Oxbow6 Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 26-24! Sprig.....got out of my seats. On way to the Al! Quote
Smoggy Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 4 hours ago, Oxbow6 said: Poor crowd for a big UND athletic weekend 1258 was announced which is good for timing of it all. That's probably higher than what we averaged last year. Quote
undVBfan Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 6 hours ago, Smoggy said: 1258 was announced which is good for timing of it all. That's probably higher than what we averaged last year. I am very pleasantly amused that 1258 with a Saturday at 11 AM start can be consider poor/good, but not great. I was in the Betty the first time UND topped 1000 (I believe against NJIT). That was a BIG deal at the time. I was also in the Hyslop when 300 would have been amazing, although when they beat NDSU for the first time in ~50 years in 2002 they had a reasonable crowd. UND volleyball has come a long way, due to the teams/coaching AND the community embracing the product on the floor. Have you watched any of the road games on PlutoTV? Our support is ridiculous compared to what you see on the road. I'm pretty sure the players appreciate how good they have it here, even for a Saturday morning. Quote
SiouxVolley Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 Getting more than 1200 on Saturday morning on a day which was filled with football and hockey home matches was impressive. Be interested to see next weekend for two 7 PM matches. Quote
Oxbow6 Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 With all the fans in town for the weekend if one was going to make plans to watch that garbage on the FB field making the effort to get going a little earlier and cheer on this VB team wasn't too much to ask IMO. I was hopeful the crowd would have been better. Quote
SiouxVolley Posted October 23, 2017 Author Posted October 23, 2017 Idaho went 0-6 at home against Portland St and Sac St, to end its lead in the north division. UND, Portland St, and Sac St really are rather closely together at the top of the Big Sky, and then there is a big drop. UND currently ranks 32nd among the 350 odd DI teams in attendance. There is only 16 schools with more than 2000, much of them in the Midwest, like Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wichita St, UNI, and Iowa St. Would be nice to get over 1500 average as that would be a worthwhile milestone for recruiting. Quote
Dustin Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 On 10/22/2017 at 7:29 PM, SiouxVolley said: Idaho went 0-6 at home against Portland St and Sac St, to end its lead in the north division. UND, Portland St, and Sac St really are rather closely together at the top of the Big Sky, and then there is a big drop. UND currently ranks 32nd among the 350 odd DI teams in attendance. There is only 16 schools with more than 2000, much of them in the Midwest, like Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wichita St, UNI, and Iowa St. Would be nice to get over 1500 average as that would be a worthwhile milestone for recruiting. I was looking for 2017 attendance stats on NCAA.com, but couldn't find current data. Do you have a link? Quote
SiouxVolley Posted October 26, 2017 Author Posted October 26, 2017 35 minutes ago, Dustin said: I was looking for 2017 attendance stats on NCAA.com, but couldn't find current data. Do you have a link? One has to prompt this stat page at the bottom, then a new window come up and put in what is desired. http://www.ncaa.com/stats/volleyball-women/d1 Faith is ninth in blocks. Quote
sprig Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 VB on roku unwatchable. Switched to bigskytv Hawks 25-15 1st set Griz 25-22 Quote
UNDBIZ Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 UND's home set winning streak ends at 39. Tied 1-1. Up 7-6 early in the 3rd. Quote
UNDBIZ Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 Und battles back to take the 3rd 26-24. Up 2-1 now. Really struggling with a bad Montana team though. Quote
UNDBIZ Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 UND finishes them off 25-19 with a late run. Quote
UNDBIZ Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 Pryor calling out the team's compete level in the post game interview. Quote
SWSiouxMN Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 28 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said: Pryor calling out the team's compete level in the post game interview. Can't necessarily blame him after that performance. Its time to get it wound up for post-season play. Its only a month away Quote
Dustin Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 NAU did us huge favor by beating Sac in 5! Quote
Smoggy Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 Team looked rough. I don't like calling out specific players, but one front row player had way too many hitting errors and an all around player had a rough day. it happens and Pryor has a reason to be mad as we haven't been playing well. Last week wasn't good and tonight was worse. In reality it's that we get stuck in certain rotations and teams have figured out who can't receive a serve. Now to my actual rant. Pryor is very quick with certain players to pull them. Think of Vail last year and early this year. Tonight he waited a long time and pulled the one all around for a freshman. She got a bad set behind her and hit it out. So he pulled her. Not good for confidence. Mistakes do happen. However, the front row player struggling never got pulled even though someone like Johnson from Roseau could've gone in. She played all season early and now hasn't been in for a long time. Also brings up my other gripe. Our 3 year backup setter Mattson has played 2 sets all year. Could make for a long year next year with no experience even though we've had plenty blow out matches. 2 Quote
Dustin Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 So with the Sac St. loss, that opens up a three-way race for the regular season that includes SAC, PSU, and UND. PSU and SAC still have a game left against each other, and we will have cheer for PSU, but PSU also holds the tie-breaker over UND, so that is a delicate situation. The team that we can cheer for with abandon is Idaho St., which still has games against SAC and PSU (both at home), but has enough losses that they are not really a threat to host. Too bad the right to host is not our destiny to control. At least not yet. Quote
SWSiouxMN Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 15 hours ago, Smoggy said: Team looked rough. I don't like calling out specific players, but one front row player had way too many hitting errors and an all around player had a rough day. it happens and Pryor has a reason to be mad as we haven't been playing well. Last week wasn't good and tonight was worse. In reality it's that we get stuck in certain rotations and teams have figured out who can't receive a serve. Now to my actual rant. Pryor is very quick with certain players to pull them. Think of Vail last year and early this year. Tonight he waited a long time and pulled the one all around for a freshman. She got a bad set behind her and hit it out. So he pulled her. Not good for confidence. Mistakes do happen. However, the front row player struggling never got pulled even though someone like Johnson from Roseau could've gone in. She played all season early and now hasn't been in for a long time. Also brings up my other gripe. Our 3 year backup setter Mattson has played 2 sets all year. Could make for a long year next year with no experience even though we've had plenty blow out matches. I am really wondering if Veldman is going to be the setter next year. It doesn't make any sense as to why she hasn't gotten a little more time in sets. Although it is tough to get an All-American setter off the court, but when Nikki was the setter her senior year, Pryor found spots to start Griffin her freshman year. Quote
SWSiouxMN Posted October 27, 2017 Posted October 27, 2017 5 hours ago, Dustin said: So with the Sac St. loss, that opens up a three-way race for the regular season that includes SAC, PSU, and UND. PSU and SAC still have a game left against each other, and we will have cheer for PSU, but PSU also holds the tie-breaker over UND, so that is a delicate situation. The team that we can cheer for with abandon is Idaho St., which still has games against SAC and PSU (both at home), but has enough losses that they are not really a threat to host. Too bad the right to host is not our destiny to control. At least not yet. They should win the remainder of their conference games, but the trip to Idaho will be tricky and that final home game vs NAU will be possibly the toughest of the year at the Betty (conference wise). Quote
SiouxVolley Posted October 29, 2017 Author Posted October 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Dustin said: There go hosting chances. Think it's much bigger that. With the funk this team is in, they will lose all remaining games. Lost the timing as this team does not seem to have a sparkplug leader. An older version of this team would have trounced the Montanas, as that pair is maybe the weakest in the Big sky. It's llike the team doesn't enjoy each other any more because of personality issues. Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.