2024 Volleyball: SEC, here comes Daddy

[TwiceHorn 30,851]

41 minutes ago, Pogo said:

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.

Why did we even need Carlson?  It almost seems like JE is distracted by shiny objects in the portal.  Taking Wenaas inhibited Devin's playing time and probably development, and sent Parra away, who lit it up at TCU.  

And, we have seen from time to time that players' psyches can be delicate (don't think this is a women's issue, they're just more likely to talk about it).  The "mercenary" nature of transfers is one thing, but some of them may be borderline burnouts hoping that a change of scenery may fix it.

[Js1 83,685]

19 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Why did we even need Carlson?  It almost seems like JE is distracted by shiny objects in the portal.  Taking Wenaas inhibited Devin's playing time and probably development, and sent Parra away, who lit it up at TCU.  

And, we have seen from time to time that players' psyches can be delicate (don't think this is a women's issue, they're just more likely to talk about it).  The "mercenary" nature of transfers is one thing, but some of them may be borderline burnouts hoping that a change of scenery may fix it.

FIRST - Parra entered the portal before Wenaas did.  We may lured her in, but we did not do it in a way that made it seem like we valued her over Parra.  Parra decided to leave us first. 

SECONDLY - I also never understood why we went after Carlson either.  We had a tall setter (JE's favorite) who set us to a national title as a freshman and suddenly he just had to have Carlson and force us into a setter battle.  
Edit: And in hindsight, we should have just kept Crownover.  She already had 2 years in our system and if Ella needed to recover in the spring from her foot injury, Crownover could have just as easily stepped in to practice/spring matches. 

Wenaas also didn't really inhibit Devin's playing time - taking Rutherford did.  Devin is a much more natural RS hitter and we took a pure RS hitter in Rutherford.  

Both the Carlson and Rutherford spots should have been used for a DS and a middle blocker so Ames could redshirt.  

OH - Skinner
OH - Wenaas
MB - Singletary (RS FR)
MB - transfer
OPP - Devin
S - Swindle
L - Halter
DS - Akana
DS - transfer

And there were options!  Elise Goetzinger and Leyla Blackwell (who is just sitting on the bench at Nebraska behind Jackson and Allick) and MB and libero Mackenzie Morris from KSU, who ended up going to Oregon just to be a DS 

Edited 9 hours ago by Js1

[Js1 83,685]

15th in AVCA

Bye bye hosting first 2 matches. First time in a really long time 

[TwiceHorn 30,851]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

FIRST - Parra entered the portal before Wenaas did.  We may lured her in, but we did not do it in a way that made it seem like we valued her over Parra.  Parra decided to leave us first. 

SECONDLY - I also never understood why we went after Carlson either.  We had a tall setter (JE's favorite) who set us to a national title as a freshman and suddenly he just had to have Carlson and force us into a setter battle.  
Edit: And in hindsight, we should have just kept Crownover.  She already had 2 years in our system and if Ella needed to recover in the spring from her foot injury, Crownover could have just as easily stepped in to practice/spring matches. 

Wenaas also didn't really inhibit Devin's playing time - taking Rutherford did.  Devin is a much more natural RS hitter and we took a pure RS hitter in Rutherford.  

Both the Carlson and Rutherford spots should have been used for a DS and a middle blocker so Ames could redshirt.  

OH - Skinner
OH - Wenaas
MB - Singletary (RS FR)
MB - transfer
OPP - Devin
S - Swindle
L - Halter
DS - Akana
DS - transfer

And there were options!  Elise Goetzinger and Leyla Blackwell (who is just sitting on the bench at Nebraska behind Jackson and Allick) and MB and libero Mackenzie Morris from KSU, who ended up going to Oregon just to be a DS 

I couldn't remember all the moves.  Thanks for the corrections.

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5 hours ago, Js1 said:

15th in AVCA

Bye bye hosting first 2 matches. First time in a really long time 

Guess WE'LL be the ones traveling to the SMU regional