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Give me a break. Give the girls credit and move on. We are talking about three teams that were ranked between #8 and #14 (i.e. pretty damn equal).
No, you give me a break. I'm on a sports discussion forum trying to discuss a game, and here you are trying to tell me all I'm supposed to do is push sunshine and move on. No thanks. And by the way I did give the girls credit and I was just asking a simple question as to what was up with Cal. Obviously you don't follow volleyball much or you'd realize sweeps are like sweeping a team in a three game baseball series. It usually doesn't happen unless one team has a clear edge. Much less twice in one weekend. And on your home court at that!
Your argument is like saying take any elite 8 team and match them up against any 2 sweet sixteen participants and it's not unlikely that those 2 teams will both sweep the elite 8 team. On the elite 8 team's home court no less. The odds of that happening have to be worse that 1 in a hundred, unless something is wrong with the elite 8 team.
Someone else was kind enough to send me this in email.
http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=15900Guess the coach was wrong about not being hard to fill in for her.
From the Cal athletic website in August...
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The Bears feature one of the premier players in the country in senior outside hitter Mia Jerkov, a 6-4 Croatian standout who is waiting on a decision from the NCAA concerning her eligibility for the 2004 season. Jerkov played for the Croatian National Team this past spring in hopes for a berth in the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece. As part of her training, she was sent by the Croatian Federation to play matches with professional volleyball players from Russia.
Jerkov is a legitimate National Player of the Year candidate and arguably the greatest volleyball player in Cal history. A two-time All-America, All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-10 selection, she has recorded 30 or more kills in a match 14 times and is the school record holder for single-season kills (701) and points (785.5). Jerkov has been AVCA Division I National Player of the Week twice, Pac-10 Player of the Week six times and MVP in five-straight regular season tournaments, while leading the Pac-10 in kills the past two seasons. She was even featured in the Oct. 27, 2003 edition of Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd.
Mia wouldn't happen to be related to you, would she Gap?
Gig'em![This message has been edited by AgEE (edited 9/16/2004 4:47p).]
