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Strength of schedule stats are so weird. Purdue's SOS rank is #7; Minnesota's is #28. But the RPIs for their non-conference opponents are not what's causing that discrepancy: Purdue's - 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 31, 52, 57, 65; Minnesota's - 2, 6, 8, 12, 17, 28, 55, 56. Why Purdue's SOS rank is...

https://www.ncaa.com/news/volleyball-women/article/2018-11-06/how-low-teams-rpi-can-be-make-ncaa-volleyball-tournament

To say "It's on me" over and over again is disingenuous when you never say what specifically YOU should have done differently. He says "It's on me," and then goes on to name all of the players' mistakes.

Oops! Not yet the weekly RPI, but after last night's win over Rutgers, the Gophers have fallen to #51.

Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't seen this. I only heard the brief radio interview right after the game.

As a matter of fact, immediately after the game yesterday, he did not take ownership. He blamed it all on execution, which means it was the players' fault.

"We're #12." Oops, that has two possible meanings this week.

Earlier in the season, I thought taking Landfair out might destroy her confidence. Now I'm not so sure that leaving her in might not destroy it even more.

Zeynep's picture now appears on the Gopher roster page. I like it!

I love how the phrase "playing with fire" can mean two different things, one positive and one negative. I actually misinterpreted your meaning the first time through. :-)

Texas might be better than the Gophers, but if the Gophs don't solve the service reception issues, they could well lose to a lot of teams worse than they are.

I thought Wucherer, Murr and Awoleye were very impressive this weekend, plus Grote on Friday and Crowl on Saturday. Something must be going on with Landfair. She's always played with a Bud Grant-like calmness that some take as being lackadaisical, which I don't think it is. I hope this...

On the volleytalk board, there's been some discussion that there might be some eligibility issues with Zeynep, issues around signing with a pro agent.

Afer listening to this podcast and combined with what else I've heard about her, I think we need to treasure the years we'll have Kristen Kelsay at Minnesota. If she wants it, she's clearly destined to be a head coach, probably very soon.

I think you have to go back more than five years to make the case for declining batting averages. Time does fly! Here are the Gophers team batting averages for the past 10 years: .285 (2023) .282 (2022) .244 (2021) .262 (2020) .284 (2019) .287 (2018) .343 (2017) .318 (2016) .339 (2015) .284...

Plus the super-regional would have been in their home state.

What do they say? "This post (and my previous one) didn't age well."

Sorry, I blinked. Make that 6-0 now, with McNeese still batting.

And if they finish this game off (4-0, with McNeese batting in the bottom of the 5th, bases loaded and one out), they get Louisiana, not LSU, in the super-regionals. They couldn't have asked for a better draw.

I couldn't agree more that McNeese is a pretty good team. The beat several ranked teams, including Washington and LSU, two seeded teams.