2020 Texas Volleyball (Hopefully)

[Js1 87376]

Just now, The Ace of Aces said:

Texas had a great season but ran into a better team. It happens, no shame. 

We likely return everyone too. Unless MOB hangs it up (again)

[Mo Horn 8961]

Kentucky just the better team. Great season ladies. Petty much everyone coming back next year. 

Edited April 25, 2021 by Mo Horn

[kingkoopa6 8757]

Poop

[VirginiaLonghorn 4926]

One too many Stumlers ... 

[Dr. Teeth 5870]

Awesome year. Young team, hopefully back to this point next year. 
 

How did voters see Wisky as better than this Kentucky team. 

[TwiceHorn 32156]

Fuck.

Swept after one.

[Js1 87376]

Just now, Mo Horn said:

Kentucky just the better team. Great season ladies. Petty muck everyone coming back next year. 

UK had nerves and then absolutely settled in. Lucky we weren’t swept 

[perfectchaos007 6789]

Here comes the SEC chants I'm sure

[Surly Bevo 25900]

Brutal

[Firemans4Horn 18547]

[kingkoopa6 8757]

Texas support was dead in the crowd. 

[NAVY 7007]

Stumler just too good tonight. 
 

great season UT ladies 

[Js1 87376]

Just now, perfectchaos007 said:

Here comes the SEC chants I'm sure

Give it to them. A new entrant into the volleyball champ world. Doesn’t happen often 

[LonghornSean 4110]

Damn, that stings

[immamac 44462]

I has sad. 

[Bozo_Casanova 27009]

Ugh. Played hard but Kentucky was just better. Like @TwiceHorn said, this is a young team. Gonna be amazing next year. 

[UDontKnow 10572]

Won't have the benefit of Jamie Morrison next year, will we?

Edited April 25, 2021 by UDontKnow

[LTtxfan 50040]

Just now, kingkoopa6 said:

Texas support was dead in the crowd. 

Nebraska fans yelling for UK

[Pato del Muerto 53640]

Felt like whatever they hit went through, around, or over our block and we were finding theirs. 

[Js1 87376]

Just now, UDontKnow said:

Won't have the benefit of Erik Sullivan next year, will we?

Wut?

[Firemans4Horn 18547]

Of the 4 best players on the court tonight we only had 1 of them. 

[Bozo_Casanova 27009]

1 minute ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Here comes the SEC chants I'm sure

Advantage aggy

[LonghornSean 4110]

Stummler was dominant

[OU Sucks 9417]

Just now, kingkoopa6 said:

Texas support was dead in the crowd. 

And didn't help that all the corn fans were rooting against us, too. But we just made too many big errors at important times in the match. And Kentucky played crazy good.

[Js1 87376]

Just now, OU Sucks said:

And didn't help that all the corn fans were rooting against us, too. But we just made too many big errors at important times in the match. And Kentucky played crazy good.

That’s ok, next year it’ll be tOSU fans rooting against us bc it’s in Columbus 

[OU Sucks 9417]

Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

Advantage aggy

Fuck, now aggy has another championship.

[perfectchaos007 6789]

Obviously this season doesn't count because of covid19

[SATXHorn 90]

We were good. UK was better. Unfortunately we lost to a fantastic team. Nothing to be ashamed.

[TwiceHorn 32156]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Felt like whatever they hit went through, around, or over our block and we were finding theirs. 

Their offense is fast.  Our block got up, but I wouldn't be surprised if the speed had it off .

[4th&Five 42070]

1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Of the 4 best players on the court tonight we only had 1 of them. 

This. Whatcha gonna do? Great season though. 

[Machinator 32103]

Just flat outplayed today. Regroup and get better for next season.

Not making excuses for Coach JE and the girls but every one of our athletics programs save for men's swimming and diving would kill to have the kind of "disappointments" this program faces.

[Pancho 46506]

So was this year just because we were young or is there just something about Elliott where he’s good enough to get to the FF/NC but for some reason just can’t close?

[perfectchaos007 6789]

UK's setter and DS won the game for UK. A lot of balls that should have been kills for us they were able to keep several points alive, and they converted

[StassneyHorn 6794]

Volleyball is cursed

[Firemans4Horn 18547]

Just now, Pancho said:

So was this year just because we were young or is there just something about Elliott where he’s good enough to get to the FF/NC but for some reason just can’t close?

a lot of unforced errors in the 4th set. Not pinning those on the coach. But sets 2 and 3 definitely have some questions. And Stumler having a career night doesn’t reflect well. 

[UDontKnow 10572]

And our DS and Libero chose the wrong game to go full turtle.

[SATXHorn 90]

That’s ok, next year it’ll be tOSU fans rooting against us bc it’s in Columbus 

I’ll take a Columbus crowd vs Omaha any day. I was there in Omaha in 2015 - now THAT was intimidating.

[Js1 87376]

Just now, Pancho said:

So was this year just because we were young or is there just something about Elliott where he’s good enough to get to the FF/NC but for some reason just can’t close?

The same issues every year - serve receive and ball control/back row play. Without fail.  But:

2009 we ran into the PSU dynasty

2016 was the start of the Stanford run 

2015/2021 just sucked. 

2012 was great but we got lucky the best setter in volleyball got hurt in the FF against Oregon and they lost 

[TwiceHorn 32156]

4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So was this year just because we were young or is there just something about Elliott where he’s good enough to get to the FF/NC but for some reason just can’t close?

Elliiott has a defensive/back row blind spot.  We got better this year with the addition of volunteer coach Morrison and a complete lagniappe in Morgan O'Brien.

We don't have elite littles.  They played much better than usual for Texas this year, but not good enough.

We lost the same way we've lost the last eight years:  poor back row play.

ETA:  Iosia is probably one of the best littles we've recruited, but she's young.  O"Brien was a definite step up, but ultimately not like Curry or the Wisky Libero.

Edited April 25, 2021 by TwiceHorn

[Js1 87376]

Bright spot: Lilley already said she’s not coming back for a COVID year. 

[Firemans4Horn 18547]

From my amateur eyes Lilley got the ball where she wanted it a ton tonight and when that happened they won 95% of those points. Our receive game was all over the map. 
 

curry also probably won them 5-6 extra points compared to O’Brien tonight as well. 

[UDontKnow 10572]

1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

Elliiott has a defensive/back row blind spot.  We got better this year with the addition of volunteer coach Morrison and a complete lagniappe in Morgan O'Brien.

We don't have elite littles.  They played much better than usual for Texas this year, but not good enough.

We lost the same way we've lost the last eight years:  poor back row play.

Doesn't seem that will change about Elliott. Just have to live with it. It would be hard to justify replacing him as the coach.

[Willfully Horn 8305]

Thanks, ladies!! Enjoyed everything but the result.

 

HOOK EM!

[perfectchaos007 6789]

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

The same issues every year - serve receive and ball control/back row play. Without fail.  But:

2009 we ran into the PSU dynasty

2016 was the start of the Stanford run 

2015/2021 just sucked. 

2012 was great but we got lucky the best setter in volleyball got hurt in the FF against Oregon and they lost 

We were up 2 sets to 0 against PSU too. ugh. Certainly glad we got our lone title this century in 2012 but given the number of times we've been to the final 4, we should have 3 or 4 titles by now just by law of averages. Could be on Elliot, could be very bad luck, combo of both. But defense wins championships in volleyball and thats certainly why UK won tonight. We were the bigger team, but they kept balls alive that would normally be kills

Edited April 25, 2021 by perfectchaos007

[Js1 87376]

Logan and Butler all-tournament. 

Think Fields should have been too

Lilley MOP but damn Stumler had a case for it 

Edited April 25, 2021 by Js1

[SATXHorn 90]

So was this year just because we were young or is there just something about Elliott where he’s good enough to get to the FF/NC but for some reason just can’t close?

I don’t think we had major weaknesses this year. We had a very good team. UK was just the better team this year.

[ClubWhatever 12360]

I mean we were a few points from tying that team 2-2.  We were damn good.  The margin in that game was thinner than the popular narrative will make it sound. 

[SATXHorn 90]

Doesn't seem that will change about Elliott. Just have to live with it. It would be hard to justify replacing him as the coach.

I think it’s changing. Can you imagine 6 months or a full year with Morrison?

[UDontKnow 10572]

1 minute ago, SATXHorn said:

I think it’s changing. Can you imagine 6 months or a full year with Morrison?

Why would Morrison stick around as a volunteer coach?

[TwiceHorn 32156]

Just now, SATXHorn said:

I think it’s changing. Can you imagine 6 months or a full year with Morrison?

Yeah, he didn't really change anything for years, signaling that he thought coaching and recruiting was fine.  Fine like this:

And he thought he would bring in the next Sarah Palmer.  Which never happened.

Now, hopefully, he's seen some of the light.