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IU falls 1-3. Nebraska is just unreal


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Do you care are just complaining for the sake of complaining?

[Aaron 4,293]

1 hour ago, mamasa said:

Do you care are just complaining for the sake of complaining?

This year so far has been a step backwards in conference which isn't great but Aird deserves time to turn the program around.

[Alford Bailey 12,384]

On 10/25/2019 at 12:15 PM, Aaron said:

They are going to get smoked tonight by Nebraska. Iowa is winnable since they are not good but we threw away two winnable games on road last week and a home game against mediocre Santa Clara early in year. Hopefully being at home finally gets them a win tomorrow.

This year is a step backwards so far. Beating Nebraska is to much to ask but they got to seven conference wins last year by beating pretty much all the teams they could on the same level (basically what IU football has done so far). This year they have thrown away three winnable games as I just mentioned. 

To take the next step you need to beat the teams you are capable of beating constently and this year that has not happened. Hopefully its just a bump though as a young team and ultimately we are on right track which is TBA. Like I said when I listening to the other newer coaches speak I hear a visionary who sounds like the right person.

Aird talks a good game but not sure how good of a coach he is just yet as some of his words sound like that a used car salesman ALA Tom Crean. Not sure he is bad or good yet as a coach. We will see. He has brought me more hesitation then some other Glass hires though in Olympic sports which for the most part I have liked.   

Agree

[Aaron 4,293]

34 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Agree

Football beating teams they can beat. Thats a step. Now its volleyball turns. Beat the bottom of the conference.

[Aaron 4,293]

Once again IU blows a game and is swept by a mediocre Iowa team with tons of injuries after blowing 3 match points. This year is certainly a big step back.

Aird deserves time and hopefully this is just a bump but this team is certainly a dark spot in a pretty strong fall for IU sports. 

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Volleyball Travels to No. 16 Purdue

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana volleyball team will travel to Purdue this week for a match that will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
 
Wednesday October 30
Indiana at No. 16 Purdue
6:00 PM ET | West Lafayette, Ind.   
Live Stats: https://bit.ly/2BUHtyo
Video ($): https://foxs.pt/2BUHwKB
Radio: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/indiana/
TV: Big Ten Network
 
Hoosiers on BTN
Indiana concludes a stretch where they played four of five matches on the Big Ten Network. Those matches are Oct. 16 at Maryland, Oct. 20 at Iowa, Oct. 25 vs. Nebraska and Oct. 30 at Purdue.
 
Lofton Reaches 400
Against Iowa on Saturday, senior Deyshia Lofton recorded her 400^th career block to become the eighth player in program history to reach that mark. Lofton has 403 blocks for her career and is three blocks from moving into seventh on the Hoosiers all-time list for career blocks.
 
Indiana Block Party
The Hoosiers rank sixth in the Big Ten in blocking at 2.46 blocks per set. Indiana has recorded double-digit blocks in 10 matches this season, including 17 blocks in their win over Kentucky. Indiana tallied a season-high 18.5 blocks in their match against Purdue. The Hoosiers ranked 13^th in the NCAA in total blocks with 223.5 on the season.
 

The New Hoosiers
There are nine new Hoosiers that were not on the 2018 roster, including five transfers and four freshmen. Emily Fitzner, First Team Under Armour All-American will be a freshman setter. Fitzner is the sister of former IU basketball player Evan Fitzner. Megan Sloan returns home to Indiana after three seasons in Louisville. Sloan is the daughter of Brian Sloan, a member of the 1987 IU men's basketball national championship team. Haley Armstrong, member of the Canadian Junior National Team, will be a freshman defensive specialist for the Hoosiers. Jacqui Armer transferred to Indiana after three seasons at LSU. 
 

 

[Alford Bailey 12,384]

Not a good performance tonight. Lost 3-0. My elderly mother, who watches B1G volleyball religiously, was ticked.

[mamasa 15,299]

Volleyball Travels to No. 8 Penn State, Rutgers

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana volleyball team will travel to the east coast this week for a pair of matchups against Penn State and Rutgers.  
 
Friday November 8
Indiana at No. 8 Penn State
7:30 PM ET | State College, Pa.
Live Stats: https://bit.ly/2NqeXvf
Video ($): https://bit.ly/2pE4683
Radio: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/indiana/
 
 
Saturday November 9
Indiana at Rutgers
7:00 PM ET | Piscataway, N.J.
Live Stats: https://bit.ly/32nEr0z
Video ($): https://bit.ly/36J0ZMv
Radio: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/indiana/
 
Lofton Reaches 400
Against Iowa senior Deyshia Lofton recorded her 400^th career block to become the eighth player in program history to reach that mark. Lofton has 405 blocks for her career and is two blocks from moving into seventh on the Hoosiers all-time list for career blocks.
 
Indiana Block Party
The Hoosiers rank seventh in the Big Ten in blocking at 2.37 blocks per set. Indiana has recorded double-digit blocks in 10 matches this season, including 17 blocks in their win over Kentucky. Indiana tallied a season-high 18.5 blocks in their match against Purdue.
 
The Middle Attack
Seniors Deyshia Lofton and Jacqui Armer have put up big numbers for the Hoosiers this season. The duo has combined for 338 kills on the season and rank one and two on the team in hitting percentage.
 
Utility Player
Junior Kamryn Malloy has been doing a little bit of everything for the Hoosiers this season. Malloy leads the team in aces, ranks fifth on the team in kills and second on the team in digs.
 
The Hoosier Freshmen
Freshman Emily FItzner recorded back-to-back double-doubles against Nebraska and Iowa. Fitzner recorded 13 digs and 16 assists against Nebraska and bettered those numbers the next day with 14 digs and 21 assists in the match against Iowa.
 
Freshman Haley Armstrong leads the Hoosiers in digs with 271. Armstrong has had five matches this season with 20 or more digs and ranks eighth in the Big Ten in digs per set at 3.73.
 
The Win over Kentucky
The win over Kentucky was a significant win for the program. It was the Hoosiers first victory over Kentucky since 1996. It was also the first win for Indiana over a non-conference ranked opponent since 1998. The last Hoosier win on the road over a ranked opponent was 2013 at Michigan State.
 
The 2019 Hoosiers
The Indiana volleyball team opens the 2019 season under second year head coach Steve Aird. In 2018, Aird took a team that had finished 1-19 in the Big Ten in 2017 to 7-13 in the conference, with a season sweep of Ohio State and win against No. 14 Michigan. The 2019 squad returns nine players, has nine new players and seven seniors.
 
Wilkinson Hall
Wilkinson Hall was dedicated on January 16, 2019. Wilkinson Hall is a multi-use training and performance center that is the new home venue for the Indiana Volleyball and Wrestling programs. The 3,000-seat venue is used as a competition facility for both Indiana Volleyball and Indiana Wrestling, as well as the practice facility for volleyball. Wilkinson Hall is named after IU alumnus Jay Wilkinson and his family, who have an incredible history of support for IU Athletics and its student-athletes. The Hoosiers are averaging 1,769 fans per match this season, which is up from the record average attendance form last season of 1,273.
 
Returning Hoosiers
The Hoosiers return 2018 All-Big Ten Deyshia Lofton, who will be a senior this year. Lofton recorded 281 kills and hit .336 on the season. Lofton is 11 blocks from cracking the top 10 in program history for career blocks. Breana Edwards returns after a freshman season in which she led the team in kills with 360. Edwards traveled to Japan this summer with the Big Ten foreign tour team. Bayli Lebo will be a junior this season. In 2018 Lebo set the Indiana single season digs record with 525 for the season. Hayden Huybers hit .334 in Big Ten matches last season, the fourth best in school history. Kendall Beerman returns after she saw her 2018 cut short due to injury.
 
The New Hoosiers
There are nine new Hoosiers that were not on the 2018 roster, including five transfers and four freshmen. Emily Fitzner, First Team Under Armour All-American will be a freshman setter. Fitzner is the sister of former IU basketball player Evan Fitzner. Megan Sloan returns home to Indiana after three seasons in Louisville. Sloan is the daughter of Brian Sloan, a member of the 1987 IU men's basketball national championship team. Haley Armstrong, member of the Canadian Junior National Team, will be a freshman defensive specialist for the Hoosiers. Jacqui Armer transferred to Indiana after three seasons at LSU. 
 
IU Head Coach Steve Aird
"Contrary to popular belief, I'm fired up. I was explaining this to people before: you don't take over jobs that rebuild if you're quick to wave the white flag. I think certain people love the grind of it. Everyone wants to win, but the process is pretty important. I listen to all these NFL guys and Major League Baseball guys talk about it; it's just the truth. What I told the team today is we're going to scrap and claw, look at some new looks, try to develop and keep going because the program is going to be going for the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years. It's the habits we're building now that will lead to the eventual success. Too many people, not just in volleyball or in sport but in life, you get so close you just pound on the rock and at some point, it does crack. What I'm trying to teach them is there's a resiliency to doing it at this level that takes time. In total honesty, my last gig at Maryland I think it was in my fourth year I started to feel like my feet were underneath me.
 
I go to what Tom [Allen] does with football, I talk to several of the IU coaches, lots of peers. Because when you lose a whole bund of matches everyone thinks it's a funeral; like I'm going home and I'm crying in a dark corner. I love the battle of it. I think we have good kids; I think we're a vastly improved volleyball team. I know the results don't show it, but of the 12 matches we've had in the Big Ten we played eight or nine of the top 20 teams, we've lost another couple matches by two points here and there. I don't think it's a bad brand of volleyball, I think what's happening is that we're getting much better. The systems are improving, the kids are developing, and at some point, might be late this year, might be next year, might be in three years, it's going to all come together. That's what I keep focusing on. That's the exciting part about it. You don't take over the job, and I've said this before, if it's only about my win/loss record. You don't go to programs that, you know, over the last 20 years, Indiana has been 12th pretty much. We've got a 24% winning record in the conference. Our win against Kentucky earlier in the year was the first ranked win in like 20 years. We're not going to win the conference in year one. We're 20 months in. So, the exciting part of it for me is that I think certain people are developed to grind and fight and claw and block out all the noise and all the pessimism. I think we're uniquely qualified to do it and excited to do it, proud to do it."

[mamasa 15,299]

Volleyball swept Rutgers on Saturday- congrats!

[Uspshoosier 45,679]

Big news for Indiana volleyball: No. 32 recruit Tommi Stockham just announced her commitment to the team after a previous verbal commitment to USC (for beach and indoor).

Stockham was the 2018-19 Gatorade Nevada Volleyball Player of the Year. #iuvb
Stefan Krajisnik


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1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Big news for Indiana volleyball: No. 32 recruit Tommi Stockham just announced her commitment to the team after a previous verbal commitment to USC (for beach and indoor).

Stockham was the 2018-19 Gatorade Nevada Volleyball Player of the Year. #iuvb
Stefan Krajisnik


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Summaries on all of our 2020 signees.

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2019/11/13/womens-volleyball-volleyball-signs-elite-2020-class.aspx?path=wvball

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Indy Star - 

BLOOMINGTON -- Indiana volleyball coach Steve Aird has always tried to look at his position with the program from a macro level.

After taking over a historically bad program — one that has made the NCAA tournament twice this century — Aird refused to set high expectations in terms of wins in his first two years.

But he knew in order to be ultra-competitive in four or five years, recruiting needed to have high expectations from the start. Wednesday served as a step in that direction.

Indiana signed eight recruits — three middle blockers, three outside hitters, a defensive specialist and a setter. While the official ranking of national classes won’t be out until the spring, it’s a class that Aird said compares to top-20 classes he recruited  at Maryland (2014-17).

“We’re expecting it to be as high as the highest recruiting class or better in the history of the program,” Aird said. “Twenty months in (as head coach), it’s a huge accomplishment.”

The class is highlighted by Tommi Stockham, the No. 32 recruit according to PrepVolleyball.com and the 2018 Gatorade Player of the Year for Nevada.

The Las Vegas native had originally intended to commit to Southern California for beach and indoor before flipping despite offers from No. 24 San Diego and No. 7 Wisconsin.

“There’s always that initial first shock where people are like ‘oh, what’s going on there?’” Aird said. “It’s fun when it happens, because you know it’s coming. And then when the day arrives, it’s a pretty good feeling.”

Aird said he did not spend much time sugarcoating his pitch to Stockham; rather, he used the same mantra he has preached to his players the past couple of seasons.

“We tell them all the time, they’ve got boyfriends and family that’ll tell them how great they are,” Aird said. “I tell them what they need to do and fix. And they’ve got holes in their game. If they want to come here and they’re soft and they’re not going to go hard and they’re not going to develop, probably not the right school. But they know that coming in.

“And we’re fun. I have a great time every day. If the ecosystem is good, the music is right — it’s a good environment to come and train.”

Aird said Stockham was on his radar for a while given she is one of the top outside hitters in the nation, and after her visit and getting to know her family, Aird felt he had a good shot at signing her. 

“I chose IU because I felt an instant family connection from both the staff and team,” Stockham said in an IU release. “IU is about to be something so special.”

Aird also got freshman setter Emily Fitzner to decommit from USC last year. She starts for the Hoosiers. 

“For me personally, I really liked Steve when I was being recruited by him,” Fitzner said. “Just his commitment with me and the program and how dedicated he was really meant a lot to me.”

Aird’s first two seasons have included plenty of playing time for freshmen.

Breana Edwards turned into the team’s top outside hitter as a freshman last season after Kendall Beerman tore her ACL. Fitzner and libero Haley Armstong are now starters for the team in their freshman seasons, and Aird expects more of the same moving forward until these highly recruited underclassmen gain experience.

“Really a transformational class for us because it’s going to be the first full class we brought in,” Aird said. “We expect a great number of these kids to come in and compete right away, if not start. We’ll be young, but we’ll be exciting and big and physical and fun.”

Indiana losing seven players to graduation will play a role in spots opening for the incoming class, but he feels they can fit in with the competition the Big Ten brings as arguably the nation’s top volleyball conference.

“We’re going to develop them as complete players,” Aird said. “We brought in a lot of size. That’s exciting because we’re going to look a heck of a lot like a Big Ten team in a year.” 

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IU hosting Maryland and our ladies take the first 2 sets by identical scores of 25-18.

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Up 2-0 over Maryland


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Now 2-1 as Maryland takes the 3rd set 25-22.

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Heading to 5th


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I guess we can't stand prosperity.