It's Monday, and my bracket is completely screwed
CRIPES - Angie Pressey and Hana Cutura were the Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin of the regional finals, weren't they? They could book two shows a night at Caesar's Palace with the performance they put on against Nebraska. And what's with Cook skipping the interview between games 2 and 3? Is that something else the Huskers don't do besides play in non-air conditioned gyms pre-conference? Favorite TV comment from this match came in game one when Cal went up 3-0:
(paraphrasing)
Maggie Gray (excitedly) - And it looks like the Huskers are stumbling a little bit early on, Mike!
Mike Dodd (low-key) - Nah, they're alright.
BTW, how'd you like to attend a lecture given by Dodd and Doug Beal? I think obviously Dodd knows his stuff, but would it kill him to have a _little_ inflection? He could use some lessons from Florida's way over-the-top TV guy, who I thought was going to have a hernia. And why can't someone inform these people how to pronounce "Pavan" or "Carly"? Are these names that hard and I just don't realize it? Who's producing this stuff?
Is Maes losing to his former employer sorta like what's-her-face at Tennessee beating Penn State two years ago?
Zounds! - If Pressey and Cutura were Frank and Dean, Penn State's whole roster was the 1927 Yankees...at least for that match. If Lou Gehrig wasn't crushing a ball on the outside, then Tony Lazzeri was busting one out of the middle or the Babe was roofing someone. It'd be nice to see Miller Huggins take them all the way. BYU had no answers, but can you blame 'em? Would YOU have had any answers to that onslaught?
Of course, BYU's fate may have been sealed before the match started when a BYU warmup swing hit Russ in the melon and broke his glasses, to which he responded with a standard Russ joking, deadpan mafia threat. No wonder the Cougars sleep with the fishes.
Texas Hold 'Em? - Longhorns are the Peyton Manning Colts pre-2007, doing all the right things during the season, setting records, then missing The Big Show. Engle's still got two years to win the big one and then go on to host Saturday Night Live. And is Brian Hosfeld trying to grow a mullet? Anyone else see that head of hair he's got goin' on right now? Is he moonlighting as one of Toby Keith's backup singers?
Team #4 - Stanford won, but the Bruins were defensively astounding in the loss. Barboza comes up big, and Foluke simply does what she's been doing, just Foluke bein' Foluke. But the best is watching Kehoe v. Spicer, two top QBs going at it in a fierce competition. It's like Joe Montana v. Dan Marino. Wouldn't you love to just have them switch sides and see what would happen?
posted by dotter @ 7:13 PM
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What do you think all those Big 12 coaches are thinking watching Texas and Nebraska go down like the Hindenburg? "Doh! We could have done that!" Or "There goes our power rating."
Hey, I have give props to Erin Waller at Stanford. No one in St. Louis thought she would make it into the starting lineup and now she is a starter and a great contributor. Hell of a way to start game 3.
You would think that these stoic coaches would go off some times when they are down two games, but no, a dead fish is a dead fish.
You would think that announcers would learn how to pronounce the name of the AVCA National Player of the Year. Especially since Huskers.com has a pronunciation guide. (I didn't hear anyone mispronouncing "Akinradewo"). Especially since they are specifically volleyball announcers (they're not someone who usually does football and was hustled up to Madison for a volleyball game).
I certainly learned a lot from Mike Dodd, but he was the most laid back and inflection-less announcer I have ever heard. He made a good point that players the size of Angie Pressey are usually liberos now-a-days.
It was indeed disappointing the Cook didn't participate in the interviews after game 2, like most other coaches do. I expected more of a Nebraska coach, usually I think of everything Nebraska as high class, and skipping out on the interview doesn't say "high class".
Anybody know anything about Maggie Gray? I think she did an okay job, but not excellent.
Farewell, Huskers, you have been an entertaining team all season, and I am truly glad I tuned in.
Paige, I'm always disappointed when "professional" announcers can't get names right.
I know nothing about Maggie Gray, but I don't think she's done a lot of volleyball before.
As for Cook...who knows.
I did a Google search for "Maggie Gray" ESPN, and didn't seem to find anything that was a match.
I don't know if you ever listen to the top NFL announcers, but they seem to get all the names correct. Even those difficult names with lots of vowels. And mispronouncing Sarah Pavan is eqivalent to mispronouncing Peyton Manning, if you ask me.
Anyway, I wish I had found your blog earlier. I have a back problem, I haven't been able to go to work the last 3 weeks, so what to do? Hey, there’s this NCAA Volleyball Tournament, and almost all of the games are on the Internet! I had been watching the Huskers on CSTV all season anyway, as long as I have to sit here I might as well watch more sports and less FoodTV. So I probably watched 6 first round games, 4 or 5 second round games, and as many of the regionals as I could squeeze in.
Does Dodd saying "real good" a thousand times drive anyone else nuts?
He does have some good insight, as does Karchie, most of the time.
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