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Volleyball from sport court to the sand court-- from the preps to the pros and beyond. Home of College Volleyball Weekly Indoor/Beach. Episodes drop “most weeks.” Follow the pod on Instagram at @viralvolleymedia!
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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
The BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN... or at least on the CVW Men's Top 15! This week, the guys shout out to a former colleague, David Hunt, who received his 2nd consecutive National Championship as an Associate Head Coach for the Texas Longhorns. From the weeks of NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament action we saw significant viewership and attendance. The CVW Crew takes a look at how that can impact the Men's/Boys' side. Afterwards, we'll "kinda" preview the 2024 Men's Volleyball season with what the buzz is (or what information is available at the time of our recording)!
0:00:00 - Intro
1:11 – 12:00 – NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship & Dave Hunt
12:00 – 29:00 NCAA D1-2 New Kids On the Block, NCAA Tournament Auto-Bids, Expansion
29:00 - Coaching Moves at King University and CUI
31:45 – 2024 Preseason Chatter/Preview
59:00 – Top players to watch
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 11/7/23: In this special AVCA Fall Pairs Championship the newly crowned Pairs National Champions, TCU’s Lina Khmil and Hailey Hamlett share their experience at John Hunt (not Dave Hunt, like Rob “Freudian slipped” for former Men’s Top 15 contributor) Memorial Sports Complex in Huntsville, AL on their road to the National Championship match. We chat a little bit afterward about what the Sandy Frogs could like in 2024 come February!
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
With the 2023 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship in Fairfax, VA, a new champion has been crowned-- the UCLA Bruins, however, there was no shortage of excellent play from the opening rounds until the finals. With that, the CVW crew reviews the matches and All-America reception (video available on @robonthemic YouTube), and discusses their thoughts on each match until the final! We had to run through the matches during the week but we'll most likely have one more episode to recap issues and the entire season!
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
From Tucson, Arizona, to Gulf Shores, Alabama to Fairfax, Virginia, the CVW crew makes due with what they've got to discuss final week of Collegiate Beach Volleyball tournaments, the NCAA selection show, and what to expect at Gulf Shores-- all while on the road! Listen in
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
The home of the 2023 Men's Volleyball National Championship is at George Mason University's Eagle Bank Arena, so in this bonus episode of College Volleyball Weekly Jay (since Jay was doing NCAA business) shares his thoughts on the conference tournaments that happened this last week, as we go into even more detail of HOW GOOD THIS BRACKET IS (HUGE KUDOS TO THE NCAA COMMITTEE)!
Jay and Rob discuss some of the eye-catching athletes and matches leading up to the teams' automatic qualification, the At-Large selections and the resulting matchups that could occur as the National Championships begin Sunday!
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
NOTE: Due to technical difficulties I'm working through there are no intros/bumpers. Hopefully they'll be back soon! Instead, we jump right into the nitty-gritty. Timestamps MAY become available but my tech issues have usurped A LOT of time. Sorry.
First of all, thank you to all the listeners who came up and introduced themselves to Rob at the Big West Men's Volleyball Championship!
This week the CVW Coaching Panel (minus Jay Hosack) of Dan Friend of Lewis, Brad Rostratter of UCSD and Theo Edwards of CSUN get down to tourney business! We all chat on some of the eye-catching and NOT-SO surprising outcomes and results. After words they dives into their thoughts on the NCAA Committees Tournament selection and seedings. Did the committee get it right? Listen in!
Also, will discuss the teams and athletes to look out for in Fairfax along with some chatter on the matchups!
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
NOTE: You'll notice some differences in this week's episode. Had some technical difficulties producing. Hopefully normal format episodes will be back out next week! Thanks for listening!
This week, the CVW crew looks to the trees! The trees of Stanford in special guest and Freshman standout, Kelly Belardi and usual suspect, Charlie Ekstrom. This week saw very little movement in the CollegeBeachVB.com poll between 11-20, however, with upsets galore in the top 10 delve into the results and the teams that "made the move" last week. We'll also discuss conference tournament and NCAA at-large bid implications, and how it's going to be a slugfest for the 8 at-large bids.
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Week 15 of the NCAA Men's Volleyball season has concluded and the remaining conference tournaments (outside of the MIVA) will be in full effect!
This week the CVW Coaches' panel share there thoughts on each of the conferences' regular seasons and what to look for in their conferences' tournaments. The MIVA already featured one conference tournament upset, but can more be had as the Conference Carolinas, Big West, MPSF, EIVA start up, while the MIVA goes into the semis & finals!
NOTE: Remember to get your tickets to the NCs in Fairfax, VA!
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
As we move closer to the postseason we discuss Top-20 results that included some top-10 upsets, and how they've affected voters' analysis in the CollegeBeachVolleyball.com and AVCA polls. Then the CVW Beach crew discusses the conference scenarios for the AQ berth and the 13 potential teams that will be vying for 8 At-Large berths.
As always, we discuss what we'll be keeping an eye on in Week 8-- which for all of us will be the Center of Effort Challenge being hosted by Cal Poly, that will feature #1 TCU, #2 USC, #3 UCLA, #4 Florida St., #6 LMU, #11 Long Beach St., #20 Pepperdine and Cal Poly. It promises to be absolute brawls on the sands of Cal Poly!
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
The Coaches’ Panel prepares for the final season of regular season play, except for Dan of Lewis—who starts the MIVA Tournament on Saturday. As always, we discuss some of the eye-catching results from Week 14 and delve into AVCA poll voting. We then transition into postseason outlook and assessment by the guys.
Being that there will be MANY great matches this week, the guys try to pick just one to watch, then pick their Coaches’ Pick Player of the Week!
Rob also mentioned that the link to buy tickets for the 2023 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championships is a little challenging to find. If you’re looking to buy visit:
https://bit.ly/3mj5Tg0
00:45 Eye-Catching results in Week 14
14:15 AVCA poll voting discussion
19:30 Big West matches for CSUN & UCSD
23:47 EIVA Recap
26:45 Stanford/Grand Canyon
33:10 Non-NCAA Berth Conferences
33:55 Conference Carolinas Playoffs
39:45 MIVA Conference Playoffs
45:45 EIVA Conference Playoffs
50:50 MPSF Conference Playoffs
57:17 Big West Conference Playoffs