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Topic: Season Opener Tonight!

Topic: Season Opener Tonight!

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anorris
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Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 1:27:31 PM

Looking forward to this match -- we had a whale of a match with UT last season -- and it should be a very good early test for the team!

ODoyle110
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 7:01:56 PM

http://www.utladyvols.com/allaccess/?media=258943

Live Video of the match

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stub
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 7:07:35 PM

Tennessee could be their toughest opponent all season. It will be a big challenge with the loss of three key players, but we have a strong nucleus along with important new players who will need to step up.

Tomorrows' opponents, 'Nova and Maryland had good seasons last year so they will certainly be a challenge too.

Go OHIO

Last Edited: 8/26/2011 10:01:05 PM by stub

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 7:58:22 PM

Cats take the first set! 25-23

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 8:25:42 PM

And they drop the second set 25-13. Looked like they just fell apart....it happens.

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 8:57:09 PM

Cats come back with a vengeance...wins the 3rd set 25-18 and lead 2 sets to 1.

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Jughead
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 9:23:19 PM

On to the 5th.

I don't like this, because over the past few years the Cats don't have a great track record when it goes to 5.

Rooting for Akron is like cheering on the Taliban.

ODoyle110
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 9:23:34 PM

Up and down all night...Cats drop 4th 25-17....on to the fifth!

This is what you get when you have an extremely tough pre-conf schedule. We owe them for the 5 set heart breaker from last year though!

Last Edited: 8/26/2011 9:26:50 PM by ODoyle110

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 9:44:13 PM

Son of a &*#$*$&%! That horrible call by the ref early in the 5th completely took us out of our game.

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Jughead
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/26/2011 9:44:35 PM

Or not. Ryan should chew that refs ass all the way to the back.

What should have been a 4-3 Ohio lead at that point results in a 5 point run for the Vols that Ohio can not come back from.

Rooting for Akron is like cheering on the Taliban.

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/27/2011 12:22:19 AM

This is an encouraging result. We're verrrry young, and if we can give a good team a tough time on the road out of the gate, I'm encouraged.

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/27/2011 11:21:40 AM

Excuse my ignorance, but is it generally agreed that we lost a fair amount to graduation...or would all instead say that our returners give us a totally solid base?

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/27/2011 1:15:54 PM

I'd say we did lose quite a bit, and agree with JSF that this is a pretty encouraging result, though I wish we'd been able to pull it off. Tennessee is a good team, and we hung with them quite well in our first match of the season. I don't see any reason this team shouldn't be competitive in the NCAA tournament when the time comes.

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/27/2011 2:15:12 PM

2 sets each now between us and Maryland. We took the first two, 25-22 and 25-23, then dropped sets 3 and 4, 16-25 and 21-25. On to another fifth set!

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/27/2011 2:50:19 PM

Monroe Slavin wrote:

Excuse my ignorance, but is it generally agreed that we lost a fair amount to graduation...or would all instead say that our returners give us a totally solid base?

Coming into camp, we only had two people (Katie, Lexie) you could pencil into their positions.

We beat Maryland in the fifth.

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/28/2011 2:33:42 PM

Thanks for the answers, folks. Is it fair to say that we're re-loading, that the future--even this year--is pretty bright, then? (I'm guessing so given Saturday's two five-set wins.)

Radar
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/28/2011 3:08:19 PM

Monroe Slavin wrote:

Thanks for the answers, folks. Is it fair to say that we're re-loading, that the future--even this year--is pretty bright, then? (I'm guessing so given Saturday's two five-set wins.)

I think that's a safe statement, Monroe -- we lost a big senior class, including two all-MAC (Jacobi first team, Jantsch second team)...BUT, we returned a first team (Post) and an All-Freshmen team (Hartnett), AND added a recruiting class that the coaching staff has been stoked about for two years.

I for one can't wait to see this team in person on Sept. 9 (of course, I can't remember when I wasn't excited for OHIO VOLLEYBALL!)

Going 2-1 in three five-set matches is a character builder for a young team...and a great way to start the season.

Jughead
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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/28/2011 6:41:41 PM

Left the house to go camping Saturday morning just to come back and see the Bobcats win two 5-game matches. Maybe I should just turn off the Gametracker/video feed if a game is going to the final set.

Still disappointed about the game against Tennessee, but 2 out of 3 isn't bad for a team so young.

Rooting for Akron is like cheering on the Taliban.

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/29/2011 11:58:39 PM

Sorry for my ignorance on the subject because I really don't follow volleyball as closely as the other sports, but how big of a deal is it to beat these BCS conference teams like Maryland and Villanova, and almost beat Tennessee? I know in football or basketball it would be a huge deal, but does this give us some type of national ranking now or at least jump us up in the eyes of the volleyball world?

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RE: Season Opener Tonight!

Posted: 8/30/2011 7:08:06 PM

It's even more regimented in volleyball. The Pac-10 is on top with the Big 12 and Big 10 behind, then the SEC, then the Big East way behind.

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