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Agree that Swindle is gone. As someone up thread said, Devin *should* have been the primary OPP this year and we should have taken an experienced MB from the portal in order to redshirt Ames. Wouldn't shock me if Devin leaves as well. I thought she would leave after last season.

Or worse, TCU wins a few more and we get sent to Ft. Worth so Parra can kick the crap out of us.

Something or someone seems to have become a cancer in this locker room. Don't know who or what it is, but this team is not getting better in the next few weeks. Devin and Ella will put their names in the portal on day 1, and I can't blame them. @Slick16 is right on about the setter position. There's a reason JE stopped recruiting short setters. Then he takes one out of the portal and benches Ella. If Carlson were setting better, that's one thing, but she's not. Then she just got abused blocking the pin yesterday. I don't get it.

This should be a perfectly acceptable course of action. We did it last year with Swindle. They will have fewer growing pains with only 1 setter. Hopefully, that will be the case going forward. If it's that obvious to us, it has to be to JE as well.

Also team Swindle. Carlson needs to be a significant offensive upgrade from Ella in order to make up for the defensive liability, but she just isn't. She panicked in the 5th set and only set Madi while their defense was ready every time. Then UM's pins hit over like her block wasn't even there.

Fair point. I'm sure while we were all screaming to bench Wenaas, Devin was giving side-eye to whichever coach happened to look her way.

Devin should know she's in line to take over at Opposite. If she leaves, it shouldn't be for lack of expected future playing time, right?

Make me an offer at this point.

$650 is a couple hundred cheaper than I've seen on any other site. Passes are in hand. I'm in Austin.

Dammit, it took me too long to have something to update in this thread! After Waxahachie, I started off in Rowlett doing the wrong thing for 4 games and was 80 pins out of the cut. Switched balls, got deep and started hooking it. Wound up missing the cut by about 10 pins. 🤬 Almost the same thing happened in Beaumont in November. Started with 240, then lost it and missed some spares. Made a change and came back the last 2 games to miss by about 10 again. 🤬 🤬 Next was Odessa in January. I thought my spare game had gotten better, but I was wrong. Missed about 8 in that 8 games to miss the cut again by 30ish. 🤬🤬🤬 Totally changed how I hold my spare ball when I got home. Then, I decided to go to Colorado to see an old UT roommate and bowl a regional up there. Glad I did. Started 252-290. LFG! It was up and down after that, but finished +168 to be 3rd after qualifying (behind only Tom Hess and Tish Johnson). Slipped a little to 5th the next 6 games Sunday morning because I didn't put enough surface on the purple hammer. Didn't make that mistake twice. After the 3rd round, I finished in the 3-seed for the stepladder. Shot a clean 225, but lost to a 229 because he strung more strikes. The 4th place $1000 check barely covered my expenses, but I didn't go for the money. Don't know if I'll bowl another regional before the summer, but the National PBA50 tour starts in Vegas the first week of June with the USBC Senior Masters. I'm taking the wife to that one. Should be fun.

I knew she was from a small private school, but didn't realize Crownover was a walk-on. I still hope we get another SKT from the portal and let Swindle learn for a year.

Does Swindle seem that much of a shoe-in for the job over Crownover, assuming no transfer? But I definitely agree that we should be looking in the portal for an experienced setter.

I don't think it's negligible at all. Skinner and KU abusing Jhenna's block is one of the main reasons we lost in 2020. It's no coincidence a 6ft SKT shows up a month later.

You stalking me? 😂

Very nice Wulaw! Strikes for show, spares for dough. As for the 10.7 mph, those radar guns are pretty suspect. I had one last week consistently read in the 40mph range. If they get bumped a little, the reading is trash.

The main thing would probably be to get her a roller. That's always better than carrying your stuff. If she's partial to any specific ball brand, maybe look at the bags that brand makes. Otherwise, KR Strikeforce should be a little cheaper and probably better quality.

Add to this the "Eyes of Texas" controversy where they could have played in 2020, but didn't. Bringing in Dr. Crooms in May 2021 as the new director has helped right the ship, since he was in LHB as an undergrad.

Dude may have saved himself some embarrassment on TV, but he's sure as hell gonna hear about it in the film room.

And even after Quinn knows where he's going with the ball pre-snap, he still holds the ball in Bijan's stomach for an extra split second just to make damn sure the safety doesn't even think about dropping.

@Mittens You were several seats away from me. I was right on the baseline. First live match for me this season too. Skinner's passing has improved as well. It's nice to have someone that good be able to step up when Logan has a sub-par night, and she did. Some of that was on SKT. I get they want to set the pin quicker to beat the block, but if the pass is off the net, just set it high and let her go over or tool the block. They tried to force the quick ones too much and Logan hit .194. The Greg went nuts when Parra came in for Logan in the 3rd set to serve though. I really wanted to see her unleash one in person, but she only served twice - first one in the net and second one floated long.

Well, fuck! My weekend didn't go as planned. I wound up having to bowl with Chris Barnes for 8 games on Saturday, so I got a front row seat to how a hall-of-famer operates. It was a bit intimidating at first and I was already a little too hyped-up to start. Unfortunately, I just never really settled down and got into a groove. I made some poor equipment choices and only had a couple good games (225, 234). The other 6 were all sub-195. Finished 46th of 63. Dropped 10 spots with a 130 in game 8 when I was already out of it. That was also shortly after the Horns choked in Lubbock. Time to re-group for another one in Rowlett on ou weekend.

If this was early 90s, she was a redhead. She spent a few weeks on crutches once because she hurt her leg fucking a football player.

Details? What ball, layout, oil pattern?

The most expensive balls are about $275ish. I have a couple that were about $250. Knee issues on your slide leg are not uncommon - things like torn patella tendons. Arm issues are more common in the wrist, rather than the shoulder or elbow.

That's about the right ratio. Maybe even 70%. Where do you bowl tournaments? Do we know each other?