Everything posted by SL Xpress
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Wisconsin scoring on nearly half of their serves. Can't win like that.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Texas is going to have to side out better than this. This is the worst serve receive from this team all year.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
BTW, just to remind everyone, we dominated Busboom Kelly's team in 3 sets the year before, too. With all of Omaha rooting with all their might for UT's demise.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Sheffield wasn't picking Nebraska. He'd just watched his team get destroyed by Texas' serve. I felt like Texas could win. I did not expect the hour and 10 minute blowout. That was a really good serve receive team and Texas made them look like a rec league team. John Cook and the entire team looked like they just gave up in the 3rd set.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I enjoyed so much listening/reading all the commentary after that match. There's like 17 podcasts that cover Nebraska volleyball, and all of them were completely shell shocked at the result. It was delicious.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
It has to feel like it's every year at this point. Lose the 2018 national championship to Stanford, 3 sets to 2. Lose the 2021 national championship to Wisconsin in 5 sets. Lose the 2022 sweet sixteen to Oregon in 5 sets. Lose the 2024 semifinals to Penn State in 5 sets. And now this year. The last 3 years they were the favorites. 2017 looks farther and farther away with every year.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah, I like their fan base. I liked them back in the 90s in football, too. But I enjoy seeing them lose in volleyball. A lot. I still don't think Texas could have done to Nebraska what A&M did. A&M's serve and block were huge differences in the game, and that's where Texas is weak. But there's no question Texas can beat all the teams remaining. The fourth set was absurd.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
To be fair, I think that was tomclen, who is a bit of a provocateur.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah, that guy sucks.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Breathing a sigh of relief, and also so happy Nebraska loses. Again. And now I have to hear that stupid song. There's a steep price to pay for this deal with the devil I just made.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Need the side out right here.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Please dear baby volleyball Jesus side out A&M.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
OMG. This could happen. Please please please please.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Please Aggy. You just need to side out.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I'm just going to say A&M was up 22-17 against Louisville and then they gave up an 8 point run to lose 25-22 to go down 2 sets to 0. I honestly thought they were cooked after that. They won the next 3 sets to reverse sweep. Nebraska may win, but A&M isn't going away after this.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
All these first ball side outs, too. It's not like we're getting a ton of rallies. Serve, attack, kill.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Nobody can win a point from the service line. No shit.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Surprised, but not surprised. They hate us 'cause they want to be us.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I didn't think about it, but it really is the battle of the overalls.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Aggy gonna Aggy. You just can't stop it. Nebraska fans would do it back to them.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I agree with you, except I thought A&M was cooked when they gave up 8 points in a row to Louisville to go down 2-0 in sets.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
It feels like Morrison waited too long to call that timeout. Channeling his inner Elliott there.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
I don't know any more. This changes everything. Hilarious. Three years in a row. Brutal.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Welcome to the midwest. They've shifted their whole state's identity to volleyball. It's the one thing they take state pride in. Used to be football. Now they hang on to that sellout record like grim death. The thing is, it's not about living in Nebraska. If you ever lived in Nebraska. If your parents or grandparents lived in Nebraska, you basically root for the volleyball team. And their coach Terry Pettit was basically the Johnny Appleseed of volleyball for that state. They'll never have as much overall talent as Texas, because they don't have the population. But when every little girl dreams of playing volleyball for Nebraska, they sure produce a lot of talent for their size. And the support is absurd. I attended the Oregon-Nebraska match last year in Eugene. They broke the attendance record by a huge amount. At least half the crowd was Nebraska fans. HC Ulmer acknowledged them when he addressed the crowd. I talked to a bunch of Nebraska fans who were there, and none of them came from Nebraska. They all traveled from all over the west coast, just wanting to watch their volleyball team play live, and watching them in Eugune was easier than going back to Lincoln. Prettier, too. It's a phenomenon. No, I think that's just conference play. Edit - Js1 with the right answer. Lost one set in conference play. Jeez.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
And then the Aggies do one of their cheers and I'm triggered like Pavlov's dog. Still rooting for them.