Team out giving away tickets to students and meeting people on campus!!! You love to see it!! Also props to Jamie for juggling 3 volleyballs

https://instagr.am/p/DO8zPOTjT62

BiochemAg97 said:

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flintdragon said:

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I think the students will show for tomorrow's Mizzou game. But will the season ticket holders?

I didn't mention earlier after returning from the LMU game that for some reason, the first 5 rows in section 104 was poorly attended. Behind us was fine but was confused why next to us and in front of us was barely any spectators. No wonder Morrison wanted to flip the seats.

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There was mention that the "coaches had given up some seats" so season ticket holders could get closer in the flip. I'm guessing there is a block of seats for coaching staff to bring in guests, such as recruits and their families. Not surprising that those seats would be mostly empty for LMU.

From my seats in row P, the reserved sections were pretty well attended for all three games. Also, I'll note that the season ticket holders are not packed in tight, at least where I sit, and that several of the seats around us are available for single game purchase.

Bottom line, empty seats in the reserved section might not be missing season ticket holders.

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You could be right but that's like a whole bunch of seats. I'd say like 90% unoccupied. First 5 rows of the entire section. I'll be there Wed and Fri. We need to be rocking!

Non Conference passing stats as per someone who has access to these stats

Texas A&M

Hellmuth 2.03 / 47.7 gp% / 65 att

Stowers 2.17 / 51.8 gp% / 166 att

Underwood 2.16 / 51.9 gp% / 181 att

Applegate 2.29 / 62.0 gp% / 123 att

Wicked Good Ag said:

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Non Conference passing stats as per someone who has access to these stats

Texas A&M

Hellmuth 2.03 / 47.7 gp% / 65 att

Stowers 2.17 / 51.8 gp% / 166 att

Underwood 2.16 / 51.9 gp% / 181 att

Applegate 2.29 / 62.0 gp% / 123 att

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Dang Applegate! Just on the outside of having an elite passer rating!

I'm curious to see the same stats on an elite team like Nebraska.

flintdragon said:

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Wicked Good Ag said:

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Non Conference passing stats as per someone who has access to these stats

Texas A&M

Hellmuth 2.03 / 47.7 gp% / 65 att

Stowers 2.17 / 51.8 gp% / 166 att

Underwood 2.16 / 51.9 gp% / 181 att

Applegate 2.29 / 62.0 gp% / 123 att

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Dang Applegate! Just on the outside of having an elite passer rating!

I'm curious to see the same stats on an elite team like Nebraska.

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NEBRASKA

Mauch 2.31 / 61.6 gp% / 86 att

Murray 2.26 / 58.6 gp% / 99 att

Choboy 2.04 / 49.2 gp% / 191 att

Sigler 2.17 / 50.2 gp% / 126 att

Landfair 2.12 / 52.0 gp% / 25 att

I guess I can't complain too much about passing any more?

Had no idea Choboy's was that low. Is this the reason she lost her libero jersey?

South Carolina gave kentucky fits in several sets last week. They were up by a lot in a set and ended up losing it.

Volleyball back in the top ten! Number 9!

Nice! we were dominant the past week.

First ever top ten matchup in Reed Arena! #PackReed

https://instagr.am/p/DPepR2dDmU-

Ifenna Cos-Okpalla back to back SEC Defensive Player of the Week

First RPI is out and A&M only comes in at 17. I have to admit I am surprised ton of road matches.

I am floored. But I mean schools like Miami, Illinois, Creighton, Indiana all being ahead of us is crazy. The Big Ten has 7 teams in the top 20. We just have to keep winning and let the big 10 and acc beat each other up

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-women/d1/ncaa-womens-volleyball-rpi

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First RPI is out and A&M only comes in at 17. I have to admit I am surprised ton of road matches.

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That is what happens when your tourney has like no top 150 teams and you havent played the tougher teams in conference yet

I'm not going to go into all of these teams ahead of us but the easiest outlier is Illinois.

They have a good win versus Purdue but lost to South Dakota State and two unranked teams (at the time).

We have 3 ranked wins and 2 losses to ranked teams as visitors.

edit: yeah, I kind of know how volleyball RPI basically works... this just doesn't meet the eye test for me.

Really need to look at Future RPI over current RPI

This is what it was last week

18. (23) Texas A&M - Southeastern (18-7) - .6388 - 25

That means we are expected to lose 5 matches in conference and the actual SEC tourney

If we do better than that is will help quite a bit

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I'm not going to go into all of these teams ahead of us but the easiest outlier is Illinois.

They have a good win versus Purdue but lost to South Dakota State and two unranked teams (at the time).

We have 3 ranked wins and 2 losses to ranked teams as visitors.

edit: yeah, I kind of know how volleyball RPI basically works... this just doesn't meet the eye test for me.

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Utah and Missouri cratering has done A&M no favors. 7-7 Utah State (No. 68) and 7-8 Rice (No. 65) are better wins going by RPI.

This team will host the first 2 round of the tournament RPI starts mattering more when u are trying to host 4 rounds of the tournament. A win against Kentucky would help us get a big win but even then don't think this team needs it to host at all. Big 10 teams also play the RPI game me so does Creighton to try and host. Creighton issue is that they didn't win many of the tough matches they scheduled and their conference doesn't help them.

We are inside the bubble for hosting but not guarenteed

That tourney at our place did us no favors everything else is fine

I hope we figure out this RPI game ourselves. Maybe we tried but as coach has mentioned several times now, he can't seem to schedule good teams to play.

Maybe it won't matter as long as we take care of business but we haven't been stressed defensively in a long time. We got destroyed by SMU which was a wake up call. That's fine if you learn from it but who have we played after the Dallas trip since?

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I hope we figure out this RPI game ourselves. Maybe we tried but as coach has mentioned several times now, he can't seem to schedule good teams to play.

Maybe it won't matter as long as we take care of business but we haven't been stressed defensively in a long time. We got destroyed by SMU which was a wake up call. That's fine if you learn from it but who have we played after the Dallas trip since?

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We know how to play the RPI game and do it well. Largely the reason we were in the tourney Jamie's first year.

Also, the strategy is about end of year RPI, not mid season. You play a number of teams that are expected to lead their respective conferences. Many of those teams are from lower conferences and play bigger teams in the OOC schedule. The OOC loses drag the RPI early, but boost the RPI near the end of the season as they rack up conference wins.

The SEC has a full game schedule that is the same for everyone in the conference

The lone exception to that from an RPI standpoint is if you play certain teams home or away

So it all depends on who you play in non conference and if you win or lose and how they do later in season

With the exception of the SEC tourney which i have no idea how it will affect RPI other than more matches against quality opponents wont hurt

BiochemAg97 said:

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We know how to play the RPI game and do it well. Largely the reason we were in the tourney Jamie's first year.

Also, the strategy is about end of year RPI, not mid season. You play a number of teams that are expected to lead their respective conferences. Many of those teams are from lower conferences and play bigger teams in the OOC schedule. The OOC loses drag the RPI early, but boost the RPI near the end of the season as they rack up conference wins.

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Maybe there are more ways to play the RPI game. I see top teams playing a ton of other top teams. Win, gravy. Lose, not much loss. Gain a ton of experience along the way. And a whole lot of fun too...

It can backfire if you lose too many games but it takes a whole lot of them.

flintdragon said:

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BiochemAg97 said:

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We know how to play the RPI game and do it well. Largely the reason we were in the tourney Jamie's first year.

Also, the strategy is about end of year RPI, not mid season. You play a number of teams that are expected to lead their respective conferences. Many of those teams are from lower conferences and play bigger teams in the OOC schedule. The OOC loses drag the RPI early, but boost the RPI near the end of the season as they rack up conference wins.

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Maybe there are more ways to play the RPI game. I see top teams playing a ton of other top teams. Win, gravy. Lose, not much loss. Gain a ton of experience along the way. And a whole lot of fun too...

It can backfire if you lose too many games but it takes a whole lot of them.

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You don't want to schedule a lot of top 10 games where you won't be competitive, which was where we were a few years ago.

We were just this year recognized as a top 10 team. I'm guessing a lot of consistent top program have home and homes scheduled with the other top programs, meaning they don't necessarily have room for the newest top 10 team. Also, you want a program that has demonstrated staying power rather than scheduling a home and home with a flash in the pan and have to play another game against team that falls off next year.

It isn't like we didn't play any ranked team in the OOC. It isn't like our coaching staff doesn't understand the RPI game. Jamie doesn't like RPI, but knows how to take advantage. Just a challenging year.

I think another deep run this year will probably make it easier to schedule top program next year. Hopefully, when the other teams were telling Jamie no this year, we started conversations about next year's schedule.

In Morrison We Trust!

Yeah, I think in my mind, we are Top 10 and was very excited to be in that upper echelon but we are only at the doorstep this year. Need a few years of sustained success.