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Post by Winbabywin on Jan 16, 2020 9:49:30 GMT -5
Why is everyone so incredibly critical of a Big ten team slowly trying out beach volleyball? I guess I am holding out hope for the day when most Big ten teams have indoor sand facilities (and teams), just like so many of the other programs around the country. As was posted a couple posts ago; Nebraska is not "trying out" beach volleyball. They are using it to get more practice time for the indoor players; along with the recruiting boost that was mentioned. The B1G is simply a victim of geography, regardless of whether they want to add it or not, they just can't...with the weather up there. Unless I'm mistaken, the NCAA requires official varsity competitions to be held outdoors. They can practice indoors all they want, but if they ever want to adopt it as a conference, they will need to play each other; not an easy task in B1G country during the playing months of Feb, March and April.
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Post by staticb on Jan 16, 2020 14:45:15 GMT -5
If Nebraska created a REAL beach volleyball program, it wouldn't make it possible to run their fake beach program which allows them to have 20-hour practice weeks year round and send the indoor players to Hawaii and Southern California for 11 days each spring. The only point is for indoor recruiting and practice time. Again, if other schools thought it was a seriously competitive advantage, they would be doing it too. You think Penn State, Wisconsin, etc. would allow Nebraska to have a big advantage over them when it came to practice time, recruiting, etc. No way.
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Post by n00b on Jan 16, 2020 15:56:46 GMT -5
. Unless I'm mistaken, the NCAA requires official varsity competitions to be held outdoors. They can practice indoors all they want, but if they ever want to adopt it as a conference, they will need to play each other; not an easy task in B1G country during the playing months of Feb, March and April. I hadn’t heard of that rule so I looked it up. Inclement weather. Collegiate beach volleyball is an outdoor sport. Events shall be played outdoors unless weather or court conditions threaten the health and safety of student-athletes. In the event of inclement weather, a Pairs match or Event shall be conducted indoors provided a regulation beach volleyball court(s) is available[/]
I’d think that February in Michigan would classify as inclement weather.
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Post by beavis on Jan 16, 2020 19:00:44 GMT -5
Why is everyone so incredibly critical of a Big ten team slowly trying out beach volleyball? I guess I am holding out hope for the day when most Big ten teams have indoor sand facilities (and teams), just like so many of the other programs around the country. As was posted a couple posts ago; Nebraska is not "trying out" beach volleyball. They are using it to get more practice time for the indoor players; along with the recruiting boost that was mentioned. The B1G is simply a victim of geography, regardless of whether they want to add it or not, they just can't...with the weather up there. Unless I'm mistaken, the NCAA requires official varsity competitions to be held outdoors. They can practice indoors all they want, but if they ever want to adopt it as a conference, they will need to play each other; not an easy task in B1G country during the playing months of Feb, March and April. I'm here in Indiana, so am not a Nebraska Booster. But again, my question was why you are assigning such a negative intent to John Cook in particular, and to Nebraska beach volleyball in general. There are already beach programs in Tennessee, Missouri, Colorado and Illinois, which are hardly places where you could train or play outdoors in February and March. So its just a fact of life that the rules could be never be changed (if they even need to be given the inclement weather language pointed out above) to allow teams to host beach volleyball meets indoors? And those cold weather schools should forever be penalized because of their geographic location? Sure seems to me like baseball and other outdoor sports are flourishing in cold weather states, so to say that "regardless of whether they want to add it or not, they just can't" is just silly. Would you assign the same malign motives to Coach Shondell at Purdue if they eventually give it a go? If you do, you would do so without having any idea whatsoever about his true reasons for doing so.
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Post by knapplc on Jan 21, 2020 16:19:10 GMT -5
For those wondering what Nebraska's sand facility looks like, here you go. Virtual tour, with the bonus weight room thrown in for good measure.
That court/weight room is a small part of the football athletic complex just north of Memorial Stadium, inside the red box.
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Post by trollhunter on Jan 22, 2020 15:56:12 GMT -5
. Unless I'm mistaken, the NCAA requires official varsity competitions to be held outdoors. They can practice indoors all they want, but if they ever want to adopt it as a conference, they will need to play each other; not an easy task in B1G country during the playing months of Feb, March and April. I hadn’t heard of that rule so I looked it up. Inclement weather. Collegiate beach volleyball is an outdoor sport. Events shall be played outdoors unless weather or court conditions threaten the health and safety of student-athletes. In the event of inclement weather, a Pairs match or Event shall be conducted indoors provided a regulation beach volleyball court(s) is available[/]
I’d think that February in Michigan would classify as inclement weather. Probably can clarify that to 8 months out of the year
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Post by oldmanred on Mar 5, 2020 11:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by oldmanred on Mar 6, 2020 7:49:44 GMT -5
Watched it on my computer monitor full screen! I was impressed with Wayne State's fight! I was also impressed with Callie's serve! Sad that Lexi and Jazz had to forfeit because of sand dust!
GO HUSKERS
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