Our Favorite Subject - VBall Recruiting rumors

I agree with the first part of your comment, however, I don't think it's possible or necessary to replenish each year with top recruits. You have equally as talented players that are underclassman from the bench who are stepping into these graduated positions, like most recently Aiyana Whitney. You have Simone Lee who is equally as good as any of this year's recruits who is waiting for some graduations. You have 2 redshirted Fr. players from "the best recruiting class ever". So the matter isn't every year- it's a matter of being able to maximizing the players currently on your roster to grow into key performers, having a planned cycle of recruiting, knowing which players will be team oriented and wait for their time to shine in the program, and have an enviornment of competition- where no player is guaranteed a position. Assumedly, there was a transfer due to the talented '14 recruiting class. But I think the programs current successes and stability prove that they have a handle on their recruiting practices.

I'm only going to speak on this coming year because I don't have any further information. I agree, 9 is A LOT of DS. But Rose did remark in the beginning of last year that he was not pleased with the competition in that core as a whole- so maybe this is his focus while they transition into new DS/L role players. We all know the importance of this often under rewarded position.

Your other statements oversimplifies the recruiting process. There are factors that aren't being acknowledging in the recruiting process.

First and foremost, scholarship availability- which prevents all teams' ability to recruit the best players year in and year out. And I wouldn't call it relying on the freshmen class- recruiting is an investment, especially with a class of that size- there's going to be consequences...

Which I alluded to in my previous post is each new recruits want to come into a pre existing power program that's full of young top players where they might not get on the floor immediately. Another challenge is the available pool of players in the position(s) needed. You can also factor in location of the school that affects recruiting. And lastly, the biggest challenge in recruiting is how young kids are verballing to universities. So yes, top recruits/talent are needed to stay a top program. But there's limitations I feel you overlooked. 

And going by his overall results and the current dynasty, I believe he is doing everything in his power and understanding to field the best teams possible.

Well, Nebraska had a number of players transfer out.  Some VTers think John Cook exerted undue/improper influence on them to do so.  I haven't seen any evidence to support that.  I suspect it's more along the lines of very good players coming in, and merely good players transferring out.  PSU had Paulina transfer to Texas, and from what I understand, there was nothing improper on either end (Penn State was very disappointed that Paulina left).  Texas hasn't had a lot of transfers out that I recall, so I suspect they've had open scholarships. 

So... is Keeton Holcomb the anticipated addition to the 2015 class? Does this finalize the roster for this year?

Looks like quite a competition for that libero job. Pierces, Muller, Canulli, Holcomb, Dykstra, Broerman.... Whoever emerges from that group is going to be TOUGH.

Thanks for posting that link to the 2013 Nebraska match. PSU really had no business taking it the way they did, but they just hung in there and made fewer mistakes than Nebraska at the end of the fourth set.

Obviously that was a future championship team on the floor for PSU, but it was a reminder to me of how much difficulty that team had terminating at times. Not like last year's team which just went into beast mode and only a couple of teams could defend them at all.