[TonyLima]

Weird line score for UCLA at Nebraska

Nebr:   25 25 23 25
UCLA:  22 10 25 22

I.e., Unranked UCLA got hammered in the second set but came back to win the third.

Former Stanford beach player Kate Reilly is playing DS for UCLA, and is regularly subbed in.

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Final, 25-20 fourth set; Stanford takes it in 4.  We win our first ACC match!

Seems like even when we are overall better than our opponent, we put up at least one stinker of a set (thinking of our matches against UCSB and Pepperdine).

As others have noted, this seems to be a perpetual problem with Stanford VB.

I have a theory.  Tune in Saturday for the exposition.

TL;DR version: jet lag.

Backstory: about a century ago, I was on the road every other week giving seminars.  Did a lot of flights to Chicago and the east coast.  And the first few days were always rocky.  West-to-east is bad.  East-to-west, easy.

Now I know these kids are many years younger than I was.  But still they gotta feel it a little.  Hence, uneven play Friday.

As a former member of ba.food used to say, "Rage away."

[TonyLima]

Weird line score for UCLA at Nebraska

Nebr:   25 25 23 25
UCLA:  22 10 25 22

I.e., Unranked UCLA got hammered in the second set but came back to win the third.

Former Stanford beach player Kate Reilly is playing DS for UCLA, and is regularly subbed in.

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Final, 25-20 fourth set; Stanford takes it in 4.  We win our first ACC match!

Seems like even when we are overall better than our opponent, we put up at least one stinker of a set (thinking of our matches against UCSB and Pepperdine).

As others have noted, this seems to be a perpetual problem with Stanford VB.

I have a theory.  Tune in Saturday for the exposition.

TL;DR version: jet lag.

Backstory: about a century ago, I was on the road every other week giving seminars.  Did a lot of flights to Chicago and the east coast.  And the first few days were always rocky.  West-to-east is bad.  East-to-west, easy.

Now I know these kids are many years younger than I was.  But still they gotta feel it a little.  Hence, uneven play Friday.

As a former member of ba.food used to say, "Rage away."