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Probably because likely Harvey is going to be a starter next year along with Nya Bunton. This severely hurts depth though.

Don't have any info, however what is fact is that Starck's mother played volleyball for Texas, albeit was before Coach Elliott took over the program. So hopefully there's interest from her as she was the freshman of the year last year and entered the portal for mental health. Texas' previous players have often said that coming to Texas brought back the love of volleyball for them (latest one being Madi Skinner).

With ATM's volleyball advancing further and their football advancing further, they are ahead for sure. They have strong track teams as well, Texas will need some of the other teams to really pick up the slack from the fall sports.

Texas might go after Izzy Starck, the star setter from Penn St who’s in the transfer portal. She led Penn St. to the title last year.

Since Vic’s been here, but next few years I think the team will be even better with the talent coming in.

The Aggies are dangerous, they have strong middles. Texas needs to take care of business tonight against a hot Wisconsin team.

This would be the only time I'd pull for the Aggies, so those cocky ass Nebraska fans and their team can cry with that loaded team and class never winning a championship.

Nebraska is stacked like the Texas team in 2022 was, the championship is theirs to lose. They don't really have a weakness. That said, anyone left has the ability to beat them as well.

The "backups" for Texas this year probably start at any other team in the country outside of maybe Nebraska. It's a nice luxury to have.

It's a school gym so will still be used for intramurals and stuff, the athletic dept actually had to rent Gregory for all the volleyball matches from the university.

This is a big deal that people underestimate. Experience and another year(s) of growth/conditioning is massive at that level. Sure there are some prodigies, but when you have teams that are comparatively talented, upper classmen on average will be bigger, faster, stronger, and just know more about the game. Vets vs. rookies.

Agree - Ohio St. and Michigan make sense to keep because that's the return trip to Austin so Texas wants to reap the cost benefits, however Notre Dame not the same situation. Right now, only Notre Dame gets credit whether they win or not, Texas would be punished for losing but not really gain anything winning the game.

The women's teams will need to carry the load again this year with football missing the playoffs (except for Swimming & Diving where both teams need to, but the men will be favorites for the title). Softball will be expected to compete for a championship, not sure where baseball will be, women's bball expected to compete, doubt it on men's bball (after watching Virginia take them to the woodshed), so far volleyball looking good.

The sad thing about the big 12 is that without Texas and OU, literally anyone can win in that conference because there's no standouts. Luckily for tech, they have donors rich enough to flex their money and out spend the rest of the other schools. There's literally no blue blood or perennial power in the big 12 left.

This is pretty much it. If they had someone already in their back pocket, the BYU coach fiasco wouldn't have happened. They would have just sat quietly until the person was ready to announce and one has to think that it would have been before signing day. For grins, let's assume that it's Deboer, and because his team is still in the hunt for the playoffs, he didn't want to pull a Lane Kiffin. Well he's just making it harder on himself when he does go to Penn St. Why would he make it better for the old employer than for the new one? That's why I don't think he's going. Kiffin's move may have been a douche move, but he had to move before signing day in order to prevent recruits from bailing.