Volleyball Thread

[Galway Eagle]

Can someone explain the spring games to me?

[wadesworld]

Can someone explain the spring games to me?

Basically scrimmages.  They take on all different forms.  Some of them are at local club teams' practice facilities to get those teams interested in the college team and/or as a recruiting tool.  Some are mini tournaments where you'll have 4 schools come together at one location and play a round robin or play 2 of the 3 other teams.  Some are played at a neutral site.  Most will have no official scorebook or stat keeping, some will be best of 3 (more when there are multiple teams playing multiple matches), some best of 5.  Some will have coaches stopping play and coaching in the middle of the match.  Etc.

Basically "secret scrimmages" that aren't as much of a secret as Marquette makes them.  I believe all teams get 4 spring dates to play, and you can only travel a certain amount of miles from your campus (so Marquette couldn't just play Stanford for the fun of it...although Wisconsin just played 2 at Hawaii so not sure if that's considered Wisconsin's "foreign trip" since teams also get that every 4 years if they choose to, or if Hawaii gets an exception since they're outside of the mileage radius for everyone).

Most teams get most of their roster playing time, mix up lineups, etc.  Basically what you see from basketball's secret scrimmages.  Just because an Owens is Marquette's 3rd best player in a secret scrimmage doesn't mean he'll be a highly effective player as a freshman at Marquette.  Same deal with most of these spring matches.

[Galway Eagle]

Basically scrimmages.  They take on all different forms.  Some of them are at local club teams' practice facilities to get those teams interested in the college team and/or as a recruiting tool.  Some are mini tournaments where you'll have 4 schools come together at one location and play a round robin or play 2 of the 3 other teams.  Some are played at a neutral site.  Most will have no official scorebook or stat keeping, some will be best of 3 (more when there are multiple teams playing multiple matches), some best of 5.  Some will have coaches stopping play and coaching in the middle of the match.  Etc.

Basically "secret scrimmages" that aren't as much of a secret as Marquette makes them.  I believe all teams get 4 spring dates to play, and you can only travel a certain amount of miles from your campus (so Marquette couldn't just play Stanford for the fun of it...although Wisconsin just played 2 at Hawaii so not sure if that's considered Wisconsin's "foreign trip" since teams also get that every 4 years if they choose to, or if Hawaii gets an exception since they're outside of the mileage radius for everyone).

Most teams get most of their roster playing time, mix up lineups, etc.  Basically what you see from basketball's secret scrimmages.  Just because an Owens is Marquette's 3rd best player in a secret scrimmage doesn't mean he'll be a highly effective player as a freshman at Marquette.  Same deal with most of these spring matches.

Gotcha thanks. So looking at roster for these games isn't going to give me much of indication of whether players stay or leave. Or if the couple transfers in are going to be legit. Darn.

[wadesworld]

Gotcha thanks. So looking at roster for these games isn't going to give me much of indication of whether players stay or leave. Or if the couple transfers in are going to be legit. Darn.

Yeah pretty much not.  A lot of women's volleyball transfers do happen between the fall and spring semesters for the reason that there is a spring season and they can get into their new programs and develop, grow chemistry as a team, etc.  But with coaching changes and being in the gym and maybe seeing a player's role, there are transfers in the summer.

[Galway Eagle]

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