The Owls easily beat Wake Forest (picked to finish near the bottom of the ACC this year) and the coach was not happy with our performance.

Quote:The Owls (3-2) handed the Deacons (3-1) their first loss of the season with a solid defensive performance, limiting Wake Forest to a .031 hitting percentage. Rice barely trailed through most of the match and had advantages in kills (39-27), hitting percentage (.250-.031) and digs (42-27).

“I can’t say it was very pretty but we came through today,” Rice head coach Genny Volpe said. “You walk away feeling fortunate if you can win and not play to your potential. We are looking forward to cleaning up our side of the net tomorrow and I’m confident we will.”

I like to see both of those things.

Rice beats ACU, 3-1.

Let's see how they do against Colorado. Colorado is a top 25 team. Will they be competitive?

(09-02-2017 04:16 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Rice beats ACU, 3-1.

(09-02-2017 06:06 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Let's see how they do against Colorado. Colorado is a top 25 team. Will they be competitive?

(09-02-2017 04:16 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Rice beats ACU, 3-1.

Why do you say Top 25? They are not listed in the coaches poll:

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-...ca-coaches

They were picked to finish ninth in the PAC 12.

https://cubuffs.tumblr.com/post/16426209...eason-poll

You are right. I was looking at an older poll. Rice looses 3 to 0. Same garbage like last year.

(09-02-2017 07:15 PM)temchugh Wrote:  

(09-02-2017 06:06 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Let's see how they do against Colorado. Colorado is a top 25 team. Will they be competitive?

(09-02-2017 04:16 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Rice beats ACU, 3-1.

Why do you say Top 25? They are not listed in the coaches poll:

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-...ca-coaches

They were picked to finish ninth in the PAC 12.

https://cubuffs.tumblr.com/post/16426209...eason-poll

I'm not sure if garbage is a proper word. The volleyball team is tons more competitive than football, that's for sure. They lost some pretty good seniors and it seems to be a bit of a rebuilding year for them. We have a good senior setter but the majority of the team are freshmen and sophomores. I think they continue to recruit well, and it's possible we're competitive in CUSA - but I don't see us challenging Western Kentucky.

When was the last time we won a conference championship?

(09-03-2017 04:59 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I'm not sure if garbage is a proper word. The volleyball team is tons more competitive than football, that's for sure. They lost some pretty good seniors and it seems to be a bit of a rebuilding year for them. We have a good senior setter but the majority of the team are freshmen and sophomores. I think they continue to recruit well, and it's possible we're competitive in CUSA - but I don't see us challenging Western Kentucky.

2009 but they have finished as runners-up several times since then (including last year at the conference tournament in 5 games to Western Kentucky). We beat Colorado and Western Kentucky last year when they were both top-25 teams. I don't believe we'll be at that level again this year but I could see them challenging for a conference title again next year.

We have not won a conference championship for the last 6 years and you said probably will be seven years and you happy with the results? What a bunch of BS? Like said same old garbage as last year.