[Now] the guys know when you're up and in control, you can't let up one bit. |
Both teams have gotten so much better from the last time we played. Both teams have been in the gym quite a bit. We know what they do, they know what we do, the question is how they've improved on what they didn't do well here in November, and how we've improved from what we didn't do well in November. |
Coaching at my alma mater has been a dream come true. |
Game 2, I don't know what changed (but) we couldn't pass a ball. I have a grandmother, she's going to turn 100 on Feb. 9 and I know she could have passed those balls better than we did. |
Going on the road, we're not going to be comfortable in those gyms. And when you're not comfortable, you really have to focus in on your effort and execution. We have to block balls, and we have to pass balls. |
I didn't want him to just step aside. The only bad thing is, if I sent him any (farther), he'd be in an ocean right now. |
I don't think their serving changed much. Jay just put balls on the money. |
I know on offense we're going to be fine. But we need to block some balls. This is a senior-laden group and they know what they need to do to keep playing. |
I think we'll just keep spending time on the passing. As we go through April, that's what's really gonna settle out. I'm not sure anything is solid, settled, set in stone. I think we're trying to make sure we have all options available. |
I thought that Rutgers came at us pretty hard at their place, and it's just tough to win on the road. Like a pitcher, we didn't have our best stuff but we took advantage of match ups we liked. Good grind-it-out wins. |
I told the guys in the locker room, Game 2 is the way we can lose an EIVA match. Games 3 and 4 are the way we have to play against teams we have a physical advantage over. |
I told them to take a look around and hopefully in May we're in that same situation with maybe double the crowd. That's what's fun about it. This match with this crowd, you never want to lose the aggressiveness that brings you to that point. |
I wasn't real pleased with the appearance of team A.D.D. in there. We can't do that. I don't care if we're up 18-10, there are going to matches where we're going to be at 22-22 against good teams, so that was the disappointment there. I just thought it looked like, at points, we lost focus and at this point in the season you can't get bored with a match. |
I've been more pleased at where things are with the passing. Our offense is starting to click, we're blocking balls and we're playing with some emotion -- some joy. And we've gotta do the same thing [tonight]. |
If I could write the ending to those previous appearances, we would have won a few more titles. |