Welcome again to the Lincoln Journal Star’s Simply Askin’ mailbag.
The premise is easy. You ask me some questions on Nebraska athletics. I try to reply them.
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This week’s mailbag pertains to Nebraska volleyball and soccer, however basketball questions are (hopefully?) on the horizon from a few of y’all.
Why can’t Nebraska volleyball beat Wisconsin? – Ken P.
An excellent query that I don’t have an ideal reply for.
As everyone knows, Nebraska hasn’t overwhelmed Wisconsin in volleyball in a very long time. The final win for NU in Madison was in 2013 and the final win in any respect for Nebraska in opposition to UW was in 2017. That’s properly earlier than any of the present Huskers have been on the roster. (Nicklin Hames’ freshman season was in 2018 and Kenzie Knuckles and Madi Kubik have been freshmen in 2019.)
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Each loss has been completely different. The gamers concerned have been completely different. The sorts of losses have been completely different. Typically, like in final 12 months’s nationwide championship match, it’s been a five-set loss. Typically, like earlier this week, it’s a sweep.
The loss this go-round, NU coach John Cook dinner stated after the match, got here on account of a myriad of issues.
“(Wisconsin) put quite a lot of stress on us and we didn’t deal with it very properly,” Cook dinner stated on the Huskers Radio Community. “It began on the service line. They served rather well, and we had a tough time passing. So we by no means actually received in a rhythm tonight.”
He continued: “Every part was laborious for us tonight. You bought to present Wisconsin credit score.”
Nebraska has an opportunity to get again on observe in opposition to Maryland on Saturday.
What number of years of eligibility will Thomas Fidone have left now that he has been dominated out of enjoying this 12 months? Do you suppose he’ll ever play? — Joe O.
It’ll rely. I wish to suppose that Nebraska will put in a petition for a medical redshirt. If he will get that (and there’s no cause why he wouldn’t), then he nonetheless retains his whole eligibility, contemplating he redshirted as a freshman final season.
He received’t play this season, as Mickey Joseph famous, however there’s no cause why this can have an effect on him enjoying for future seasons. What I’m most inquisitive about: Will he be the identical participant he was? How will he reply when he does get on the sphere?
The Husker volleyball group generally loses some extent when one in all their setters’ ball is spinning. Why can’t a ball be spinning? – Meg D.
With out understanding precisely what you’re referring to, this seems like a double-hit violation.
The setter’s arms should contact the ball concurrently when setting. When the setters’s arms contact the ball at completely different occasions, even when fractionally completely different, that’ll trigger the ball to spin quite than float – however the spin isn’t the rationale for the misplaced level. Moderately, it’s the 2 separate touches.
Any concept what Kayla Banwarth’s dismissal is about? – Travis W.
Not totally positive, however one thing doesn’t add as much as me.
She was positioned on depart every week earlier than her ouster whereas Mississippi carried out a program evaluation. That, to me, is weird. Not often do you have got a coach positioned on depart through the season. Not often do you have got a coach out of a job halfway by means of the season in sports activities that aren’t soccer or males’s basketball.
Banwarth was positioned on depart on Oct. 20, and Mississippi had a 7-10 file on the time. Contemplating Ole Miss made the NCAA Match final season, this doesn’t really feel like a dismissal primarily based on dropping. However, nobody has reported any particulars surrounding this, so we’ll simply have to attend, I suppose.