armchair
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Does Rob Patrick still have it as volleyball coach? He and the Vols had a lot of success between 2004 and 2011. I think we won the SEC twice in that span, went to the NCAA tourney five or more times, and the Vols were in the Final Four in 2005. Patrick was once or twice named National Coach of the year--maybe twice by two different VB organizations.
All great but we have struggled since 2011, I believe. Not sure why, but we've not been good. I think we placed 7th in the SEC last year and don't think the prior three/four years were good. It's been a rough stretch.
We played our first SEC game of the season tonight at Arkansas, and it wasn't pretty. We got swept--3 games to 0--by a team picked to finish 8th in the conference. Worse, none of the three games was terribly close. I saw the last half of game 3 and we did not look good--poor serve return, poor passing, poor everything. This is Patrick's 21st year--maybe he's burnt out, don't know. We have a brand new VB facility that should help recruiting, but tonight was a bad portent. Need to be lots better.
All great but we have struggled since 2011, I believe. Not sure why, but we've not been good. I think we placed 7th in the SEC last year and don't think the prior three/four years were good. It's been a rough stretch.
We played our first SEC game of the season tonight at Arkansas, and it wasn't pretty. We got swept--3 games to 0--by a team picked to finish 8th in the conference. Worse, none of the three games was terribly close. I saw the last half of game 3 and we did not look good--poor serve return, poor passing, poor everything. This is Patrick's 21st year--maybe he's burnt out, don't know. We have a brand new VB facility that should help recruiting, but tonight was a bad portent. Need to be lots better.