Do do you even know what you're talking about? Shymansky has brought in more talent to Iowa City than what has existed before. They've got four transfers that were pretty highly regarded in their own right. (Including 3 SEC starters) they'll have a very strong class coming in again next fall. Janota is going to be good and she's only a sophomore. Iowa should have hired Shymansky instead of Dingman years ago
Agree with this. Iowa is much improved and the talent/experience gap is not nearly as wide as Tornado claims.
That said, this was a match that ISU should have won and probably would have if they could have pulled out Set 4. Reading between the lines from cyclones.com, a set error from Harris was crucial in that 26-28 loss.
Also need to keep in mind these were the first matches against quality opponents with the 5-1. Based on the match reports, Bigbee, Knuth, Vondrak and Horner were benched due to the 5-1 switch. I know Horner is concussed but I'm assuming that Harris will be the setter from here on out unless Bowman eventually beats her out. Knuth didn't play at all yesterday so she may also be injured.