Aggie Volleyball 2022 Official Thread

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Harry Dunne
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Bird still sucks.

And hey, Kansas is good again. Maybe it wasn't all her like everyone here was trying to tell me.
HiddenAg2
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This is why you don't hire Assistant Coaches as their first head coaching job at a school like A&M. Not worth the risk of setting your program back even farther.
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I disagree. You just have to do a lot of work vetting them and fully understand if they have what it takes to succeed.

Kirby Smart is the prime example today.
Harry Dunne
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Gap said:

I disagree. You just have to do a lot of work vetting them and fully understand if they have what it takes to succeed.

Kirby Smart is the prime example today.
I agree more with this than with "never hire assistants", but even with the best vetting it is impossible to know fully how much an assistant really had to do with building a program and more importantly, even if they were a huge part of building it, whether they have what it takes to keep doing whatever it was (coaching, recruiting, relationships etc.) at the same level while running their own program.

At a place like A&M where we have the best resources and the highest salaries, there is no need to hire an assistant when there are proven HC that will come running. The reason this was a terrible hire is because there were so many proven head coaches out there making half of what we are paying and the admin let themselves be not only be talked into the hot assistant du jour, but into paying her as if she had already won big as a HC.

Look no further than Aggie football to see that even hiring a proven HC is no guarantee, but football is a different animal, where every school is trying their hardest and spending the most they can. Even though volleyball is a lot more competitive than it used to be, we are still in a position where we are paying and spending double even what many other P5s are and we can probably go moneywhip a sitting top-25 HC into coming here. In that scenario, the odds of success are a lot higher than hiring an assistant coach.

I truly don't care about the money. It's chump change compared to what A&M has and what A&M can spend. It's just the principle of it. Kansas was very good, but they made one final four, but beyond that their results weren't any better than the peak Corbelli years...so it's not like we hired the Kirby Smart of volleyball. More like the Jake Spavital.
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The biggest issue that I can see is simply recruiting. I'm not part of the program in any way but the AD needs to look into why we don't have more high caliber players. We had a good class last year supposedly but was it really that good other than Lednicky? Who is currently committed to A&M that is going to fill the holes left when the seniors and transfers have left this season? Maybe more importantly, why did some of the big commits from past years not end up setting foot on campus?

Bird was targeted mainly for her recruiting prowess. There is a big gap between the haves and have nots in women's volleyball and I don't see us closing that gap.

Bird has a couple years left to prove she can do it but it's going to take a monumental effort to get there.
Harry Dunne
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Lednicky's parents are both Aggies and her dad played football for RC. She was an Aggie the day she was born.
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Harry Dunne said:

Lednicky's parents are both Aggies and her dad played football for RC. She was an Aggie the day she was born.
exactly. I shudder to think what this year would look like without her.

I like Meuth but hard to really root for her when thinking about the team as a whole and she only being here one year.
tmeuth90
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She used 3 at ND so with the COVID year she has this one plus one more
taylorswift13
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tmeuth90 said:

She used 3 at ND so with the COVID year she has this one plus one more
Artimus Gordon
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And hopefully she will use that extra year here. She is really good and I would hate to think where this team would be without her!
flintdragon
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tmeuth90 said:

She used 3 at ND so with the COVID year she has this one plus one more
Ah yes, the covid year. Then I hope she plays one more! Need to keep adding pieces every year and losing a big piece hurts.
Wicked Good Ag
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I think everyone can come back that plays except current setter and Allison Fields. We have a commitment in the setting position for the 2023 season. And Destiny Cox will probably be able to play as well.
flintdragon
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tmeuth90 said:

She used 3 at ND so with the COVID year she has this one plus one more
hang on here... tmeuth90 the texags user commenting on Meuth the player... hmmm
Aggie1205
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Bird has two years left on her deal?
flintdragon
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Aggie1205 said:

Bird has two years left on her deal?
I think some are saying this is her final year but I found an article I had posted a while back saying they renewed 2 years ago for 5 more years. :shrug:

https://theeagle.com/sports/college/aggiesports/football/cessna-coaches-are-always-on-the-proverbial-hot-seat-including-texas-a-ms/article_a0bea15c-0559-11ed-9930-073dc9f6f08f.html

Article is from July of this year:
"She is in the third year of a five-year contract that paid a base salary of $245,000 in 2020 and goes up in annual $10,000 increments, reaching $285,000 in the final year."
Wicked Good Ag
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People were also saying she makes $450k

Now I am sure she gets some camp money and other incentives but she probably got the extension right after the Sweet 16 season with all of the Corbelli players and Rush who didn't do much. What did happen was bringin in Gomez to Libero that one year who was supposed to be the volunteer assistant this season but that never materialized either after the article ran a few months ago
Harry Dunne
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The number reported to the state is the actual salary earned, including bonuses ($382 in 2021). I'm not sure where the $450 came from, but adding camp and other incentives (Adidas, car, etc), 450 may be conservative.

https://govsalaries.com/kuhn-laura-134400172

Regardless, however much she is getting is a lot more than most of the competition and I would guess it is a top 10 national salary.


Harry Dunne
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flintdragon said:

Harry Dunne said:

Lednicky's parents are both Aggies and her dad played football for RC. She was an Aggie the day she was born.
exactly. I shudder to think what this year would look like without her.

I like Meuth but hard to really root for her when thinking about the team as a whole and she only being here one year.
True.

Lednicky and Meuth are great and there are a couple of other bright spots but I agree - the recruiting has not been what I expected.
Anchorhold
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How many more arenas are left on our schedule that don't play pump up music? I blame that at least 83% for our slow start on Sunday.
Shucky
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Wicked Good Ag said:

I think everyone can come back that plays except current setter and Allison Fields. We have a commitment in the setting position for the 2023 season. And Destiny Cox will probably be able to play as well.
My guess is we will be looking for a setter in the portal. Bianna Muoneke (outside from Cy Ranch) is also committed and is a stud. Six position outside that should really help (her dad was a beast for the Longhorns in bball). My guess is she'd start opposite Meuth right now.

It will be interesting to see what happens to Bird if we don't make the tournament. If a change is made, there's a former Aggie about 100 miles away that has turned Rice into a perennial Top 25 vball program. She should get a very serious look.
Wicked Good Ag
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I have no idea how the players will be coming in. I had seen Logan at a qualifier and knew she would be good but at the time Rush was still on roster

We had a poster also say Lexi would immediately play as 6 rotation this season and she is the 5th outside hitter right now. She could end up doing quite well but the jump from Open to college isn't always immediate for many players
Anchorhold
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Down to state 15-14 at the first time out, but watching the game that score does not look right.
taylorswift13
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Set point for the Aggies 26-25
Anchorhold
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4 service errors led to that 31-29 first set that went the wrong way.
taylorswift13
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Ag4eva95
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Think it's time for Byrd to go. The SEC is weak this year. Sad part is there are some really really good pieces, just poorly coached. Ledinecky is a stud, Underwood is a solid libero. Bowser leads the SEC in hitting percentage. Our defense is terrible
Ag4eva95
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That poster was me lmao. You just don't have a top 20 recruit not produce at this level. I understand not being ready but still, there has to be another reason. A top 20 recruit would sit at Stanford or Penn State, but not A&M. She hasn't even been given a chance, there has to be more to this story other than not being ready
taylorswift13
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About to suffer a fightin texas Aggie sweep
Ag4eva95
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Starting to become the trend for all fall sports
Anchorhold
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Four of the last five matches went to five sets. Then <fart noise> tonight.
taylorswift13
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#FireRossBjork

Wait till I'm done with my schooling I'll lead us in the right direction! We sadly have Bird and Coach G currently on contract extensions and with all our money paying our other underperforming coach Bjork is waiting for contracts to expire for the smaller sports and it's setting us back in all of them and we have to play from behind! While regional foes are rising and getting ahead of us…
taylorswift13
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22 kills, 9 dogs for Lednicky in 3 sets!! A lone bright spot
taylorswift13
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Meuth hit .028… really rough matchup for her! And this was against a Miss State team that was last in conference in blocked shots! Granted I believe Karakasi had some really really poor sets tonight, uncharacteristically poor!
Gap
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Swept at home by Mississippi St.?

Simply not possible
Wicked Good Ag
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Too many hitting errors

I haven't looked at stats but I bet we are very similar in a bunch of catagories but hitting and serving errors where as MISS STATE kept ball in play and then got some kills.

Meuth was replaced a couple of times by Faye and she didn't do much. Lexi came in for Mia at the end and had a couple of nice plays but CiCi didn't step on court at all

Game was only really close in set one where we had a ton of chances after getting down early. Set two wasn't close and set three was a blowout until a couple of nice runs made it respectable but we weren't in that set at all.

We better figure it out soon but this was the portion of the schedule we needed to shine. Auburn has looked much BETTER than most people thought and LSU as well.
The only wins we should get on paper are towards the end of the season with Alabama and MIZZOU.
The Auburn coach left USC and took the Auburn job and they play hard and block extremely well for their size. And the coach is an Aggie grad
 
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