Sabrina Bingham – New RAC Chair

One of the more important positions in terms of getting teams into the NCAA Tournament is the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) Chairman. As I’ve mentioned in the past, the West Region RAC Chair (Ed Garza) term has expired and he was recently replaced by Hardin-Simmons Head Coach Sabrina Bingham. Coach Bingham was the logical choice……

Scheduling in the West Region

I make no apology that part of the reason for this website is that I believe the NCAA is not really accountable for their decisions and I wanted to bring certain issues to light when they occur. In fact, when I started, this may have been as much as 50% of my motivation. During my……

Kevin Aoki (PLU) Promoted to Full-Time Status

Pacific Lutheran University just announced that Head Coach Kevin Aoki has been promoted to full-time status after having served part-time in years past. My first reaction was what do you mean Coach Aoki has been part-time? It still shocks me to hear about part-time coaches in our region, which makes Coach Aoki’s success all the……

EADA Data (2017)

Back in December I wrote an article on EADA data, which is basically the published data for how much schools spend on each sport. We learned that in 2016 the University of Texas spent the most on women’s volleyball at a little less than 4 million dollars. We learned that Washington-St. Louis was the top……

Opening Day (Baseball) Musing

I’ve been working on a number of articles but all of them require input from coaches and they, of course, are very busy people. Still, I’m excited about what is yet to come on the website. If they all come off, there should be an article on scheduling as well as one on the hardships……

“Shock and Fun” – The Louisiana College Story

The Louisiana College Wildcat volleyball program came into existence in 2016. I reached out to Coach Brittany Salloum so she could provide some insight into another story I’m writing but she ended up giving me so much good material that I thought another story on just the Wildcats and their unique challenges was required. After……

Centenary Names New Coach

Centenary announced Ashley McDonough as their new head coach. Coach McDonough was previously the head coach at Knox College, which is an NCAA DIII school out of Illinois. Coach McDonough coached for 4-years at Knox accumulating a 34-77 record during that time, and her 2017 team posted the most wins for the program since 1995.……