in college) but enough that I would certainly like to take advantage of some of these reward programs. So, does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations?
  8. Urban is a petty, pompous, prick who is probably even more fueled by grudges than Herman. It's quite obvious that he has a burr up his ass for Herman, after his press conference last year when he called him out. I think he his taking these head to heads personal and pulling out all the stops. He obviously doesn't mind getting in the mud. Hopefully Herman has realized that his "mentor" is stomping on his throat. Your not going to win them all in recruiting but it is becoming very irritating losing the elite guys from Texas to this asshat. Stoops needs to share his bag-o-dicks with Urbs.
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