[petersalas]

That’s a good question. I just see a much better effort at home, more energy, of course they are more comfortable at home than on the road. They had too many home games at the beginning of the season and they just never got comfortable at away games. I would have never set the schedule up the way the non conference schedule was set up. Also, the win they let slip away at LSU did something to the team that I don’t think they recovered from. And compound it with our seniors being too inconsistent and then the injuries… I say if the underclass players are playing better than our seniors, it’ll help them in the long run. It’s a sad way for our seniors to end their college careers though. 

I usually agree with all your points, but disagree about the conference change. I think think we’d be facing the same thing in any other conference.. the biggest thing and reason for all these losses is the lack of energy to start games. Especially on the defensive end. This team plays no defense.. or they play some defense sporadically. They play aggressive defense when they have dug a hole and have almost dug themselves out of the hole, but only one game resulted in a win and it was vs Virginia Tech.

I do agree that we would have struggled this year, compared with the past, even had the Pac 12 remained in existence. 

But to what do you attributed the greatest disparity between home games and away games in the history of Stanford WBB?

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But they played that way at Cal, SMU, and Chase Center and those games were not cross country trips. I’ve seen the energy missing in a lot of games and we don’t have strong senior leadership. Maybe that’s the wrong way to say that.. I meant we don’t have consistent senior play this season and I’ve followed our team since 1997. 

Not just the women; if my math is correct, the men are 2-6 on the road in the ACC (and one of those wins was at Cal); they are 7-1 at home.

Women’s volleyball also had trouble in the East Coast, with all three of its conference losses on the road and an undefeated home record.  Best illustration is that we played Louisville three times (including at the NCAA tournament).  We lost the road matches 3-0 and 3-1, and won the home match 3-1.

Yes, a better team would have a better road record, but I think that a middle-of-the-ACC team is going to struggle when playing across the country and look better when the visitor has to fly across the country to play us.

BC

[petersalas]

That’s a good question. I just see a much better effort at home, more energy, of course they are more comfortable at home than on the road. They had too many home games at the beginning of the season and they just never got comfortable at away games. I would have never set the schedule up the way the non conference schedule was set up. Also, the win they let slip away at LSU did something to the team that I don’t think they recovered from. And compound it with our seniors being too inconsistent and then the injuries… I say if the underclass players are playing better than our seniors, it’ll help them in the long run. It’s a sad way for our seniors to end their college careers though. 

I usually agree with all your points, but disagree about the conference change. I think think we’d be facing the same thing in any other conference.. the biggest thing and reason for all these losses is the lack of energy to start games. Especially on the defensive end. This team plays no defense.. or they play some defense sporadically. They play aggressive defense when they have dug a hole and have almost dug themselves out of the hole, but only one game resulted in a win and it was vs Virginia Tech.

I do agree that we would have struggled this year, compared with the past, even had the Pac 12 remained in existence. 

But to what do you attributed the greatest disparity between home games and away games in the history of Stanford WBB?

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But they played that way at Cal, SMU, and Chase Center and those games were not cross country trips. I’ve seen the energy missing in a lot of games and we don’t have strong senior leadership. Maybe that’s the wrong way to say that.. I meant we don’t have consistent senior play this season and I’ve followed our team since 1997. 

Not just the women; if my math is correct, the men are 2-6 on the road in the ACC (and one of those wins was at Cal); they are 7-1 at home.

Women’s volleyball also had trouble in the East Coast, with all three of its conference losses on the road and an undefeated home record.  Best illustration is that we played Louisville three times (including at the NCAA tournament).  We lost the road matches 3-0 and 3-1, and won the home match 3-1.

Yes, a better team would have a better road record, but I think that a middle-of-the-ACC team is going to struggle when playing across the country and look better when the visitor has to fly across the country to play us.

BC