Pitt and Wisconsin were both fortunate to escape 5 set matches against underdogs, and several weaknesses were exposed that had been previously concealed by both survivors.

Overwhelming evidence of ESPN’s SEC bias was on display last night. As soon as the Wisconsin game ended, the ESPN TV analyst directed their full attention to TX A&M’s “heroic effort” in their loss; if someone had not seen the game, you would have thought A&M ahad won the match. Earlier in the post game interview, another ESPN reporter asked the Wisconsin star “how she felt when hearing the A&M crowd cheering louder than her Wisconsin Home fans?” You can’t make this stuff up; it is so intentional, it’s humiliating to the viewers.

Huge match between Pitt vs UK WVB game will be playing at the same time UK vs UL MBB Game; depending on how our UL Men are performing, will determine what I will be watching the closest. Before the WVB Tournament started, I thought Pitt was unbeatable, particularly in Pittsburgh. After witnessing the Thursday matches, it is evident that UK is playing about as well as any team right now, other than our UL Ladies. I will not be so surprised to see UK beat the Panthers, and that will considered as big of an upset as this sport as seen.

If our UL Ladies plays with the same focus and intensity they displayed on Friday over Purdue, we will sweep a very good Stanford Team.

As said above, they will also have played a team in the first 4 out (Miami). The point differential in these games was -9…. Hardest schedule in the country based off of final rankings it seems. If it weren’t for that Stanford loss, it would’ve altered the whole outlook on the season. We were SO close to being in the 12 team playoff. We didn’t execute up to our potential. We were better than both of the teams that played tonight. Sucks knowing that, just have to continue to build and keep moving forward. #MillerMossTime.

Has Michigan at 8-2 ranked 14th in the country and just had a heck of a battle against Calipayme and Arky.

Not saying he would've been better than Kelsey but a lot of posters thought he wouldn't do well moving up a level..

simple facts people, simple facts. happy holidays and Go Cards in both Bball and Vball!!!

Mark Ennis made an interesting point on his show with Biscuit Monday that almost had me changing my mind about this season. This ended up being a down year for Louisville, but his point was that in two years under Brohm they beat Notre Dame, they won at Miami, they made the ACC Championship game and they put to bed the two biggest losing streaks we have tied to the Program--the albatross that was Clemson and the dreaded five game streak with UK. And in those last two instances resoundingly and with no questions asked. None of those things happened under Satterfield--or Petrino if we're being fair to the Record--though I maintain we owe Satterfield a lot more than we care to admit with who he left for Brohm to utilize versus what he inherited which was complete and utter disarray outside of three good wide receivers and Mekhi Becton. He was the right guy to get us out of the Ditch, he was the wrong guy to get us into the ACC's Top Four.

But I would retort...we lost to a Pitt that went 2-6 in ACC play and Stanford who went 2-6 in ACC play under Brohm. We keep having these one score games against teams that should be the ones asking questions of themselves at halftime. I can't reconcile that because that was a Satterfield issue too.

I think we missed a Golden opportunity this year and if you ask me why I'd say because we had the personnel criteria to be playing tomorrow night. We took the field against Miami--with Caullin Lacy and Jamari Johnson--with the best skill position group at our disposal going back to the Governor's Cup in 2006 (we had Michael, and we didn't have the running back quality complementing Teddy Bridgewater and were probably carried more by Lamar than we had quality at WR and RB in those years). Our offensive line eventually flourished in all of the games after Miami. We had two high quality cornerbacks but that probably had as much to do with us losing at Notre Dame and against SMU because Riley was out and Thornton was wearing the oven mitt. We had what I perceived to be a deep defensive line that when it was all said and done probably lacked a consistent pass rusher opposite Gillotte, which contributed to his high pressure number but half the sack total. We got sometimes game changing production out of our special teams units.

Moving forward preseason next year I'll be looking to see how many NFL draftees we legitimately have on the defensive side of the football. I think you have to have four a year and when it's all said and done we did have four in the Spring with Thornton, Riley, Gillotte and Tyler Barron, but Barron was sent packing to Miami (which I'm not debating, he was a Cancer). I could have made an argument for MJ Griffin pre injury last year because he was the best DB in Fall Camp in 2023. My fear as it pertains to next season is we realistically only have one and that's Stanquan. We've had multiple years now where our cornerback tandem was going to play in the NFL on back through Kei'trel Clark with Quincey and Jarvis Brownlee and with Storm Duck last year who is in the NFL and this year with the Thornton/Riley tandem. We aren't starting with that in 2025 and are completely starting over. Something drastic is going to have to happen in the Portal at Defensive End and in the Secondary to be in the ACC hunt next year, and it's one reason why I think English is out anyway. We need a wholesale injection of talent, we consistently saw communication and alignment breakdowns from the safeties even against UK and we need a quality Safeties coach every bit as much as a new DC. That might be unfair to English to say that he was a single point of failure, but he was the common denominator.

So I will be looking at the ACC Title game tomorrow with that gnawing feeling that we'd have beaten both of them if we were there.

Saw something on Twitter about bad recruiting news this morning. Assuming it came from TOS. What did I miss?

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@Ty Spalding any legs with us since his sister in on the women’s team?

One thing I wasn't sure about Kelsey was if he was capable of making in game adjustments at this level.

Putting Hadley in the post was a great move that led to some big buckets both in the paint and some big pass outs for 3s.

Putting some of our wings on WVUs Small and Devries with delayed double teams and pressing to speed them up were all good adjustments.

wow, they actually made that choice and gave the acc credit

In order to beat Pittsburgh we need to come up with a different game plan. The first set of the match against Stanford reminded me of our losses to Pittsburgh. We attacked heavily from one side only not from the middle or the opposite side. Once we changed our plan for attack by attacking from the left, the right and the middle it really changed things.

Saw first at OSU when Michigan planted their flag on the OSU logo mid field after the win. Leading to a tussle annd ann OSU player taking it down. A Michigan player then states on National Television that the OSU players should learn how lose and they were classless.
Them UF planted their flag on FSU’s logo mid field causing a tussle and Norvell took it down and had words with UFs HC.
I personally think think that Michigan and UF should learn to win with class if anything they were classless.
I suspect that will be addressed in the off season