What was with the sauna tonight? I didn't notice all the players soaking wet in the prior game.

I didn't watch tonight but noticed from previous games we are just way to slow in the middle. I'm not sure how you fix that but have faith in Coach and his staff.

Disappointed in the loss. But also disappointed how "zoo ish" this thread got.

But glad about all the new fans!

I could be wrong but I actually felt like our blocking has incrementally improved. It's still late which causes the ball to ricochet every which way because the hands aren't ready. The end result is the same, blocker not ready to block. I actually don't know anything about middles so let me know if I'm way off.

I can't remember which interview but one of the middles said she's leaning how to play middle in a completely different way. It's going to come together at some point, just don't know when.

What is really confounding me is why we get blocked so easily at times.

Being at the match what you could t see on TV is the Mackey Center is not air conditioned. It got dayum hot and kept just getting worse. It had to be 85 by the third set. Purdue fans telling us the volleyball gym is air conditioned, but based on special event moves it into Mackey. Not an excuse, but you could see the drain on our girls. Looked to me like conditioning might be a consideration.

if your use to playing in hot conditions its definitely a benefit to your team. heat and humidity drains energy

I joined the match late, I thought it was on ESPN and I could watch it from start, but anyways I thought Game 1 and 2 were competitive; we lost 1 due to dumb errors.

You could tell we were mentally down in Game 3 and it was lost before we even started.

If we don't win today, I feel like its going downhill fast. I sure hope I'm wrong.

Schedule is a little too rough with such a new/young team. Working Stowers back in is going to cause some minor chemistry issues too. Changing our approach on what we are doing with setting is also a factor.

I don't think we will really know what we have until we get to the post-Wisconsin part of the schedule. Hopefully this gauntlet will make SEC play a little easier on us.

This isn't last year's team and it's wrong for us to put those expectations on these girls. Having said that, all the matches we've lost have been decently close from a game standpoint. We aren't getting blown out by anyone. We clearly aren't 'there' yet but we aren't as far off as the losses make it seem.

From a mental standpoint, I really feel like we need to beat this Indiana team tonight. You can't drop these two matches and then have to face top 5 Stanford and Wisconsin without any kind of pick-me-up.

I watched the UGA vs IU game last night. From my vantage point I think Indiana, nor Georgia are as good a team as the Ags. The early game Mackey Center is also not full of fans and it was much cooler in the gym yesterday for that early game. It was very obvious how fast it warmed up when full of people.

Good recap. This team will improve as the season progresses. Coming off the National Championship, expectations were too high. Also, Coach Jamie was offered to play in some of these high profile early non-conference games which is good for our program and recruiting. However with alot of new players on the team, the road will be bumpy over the new few weeks.