Volleyball IQ
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That NU game was likely the largest crowd (clearly the largest home crowd) most of our ladies had ever played in front of. I'm sure it had to be nerve racking as hell, and a bit of a shock to go from 1500, maybe 2500 normally - to in excess of 10K.
They'll be better for the experience now. Particularly if we make it through to Omaha and face NU.
Actually I have heard a few other teams do the 1-2-3 chant (substitute your team's name or letters). The only downside I can think of in my volleyball-naiveness is that everyone in the place now knows how many hits there are/have been.
Don't feel naive...
The up-ref had a bit of trouble with the number of hits last Saturday as well...:wink:
2 things:
1. Don't heckle the other team in volleyball - definately not the type of sport for that.
2. Penn State does the P-S-U cheer as well - it's fairly common.
1. Don't heckle the other team in volleyball - definately not the type of sport for that.
2. Penn State does the P-S-U cheer as well - it's fairly common.
I don't see a problem with heckling as long as it doesnt get out of hand and too crude/inappropriate. It happens everywhere.
Break down Hooker? I thought she recorded a personal record number of kills versus ISU...
She also had a number of mistakes that would take to count on at least two hands which NEVER happens to her. Her teammates also couldnt keep composure as well.
To be fair - Texas doesn't make it to 5 games all that often. So it probably wasn't too terribly hard for her to rack up career highs that match.
She had a bad match. No two ways about it. A LOT of errors, many unforced. Stats cover that a bit, because she got about as many extra swings.
FWIW - I have talked with the spouse of one of the coaches and specifically asked if they felt our student section crosses the line sometimes - and the response was "absolutely." I'm sure they don't want to squelch enthusiasm, but they clearly feel that SOME of the actions of the students are sophomoric.
This.
Heckling during womens sports (especially volleyball) is bush-league. Men's sports are fair-game but womens sports in general there is no place (IMO) for heckling.
During the Texas match, there was a student who came around from the 132/133 sections, and crouched behind the UT bench for a little while, before staff kinda ran him off.
Couldn't really him say anything over the top, but I found that rather out of line.
All season, I've been across from the student side. Haven't heard anything that I would think is all that bad. But can't hear much either.
Heckling? Depends what's being said in my book. My fear is that things can get pretty tasteless, pretty easily when dealing with women. Sexist comments can come out all too easily. But I don't have a problem overall with it. Destinee Hooker has to be about the cockiest player I've ever seen on the court. And Faucette had a mouth that made me cringe a bit. Giving them the business really didn't bother me.
And even we laid into that coach pretty well. That guy was a jack-arse of the highest order. I really thought his head was going to pop off in that match.
What a change. Mick Haley - former UT coach - has to be about the nicest person I've ever met in collegiate volleyball.
And even we laid into that coach pretty well. That guy was a jack-arse of the highest order. I really thought his head was going to pop off in that match.
What a change. Mick Haley - former UT coach - has to be about the nicest person I've ever met in collegiate volleyball.
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Exactly. I heckle and yell and distract the other team as much as humanly possible, but I never yell anything I wouldn't yell with my mother standing next to me. My goal in heckling is NEVER to insult or degrade the other team on a personal level. Racism and sexism are just as unacceptable at a sporting event as everywhere else on the planet. If you make the people around you laugh with your comments, you're doing well. If you make the players that you're heckling laugh, then you're doing GREAT! I hope everyone takes the same approach. Never stop making noise, but remain at all times the classiest of Cyclones.