Is there still men's volleyball?
Did Pitt ever have a MVB team? Is there men's volleyball elsewhere?
Did Pitt ever have a MVB team? Is there men's volleyball elsewhere?
May I ask some dumb volleyball questions?
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NCAA has men's VB but it is not that common. None of the power conferences sponsor the sport. Penn State has a men's team.
A question I always wonder is why they have to wear booty shorts. Not that I'm complaining but why is it that volleyball players have to have booty shorts and not basketball or soccer players for example.
I had a friend who was a dominant high school volleyball player, and had offers all over the country. She chose a school that didn't wear those tight shorts because she hated them.
I’ve wondered that too. Tennis ladies wear skirts, golfers wear pants, but volleyball wears tight butt huggers. Why not at least tight shorts just above the knee. I’m not complaining, but I’ve always wondered also.
Pitt did have a men's varsity volleyball team from 1979 to 1983. In its final year it finished ranked 12th. Budget cuts killed it. A men's club team does still exist.
There are only 23 Division 1 and 26 (including 3 in Puerto Rico) Division 2 Men's volleyball programs. The NCAA tourney for men includes both D1 and D2 schools and there are seven bids to the tournament (5 conference champ automatic bids and 2 at-large bids).
The eastern-based conference is the EIVA and includes Charleston, George Mason, Harvard, NJIT, Penn State, Princeton, Sacred Heart, and St. Francis (PA). No ACC schools sponsor men's volleyball.
That's interesting. In this day and age, I'm surprised more teams dont decide on a less revealing pair of shorts. That said, we discussed this summer about how to get people to pay attention to women's soccer except once every 4 years during the World Cup. If they wore "volleyball shorts," I bet ratings would go up.
I'm sure the women playing soccer would hate those/ Plus, soccer is outdoors and you often play in bad weather, you don't need your butt cheeks exposed. Also, by that logic Lingerie League Football would be a top rated sport.
What I don’t like, I think it looks $hitty, is when college girls wear a jersey that’s longer than their shorts. It looks terrible.
They wear shoulder pads and that isnt attractive. Plus, girl football isnt "a thing." Women's soccer is pretty popular. I get why they wouldn't want to wear volleyball shorts but when you think about, female distance runners wear booty shorts and female soccer players are running 5-6 miles so whatever logic the runners have for wearing them could be applied to female soccer players.
VB players tend to spend a lot of time diving and rolling. It probably has something to do with ease of motion, especially when diving. I'm a dude so i wear standard gym shorts when i play, but baggier clothes tend to be uncomfortable/obtrusive when diving and even on simple stuff like serve receive and and digging.
That often happens with the smallest girls, like all the shirts are similar sizes and you have the 5-1 100 pound striker.
But they aren't going to do that for TV ratings. I think women's soccer is about as popular as it's going to get. It will never surpass men's soccer anywhere.
I just watched a D1 game the other day where the goalkeeper, who was far from small, had her jersey over her shorts that you couldn’t see. If I’m the coach, I’m not allowing that. It looked ridiculous.
GKs always look a little different. When I played adult rec soccer, my team wore green jerseys with white numbers, as GK I wore a Jack Lambert jersey.
Dude, goalies are just different. Women’s cut jerseys are suppose to be just below the waste and barely overcthe butt. But all these female players are rolling shorts up, even rolling the leg up on their dominant leg side. Very strange.
In high school, my daughter would roll the sleeves up on hot days, so the jersey looked sleeveless, she doesn't do it now, I think she doesn't have the leeway to do what she wants on her college team-that team I think is very disciplined, they don't do anything out of the ordinary, and she's not one of the top players anymore. In HS she could of acted like AB and they wouldn't have taken her out of the high school games her team was so bad. But she is totally non-excitable, she scored one goal her entire high school career, and now one in college, and she acts like she's scored hundreds, just walks away like nothing happened. LOL.
Baylor just got swept by Texas so Pitt has a chance to move up from #3
that's b/c PA is littered in boy's VB programs. makes total sense for PSU to sponsor that sport.
I think it is more likely that we get passed by Texas than move ahead of Baylor, although this is about as strong of a weekend as Pitt can get in the ACC.
What is true about their loss is it reopens the discussion about #1. I wouldn't be surprised if Baylor, Texas, Stanford, Pitt, and Wisconsin all get votes on Monday.
This is the reason. They do not move and bunch when you are diving on the floor.
Not ranked but in others receiving votes in the coaches poll
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