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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.

 
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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?

 
BigRedBuster said:
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?
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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

 
Nebraska Volleyball Coach John Cook said the growing popularity of sand volleyball made the addition of the sport at Nebraska an attractive option.
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Indeed.

 
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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.

 
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.

 
Swim Nazis. I hate these guys.

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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.

 
I say we set up a court at a sand put in central Nebraska along I80 and let western Nebraska enjoy watching.

 
NUpolo8 said:
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.
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How familiar are you with Title IX procedures and regulations? It's very damn difficult to just add men's sports.

 
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NUpolo8 said:
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.
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How familiar are you with Title IX procedures and regulations? It's very damn difficult to just add men's sports.
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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.

 
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.

 
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