[Husker] National Championship

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

Basically, it's all 'rally scoring' now (since about... 1998, 1996?) , 
meaning that you score whenever the ball touches the floor or goes out, or 
there is a fault or fails to return the ball. You don't need to be 
serving. The serve then returns to the team that scored (basically won the 
'rally'). 

The older method was "side-out" scoring, meaning you only scored when you 
served. They changed this for a few reasons. Number one, it's because 
that's the way that international play has been done for a long time 
(Mizzou has some Chinese players, I believe). Also think of the Olypmpics. 
Sourpuss old school people like me thought it would ruin the game, but 
it's much more exciting, much faster now (oh, the joy of scoring!!! 
there's a joke there that I'll just let be). 

The fifth game is played to only 15 points, so it's very hard to recover 
if you get down by 3-4 points. 

With regards to Nebraska and volleyball.... it's time that we ALL 
understand what Nebraska means to the sport of volleyball. For years, 
we've know that young men grow up with the dream of playing as Huskers. 
Young women in the state grow up with that dream, too. It's just a 
different sport. This week, Husker coach John Cook said (look up Husker 
Extra) that he wished the Pac-10 could do more for volleyball attendance - 
as much as Nebraska has done. That is one helluva statement about our 
state and it's support for women's athletics. Or maybe it just says 
something about producing a good product. Take your pick. 

All you people who worry about "Larry the Cable Guy" representing the 
state because of the 'hickdom' -  we have a state in which a women's sport 
rises above all other state's support of women's athletics in that sport, 
even those left-coast liberal states that claim to love the underdog and 
stand for the rights of women, yada yada. Yet we're the ones who show up, 
a bunch of hicks. You know what you did NOT see on TV tonight? You didn't 
see a bunch of people wearing Husker football jerseys, did you? It's not 
just another sport that football fans show up to see. It's a great sport, 
and Nebraska, the state in the middle of nowhere is at the heart of it. 

So... Saturday night.. I just hope that this one is better than last 
year's title game. We got smoked badly last year. Wow. I'm going to be 
just as jittery as I would watching us play football. 

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 12/15/2006 12:06:35 AM:

> I watched most of the game tonight -- which i don't usually get a 
> chance to do.  I was confused by two things -- I had thought in 
> Volleball only the serving team scored.  I guess that's not the case
> in college.  Then they said something about -- if the match went to 
> game 5 it would by "rally scoring".  What's that?  The game was 
> really fun to watch though.  Man their reflexes are just amazing. 
> Sometimes I fool myself and think I could compete on a football 
> field -- but I don't think could come close to being on the same 
> court with those women (not the football field either -- but I play 
> a lot of NCAA Football on the xbox!).
> 
> ESPN2 said a lot of great things about the state and the attention 
> volleyball get's there.  It was pretty cool.  Qwest center looked 
> smaller than I thought it would be from seeing it from the outside. 
> Still nice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of S JOHNSON
> Sent: Thu 12/14/2006 10:46 PM
> To: Husker List
> Subject: [Husker] National Championship
> 
> Well, the Huskers are finally in the National Championship Game. 
> The Husker Volleyball Team will face #2 Stanford in a matchup that 
> they have been waiting for since they announced the hosting of the 
> final 4 in the Qwest Center in Omaha.  A record crowd to watch an 
> NCAA volleyball game witnessed some tense action in the NU-UCLA game
> as NU won 3-1.  Nebraska will face the winner of the Stanford-
> Washington game played later in the evening.  Sarah Pavan collected 
> 22 kills and Tracy Stalls hit .577 as top-ranked Nebraska (32-1) 
> overcame a first-game loss to defeat fourth-seed UCLA (33-4).
> 
> Steven J
> Class of 83
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