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Post by mervinswerved on Apr 19, 2022 18:12:39 GMT -5
A lotta coaches updating their resumes today. Almost made me want to dust mine off just for kicks.
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Post by c4ndlelight on Apr 19, 2022 18:17:27 GMT -5
A lotta coaches updating their resumes today. Almost made me want to dust mine off just for kicks. Looks like the AD is a Vandy lifer, SWA came from Dartmouth - no other DI ties. Racers, start your engines!
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Post by stevehorn on Apr 19, 2022 18:18:16 GMT -5
Wonder if this will put any pressure on Oklahoma State to add volleyball? They will be the last P5 school without a team. For selfish (Texas) reasons, I enjoy seeing this. Once Vanderbilt starts playing, finally a conference volleyball schedule without an odd number of teams which should mean no byes during conference play. Has Oklahoma State ever considered adding women's volleyball? It will be rather embarrassing if they're the only P5 school not to sponsor it. In the Big 12 years, I don't recall any discussion of it. It hasn't seemed to bother them to have always been the only Big 12 school not to sponsor it. I have no clue why they don't except that they have a large Equestrian program which appears to take care of their Title IX numbers.
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Post by redcard on Apr 19, 2022 18:21:48 GMT -5
Has Oklahoma State ever considered adding women's volleyball? It will be rather embarrassing if they're the only P5 school not to sponsor it. In the Big 12 years, I don't recall any discussion of it. It hasn't seemed to bother them to have always been the only Big 12 school not to sponsor it. I have no clue why they don't except that they have a large Equestrian program which appears to take care of their Title IX numbers. I believe their Equestrian team just won the National Championships as well. Same for women's gymnastics, so I doubt either of those are at risk in the near term.
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Post by 2Close4Missiles on Apr 19, 2022 18:29:20 GMT -5
In the Big 12 years, I don't recall any discussion of it. It hasn't seemed to bother them to have always been the only Big 12 school not to sponsor it. I have no clue why they don't except that they have a large Equestrian program which appears to take care of their Title IX numbers. I believe their Equestrian team just won the National Championships as well. Same for women's gymnastics, so I doubt either of those are at risk in the near term. Oklahoma won the gymnastics championship, they've won 5 of the last 8. OK St doesn't have gymnastics
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Post by donut on Apr 19, 2022 18:35:37 GMT -5
No offense intended and setting aside Stanford, would I be wrong in thinking that most of the schools with really high academic standards have trouble fielding a women's volleyball team that's consistently in the top 25? You could say this about most sports and academically prestigious private schools -- Stanford is often the exception. However, non-P5 schools are going to have trouble fielding a women's volleyball team that's consistently in the top 25 regardless. So I think we're only looking at Vandy, Northwestern, Duke, and Notre Dame in that regards. I think it's completely fair to set our expectations at Northwestern/Duke/ND levels (although ND is certainly on the rise) but its also fair to set expectations higher given qualities unique to Vandy.
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Post by redcard on Apr 19, 2022 18:39:45 GMT -5
I believe their Equestrian team just won the National Championships as well. Same for women's gymnastics, so I doubt either of those are at risk in the near term. Oklahoma won the gymnastics championship, they've won 5 of the last 8. OK St doesn't have gymnastics Oop….my bad. OSU won the horses and OU won the gymnastics.
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Post by stevehorn on Apr 19, 2022 18:40:34 GMT -5
Has Oklahoma State ever considered adding women's volleyball? It will be rather embarrassing if they're the only P5 school not to sponsor it. It looks like Oklahoma State actually did consider adding women's volleyball about two decades ago, but they opted for equestrian instead. The cited reasons at the time were "lack of gym space" (?--many volleyball teams play in the basketball arena) and volleyball not being very popular in Oklahoma. Does anyone from the area know if volleyball has become significantly more popular in the intervening time? I couldn't find much in a Google search. I have no facts concerning your question, but I suspect it's not significantly more popular. Outside of OKC and Tulsa areas, Oklahoma is small towns and rural areas. Likely not much club ball outside OKC and Tulsa. I suspect Equestrian is good for their athletic donations. Pretty expensive sport and I suspect OSU gets some good donations from wealthy fathers making sure their darling daughter has a place on the team.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2022 20:26:55 GMT -5
Has Oklahoma State ever considered adding women's volleyball? It will be rather embarrassing if they're the only P5 school not to sponsor it. It looks like Oklahoma State actually did consider adding women's volleyball about two decades ago, but they opted for equestrian instead. The cited reasons at the time were "lack of gym space" (?--many volleyball teams play in the basketball arena) and volleyball not being very popular in Oklahoma. Does anyone from the area know if volleyball has become significantly more popular in the intervening time? I couldn't find much in a Google search. They were all just mad because they knew Micha Hancock would go to Penn State. I don't want to get into the space-time continuum issues with how they knew. But they did.
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Post by macfan on Apr 19, 2022 21:14:19 GMT -5
Does Brandon make the move?
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Post by Hisbots on Apr 19, 2022 21:21:31 GMT -5
This reminds me of when Clemson added softball. It seemed the administration supported it well and they were able to find success quickly. Sometimes, a new program can be exciting for recruits and transfers to be trailblazers somewhere. It will be exciting to see if Vanderbilt is able to find the right players to do build their program similarly. Clemain is adding gymnastics and are looking to go big as well.
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Post by bbg95 on Apr 19, 2022 22:25:46 GMT -5
It looks like Oklahoma State actually did consider adding women's volleyball about two decades ago, but they opted for equestrian instead. The cited reasons at the time were "lack of gym space" (?--many volleyball teams play in the basketball arena) and volleyball not being very popular in Oklahoma . Does anyone from the area know if volleyball has become significantly more popular in the intervening time? I couldn't find much in a Google search. They were all just mad because they knew Micha Hancock would go to Penn State. I don't want to get into the space-time continuum issues with how they knew. But they did. Hancock is from Oklahoma? I honestly had no idea.
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Post by ze202 on Apr 19, 2022 22:58:33 GMT -5
They were all just mad because they knew Micha Hancock would go to Penn State. I don't want to get into the space-time continuum issues with how they knew. But they did. Hancock is from Oklahoma? I honestly had no idea. Yep, she's from Edmond. And get this: according to Micha's USAV bio page, her mother Kelly even played basketball at Oklahoma State in her day.
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Post by avid 2.0 on Apr 19, 2022 23:01:17 GMT -5
They were all just mad because they knew Micha Hancock would go to Penn State. I don't want to get into the space-time continuum issues with how they knew. But they did. Hancock is from Oklahoma? I honestly had no idea. She was originally committed to Tulsa, before the coach she committed to left.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2022 23:08:19 GMT -5
kind of a long shot, but if she wants a long-term career in coaching, I could see them giving Larson the nod to build what she wants
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