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Post by nyline on Sept 21, 2015 14:46:13 GMT -5
We've posted a Q&A with Club Coach and Talking Head --here's the link: Penn State vs. Wisconsin: Q&A with Club Coach and Talking HeadAnd here's an excerpt: DigNittany: We’re speaking today with Club Coach, who has coached numerous highly successful club and college women’s volleyball players, and Talking Head, who has played the sport at the collegiate level and coached for many years, about the match on Wednesday night in Rec Hall between #1-ranked Penn State and #16-ranked Wisconsin. History Channeled?DigNittany: This would be a much-anticipated match even if it were only the opening of the B1G season for the two teams (which it is). But there’s history here: Penn State knocked off the Badgers 3-1 in the 2013 NCAA title match, followed that up with a B1G season-opening sweep of Wisconsin at the Field House on September 24, 2014, and capped off the trilogy with a 3-1 win over the Badgers in the Regional Finals in December 2014. We know these are different teams, that have added new players, and lost players to graduation, but isn’t there some carryover — a rivalry, if you will — from those big matches in the past two seasons? Perhaps more to the point, would you treat the rivalry aspect differently if you were Russ Rose (having won those matches) than you would if you were Kelly Sheffield (who was on the losing end all three times)? Club Coach: I don’t believe Russ views any match as being any different than any other match — which is a huge part of Penn State’s success. I think Penn State operates from a standard that they set for themselves; they prepare really hard for every team they play — whether they are in conference, ranked, or un-ranked. Russ is famously paranoid, and has legitimate respect for every opponent. I think the match may have more significance in that way for Wisconsin, because Penn State is the measuring stick, and they have kept Wisconsin from winning the big prize. It will be business as usual for the Nittany Lions, and probably for Badgers as well. Talking Head: Not that I’m a fan of the New England Patriots, but it is clear that one of the major keys to their success is to take a business-like approach to everything they do and never let the emotion of the event get the better of them. I think that it is clear that for a long time, Coach Rose’s approach to everything — from recruiting, to practice, to media releases, to discussions about upcoming and/or past matches — has always been to keep things on an even keel. Never too high and never too low — focusing on being good at the things they do well and getting better at the things they don’t do so well. Each opponent presents a unique series of obstacles, and for Coach Rose to add too much emotion to a scenario would be counter productive to the team’s task at hand. Some coaches and teams are wired differently, and embrace the hype and spotlight. However in this case, Coach Rose does not; with respect to Coach Sheffield, I really don’t know. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2015 16:19:53 GMT -5
What a fantastic, comprehensive assessment!
One thing in particular I take away from the write-up, Lauren Carlini will be coming to Rec Hall with payback I mind. Last year, in the season opener, Micha Hancock embarrassed her. Want quick proof? Look at set 3's last point. I think Carlini may try to make more plays that we've seen from her the last two years. I hope PSU's middles keep this in mind.
Three other observations: I'd characterize Wisconsin as one of the "mentally toughest" teams that PSU faces. They don't give up. Second, I wonder if Coach Rose will be quick to bring in Simone Lee? She seems to possess a certain magic against the Badgers. And finally, I think Wisconsin has played a tougher pre-conference schedule than PSU--the statistical differences may not be so meaningful.
I'm hoping for a big crowd and I'm going to enjoy actually being able to "see" the match with a BTN broadcast. I like this broadcast team better than the pairing that did the Stanford game.
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Post by phillytom on Sept 21, 2015 16:20:31 GMT -5
Thank you all, good insights. A couple of random thoughts
-- I've seen some really nice Holcomb passes of short wounded-duck style float serves. That's something Wisconsin does well and PSU has had quite a bit of trouble with in the past. It will be interesting to see where they try to put their serves. If they can keep PSU off balance and out of system, anything is possible, but PSU handled short serves well against Stanford. Yes the sample size is small, but from the little action I've seen, passing has been a pleasant surprise for PSU.
-- PSU's front line should have a good match. Blocking was probably the weakest part of Wisconsin's game last year (in fact, maybe the only real weakness), and they graduated their 2nd, 3rd and 6th most prolific blockers (254 blocks). Somebody 5-11 trying to block Washington or Whitney or a leaper like Simone Lee or Frantti -- it's asking too much of their backcourt. Wisconsin got outblocked by Arkansas. That means they could get outblocked quite a bit in the B1G.
-- Wisconsin looks to me more like a middle of the pack team than a B1G contender this year. OTOH they are great at being the underdog, they may come out loose and very aggressive -- and Sheffield is great at gameplanning against taller teams and stressing backcourts. Holcomb and the Pierces are sure to be tested.
-- Always a privilege to see Carlini and Morey work their magic.
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Post by lionsfan on Sept 21, 2015 16:27:58 GMT -5
Any buzz or word on how big the crowd could/will be? Dare we dream it can be close to the Stanford match? (Ditto for the Nebraska match too, please!)
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Post by phillytom on Sept 21, 2015 16:28:54 GMT -5
Yeah, Simone Lee was critical to both wins over the Badgers last year. First match, Washington was still out injured, and Lee had 12 kills starting outside. Second match, the regional final, Frantti was having trouble after Carlini landed on her foot at the net, and Lee came in and had 12 kills again. Maybe it's because she's from Wisconsin -- she has given a real lift to PSU in this series.
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Post by phillytom on Sept 21, 2015 16:32:50 GMT -5
Any buzz or word on how big the crowd could/will be? Dare we dream it can be close to the Stanford match? (Ditto for the Nebraska match too, please!) Wednesday night, who knows. But they filled Rec Hall for Stanford and that would have been largely a local crowd because the football game was being played in Philly that day. If the students turn out that is big for the team -- as Coach Rose has pointed out. |
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Post by nyline on Sept 21, 2015 16:51:01 GMT -5
Any buzz or word on how big the crowd could/will be? Dare we dream it can be close to the Stanford match? (Ditto for the Nebraska match too, please!) Wednesday night, who knows. But they filled Rec Hall for Stanford and that would have been largely a local crowd because the football game was being played in Philly that day. If the students turn out that is big for the team -- as Coach Rose has pointed out. I recall there were over 1700 students at the Stanford match. But it was a Saturday. If they can approach that total, plus 2500+ locals /travelers, could be 4K+. |
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Post by psumaui on Sept 21, 2015 17:29:45 GMT -5
I'd like to see another "Standing Room Only" match! Looking for 6K+ I was going to put the last Wisconsin match here(vs Arkansas) but since there were about 20 partial songs played during breaks, YouTube muted the sound on whole match. I am disputing it now but don't see them changing it. Total BS when YT says there is a copyright on songs played during breaks. Seems like either YT needs to change how they detect REAL copyright infractions and those that I described. It's all about greed from these corporations anyway! I could see if I was trying to make money from any of those songs and they are all just pieces of songs, not whole songs. |
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Post by phillytom on Sept 21, 2015 22:33:22 GMT -5
I'd like to see another "Standing Room Only" match! Looking for 6K+ I was going to put the last Wisconsin match here(vs Arkansas) but since there were about 20 partial songs played during breaks, YouTube muted the sound on whole match. I am disputing it now but don't see them changing it. Total BS when YT says there is a copyright on songs played during breaks. Seems like either YT needs to change how they detect REAL copyright infractions and those that I described. It's all about greed from these corporations anyway! I could see if I was trying to make money from any of those songs and they are all just pieces of songs, not whole songs. You ever encounter BMI/ASCAP? They will sue you for a quarter. That's just how they operate. And Google is a big fat rich target. Google just doesn't want the shakedown. |
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Post by psumaui on Sept 22, 2015 2:04:36 GMT -5
I'd like to see another "Standing Room Only" match! Looking for 6K+ I was going to put the last Wisconsin match here(vs Arkansas) but since there were about 20 partial songs played during breaks, YouTube muted the sound on whole match. I am disputing it now but don't see them changing it. Total BS when YT says there is a copyright on songs played during breaks. Seems like either YT needs to change how they detect REAL copyright infractions and those that I described. It's all about greed from these corporations anyway! I could see if I was trying to make money from any of those songs and they are all just pieces of songs, not whole songs. You ever encounter BMI/ASCAP? They will sue you for a quarter. That's just how they operate. And Google is a big fat rich target. Google just doesn't want the shakedown. No, haven't encountered them yet. These are UMG(Universal Music Group),SME(Sony Music Entertainment),WMG(Warner Music Group), and ONErpm(ONE Revolution People's Music- one instance). Total of 14 songs(partial) copyright notices. These notices are automatically put on videos when Youtube software recognizes a song that these corporations own and can get blocked/muted unless you dispute the copyright claims. I have looked into this and these videos(music part) seems to be "fair use" since music is not focus of or intent of these videos. As far as the music part is concerned, this would be no different than if I were at the match and recorded match on my own camera and uploaded to Youtube. No copyright violation would be present but video upload would receive same treatment(14 copyright notices). To me that's just laziness on YT's part to just blankly block everything. |
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Post by psumaui on Sept 22, 2015 2:14:03 GMT -5
Just found out that while video is being disputed for copyright infringement, the muted block is off: Here you go:
If you want to download it, I recommend doing it now as YT may come back and rule against me and mute sound again.
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Post by phillytom on Sept 22, 2015 7:53:34 GMT -5
Wow, thanks for that Maui. Wisconsin not showing much there. Was there a fatigue issue or something? In their defense, Ark looks like a very good team. Wisconsin not serving well at all. Just a lot of short floats which Ark can handle. It's Wisconsin that's having trouble passing, particularly on the right side. Morey moved over. At one point they had 5 players clustered back right to receive serve (at which point the server needs to consider changing location and serving to the empty side of the court IMHO).
Wisconsin does not look like the Wisconsin of the last two years. Not enough size/firepower on the outside perhaps? I think they'll have to improve a lot to make the tournament this year. Carlini, Nelson and Morey are terrific but that's not enough. That team has always been greater than the sum of their parts -- their tenacity and cohesion was a big part of their success. And that will develop over time, so maybe....
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Post by psumaui on Sept 22, 2015 11:44:24 GMT -5
Wow, thanks for that Maui. Wisconsin not showing much there. Was there a fatigue issue or something? In their defense, Ark looks like a very good team. Wisconsin not serving well at all. Just a lot of short floats which Ark can handle. It's Wisconsin that's having trouble passing, particularly on the right side. Morey moved over. At one point they had 5 players clustered back right to receive serve (at which point the server needs to consider changing location and serving to the empty side of the court IMHO). Wisconsin does not look like the Wisconsin of the last two years. Not enough size/firepower on the outside perhaps? I think they'll have to improve a lot to make the tournament this year. Carlini, Nelson and Morey are terrific but that's not enough. That team has always been greater than the sum of their parts -- their tenacity and cohesion was a big part of their success. And that will develop over time, so maybe.... Well, I'm pretty sure they weren't affected by the crowd noise! I agree, they just aren't the same team as last two years without the Senior leadership they had with Hickey in 2013 and the three they lost last season. I knew Wisconsin would have issues this season and see them as a middle of the pack team in the BIG this year. The first match they played was against Western Kentucky which gave me an indication of what is to come with this team this season. Have you watched that match? It was their first match of the year and at their home court(lost in 4) and is on BTN Plus. Passing was atrocious much of that match. Carlini was having to run all over to court to chase down balls. |
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Post by cross5 on Sept 23, 2015 21:34:37 GMT -5
Analysis and crystal ball was spot on. Good stuff.
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Post by bob2061 on Sept 26, 2015 9:03:35 GMT -5
Post game analysis reveals that the Badgers revealed many weaknesses for PSU, which they can now work on (digging the slide,serving,etc). I WAS really impressed with the crowd support and the way our team responded.
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