Updated: Volleyball committee recommends changes

This is old news, but the volleyball committee recommended and announced changes to the regional rankings and selection criteria at the annual meeting in January. Notable nuggets from the report:

• Recommended ranking 15-21 percent of teams in the eight regions, with a maximum of 10 teams (The committee would prefer to rank eight teams in each region). UPDATE: Championships committee did not take action • Recommended seeding the final eight teams. UPDATE: Approved for one-year trial • Announced bid allocations as 43 Pool A, 1 Pool B, 20 Pool C (same as last season). • Announced nonconference strength of schedule will be added to the secondary criteria beginning this season. • Announced results versus regionally ranked opponents will include teams ranked in both the final ranking and the preceding ranking beginning this season. • Recommended creating a pronunciation guide for the online selection show announcers [my favorite recommendation].

I think the proposed and announced changes are positive ones. See the first link above for several other agenda items.

-Ricky Nelson