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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Gophers have a new commit. A 6'1" Middle Blocker.

#1 recruiting classes definitely do not guarantee greatness. Look at Nebraska this season. They don't look any better than the Gophers in the back half of their conference schedule. And they have something like 9 players who were top ten recruits in their classes. A mix of veterans and...

Someone on Volleytalk said she has an abdominal injury. If that's true, those can be very slow to heal. She must still be injured or you would think that Hugh would have tried her today at some point given the poor hitting percentages of Miyabe and Wenaas.

Big, big win for the Gophers. They really needed this one as they still have 4 games against ranked teams and a tough Illinois squad in the final 8 matches. Good thing Wenaas decided to not coast tonight and played with more than her usual "just doing enough to retain my scholarship" demeanor...

Wisconsin is a lock for the Final Four. I like how Wisconsin doesn't recruit high school liberos and defensive specialists anymore. They just let other schools train their liberos in for a few years before they poach them. :sneaky: Nebraska, on the other hand.....Even before this match, I...

Does the volleyball RPI model differ from the basketball RPI that has basically been scrapped from use?

"Miyabe falls into the...." So what? Are you saying you knew Miyabe would become a leader this season after she hit .116 last season and barely played? You said we weren't seeing anyone from the roster from last season come along to be a leader. And now you call Miyabe a leader. Yet have...

Come on, pal. Don't you realize these boards are only for pants pissing, whining, and doom and gloom predictions? :cool: Hey, I'm frustrated too. I like winning all the time. It's fun. Are the Gophers going to win the Big Ten this year? Nope. Are the Gophers going to make the Final Four...

We aren't? Wenaas and Miyabe are giving us nothing more than they did last season? No improvement in their games? No victories resulting from very good performances by these two at all this year?

Nope. I wasn't even going to respond to you but this was just too much to pass up. Pre-planned responses now to things you assume I might say? Seriously? LOL! Please tell me more! I want to know what I'm speaking about in this conversation you are apparently having with me in your head...

The predictable response I expected from you. I've seen enough of your posts. Yes, every tournament run is aided by some degree of luck. So.....couldn't one say that every past Final Four team "lucked" their way to get there by some degree or another then? "Avoiding injuries at a minimum...

Just to clarify my earlier comment..... I wasn't saying it takes a miracle worker to win a championship at Minnesota. What I meant was that it pretty much takes a miracle worker to walk into a program with no championship history and bring home a title in a short amount of time. As I noted in an...

I hope my comments aren't read as being overly-harsh or condescending because that was (and is) never my intent. There's just no "tone of voice" when posting on a message forum. I was merely saying, "hey, relax!" Just keep things in perspective. I was pretty frustrated and disappointed with...

Unfortunately, Shaffmaster has a long ways to go to try and reach Seliger-Swenson's level. Hopefully there will be noticeable improvement over the season. It might be good for the Gophers to enter a tournament in the underdog role instead of the high seed for a change.

Are you s#!tting me? Get a grip. Last season the Gophers finished second in the Big Ten and unlike the other teams near them in the standings, despite all the cancellations, they played every top half Big Ten team except Ohio State. 2019 - finished tied for 2nd, made the Final Four. 2018 -...

That's a lot of "ifs." Only Pittman & Rollins are for sure gone right now. Samedy likely. The other 3 have yet to give any indication of their plans. The Gophers have 4 incoming recruits for the fall - Wolf, Crowl, Gray, and Glenn. You think the Gophers will have trouble finding players to...

Yes, you can make an argument that the Gophers have been the better program over the last two decades. I was just objecting to the use of the word "embarrassment" in this instance. And embarrassment is what our football team has done against Wisconsin for over 2 decades. What did the Gophers...

So none of our highly-touted underclassmen will improve over the off-season? And Samedy and Pittman are incapable of seeing any potential in their teammates? Pro career options and being ready to move on with life is the reason they will likely leave. I don't understand some of the gloomy...

Kentucky's first national championship tonight - 16 years into their coach's tenure. It took Russ Rose 21 years at Penn State to win a national championship. The Texas coach was in his 12th year when Texas won in 2012. Hugh's been here 9 years and the Gophers have finished worse than 15-5 in...

The Gophers obviously were overrated and over-seeded. And it's not their fault for that. It was a short season with no non-conference matches. They likely would have lost more matches if they would have had to face Ohio State twice, Wisconsin again, and some tough opponents in the PAC 12 &...