As you may have already heard the NCAA has accepted sand volleyball as a new collegiate sport for women.
But there are few things that need to be addressed.
Who is going to coach the sand volleyball athletes? I sure hope that athletic directors are aware of the huge differences from indoor volleyball to beach volleyball.
Having an indoor coach take on the outdoor coaching responsibility would be like a ping pong coach teaching tennis.
Yeah the sports seem similar but they couldn't be more different.
Sand volleyball has a completely different set of rules than indoor volleyball and there so many differences in how you play the game it's scary.
For one you can't set the serve, so how is an indoor coach going to teach that? Most indoor coaches wouldn't even know what to do in that situation so how are they going to teach proper form for receiving a serve that's over your head? They can't do it.
The setting is completely different and once again how can a coach teach something that he doesn't fully understand? Indoor coaches don't know a legal outdoor set from an illegal one.
The only way that sand volleyball will make it as a collegiate sport is if they hire actual beach volleyball coaches.
The sport itself has the potential to bring in more fans than indoor volleyball ever could.
There are more professional beach volleyball players in the U.
S.
than the 15 pro indoor players, so it would only make sense that this sport become a college sport for both men and women.