WORST NCAA VOLLEYBALL FINAL EVER??? 

It may have been the worst game for Nebraska ever, but Texas put on a clinic! Texas played beautiful volleyball and showed they were the better team. Hook'Em!

As mentioned Swindle was playing with a leg injury. She was jump setting throughout the season. But if you are going to give Nebraska somewhat of a break because of their youth then it should be the same for Swindle as well. She is also a true freshman.

Imagine being the coach of the year and blaming the transfer portal 🤣🤣🤣

The announcers were going on and on about Lexi Rodriguez the whole game, while Emma Halter was putting on a libero masterclass.

This game, while not even close, Texas served Nebraska off of the court. Texas served so well. There serves were short, long, and in the seams. Their floats were dripping severely and are not the "normal" level. The previous semifinals match against Wisconsin showed the same serving abilities.

It was baffling seeing a program like Nebraska that prides itself on serve receive give up a record 12 aces in the national title match. There really is no excuse for that.

You guys are missing the point of the quality of Texas- They did the EXACT same thing they did to Wisconsin!!!!!!!

Beason is a Junior, Rodriguez is a Junior, Batenhorst is a Junior, and they were part of the starting 6 all the time. What all Freshman Nebraska team are you talking about????????? If experienced players win championships then don’t let Freshmen play your starting 6!!!!! Nebraska was unbeatable up until Wisconsin beat them and then now Texas, so now the pity party excuse is about them being all Freshman????? Pfffff

Hey, let's give Texas some credit for serving, huh?!

When Rob was talking best back row hitter in NCAA ever... did he forget former Longhorn/Olympian Destinee Hooker? Yes, she was from a former era, but she was literally out of this world when it came elevation and back row hitting.

It wasn't the best TV but as a Texas fan I sure enjoyed it. 🤘

Texas flew under the radar for the whole season because of early losses. But for those of us intimate with the program, we understood the team could go as far as the true freshmen setter developed. Well, she developed great over the rest of the season. Also, practicing aggression the entire season until they reduced errors left them playing at an extremely high level. As far as the serves, don't underestimate the constant change of depth on the serves. Texas beat 3 #1 seeds in a row. Swindle is 6'3" and dunks it and you are worried about her not jump setting. Guess what you will see Skinner, Halter, and Swindle next year probably in the final 4 again. Nebraska always had some flaws and Wisconsin exposed them and Texas did too.

Swindle does jump set, but she transitioned to not jump setting because of an injury.

Nebraska libero sucked and couldn't move her feet on defense & isn't trusted to dive in front of her outsides in serve receive when struggling. Bergen looked mid with bad passing, Swindle out played her by Miles again. Murray can't pass.

Texas just flat out embarrassed Nebraska 😂

i think yall forgot, Texas HAS tournament experience with experienced players. They had one of the hardest brackets to play to get to the final, and they showed up for each other. I am absolute happy for TX and was shook when they spaked Neb.

@9:50 Americans are so hung up on their age/class thing. Always saying, "just a freshman, just a sophomore, etc." When you know how to play, you know how to play. Egonu lit up the American team in the Rio Olympics for over 30 kills when she was 16. Vargas was on the Cuban national team when she was 15. Haak was the MVP of the French pro league when she was 15 or 16 too. Arina Federovtseva won Superliga at 16. So many other Euro or Brazilian examples. Free your minds, Americans. Age is just a number, and your school class is just an excuse.

Nebraska got spanked and happy to see it. Asjia got called for taunting? Choboy from Nebraska is the biggest sh!t taker and never gets called. She wasn’t talking sh!t when she got pull out and 2nd string replaced her.

I believe the Texas setter could not jump because she had an injury.

Swindle is not jump setting because of a leg injury.

The question must be asked, was Nebraska "the best team all season long" because they were actually the best, or because they had the best PR department and shaded schedule.

@Rob you severely overstate & oversimplify the facts of this final. Yes, it was disappointing, yes, it was an epic collapse, but your "poo poo-ing" the Nebraska AND Texas players' skills do a major disservice to our sport of volleyball smh... I have been coaching for nearly 4 decades, so I've seen these types of performances many a time, but I would never appreciate any of my athletes speaking so poorly of them like you did; either as a participant or a spectator. Not a good example for any young volleyball athlete watching this episode. People need to be more responsible about what and how they say things on such an accessible media source. Furthermore, how many National Championships have YOU won as a young player, I'd seriously like to know. If I threw you on the court to pass the variety and ferocity of these serves, I have no doubt you would fail just as badly. Care to prove me wrong? You should set up THAT challenge for all of us to see on RU-vid. Until you can prove otherwise, speak with aloha when you speak about the youth in our sport. We are trying to bring up players that can feed into USA Volleyball with a level of excellence, not with a mediocre level of sportsmanship. To all the passers, servers & setter(s) you just dissed, you owe them an apology. Malama Pono

The Texas vs Tennessee match was far more exciting and championship worthy than what we actually got. Texas came so close to losing against them, but Tennessee choked so hard.

Texas had true freshmen setter who didn't start the season well and had a huge amount to adapt and learn. Asjia was also injured early. They lost a freaky match to LBS 1st game of the season with the worst setter play I've ever seen, and tons of service errors. Then they lost to #2 Stanford and #11 Washington while beating #5 Minnesota and #19 Ohio St in the first 8 games with a true freshmen setter. They lost 1 game the rest of the season. Texas can't help that they were dismissed by the media and dissed with a #2 seed despite their obvious talent and the fact their setter had undergone a huge amount of development. Madison Skinner was the best player in volleyball this year and she proved in the playoffs. But once again she was dissed by the media and robbed of player of the year, because Texas had a couple of early losses with a true freshmen setter. If the media hadn't been overestimated Nebraska and underestimating Texas for the entire 2nd half of the season, the finals wouldn't have been such a shock.

Nebraska's collapse was just mental. Serve receive is 90% mental. They received serves like this all season. They totally crumbled and don't know why. As you say it was a disappointing final for a great year in general for WVB.

As a Texas fan, loved the domination. Texas was shaky all season and it was so nice to see them get it all together during the tournament. Go Horns! 🧡🏐🧡

Texas had a freshman setter

First set had some unreal rallies. Next 2 sets were a trouncing. Skinner seemed like she was playing against a HS team.

Huge Longhorn fan here and of course I loved the Championship match!! There can’t be enough said about how much Texas overcame to win to back to back championships - replacing Eggleston, Fleck, and SKT, starting the season 5-3, having an injured freshman setter, being the only non #1 seed in the Final Four. I know the country hates that the match wasn’t more competitive. Texas peaked at the right time and dominated 😎🤘🏽

i think it was only truly an underwhelming final simply because Nebraska just did not come to play. they’re a young team, and it showed on the court it felt like a high school team with all the nerves. Texas came in and showed how strong they are. I think Texas’ serves found who to serve to and it worked extremely well for them. Overall after the first set I knew Texas would win. Nebraska just didn’t play… yet was the #1 team in the nation?… what is up with JOHN COOK not subbing players? Why have players on the sideline in gear ready to play yet you’re gonna have your players like Murray consistently shank? Where’s the urgency? Beason didn’t have ANY urgency or have leadership whatsoever, neither did Lexi. Lexi had no control over the defense and didn’t step up. It was just an overall underwhelming match. Nonetheless, Texas ATE

Lmfao you guys have no idea what you’re talking about. You don’t even have the scores right or the amount of sets right. Saying swindle has not Jump set. Maybe you guys haven’t watched Texas all year. But kinda sounds like you’re salty Nebraska fans.

I would disagree. The fact that Texas played poorly in the beginning of the season has nothing to do with the talent they possessed and that talent is what allowed them to win another tittle. Now if Nebraska was the only team that Texas served against like that , I would maybe consider it being Nebraska's poor play, but they did the same thing to Wisconsin who had no answer to their serve. As far as Nebraska being the best in the country, they barely beat Wisconsin in Nebraska and lost 3-0 to Wisconsin in Madison. Wisconsin had 12 blocks against them in the 2nd set at Nebraska. Wisconsin lost their 6'9 middle for two matches and lost both or they would have regained the number one rating. I can say for me as a Wisconsin fan, watching Texas put on a serving clinic was as fun to watch as Wisconsin putting on a blocking clinic in that second set. I don't think Wisconsin or Nebraska played poorly, I just think that Texas had better talent and put it all together at the end of the season when it counts. The match was a clinic in serving I have never seen before. What is great about volleyball is the momentum changes that can occur , so if they played again would the outcome be the same ? I don't know

Did you watch both teams warm up? Did you watch them serve warm up specifically? It was unreal. Texas’s serves were something I haven’t seen before. When you watched them both side by side it wasn’t even the same. Idk why it was so different but the Texas serves barely cleared the net, floated and dropped like a rock. It was insane to watch in person. Wisconsin also couldn’t handle the Texas’s serves. Texas took out every single passer Wisconsin had. Was just crazy to watch.

So both Wisconsin and Nebraska just had mental breakdowns on the service game? Hmmm... Both teams? That's pathetic for both Stanford and Nebraska then. And, yes, TX setter does jump set! She was injured and had to adjust for the tourney. Weren't you watching they said that several times. Swindle is a true Freshman.

Texas peaked at the right time with excellent execution in every aspect of the game. Congratulations 🎉

Someone help me out. Why don't more high level women use their hand to receive floats? The rules basically let you grab it and chuck it up on receive, which nullifies all but the hardest floats. We see this in the men's game all the time. Can someone closer to the collegiate women's game shed some light on this?

She couldn’t jump set because of an injury. Also, you’re talking about NEB all being freshman well there are other upperclassmen on the team. Also, Stanford won it with 1 upperclassman and the rest freshman. So that should not be an excuse especially when so many had just written TX off and had NB winning it all. I love NB. My pick was 4) WIS 3) LOU 2) NEB and 1) TEX. If TEX hadn’t made finals, NEB was my team.

WORST Sportsmanship I’ve ever seen from a v-ball player. Harper/Bekka? How can you be cocky & a sore loser at the same time? A loss hurts but this conf. made me feel for only Lexi, the respectful heart of the team Who handled it excellently. They should’ve let the freshy setter talk instead of Bekka (not a fan of her no more)

Youth against experience.

At least Nebraska has bragging rights of having a record breaking attendance in volleyball game 😂.

She had lower body injury that's why her setting was off, but she definitely does need more reps

I'm going to get hate for this, but Texas broke Nebraska's identity in football too, from the first Big XII championship game up to the day they left the Big XII.

Sets 2 and 3 were amazing. Did you watch them. It was kill after kill. The hits were spectacular.

Best final ever . . . if you’re a Texas fan. 😁

i was in tampa watching in person and was so dissapointed. i understand that teams can have bad days and it's totally fine. noticed it in warmups, texas was all business, no goofing off, ready to win while nebraska was doing idk what

The 11-0 run says everything about TEXAS!!!!!!

Haters…. You lost and got your ass kicked

TEXAS kicked some ass yo! To serve like that in the semi n finals and do it consistently. A five seed beating 1, 2, and 4 seed to win a national championship!

Asjia O’Neal had just turned 24 before December & she wasn’t even the biggest factor it was Skinner who is a Junior! This was her 6th year because she red shirted one year and had to ag e surgery another year so she’s only played 4 years total! Nebraska had 4 freshman and 4 juniors which it wouldn’t have made a difference! They won’t win next year either! Cook got cooked! He saw Texas do the exact same thing to an elite Wisconsin team and made no adjustments! Quit making excuses for them getting their asses kicked after talking all that smack and speak on how talented of players Texas has year in & year out! None of this was being said when Nebraska was beating ass all season in that easy conference! We had to replace the 3 most important contacts 1st 2nd & 3rd that’s how we got those early loses! Those loses taught Texas how to win! They was still learning one another due to injuries!

Look guys, your conclusion that this was the worst NCAA vball final ever is spot-on. But everything after that is really lacking. So, Texas clearly targeted Batenhorst and Murray on serve-receive, and it paid-off. But I would NOT discount the QUALITY of the float-serves that O'Neal and others threw at them. You say you've 'been around NCAA women for 5 yrs', well I've PLAYED some of the highest levels of vball since high school, then college, and beyond, and I KNOW how hard it is to pass an exceptional float serve that moves at the last second, especially with pace. Then u mix-in a few slow floats that LOOK like they're hard serves at first... U were NOT on that court to really judge how 'standard' these float serves were. Then, u missed one of the main narratives here, that Harper Murray was a HUGE disappointment for Nebraska, with all the hype, attention, and senior jocks inflating her ego all year long. #1 draft pick, ranked #1 OH coming in, fizzled both offensively and defensively, and missed a TON of serves throughout the season. The truth is, her UNDER-performance is one of the big stories here, and now that Nebraska has secured Landfair from Minnesota (6'5" star OH) and have Kayler Pierce coming in as a freshman (6'2" OH phenom), I predict that Murray will be out of a job next season, and deservedly so, she doesn't know how to terminate balls, period, let alone her passing. And also, don't criticize grils for entering the transfer portal to get play time -- there are some SPECTACULAR and PROMISING players, like Jurevicious, Mendelsson, Melanie Parra (Texas to TCU), who really DESERVE to be a starter and get that VALUABLE college experience in pursuit of a future career, even on the National Teams. In my opinion, Nebraska may very well have won the title if they played Jurevicious instead of Murray. Another narrative u missed is how the Huskers had a FRIGGIN EASY schedule, with the exception of Wisconsin, who swept them near the end of the season. #1 ranked team/record who played crappy teams all season long... yeah, no wonder they've never seen so many tough serves before. Also, stop saying that Cook and Nebraska 'did it' with "ALL FRESHMEN" - no, Beason, Rodriguez, Batenhorst/Krause were JUNIORS, with Allick a Sophomore, all starters. Don't mis-speak or over-exaggerate.

TEXAS 💪

That was absolutely the worst championship match I've ever seen. RIP

It wasn’t just a “regular” jump float serve… That ball would actually move and drop like crazy! Even the Nebraska players said so themselves! There’s a reason Kiarch wanted O’Neal to play on the USA team during the summer…

Funny Rob and Everett talking shit about Texas and us as fans but its us Texas Fans that finally gave them a video with some views. Coach Rose? No Cook=Santarelli😂

Fani Willis made her bed and everyone has been sleeping in it: Alec Lace

DeCecco said that jump setting is overrated! 😬 one of the best setters in the world is training Micha Ma’a in that skill and a kid from ncaa team was able to win a championship!

I’m sorry but Nebraska volleyball didn’t have all freshman look it up. There was freshman, sophomore and juniors on the team. As far as Swindell the sitter didn’t jump set because she was nursing a injury that’s why. Do your homework before speaking on you podcast. GO LONGHORNS!!!!

The most embarrassing, pathetic and boring women’s volleyball championship game I’ve ever seen.

Except that both the Wisconsin and Nebraska coaches said the serving was the best they saw all year. Coincidence?

I’m wondering why ppl keep saying Nebraska only had Freshman…. That is not true! 😒

Are you guys going to commentate on the Olympic usa volleyball please say yes I love how you guys commentate it makes the game more exciting

The Texas setter had to give up jump,sets due to injury! She used to jump,set in high school

Glad JC said because it opens the door to the time he left Wisconsin. He made the statement that Wisconsin would never have a big time program. then he called up one of the girls. ( I won't mention the name) who was committed to Wis and talked her into coming to Nebraska. Then when Wis won the Big Ten he made the statement that because the teams did not play every other team there was no real Big Ten champ. No one believed me when I posted this in years past. The irony of what happened back then is that the new Wisconsin coach took Wi to the National tittle against non other than Nebraska. Nebraska won and thus started the rival.

This has to be the worst commentary on a championship match ever. Geezus.

Rob is a Texas hater!

$ cant buy everything and JC watched Wisconsin game and he had time or week to prepare his team. yes he did to triple block maddi.. at less they reached the championship game

Beason carried the team to the championship.

the fix was in!!

The arena was cold? Thats why they got wiped?

Maybe Texas was just better? All I hear is people coping pleas for Nebraska.

🤘🤘🤘🤘

Nebraska overated

Nebraska over rated

I found my new channel. I agree with you Rob!!!!!

Yeah, it was the worst ncaa volleyball game I've ever seen! Like I got bored.

Nebraska - cocky & over-rated. TEXAS - CONGRATS!

You guys are mis reading what happened in that match. Nebraska being a young team tied texas at 22 in the first and then let texas rally 3 straight to win it. That was huge on the mindset of neb. Then they start rolling texas in the second set get up 10-7 texas calls a timeout and kills neb momentum. Cooks worst coaching job since taking over at neb. He didn't get his girls calmed down and b4 they knew it they were down 18-10