Saturday, August 26, 2023

Volleyball!

       Cable TV access comes with the package at the OFH. The apartment even has two TVs. A large screen in the living room and a smaller one in the bedroom. The bedroom set is occasionally used to follow a game when I'm at the desk. The large screen is mainly...only?...used to watch sports. The Little House has a TV with only rabbit ears. It was last turned on for a presidential debate.

     Volleyball strikes me as form of ballet. Players moving, leaping and coordinating their moves as if choreographed. Last night I watched as the University of Minnesota defeated TCU in four sets. The paper today reported that MN looked lackadaisical and disorganized in the first set; the one they lost.  The article quoted the coach's reaction to the first set which went something like this: "Those are a group of highly intelligent women. They don't need me to tell them what to do."  Obviously they figured it out, winning the next three sets.

   One of the features of college volleyball is coaches calmly sitting or standing on the sidelines. Do basketball coaches yelling instruction help their players?  Just asking....

Takk for alt,

Al

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