Samba,

Thanks for the excellent discussion of the division. It looks like you have been watching it for years.

Quite honestly, I don't think that any coach cares about our posts enough to use them for bulletin board material. So why do it? If done in a friendly manner, neither mean nor prickly, it can be interesting. More importantly, if I am going to travel to a qualifier to watch 3 days of volleyball, I would like to know something about the teams that I am watching. It makes the games far more interesting. I now know something about the history between Santa Barbara and Wave and I know that good team San Gabriel that beat us at PNQ last year has had a lot of girls move up to play in an older age group (congratulations to them) and that Mavericks lost 15-13 to KC Power and are likely to bounce back. Posts with interesting information and commentary are the only thing that make the board worthwhile.

On that note, how about I add some info from NorCal. City Beach and Vision are both good and very evenly matched teams. But they are both drastically different teams than last year. Much of the talent in this age group was on a team called Hang Ten last year. 5 of those girls and Vision's setter went to CB this year and that drastically upgraded that team. Vision went 5th in the country last year, but did it with a very short team. This year the coach chose to add a bunch of new height. Both teams have played some great matches, and some matches that look like 6 girls playing their first match together. At Colo, they both made gold, they both then lost matches that they shouldn't have, and then they both upset a huge SoCal team in their last match after the bids were all decided. So unfortunately consistency is not a word I would use about either team. But I hope they can make the gold bracket interesting.
One line scouting report: both teams can hit the ball, but watch the setters. They are very exciting.