Live Updates, 12/14/09

// December 14th, 2009 // Uncategorized

Big show going on. Russ Rose in the house. Geeter coming on soon.

Barney did an endo over his motorcycle on a picnic table last week. Broke his collarbone in a hundred places it looks GROSS. Reid is cold in Siberia. His team wants to win in better fashion (better passing). He also got a bear/dog german shepard animal. Dan and his “Creative Alliance” of friends wrote short stories and had them judged by Jeff Nygaard and Todd Rogers…

FREERIDE!!!
Penn State faces Hawaii while Texas faces Minnesota in the Women’s NCAA tournament semifinals. Hawaii is the 12 seed, Minnesota the 12. Would an 8-team Men’s tournament be successful? Probably, because right now it’s a singe weekend and often the semifinals are beatdowns (Sorry east coast teams).

Have you heard of the pregnant girl doesn’t want to be babied story? Quite an unfortunate situation.

South Bay standout Lara Dykstra commits to Nebraska as a sand volleyball recruit. Love it! Get on the beach boat!

GEETER!! Tells us that Texas got a huge win vs Nebraska. Texas may be the ONLY team to beat PSU and only because of their athleticism. Even when PSU is out of system they can make something happen. Hodge vs Hooker matchup…Geeter picks Hodge barely, but Hooker can just take over the match, though a little less dynamic. Geeter apologizes to Hawaii coaches, he doesn’t think they’re strong enough to beat PSU, nor Minnesota even with their new setter Taylor Carico. It’s destiny for PSU/Texas…But he’s got Texas for the win in 5 sets!!

Lots of partner shuffling around on the AVP. Misty May is playing with Nicole Branagh, Kerri Walsh will miss most of 2010. She is pregnant again. On the men’s side, one of the tour’s best players, Matt Olson, is partnerless and looking. Any suggestions? Rooney? Fuerbringer and Jennings are finally done-zo. We’ll see who does better for the remainder of their careers!

RUSS ROSE
He’s got 999 career victories…100 consecutive wins…The 2nd tourney match against Penn his team was flat emotionally, overconfident, hence his upset comments directed at his star players. He’s excited about reaching another final four appearance. There are veteran players from the last 2 championship teams, which helps the level of play each match. He doesn’t know too much about Hawaii because they’re not on TV much, Shoji is a great coach with great assistants, their players are extremely impressive as well. They play bigger than they are and their volleyball IQ is typically higher than most college players. They beat Michigan and PSU had dificulty with them. Jump Serves…most top teams are going more towards a jump-float instead of the topspin rip. The best jump servers were always the best all-around players, so sometimes they are backrow players. As far as scoring and different rules for college…Russ doesn’t really know why they change rules. He got stuck one year when the rules changed to rally-score, because his team wasn’t created to focus on rally ability. He doesn’t like the let-serve rule. Recruiting…Russ looks for a good attitude, kids who can play hard, be accountable, etc. He’s into telling his players the things needed to play at the level he wants them to play at. It’s about scoring points and there’s a lot of ways to win. It’s as important to score as it is to not make errors…He’s upset at AJ for not pressing the “record” button on the first take of Danny Kinda’s peptalk to his team in 2007, hours before they won the national championship.
Danny Kinda Fires up PSU

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