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Post by sunger4222 on Mar 29, 2017 14:38:57 GMT -5
Does anyone know what colleges/Universities will begin beach v-ball anytime soon? I see a number of players from Texas finding homes in other states, and that should spark interest there. I understand weather can be a factor in practice, so maybe Minnesota (somewhat kidding) may be out, but there are ways around it. I'd like to see this sport kicked into high gear. How about a men's program, any interest there?
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Post by trollhunter on Mar 29, 2017 15:24:17 GMT -5
Does anyone know what colleges/Universities will begin beach v-ball anytime soon? I see a number of players from Texas finding homes in other states, and that should spark interest there. I understand weather can be a factor in practice, so maybe Minnesota (somewhat kidding) may be out, but there are ways around it. I'd like to see this sport kicked into high gear. How about a men's program, any interest there? For 2018 these teams have stated they will probably begin: D1 = Cal Fullerton, Northern Arizona, Colorado, Central Florida, Wake Forest, Oregon State, Missouri State, NC Central, American, Mississippi State, Abilene Christian, Eastern Kentucky D2 = Cal San Marcos, Hawaii Pacific, Tampa, Florida Southern, D3 = Rutgers-Newark There are also 30 more schools listed that hope to start in 2-3 years. This info from - www.avca.org/res/uploads/media/Varsity-Beach-VB-Programs-2-26-17_1.pdfand www.avca.org/res/uploads/media/SchoolsConsideringBeachVB-5-16-_1.pdf
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Post by FOBRA on Mar 29, 2017 15:55:49 GMT -5
Some more Texas teams besides TCU will help a lot, as they can schedule each other (and Nebraska, LSU etc) and alleviate their travel budgets a little.
That said, I think the overall volume is there. There's already 50 or 60 schools already. What there needs to be more of are schools with full scholarships and full-time coaches. That's going to help the overall quality of the sport more than just schools tacking on the sport as indoor extensions that cheaply help their Title IX numbers.
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Post by johnbar on Mar 29, 2017 17:16:00 GMT -5
For 2018 these teams have stated they will probably begin: D1 = ... Colorado, ... Oregon State, ... Interesting. That would leave Washington State as the only Pac-12 team without Beach, right?
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Post by johnbar on Mar 29, 2017 21:03:46 GMT -5
By the way, I found the title of this thread misleading. I expected it to be about new pairs on the pro circuits, or possibly new pairings at particular colleges.
Maybe "Schools adding beach" or something like that would be clearer.
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Post by wang pu on Mar 30, 2017 0:33:14 GMT -5
By the way, I found the title of this thread misleading. I expected it to be about new pairs on the pro circuits, or possibly new pairings at particular colleges. Maybe "Schools adding beach" or something like that would be clearer. That's the reason I clicked on it!
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Post by pnw_mark on Mar 30, 2017 8:46:05 GMT -5
For 2018 these teams have stated they will probably begin: D1 = ... Colorado, ... Oregon State, ... Interesting. That would leave Washington State as the only Pac-12 team without Beach, right? Huskies have fielded a team the last two years but haven't really fully committed.
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Post by nuvbisno1 on Mar 30, 2017 9:23:34 GMT -5
Some more Texas teams besides TCU will help a lot, as they can schedule each other (and Nebraska, LSU etc) and alleviate their travel budgets a little. That said, I think the overall volume is there. There's already 50 or 60 schools already. What there needs to be more of are schools with full scholarships and full-time coaches. That's going to help the overall quality of the sport more than just schools tacking on the sport as indoor extensions that cheaply help their Title IX numbers. TCU isn't the only school in Texas that has beach volleyball. Houston Baptist, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, and Texas A&M Kingsville also have beach. I do know that HBU and Kingsville are both funded pretty good, I don't know about Corpus Christi.
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Post by pnw_mark on Mar 30, 2017 9:55:38 GMT -5
I would expect more D2 colleges to add particularly the Southland Conf (mostly Texas schools) and the Sunshine Conf. (Florida). Tampa and Florida Southern College have both recently added so we can't be more than a 2-3 of years away from a D2 championship but I'm not sure how many schools you need for that to be official.
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Post by slackerdad on Mar 30, 2017 10:46:40 GMT -5
Does anyone know how close any of these schools are to adding beach programs:
Texas Florida Univ of Miami Duke Georgia Tech Rice Baylor Vanderbilt Virginia Clemson BYU Kentucky UC San Diego UC Irvine Univ of San Diego San Diego St
I'd really like to see Texas, Florida, Miami, Duke and GT add programs. Those 5 are located in regions with good juniors programs.
UCSD and UCI already have non-recruited, beach-only players on campus as students, so they could be fairly competitive w/o scholarships. They can use the beach courts for practice and competition, so they'd just need a coach.
USD not having a program is very odd. They competed back in 2008 (along with Texas and Clemson) in the inaugural AVCA Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship. They have a very strong indoor program and are only 3 miles from 30+ beach courts. 7 of the 9 other WCC schools have D1 beach programs. I don't quite understand how Portland has a beach team but not USD when San Diego is one of the top juniors regions for indoor or beach. SDSU seems ripe for a program too, especially since they have D1 football. If anyone knows why they don't have a program, please enlighten me.
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Post by unrated on Mar 30, 2017 19:26:57 GMT -5
SDSU I believe is a decision by Deitre not to pursue beach, based on not wanting to take funds away from the indoor team budget. I have no hard data to support this supposition.
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Post by johnbar on Mar 30, 2017 22:26:26 GMT -5
Does anyone know how close any of these schools are to adding beach programs: ... Vanderbilt ... I would be surprised if Vanderbilt added beach since they don't have indoor. OTOH, no real reason they couldn't. Which SEC schools do have it? Only South Carolina & LSU, right? Oh, and Mississippi State adding it in 2018. I guess they could play against MTSU, APSU. and UTM within Tennessee, and plenty of other southern teams.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Mar 30, 2017 23:06:41 GMT -5
SDSU I believe is a decision by Deitre not to pursue beach, based on not wanting to take funds away from the indoor team budget. I have no hard data to support this supposition. Dietre definitely wanted to add, but Jim Sterk (the AD) shot it down. He recently left SDSU, so we'll see if it gets revived. Not holding my breath, though. Petrie has no interest in adding beach. Texas, not happening.
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Post by johnbar on Mar 31, 2017 9:48:48 GMT -5
What about Florida? What's the story there?
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Post by slackerdad on Mar 31, 2017 10:22:51 GMT -5
Why is Texas not going to add a beach program?
They participated in the 2008 & 2009 AVCA beach tournament and it appears they won the team title in '08. Austin has many quality junior beach clubs and courts. UT football is the highest grossing and most profitable D1 program, so the money should be there and for Title IX compliance, beach is probably the least expensive way to "add more track athletes" for football. Because of the strong indoor program, they should be able to easily compete a respectable, Nebraska-like level right out of the gate. What happens when top recruits want to play both? KP at Stanford and HH, who is from TX, going to SC come to mind.
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