Everything posted by wood
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah I didn't take it as a negative comment about her as a person either --- more of a commentary on her just simply being emotionally/mentally/physically exhausted. For me, when I hear that someone is burned out, I don't take it as an insult to them but more as a commentaryn on their well-being.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Absolutely. I said 'you can't coach that'. That was a bit of an oversimplification. You can instill the culture, but it's rare to get everyone to fully grasp it. The real gamers buy in 1000% and lead the way. We used to do a simple drill on the beach that helps you realize how many balls you can get that your brain will tell you can't get. I've done it with my boys and it blows their minds. It's simple. One person tossing balls into different, random spots of varying difficulty, pushing the other player harder and harder, til their tongue is damn near dragging on the court/sand. The other person was required to go after it as hard as they could, no matter where it was. Almost without fail, the player doing the drill would come away amazed at some of the touches they had made on balls they thought were impossible to touch. That was esp true for people who did the drill for the first time. The drill was great for flipping that switch and training a player to 'just go', every time. If you don't touch it, fine, but at least you did everything you could ... but then there were those magic moments when it paid off big time.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Nice. She's a gamer, man. Good on her. Can't coach that. Grinding. Groveling. Playing with desperation. Just wearing the other team down. Going after every ball, even when your brain is telling you you have no realistic chance to touch it. Sometimes you surprise yourself. Moments like that were the reason I played volleyball & baseball. It's all about that W.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
That play was what turned the 5th in our favor imho. Crazy how much indoor volleyball swings on momentum. That was a huge emotional boost and a bonding moment for the team that imho we'll probably look back at many times throughout the development of this team over the course of the season.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah that was the impression I got from her all last year. I kinda thought maybe being the poster child for women's college volleyball was weighing pretty heavy around her neck.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
That's crazy. Minor point: iirc we were down 11-6 last night, no?
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah I was commenting to my kid how natural she looks on the back row and is legit one of the best defenders out there. Huge transfer. Just massive.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah imho 100% the setter situation last year was a big mistake by Elliott & potentially cost us a shot at another title (as we were saying pretty much throughout the season). Love what I'm seeing this year though.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Blitz All Night, baby!
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah 20 kills + 18 digs seems pretty, pretty, pretty good. Is it good?
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CoTA sounds like it sucks
Text from a friend a little while ago ... " You know, a few months ago someone told me that Epstein wants to turn COTA into a Gaylord-type property. Bless his heart ... "
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Hasn't he been going more against Trump lately ... or am I misremembering? ETA: Or maybe I'm thinking of Nick Fuentes.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
JFC, Garcia can't catch a fucking break.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Crazy ... I tried several other countries and was denied access until I tried Thailand, for whom the only option is SCHN.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Here (Austin), with my VPN set to ATL, like normal. Only thing offered tonight is Sportsnet+ (which I assume is Canajun).
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Watching on MLB.TV ... why no option for SCHN's broadcast tonight?
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CoTA sounds like it sucks
Yeah I've said from the beginning when he started off on all these tangents: It's a race track. Just focus on having the best racing facility you can, with as much great racing as you can host, with the best racing fan experience possible, and sit back and watch all that money flow in. It's not rocket surgery.
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Formula 1 2025
Yep. The hard could have done a full race distance pretty eassily imho. Stupid.
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Sportscars 2025: WEC Bahrain Nov. 8; Indianapolis 8 hour 11:20 am Saturday October 18
Where are the steers? I can't see 'em ...
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
That's what I thought. I was watching, trying to determine a pattern, but couldn't.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Oh, absolutely. I've said it a million times. 'No pass, no play'.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
That was absolutely the touch of the match for me. Fantastic.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah I didn't really see that as a 'benching' either. they were doing the same in the other sets, too, but Ella would always come back in. Weren't they just taking Ella out when she was heading to the back row & wouldn't be a factor in the block?
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah every time I started to complain about the setting today, I remembered how crazy the passing was. It wasn't our best day passing the ball, to put it nicely.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah, we were there. I was thinking the same thing. Crowd really, really brought the noise and made it a bit tougher on Tree there in the 5th. Loud AF. Got damn, that was fun.