Quotes for a Tuesday!

"Nebraska volleyball coach John Cook said the Big Ten heckling factor is very much alive in Big 12 volleyball. Cook said Oklahoma fans chanted “Big Ten (stinks)" and other choice phrases last Wednesday night in Norman." - Omaha World Herald. How did they chant the parentheses? Was that a hand signal of some kind?


"We're not going to panic as a coaching staff." - Rutgers' CJ Werneke saying what you usually say... rrright before you panic.

"Rubio feared the worst for both players, he said. Weber had to be taken from practice in a wheelchair, and Karst was writhing in pain on the McKale Center floor. Rubio said he was sure that she had broken her leg or torn her ACL." - Arizona Daily Wildcat on injuries to the volleyball team. Eek. That doesn't sound good. I wonder how they recov--

"However, both played on Friday." - the same Arizona Daily Wildcat article, showing why Rubio never pursued a degree in emergency medicine.

"This is the greatest night of my career." - Kathy Gregory, on her team's come-from-behind win over Long Beach State.

"LBSU head coach Brian Gimmillaro met with his team for more than an hour after the match and was unavailable for comment." - from the Long Beach State Daily 49er's article about the same match. 

"This is a surprise to me. I’m shocked that we’re in this situation." - BYU coach Shay Goulding on the team's 3-0 loss to Utah. In fairness, maybe the previous seven straight losses should have raised some kind of red flag?

"Still, when asked what she wants the world to know about BYU women’s volleyball, Hartsock shared just one thing." - from the BYU Universe. "What she wants the world to know"? I assume by "world" the reporter means "Utah"? Or is BYU volleyball fever more prevalent across the globe than previously thought?

"Cal was awesome. Cal played unbelievably well, and they handed it to us." - Oregon's Jim Moore, giving credit to Cal for their Duck dismantling. That's nice of hi--

"We weren't prepared. We looked like a very young team on the road." - More from... Moore on the Cal match. So, OK, weren't prepa--

"Our blocking struggled a lot. We didn't serve well enough." - Cal played well, you weren't prepared, you looked young, your blocking struggled, you didn't serve well enough. Anything else?

"We didn't put any pressure on them to allow our defense to play. If you don't put pressure on them serving right from the beginning, then you're in trouble." - I'm beginning to sense that. So were you able to correct any of that the next night against Stanford?

"I was very concerned during the Stanford match that we had completely lost all of our confidence." - I don't know why that would be.