Anniversary Time

Another year and another anniversary for this website (3rd, if you’re counting at home). This marriage does seem to have hit a rocky portion, but I did promise “through sickness and health” so I’ll be sticking with it. In all seriousness, thank you to all of my readers. It always trips me out when I……

NCAA Shrugs Shoulders

The NCAA put out a release that says basically nothing about whether they will cancel the fall championships. In fairness, this isn’t an easy decision but at some levels it really is. The Board of Governors decided to continue the discussion in August. So, look away. Nothing to see here. This non-decision keeps hope alive……

SCIAC & ASC Cancel Fall Season

The SCIAC has announced that they are canceling the fall season for high risk sports, which includes volleyball. We had already seen four schools out of the SCIAC cancel but this seals the fate for the rest of the programs. We are still awaiting word from the NCAA about the future of the 2020 National……

Points/Set – 5 Years of Data

I wanted to continue to look into Team Points/Set (P/S) numbers after my original post. (Side note: I made a critical mistake in my original post, which I now detail at the top of it.) I decided to pull down the statistics for every DIII team over the last 5 years. As a reminder Points……

NWC Cancels Fall Season

Can the last conference or school to decide to cancel the fall volleyball season make sure they turn the lights off? The Northwest Conference has decided to cancel the fall volleyball season and support the efforts to move the season to the spring. What’s interesting about this announcement was that there were some sports (cross……

Spring Season Update

Yesterday the NCAA DIII Management Council approved a proposal to allow schools and conferences to have flexibility in their scheduling. What was done was to immediately waive current bylaws that regulate the playing season and let schools define the playing season by a non-consecutive number of days. In essence, it allows a fluid approach as……

Points Per Set

Update and Warning!!! In doing a follow-up article, I realized that I had an error in the blocks calculations starting with teams following NYU. Basically, teams would be assigned the number of blocks obtained by the next team in alphabetical order! So…gaaag. Please be kind and I’ll leave this up as a monument to my……

New West RAC Chair & Stuff

Whittier College had a press release on Head Coach Chris Duarte-McDermott being named the West Region RAC Chair. In my opinion the RAC Chair is one of the more important positions within the NCAA selection process and it now means that Chris’ picture is now fastened securely in my bullseye. (Note – I’m going with……

NCAA Return-to-Sport Guidelines

The NCAA has just come out with their third publication on resocialization of collegiate sports. There is a lot to take in here as the NCAA has done an outstanding job of laying out a number of processes but the main takeaway for me is that there will be no volleyball this fall. One interesting……

SCAC Cancels Season

Well, Texas let me down. Yeah, that was a joke. The SCAC voted around 48 hours ago to cancel the fall season and gave each program until this morning to notify their players. I was just texting with a coach and she mentioned how “stomach turning to see your athletes’ hearts break in front of……