GM_Tood Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Nebraska announced that Sand vb will be added as a women's sport. Cook will be the Coach. In a meeting on my phone....dont have the links to add yet. Nebraska announces it has added a 24th sport - women's sand volleyball. It will be a spring sport and will start this year. Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Wow...didn't see this coming. Just saw this on twitter. So, will the players from indoor VB play on the sand VB team? Or, would it be a completely different team? Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 If the same players play indoor and sand, I wonder what that does to our scholarship numbers. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 [insert sandy vag joke here] Quote Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 [insert sandy vag joke here] Baseball's average male tickets sales just took a serious blow. Quote Link to comment
GM_Tood Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Wow...didn't see this coming. Just saw this on twitter. So, will the players from indoor VB play on the sand VB team? Or, would it be a completely different team? Yes, they become two-sport athletes and must abide by the rules governing all two-sport athletes in terms of training hours, i.e. no more than 20 hours per week. http://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/volleyball/nebraska-to-add-sand-volleyball-as-spring-sport/article_c81528f9-b237-5944-98db-c76a7969f9b6.html Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Nebraska Volleyball Coach John Cook said the growing popularity of sand volleyball made the addition of the sport at Nebraska an attractive option. Indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment
flatwaterfan Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Good move by Nebraks. Helps them meet title 9 requirements or gives them extra breathing room and yet they don't have to recruit additional athletes and spend additional monies towards tuition. Technicality. Trickey. Quote Link to comment
NUpolo8 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 So, Nebraska moves to the Big Ten, one of the last conferences with nearly a full compliment of men's swim teams, is a school that boasts success in men's swimming, has a former Olympian as a swim coach on the payroll dangled to many as the gateway to get men's swimming back, and they do this. Awful. 1 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Swim Nazis. I hate these guys. Quote Link to comment
NUpolo8 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 And yet nothing I said was false. I understand its a small minority of Husker alums and fans that were alienated, but it doesn't mean that they weren't. And I'm sorry, sand volleyball in Nebraska just sounds stupid and I know that there are parts of it that make sense. Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I say we set up a court at a sand put in central Nebraska along I80 and let western Nebraska enjoy watching. Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 So, Nebraska moves to the Big Ten, one of the last conferences with nearly a full compliment of men's swim teams, is a school that boasts success in men's swimming, has a former Olympian as a swim coach on the payroll dangled to many as the gateway to get men's swimming back, and they do this. Awful. How familiar are you with Title IX procedures and regulations? It's very damn difficult to just add men's sports. Quote Link to comment
NUpolo8 Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 So, Nebraska moves to the Big Ten, one of the last conferences with nearly a full compliment of men's swim teams, is a school that boasts success in men's swimming, has a former Olympian as a swim coach on the payroll dangled to many as the gateway to get men's swimming back, and they do this. Awful. How familiar are you with Title IX procedures and regulations? It's very damn difficult to just add men's sports. Quite familiar. At last check, there are plenty of women's programs on the docket at NU to add another men's sport. Not to mention the fact that certain Olympic sports like swimming require that you have both men and womens programs to have a relevant shot at being repectable at both. Quote Link to comment
hastingshusker Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Forgive my lack of knowledge on this, but isn't title IX based on numbers of participants not number of sports? i.e. football and volleyball are NOT treated as equal sports on the talley due to there being way more people playing football. Quote Link to comment
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