2018 Texas Volleyball

[Js1 85,984]

Screw her. I predict team chemistry is 1000x better this year. 

[TexasDPT 297]

Another new recruit on board for this season ...  6'2 Opp Katarina Luketic from Croatia.

Should be interesting to see how the line-up plays out... I just want ball control and serving to be improved this year!

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

7 hours ago, Js1 said:

Screw her. I predict team chemistry is 1000x better this year. 

 

[Js1 85,984]

I feel better about our pin depth with the Croatian.

[texasstrong12 4,668]

 

Edited August 7, 2018 by texasstrong12

[torre 1,291]

Saw this Statesman article which may be of interest to you VB aficionados. 😊    As a casual follower,  surprised it is difficult to get top teams to come to Austin.

 

In each of the past two years, Texas has had its volleyball season ended by Stanford in the NCAA tournament. This fall, Texas and Stanford will reunite in September.

On Sept. 11, the Longhorns will travel to Palo Alto, Calif., for a rematch between two teams that will likely be top-ten programs when the AVCA releases its preseason poll on Wednesday. Three days later, Texas and Stanford will return to Austin for another non-conference match. Texas last participated in a home-and-home non-conference series in 2014 (Florida).

Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott said he and Stanford’s Kevin Hambly came up with this plan when they met up for dinner on the recruiting trail.

“He’s a big believer in scheduling tough as well. It was a very easy conversation,” Elliott said.

 

Elliott told the American-Statesman on Tuesday that he has had trouble getting top-flight teams — also known as schools that would benefit UT’s RPI and ticket sales — to commit to travelling to Austin. Of the nine non-conference matches that Texas has hosted the past two seasons, only three featured a ranked guest. Elliott also said he was looking into mini-tournaments in the future in which Texas would “go to one (high-level) team on a Tuesday and come back and play another team on a Friday or Saturday.”

Elliott added that another benefit of a home-and-home series with a school like Stanford is not having to provide guarantee payouts for lower-tier guests. Said UT’s 18th-year coach: “That way we’ll get more quality matches at home for our fans. Our goal is to schedule tough and learn from that and see where we are. It’s kind of double-sided.”

One team that Elliott said he may try to work out a home-and-home series with? Northern Iowa.

The Panthers have reached the NCAA tournament in 10 of the last 12 seasons, so playing the Missouri Valley Conference stalwarts wouldn’t hurt UT’s RPI. Northern Iowa’s longtime coach is also the mother of Texas freshman libero Sydney Petersen. Petersen’s twin sister, Baylee, is an outside hitter at Northern Iowa.

“We’re both pretty competitive, so I think we’d like it and we’d fight about it for a little bit,” Sydney Petersen said of potentially playing her sister. “It’d be fun.”

 

https://www.hookem.com/2018/08/07/double-date-with-stanford-could-signal-a-change-in-how-texas-handles-its-volleyball-scheduling/

 

 

[perfectchaos007 6,728]

Our conference schedule can only hurt us, unfortunately, so scheduling a few high RPI non-conference opponents is a must. Home and homes seem like the best solution.

[Aleemay 304]

39 minutes ago, torre said:

Saw this Statesman article which may be of interest to you VB aficionados. 😊    As a casual follower,  surprised it is difficult to get top teams to come to Austin.

 

In each of the past two years, Texas has had its volleyball season ended by Stanford in the NCAA tournament. This fall, Texas and Stanford will reunite in September.

On Sept. 11, the Longhorns will travel to Palo Alto, Calif., for a rematch between two teams that will likely be top-ten programs when the AVCA releases its preseason poll on Wednesday. Three days later, Texas and Stanford will return to Austin for another non-conference match. Texas last participated in a home-and-home non-conference series in 2014 (Florida).

Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott said he and Stanford’s Kevin Hambly came up with this plan when they met up for dinner on the recruiting trail.

“He’s a big believer in scheduling tough as well. It was a very easy conversation,” Elliott said.

 

Elliott told the American-Statesman on Tuesday that he has had trouble getting top-flight teams — also known as schools that would benefit UT’s RPI and ticket sales — to commit to travelling to Austin. Of the nine non-conference matches that Texas has hosted the past two seasons, only three featured a ranked guest. Elliott also said he was looking into mini-tournaments in the future in which Texas would “go to one (high-level) team on a Tuesday and come back and play another team on a Friday or Saturday.”

Elliott added that another benefit of a home-and-home series with a school like Stanford is not having to provide guarantee payouts for lower-tier guests. Said UT’s 18th-year coach: “That way we’ll get more quality matches at home for our fans. Our goal is to schedule tough and learn from that and see where we are. It’s kind of double-sided.”

One team that Elliott said he may try to work out a home-and-home series with? Northern Iowa.

The Panthers have reached the NCAA tournament in 10 of the last 12 seasons, so playing the Missouri Valley Conference stalwarts wouldn’t hurt UT’s RPI. Northern Iowa’s longtime coach is also the mother of Texas freshman libero Sydney Petersen. Petersen’s twin sister, Baylee, is an outside hitter at Northern Iowa.

“We’re both pretty competitive, so I think we’d like it and we’d fight about it for a little bit,” Sydney Petersen said of potentially playing her sister. “It’d be fun.”

 

https://www.hookem.com/2018/08/07/double-date-with-stanford-could-signal-a-change-in-how-texas-handles-its-volleyball-scheduling/

 

 

Scheduling hard opponents have always been historically tough for Texas

That was why for a few years Texas has played opponents such as the Italian A2 team, the Israeli national team and Chinese professional clubs during the season. Just a shortage of teams willing to come to Austin

I suspect one of the reasons is that Texas is geographically isolated of consistently top teams. For teams ranked in the top 20, it's hard to fly to Austin and find another quality opponent for the weekend within driving distance. Otherwise they'd be breaking the budget. This is the exact problem Hawaii encounters.

[Js1 85,984]

16 days.

Last time Texas was ranked outside of the top 10 to end the season was 2005 (#16).

13 straight years of top-10 finishes by the almost-longest-tenured UT volleyball coach.

[Goodman 3,274]

22 hours ago, TexasDPT said:

I just want ball control and serving to be improved this year!

[Js1 85,984]

Wow, preseason #3.  Much higher than I thought.

Stanford (43)
Nebraska (20)
Texas
Minnesota
Kentucky
PSU
Florida (1)
BYU
Wisconsin
Southern Cal

Texas faces:

#1 Stanford twice (home and road)
#5 Kentucky (home)
#7 Florida (neutral)
#9 Wisconsin (road)
#16 Baylor (home and road)
#18 Oregon (neutral)
#21 Iowa State (home and road)
RV Kansas (home and road)
 

Other than Texas State and High Point, that's a good non-conf schedule - 2 top 10 teams on the road, 2 top 10 teams at home, 1 top 10 and 1 top 20 team at a neutral site.

Edited August 8, 2018 by Js1

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

On 8/7/2018 at 5:00 PM, texasstrong12 said:

 

Some pretty high level volleyball there.  Pretty spectacular setting.  Those back sets are something else.

Edited August 9, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[perfectchaos007 6,728]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Some pretty high level volleyball there.  Pretty spectacular setting.  Those back sets are something else.

Yeah no kidding any chance we could get #16 to come along with her as a package deal? I like her sets

[Js1 85,984]

I'm really hoping setting will improve between:

-An entire spring semester of rest/light workouts for Shook

-A nice European trip to bond and improve connections

-An entire full summer with the coaching staff instead of playing club and showing up 3 weeks before the season started

-A full year under her belt for the pace of the college game and familiarity with all of her hitters

[Js1 85,984]

Conferences matches on TV outside of LHN:

@ KSU, 6pm ESPNU 9/19

@ TCU, 8pm, ESPN 10/3

@ KU, 8pm, FSN, 10/10

@ ISU, 8pm, ESPNU, 10/24

[TexasDPT 297]

On 8/9/2018 at 8:34 AM, Js1 said:

I'm really hoping setting will improve between:

-An entire spring semester of rest/light workouts for Shook

-A nice European trip to bond and improve connections

-An entire full summer with the coaching staff instead of playing club and showing up 3 weeks before the season started

-A full year under her belt for the pace of the college game and familiarity with all of her hitters

I mean, it has to, right?

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

18 minutes ago, TexasDPT said:

I mean, it has to, right?

It wasn't great, but I guess it wasn't awful either.  Or was it?

[TexasDPT 297]

19 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

It wasn't great, but I guess it wasn't awful either.  Or was it?

I really thought a lot of her poor setting was due to the piss-poor passing.... I don't think Shook was able to put up consistent out-of-system balls to the left pin because the passes were soooo far off the net. 

Shook eventually developed a good connection with Chiaka, but I think a lot of it had to do with Chi being so athletic and able to adjust to her sets. 

Right pin setting was always a struggle...Ebony needed a particular set to actually do damage to the ball...Yaazie did as well....and the constant switching of those 2 players in the beginning of the season never allowed her to develop a good connection with either IMO. 

We will find of out soon whether it's better passing that improves her setting or if it's a year of experience....or hopefully both. 

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

28 minutes ago, TexasDPT said:

I really thought a lot of her poor setting was due to the piss-poor passing.... I don't think Shook was able to put up consistent out-of-system balls to the left pin because the passes were soooo far off the net. 

Shook eventually developed a good connection with Chiaka, but I think a lot of it had to do with Chi being so athletic and able to adjust to her sets. 

Right pin setting was always a struggle...Ebony needed a particular set to actually do damage to the ball...Yaazie did as well....and the constant switching of those 2 players in the beginning of the season never allowed her to develop a good connection with either IMO. 

We will find of out soon whether it's better passing that improves her setting or if it's a year of experience....or hopefully both. 

Yep, yep. Agreed.  So hard to sort the poor passing from setting.

Edited August 16, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[Js1 85,984]

Does this male practice player have eligibility? LOL.

[Js1 85,984]

Observations -

Shook's connections with Brionne and MoJo are really good.  MoJo looks good and Brionne is a beast.  Her sets to the RS hitters were really good as well.  Didn't see many slide sets but the MB all rotated between the two teams.

Pencil in Logan/Micaya on the left and Yazzie on the right.  But Yazzie better be careful, because Luketic looked good, blocking and hitting, from the RS.  I think Luketic is probably just going to slide right into the RS after Yazzie graduates. 

Petersen had the black jersey and looked comfortable.  Autumn's serve looked better.

Opening day lineup is probably:

S - Shook
MB - Johnson
MB - Butler
OH - White
OH - Eggleston
RS - Bedhart-Gani
L - Petersen

[Machinator 32,099]

 

[Js1 85,984]

Brionne's blocking is at another level. 

Her offense might not be 100% polished, but damn if she isn't going to be an absolute beast at the net, period.

[kingkoopa6 8,483]

wow!

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Butler and O'Neal are going to create a lot of problems with their athleticism. Maybe not this year on a consistent basis but it's coming. 

[Js1 85,984]

Don't sleep on Morgan.  She's a senior now and Elliot said she's in the best shape she's ever been and jumping the highest of her career.

[Js1 85,984]

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/slideshow/24436944/1/a-serving-stars

if you remove Micaya from the list, we face 33% of these 12 stars to watch. All in non conference 

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

Less than 24 hours.  I have an excite.

[perfectchaos007 6,728]

These non conference games are crucial. Elliot can't afford to tinker around with lineups like he did last year if we want any shot of a being a super regional host this year. Our conference, as we learned last year, won't help us one bit with RPI.

[Js1 85,984]

I fucking hate Corn.

First they steal Lexi, then they can't get their fucking stream to work

[Js1 85,984]

Luketic started over YBG

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

Bush league, psych out shit, man.

 

Are you watching the gametracker?

[Js1 85,984]

http://www.huskers.com/liveStats/v2/volleyball/index.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&GAME_STAT_ID=3171895&RELOAD=liveStats_tab

Live stats

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

Good to see the service errors are in full effect.  👹

[Js1 85,984]

15-12 Texas at the break.

Caya not terminating (2-0-9). Luketic and Eggleston doing well in their first matches - 4-1-7 and 3-0-4

[texasstrong12 4,668]

15-12 Texas in set 1. Luketic is producing early. 

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

Way to go, corn you stupid fucks.

[texasstrong12 4,668]

3-0 run for Oregon. 18-16 Texas. Timeout Texas. 

Edited August 24, 2018 by texasstrong12

[Js1 85,984]

4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Way to go, corn you stupid fucks.

I'd mock them for their "best hosts and fans ever" but $20 this is on purpose because "fuck Texas."

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Still too many service errors. Giving points away or this would already be over. 19-18 Texas. 

[Js1 85,984]

I'm almost terrified of how bad the passing might be as the pins have 28 attempts to 5 for the middles.

[texasstrong12 4,668]

25-22 opening set win for Texas. I'm headed to watch soccer.

.316 hitting percentage. Just minimize the service errors. 

Edited August 24, 2018 by texasstrong12

[Js1 85,984]

Texas wins 25-22

[perfectchaos007 6,728]

First set of the season in the books. 25 - 22 Texas

[UrbanAchiever 283]

Nice little set for Luketic. 5 kills on 9 attacks. 

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

Really fuck you a lot in your dirty butts, corn.  Biggest preseason event in WVB and your fucking stream doesn't work.

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

And your fuckass live stats keep reverting to set 1.

[Js1 85,984]

We're live!

[TwiceHorn 31,705]

And you stupid fucks gave 3 points to Oregon that were ours.

[Js1 85,984]

Can we not get a score on the feed?  I have no idea what the score is.