This was a great match against a well-coached team. But no one wins a national championship in February. |
This was a match we need a little bit. Just to get back on the winning track. Obviously it was one where we enjoyed some physical mismatches, and I think we took advantage of that. |
Those teams don't let you slack off for four or five points. They're gonna make you work. |
We gotta find another gear to take us ahead a little bit. We gotta practice and hit that fifth gear to find ways we can point-score against those [top-level] teams. |
We gotta keep getting better, it doesn't really matter who you play. We're playing some pretty good teams here the next four matches, and we're going to be in some hostile arenas for three of the four. We have to find a way to keep getting better. |
We gotta take another step [tonight] against Princeton. We gotta make sure we're geared up and ready to get on the road. |
We have to dig some balls against teams that can bring heat. We can't just rely on our block to stuff every ball, we have to come up with some digs. |
We have to make sure we take care of our matches against them here on our home court. It's as good as an EIVA weekend as we can get. |
We lose seven inches. How does that come into play? We'll see. |
We played the way we should against Princeton and took care of business. Against Irvine we played well, but not well enough. |
We're going to come back and tinker with some things and we'll be better. [The trip] wasn't a total disappointment. |
We're reaching a point in the season when knees are starting to get a little bit tender, and shoulders. Especially in the men's game, you know, you've got 190 pounds, it's not the jumping, it's the landing. I want us to be as fresh as possible in late April or May. If we gotta give them some days off and let them recover, I think with the men it's real important to do that. |
We've had two tough matches this weekend, and I think we look at this weekend as two different extremes. I'm pretty pleased with what we faced this weekend. It gives us a real good view of where we're at. Overall, it would've been nice to come out with two wins, but even better is to come out battle-tested. |
When Price came in, all of a sudden our physical level just shot out of the roof. An exclamation point on, 'We're bigger than you, we're stronger than you,' was made by Price. |