Anyone know why it looks like Aggie Athletics isn't showing the volleyball game tonight nor even doing gametracker? Nothing is on the schedule and no link is on top of the page. Grrrr!

It's online. Under live events on 12th Man TV

Thanks, I found it. Game going to start late since earlier game is going to 5 sets. Let's go Aggies, BTHO lipscomb!!

Ags win 3-1. Bring on Kentucky (who won 3-2 over Dayton).

Lipscomb was better than anticipated and ran a 4-2 system very effectively. Both setters did a great job runnin their offense and in set 3 was a snowball effect of everything that could go wrong did and was scary watching because we cannot play like that for the rest of the season to beat Kentucky and advance. We looked particulary bad at closing the block and slide attack after slide attck was a kill for Lipscomb every time.

Good luck to the Aggies tonight at 6:30 come support them against a tough but hopefully tired opponent. Would love to see a crowd like we had for Texas even if these games are not a part of the sports pass.

Reminded me of a few years ago playing Texas when they had Leticia Armstrong and Brandy Magee running slides until their arms fall off and we couldn't get so much as touch on any of their hits.

Putting Ringel in to start the third set was an interesting choice. She should have been able to handle the pressure without any problems, and it would have given her a bit of game experience to get the nerves out in case she was needed to sub in against Kentucky. Instead the whole team fell apart, perhaps also suffering a bit of a let down from winning the first two sets so easily (a very easy thing to do in volleyball). Anyway good luck to the team tonight and hopefully we play at our best level and the home court is enough to get us a win.

UK up 2-0

Swept

Can we beat an SEC team at anything?

I really don't think A&M or Bill Byrne give a flip about Aggie Volleyball. Another year same old same old .... Yawn ..

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Correct on both points. It's a Title IX token that loses money and is a second-tier program nationally, at best.

Read on a thread (maybe this one, maybe AO) that the SEC is a much weaker volleyball conference than the Big12, which may secure the Corbellis future for a while longer. Any thoughts?

Heck, it's on the first page by drumbeat. Honestly I don't know how Corbelli has made it this far. I thought that Sweet 16 year saved her previously but does she even have a single Big12 championship?

no Big 12 championship but Nebraska was a dominant program for years and most everyone was playing for second in the conference. Texas' hiring of Elliot reestablished the program and Iowa State's hiring of Christy Johnson elevated that program. In terms of Texas A&M is might have been the big cigars not satisfied with Sweet 16 /Elite 8 runs with non Texas kids. The movement towards going away from Californina pipeline and the advent of rally scoring in which ball control side out scoring was not as big as athletic outsides who can bomb away and serve aggressively. We lost our aggressivness on serve over the course of the season likely because of the many missed serves early on in season trying to be minimized that were were not ready for the booming serves that Kentucky had from one or two of its players.

All that said, the girls exceeded expectations by far this year and deserve our support on a fine season. I was critical at times of certain aspects of the game that we had problems with but those girls did far better than I thought they would both in conference and with actual play. Kentucky had better ball control last night and we didnt serve receive as well as we should have today but Round of 32 is a great accomplishment and in a few days I am sure the girls will be proud of what they did this past season.

The recruiting class we have incoming COULD have some great players but we still need to get one booming tall outside and that may not be in that class. Congrats especially to Kelsey Black on a great career here at Texas A&M.

I really hope Katsmo is moved to outside next year (wishing thinking)

Congrats to A&M for exceeding expectations from basically all of us!

Good luck in life for the Senior class. They all have bright and rewarding futures ahead of them. Let's hope 2012 can bring the team to the next level!