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Indiana’s volleyball season begins Friday despite unanswered questions about Steve Aird
Indiana Athletics has not announced what changes it has implemented.
Long wished IU had a consistently relevant women's VB Team. Great game and IU has always seemed as good a candidate as any to become a perennial powerhouse in the sport.
That is what I thought. Facts are required.
Its a follow up article. The specifics were in the original article, which you can surely find. As I remember it three months later, Aird was essentially so abusive to some players that they just quit playing.
I will give you...that doesnt make sense. In one paragraph, they say 15 of Aird's 25 players have left, but in another paragraph, the article says 14 players are returning.
Just post them, don't write them. That being said, and as I said, "not looking good", or sounding like a Program in the ascendant. The fact that such a piece was written at all, rather than one containing any upbeat, positive, promising anecdotes or the like indicates something is amiss.
Trolling? Doesn’t fit my opinion of either of those 2 posters.
What are you talking about? Original article is full of particular incidents and allegations going all the way back to his time at Maryland. Interviews with former players, program alumna, and parents abound. Feel free to put me on ignore if you think I'm trolling.
Tell me you didn't read the original article, without saying you didn't read the original article.
I read the article 3 months ago when it was originally published. I don't know why I'd have to read it to you again, but okay, here goes:
He's projecting. If anyone's a troll, it's him. I just put him on ignore and will no longer deal with his tin foil hat takes and dumb comments.
Sorry, that was another fact from the story. He did not get to see it. She was not comfortable showing him. She said so.
Trouble is, we are 4 years in and he isnt winning either.
Sounds like a keyboard version of Tourette's - handle should be 'i'vegotwhiners'.
There are still players in the program that predate Aird so I took it to read 15/25 of his own recruits have left. His own recruits likely would be current sophs/juniors by eligibility at this point.
I believe that would include transfers who were pre-portal, when you still had to sit out a year.
I wouldn't say it's irrelevant. It seems unlikely that 60% of his recruits would leave if they liked playing for Aird. There's no way 3 out of every 5 girls are like "I love coach but I don't need this scholarship so Imma bounce."
The best/rosiest read would indicate that he is one of the worst recruiters in the history of D1 athletics. Colossal amount of aggravation/inconvenience as well as waste of time and energy for all involved.
You would think so but we also don’t know if they were recruited over or other such context. As a family that’s pretty involved in the club VB scene, it’s become pretty obvious to me that 1) girls move around a lot, for lots of reasons and 2) it’s pretty common for them to dislike their college coach, for different reasons. IU hasn’t won lately and when you lose everybody’s mad at everybody.
