How many more colleges will it take to grow the men's

[surfvolleypolojock77]

volleyball game? I love the game and wish that there weren't too many club teams and have either more NCAA Division 1 teams. I'm just curious

[psuvbfan10]

Big 10 needs to have enough members to form a conference and get an auto bid

Texas colleges need to adopt men's vb, boys is growing fast down in Texas

A conf like the ACC needs to adopt men's vb

[letsgo22]

It would be great if some of the bigger schools from the bigger conferences(Big Ten, ACC, Big 12) would add men’s programs. However, the bigger growth should and must come from the schools that don’t have men’s football. There would not be an imbalance of scholarships to affect Title IX, and most of these schools wouldn’t have to add woman’s sports, or if they did it would only have to add 4.5 scholarships. The schools in the Big East need to get on board with adding men’s volleyball. Marquette and Creighton have solid woman’s programs, it would be easy to piggyback a men’s program off their success. Boys volleyball in the Midwest states is growing at a rapid rate, and if you look at the club teams from Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois and the success they have enjoyed, it should be an easy add. However, you need AD’s with the ability to look forward and not keep the status quo. The argument needs to be made that by growing the men’s game helps grow the woman’s game at the same time.

[BeachbytheBay]

need to define what is meant by 'grow the game'

really I don't think D1 NCAA is how to grow the game - too complicated, too structurally incorrect to grow almost any men's sport

so long as it grows in high school, players will have options growing for pros overseas and maybe eventually in the US/Canada

D1 is almost impossible to grow, no matter how many teams increasing High Schools and international could fill with quality players

look at which teams get added. not a single P5 school. Cal Baptist dropped, UOP dropped, Stanford dropped (and reinstated).

if the NCAA can somehow add more conferences like the NEC and get to eight conferences, that would be massive.

it would seem having a Colorado D1 school, another Arizona D1, a norcal (Big West Poly or Davis) school, a couple Florida schools, a couple Texas schools and a couple more Big 10 schools would be well received. the problem is the ADs don't have $2.5 mil a year or more discretionaly spending to likely add both MVB and also a women's sport.

as it is, having 6 D1 P5 elite universities (Stanford, PSU, OSU, UCLA, USC, BYU) across the US at least provides some cache to the sport and 'legitimacy' in terms of perception. it's not like water polo where on silly conference of 4 teams is basically filling out 4 of the top 5 teams every year.

I think the Big West maybe has a decent chance at some point with possibly Poly or Davis, but not holding my breath. Those two will keep propping up their football programs, where the only attraction of their football programs are the marching bands

maybe the Big 10, but even then, what would happen with the MIVA & EIVA may not be all that pretty if those two left. MVB is lucky to have four 'major' conferences and the splitting up of the MPSF has turned out to be a good thing.

but who knows.