Women's Volleyball Open Thread
by BSD on Dec 18, 2008 9:32 PM EST
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Sorry for not promoting this more, but for those interested the Women's volleyball team is about to face off against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the National Semi-final on ESPN2. Please feel free to use this as an open thread to discuss the game.
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For those of you not privileged enough to have a live feed of this
I think you’ll find it here. I was not the one who originally discovered it, though, so don’t give me credit.
May no act of ours bring shame
Nebraska
faces a juggernaut.
Four AVCA All-American first teamers.
109 straight sets going back to last season.
62 wins in a row.
But we have Omaha.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
No kidding
The national championship game last year was what got me to upgrade to a 42"LCD TV, I couldn’t see the ball on my crappy 10 year old 30 inch TV and it seems like yesterday. GO PENN STATE.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
Succotash
Awesome the game finally started.
LMB Husker fans
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
they've
stopped calling double hits this year.
makes the game a helluva lot better.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
well
unless they’re obvious.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
by Jon Johnston on Dec 18, 2008 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
i'm guessing
you guys don’t watch much VB, but this is the sport being played at an amazingly high level.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
These girls are enormous.
I have a friend from Denver who is a huge Nebraska fan, and she was giving me shit via text message last night. You have to love Nebraska fans. If the NCAA sanctioned watching grass grow as a sport, you’d have to think that Nebraska would fill a stadium with 85,000 people to watch it.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:17 PM EST reply actions
if it
grew really fast, yeah, man, why not? :)
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
by Jon Johnston on Dec 18, 2008 10:19 PM EST up reply actions
wait
maybe if it competed with grass from Colorado….. ah, hell.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
by Jon Johnston on Dec 18, 2008 10:19 PM EST up reply actions
And I should add...
…I love Nebraska fans. I watched a UNL-OU game at a bar with about 200 of them back in ’05. Bad game, fun times. And I even started one of the “gooooooo biiiiiiiiiiig reeeeeeeeeeed” cheers.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:26 PM EST up reply actions
Eh....
I guess it’s like if Michigan State made the Final Four this year. Not much you can do about it.
the Final Four
is pre-seleted every year.
As are the four regional sites.
but they’re typically at sites where they’re going to sell tickets.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
by Jon Johnston on Dec 18, 2008 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
What I meant was...
I don’t know if PSU fans would be this intense about it. But, you never know. Put the final four in State College and it’d probably be nuts.
PSU
is amazing.
Digging everything in sight. No wonder no one can score against them (insert your own jokes).
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
She's a menace.
I can’t pretend to have seen more than ten minutes of women’s volleyball this season, but damn. She is a good one.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:28 PM EST up reply actions
Anything for a tiny piece of revenge for 1994, perhaps?
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
Nah
I wasn’t a PSU fan in 1994. I’ve just really gotten into this team.
In fact…who the hell was I fan of in 1994?
Those were the D.J. Dozier years
Have you ever seen Vinny Testeverde and Osama in the same place? Exactly.
(I have no idea what that means.)
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:38 PM EST up reply actions
Nah
He attacked the World Trade Center towers 1 and 2 in 1993… well he didn’t, but you know.
I think they were training him back in like… 1979.. sometime during the Carter administration when we also propped up Saddam Hussein.
How about the roots of Hezbollah or the PLO?
I don't think they ever trained him
Sure, they trained the Mujahideen when Ivan invaded Afghanistan, but bin Laden didn’t get anything from the Pakistani intelligence, and by extension, us. He came to the Pakis, but they kinda blew him off.
I don’t know the hell a volleyball thread turned into me arguing about this.
Throw it to Zug!
by ReadingRambler on Dec 18, 2008 11:27 PM EST up reply actions
well
I think everybody knows we needed to take the first set to win this thing.
We came back against Washington on their home court last week, down 0-2, then down 9-3 in the fifth set, and coming back from that is unheard of, but unless PSU suddenly has fainting spells, that’s not happening tonight.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
FYI
The regionals have been selected over the past couple years with an effort focused on ticket sales, but also keeping traveling to a minimum to cut down on expenses.
Final Four in Nebraska – the NCAA knows that Nebraskans will buy tons of tickets whether our team is in it or not. Call it a College World Series influence. There’s been talk about making it permanent in Omaha, but that would really be an unfair advantage for us, as we rarely lose in Nebraska.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
You lose by living there.
(buuuuuurn.)
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:39 PM EST up reply actions
And again, I must say
Nebraska kind of rocks for a giant rectagularish Plains state. We’ve been pulled over there twice. No tickets, super nice cops. I’ve stayed in Bugaha and Grand Island. I dig their silly little museum that stretches over I-80. And the meth? Sweetest in the land.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:42 PM EST up reply actions
I live
in Minnesota.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
by Jon Johnston on Dec 18, 2008 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
Minnesota?
That’s actually my sneaky domestic vacation spot that I’ve been pitching to my girlfriend for a few years. I’ve never been there. Heard very good things.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:43 PM EST up reply actions
if you
want to stay close, come in January/February. body heat is good.
otherwise, beautiful lakes, full of mosquitoes!
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
by Jon Johnston on Dec 18, 2008 10:45 PM EST up reply actions
My relatives in Michigan
Love to say that their mosquitoes look like birds. I’m afraid to find out for myself. Bugs love me. I’m delicious.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:46 PM EST up reply actions
my family has been going there for years
Spent many summer weeks out on Gull Lake outside of Brainerd. Very relaxing and the fishing is top notch.
more comments on this
than we had in the last basketball open thread?
:\
May no act of ours bring shame
No more jump serve from Fawcett
Doesn’t surprise me – you service error multiple times, you’re gonna leave the riskier serving to the experts.
Okay, let's get this coach away from a microphone.
He’s excruciatingly boring.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:47 PM EST reply actions
i am the BIGGEST volleyball fan.
Not really, but this is kind of fun to watch.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
something about a "struggle bus".
Um.
May no act of ours bring shame
I might buy that one.
If Zug is the one putting them there.
Phil
The girlfriend is upstairs wrapping presents
..and I heard “the what? The struggle bus? The fuck is that?”
by Run Up The Score on Dec 18, 2008 10:55 PM EST up reply actions
From the Urban Dictionary:
A generic conceptual term for the vehicle or conveyance used to get to work or school after a late night of partying, especially when accompanied by a hangover.
Phil
your girlfriend sounds hot
I have to go drive around in my snuggle bus now, I need some milk.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
You guys
will slaughter Stanford.
This isn’t our best team, and we’re missing a couple players.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
University of Nebraska
Most underratedly hot women in the USA. PSU-NU in Lincoln was the best road trip not involving a Penn State win.
Love the PSU women. Gotta keep the streak going!
By the way
It was sure nice to see the hot Stanford chick again after a one year absence. You know – that one you saw last year at the bar when you noticed PSU and Stanford were playing for the championship.
I want to volunteer to be the person there for the team hug after every point.
What is the purpose of that hug anyway, and why can’t I benefit from it.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
It's all relative
I love it when our hot-ass volleyball team does it, but when a Shane Battier or JJ Reddick led Duke team does it…CORNY
Good god man, I'm talking about college females here.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
JJ Reddick...
whatever happened to him? I predicted he’d fade into obscurity… I guess since I don’t know where he is, he did.
did she just say
whorehouse?
May no act of ours bring shame
Are the Huskers forgetting they got to win two more sets after this?
"They're wearing black because they are going to a motherf-ing funeral."
PSU players are smiling, they know they got this.
"They're wearing black because they are going to a motherf-ing funeral."
Drago you aint got shit, PSU is just tiring you out. USA USA USA USA
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
you know
they lost, but I think that run at the end was helpful…it had to scare Nebraska a little bit.
[/pretending to know what I’m talking about]
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
I actually agree.
They were woozy there for a while, but seemed to have the better of the play at the end.
All your base are belong to JoePa.
if we have to drop a set
…to win the match…i’ll take the set
we still set the record for most won sets
the girls just need to calm down! too many errors that last set….
Remember last years final
We won the first two sets. Gave up the next two and looked on the ropes.
Then we came out and smashed them in the fifth set.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
THIS SET IS GOING TO BE DOMINATION
"They're wearing black because they are going to a motherf-ing funeral."
Please
Can we stop showing the camera angle from the back line? It’s 1000 times harder to follow what’s going on.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
Give Nebraska a little break.
They’re still bitter Jamaal Lord’s best throw of the evening was to Richard Gardner.
Geez...
I know our rotations way too well at this point. Ream now goes out for Harmotto, who is swapped with Holehouse as the Libero…
Yeah
Wait. What? Is there actual strategy going on here? I thought they just tried to smash the ball as hard as they can?
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
That's right Nebraska, you're going home on the struggle bus.
It’s like the short bus, but it smells bad and has gum stuck to the seats.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
On the bright side...
certain members of the Nebraska football team can get you a really good deal on a used bus at the local dealerships.
All your base are belong to JoePa.
I bet we covered this
but was it just dumb luck that this was played in Nebraska?
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
Or “coincidence” like when the women’s bball team got a #1 seed but then had to play against #2 UConn in Uconn.
Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries
Zug should promise his favors to the ladies if they win.
Victory would be certain.
All your base are belong to JoePa.
Totally
They should just end it here after this game. If Nebraska wins, Stanford wins the championship. If Penn State wins, we get the title.
It’s the only fair way
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
Oooh, Nebraska's crapping it away.
Just as I was about to post the failboat.
by Run Up The Score on Dec 19, 2008 12:13 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Announcers are just now realizing Fawcett isn't using her jump serve?
I figured that shit out during set #2…
was the Lion
suspended for just the bowl game or do you think he was suspended from womens vball too??
somebody is driving this beuaty home tonite
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
get on the struggle bus nebraska!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
baseline angle
It’s bad enough when you’re sober, but when you’re drunk at a party trying to follow the action, its absolutely terrible. My friend and I were bitchin’ about it all night.
Let's Go State
I am bullshitting, of course
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Dec 19, 2008 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
Speaking of excrement
I don’t know shit about v-ball. Go…team! Score…points! Yeah!
Throw it to Zug!
by ReadingRambler on Dec 19, 2008 12:22 AM EST up reply actions
nice game
that’s why we like volleyball so much.
good luck against Stanford.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
thanks, that was some good fun.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
lol... yeah... my thoughts exactly
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Dec 19, 2008 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
The more the merrier!
Throw it to Zug!
by ReadingRambler on Dec 19, 2008 12:18 AM EST up reply actions
Total bullshit
that we have to play the #4 seed in their house. It would have never been that close in any other location.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
I agree... that and the fact that playoffs are bullshit, anyway... geez
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Dec 19, 2008 12:19 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah I agree
but Nebraska had to play Washington out there a week earlier. It’s just the way it goes.
by Screen Name 20 on Dec 19, 2008 8:42 AM EST up reply actions
PSU's Coach
Forgive me for not knowing his name.
But, kudos to his “oh, I was just doing a little math, what, we won, great, back to my math” reaction. He knew it all along.
Strugglebus?
I didn’t know Fullington Tours was so well known.
May no act of ours bring shame
Ain't just any bus company...
… can run regular service on State Routes 220 and 118. (Nothing used to piss me off more than getting caught behind one when taking the backroads home.)
Zug really came through for us tonite.
Don’t ask how, just know that he did.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
PRAISE BE TO ZUG
And with that, good night.
Throw it to Zug!
by ReadingRambler on Dec 19, 2008 12:27 AM EST up reply actions
That was honestly the first volleyball game I've ever watched
from start to finish. I was watching it and drinking beer with a few dudes and…I was actually nervous for the girls by the end of it in a way I never thought possible. I’m definitely catching the title game. What? It’s on Saturday night at 8?!! F that. Good game tho girls.
you sir are no volleyball fan, you can just go out after the game.
We just needed a couple players, a couple people to buy in to the fact and we were able to do it. --A.Q. Shipley
That's what I did last Saturday
Friends started their bar tour, I went and saw the game against Cal, caught up with the tour after the game. One of those few ‘have your cake and eat it too’ moments.
You know there is college FB on that day, guys
well… kind of…. first set of our illustrious 34 bowls
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Dec 19, 2008 9:19 PM EST up reply actions
Kinda, indeed
Championship game is up against the illustrious Las Vegas Bowl, pitting BYU vs Arizona. Something tells me this will be an easy bowl game to look past…
There's drama in every sport
Not just the popular ones.
by Mr. Rosewater on Dec 19, 2008 12:27 PM EST up reply actions
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