I don't think they knew they were on. Maybe a delay on the feed.

Supposedly the one match was conspired to be thrown. It was an ugly, ugly situation.

What you want to know about CSU? I live in Fort Collins. Season tickets for the last 6 years Went to the MW tournament the last 3 years.

CSU's head coach is a former libero from Iowa where she was second all time in digs and 12th in service aces. She was an assistant here under Tom Hilbert (26 years as HC). I like her, and she is great in booster meetings I have attended. She was pretty open about the decision to play the SJST team and the fact they were not all in favor of it. She provides handouts and discusses the strategy and styles of CSU and opponents which was educational. She also discussed NIL and the portal and how the good players have to get paid if you want them.

CSU has a former Arizona Wildcat at Setter who was all conference and the MW tournament MVP. Emory Herman is a Senior from Georgetown, Texas and joined CSU last year. She was an immediate impact for CSU. She is 6 foot (righty) and does like to dump on two when she can. She is pretty successful at it and can dump to anywhere on the court with a high amount of accuracy. She is the leader and one of the better servers. She is also pretty good at defense and is a solid passer.

The MW player of the year was another transfer - this one from USC (didn't play and moved on early in her career). Malaya Jones is the starting Opposite from Cali and is Six foot and can jump. She is the only CSU player to actually hit hard and CSU usually goes as she does. She is a force in the front and very successful from the back as well. Six rotation player. She doesn't do much passing but she has come through on defense regularly later in the season. Her serves are ok but not what I'd typically think of given her power. She can get rattled and when CSU dropped the two games the second to last week it was in large part due to her hitting percentage dropping.

CSU has two middles. Naeemah Weathers is from Colorado Springs and came into CSU as a very rough youngster. She is built like a stick and stands 6-1. I have been wanting her to live in the gym and cafeteria since she got to Fort Collins. She has a very high hitting percentage when CSU actually uses their middles. She is mainly used on quick sets in the middle. She is now a Grad student. All MW first team.

The other middle is Karina Leber. She is listed at 6-3 and is another graduate student. She has been a mainstay for CSU for several years. She loves to hit the slide but that can be predictable and is susceptible to being blocked. All MW first team.

CSU utilizes one defensive specialist. Aine Doty (pronounced enya). She will at times struggle with passing. I don't really have much to say about her as she is not much of a difference maker.

CSU will sub in freshman Jordyn Tynsky out of Denton Guyer for serving duties. Decent but nothing special usually. As soon as she is done serving she is back out of the rotation.

The starting outside hitter is graduate student Kennedy Stanford. She doesn't really hit hard. She prefers offspeed and tipping. If the set is not perfect many times she will just stand flat footed and go over with two hands....which never gets a point. She has often been a target for opponent's serve but that has fallen off as more viable targets presented themselves.

Maria Brun is the other outside hitter (Aine replaces in the back row) that is a freshman from Barcelona Spain. She has a good solid flat serve. In the MW championship game she started serving at 18-16 and served out the match. She has sometimes been shutdown on the attack. She is more successful when she mixes in hard attacks and some tips and rolls since she lacks the power to overwhelm the block. She had a good tournament after a midseason slump. She is often the target of opponents serves.

CSU usually sticks with one libero. Kate Yoshimoto is an undersized 5-2 Redshirt junior from Honolulu. She started the season with a concussion. Several games in when she started playing again she was all over defensively making great digs. She was also a solid server. At some point towards the end of the season she got the "yips" and couldn't serve to save her life. CSU tried the other libero to serve and all kinds of other options. She showed some life at the MW tournament and managed to regain some of her former form.