The Coaches Group Chat
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The Coaches Group Chat
S2E8: MVB Beer Olympics, Boycott the AVCA Rankings, Matt's NSFW Social Media
Our latest episode dives into the humorous and competitive world of Fantasy MVB Beer Olympics! We discuss team selection, strategies, and what it means to build a cohesive unit ready to take on the challenge.
• Introduction of our Beer Olympics draft
• Boycotting the AVCA rankings
• Matt's NSFW social media
• Capitol Hill Classic recap
• Women's volleyball roundup
A force to be reckoned with.
Speaker 2:You could be, but you also might fail the drug test Russia anti-doping agency. We're going to have to test you.
Speaker 3:The WADA, or whatever.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to compete under the umbrella of what?
Speaker 1:The USSR.
Speaker 2:That's definitely not it.
Speaker 3:It's the Olympic Federation, the Olympic Federation, russian Olympic Federation or whatever it. It's the Olympic. What's it called the Olympic Federation? Yeah?
Speaker 2:yeah yeah, the Olympic Federation, russian Olympic Federation or whatever it is Not the USSR.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to this week's episode of the Coaches Group Chat.
Speaker 2:Episode 8.
Speaker 1:I'm here with my co-host Chad, and his co-host Matt and his co-host Matt Not your co-host and everyone's favorite producer, Bobby. Bobby's here.
Speaker 3:Give them snacks.
Speaker 1:We got a great episode for you guys today.
Speaker 2:Ariel prepared a docket.
Speaker 1:I did, I actually prepared a docket in .5 seconds when we decided today we're recording today Okay, sounds good, and I sent a docket right off the bat and I went hard on my first one and I'm stoked on it.
Speaker 3:I went real hard. I was impressed I got the text eight to ten hours ago. I was like, oh, normally it's like eight to ten seconds.
Speaker 1:It's like recording. Go man, this is I don't know. I wasn't even thinking about it, like I didn't have this in my mind beforehand and I'd been waiting on it. I just heard we were recording and thought who should we put on our beer olympics team in college volleyball?
Speaker 3:like any normal person would think these are the questions I get asked all the time exactly it's so weird, exactly. Thank God we are finally tackling the tough, the hard-hitting questions, the tricky subjects, right yeah.
Speaker 1:So we've come up with rules. The rules are we each had to pick two players and one coach to be on our Beer Olympics team.
Speaker 2:Four-person Beer Olympics team.
Speaker 1:If we were competing and Chad brought up up a great question are you competing to have fun? Are you competing to win. A lot of ways to win beer olympics there are a lot of ways to win beer.
Speaker 2:That's for us to decide and we can explain our answers as we uh, as we go okay, so we're gonna do a draft we've kind of prepared.
Speaker 1:but we are also thinking that we're gonna get swooped on some people here, right, so we don't really have backup, so we're going to get swooped on some people here, right, so we don't really have backup, so we're just going to riff a little bit. Matt, do you want to go?
Speaker 3:That's fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'll go first.
Speaker 1:Give me the first round draft pick First round draft pick Must be a player correct. We'll go coaches first Whoa plot twist.
Speaker 3:I like coaches late.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're going players first Thank goodness, coach is late. Okay, we're going. Players first Thank goodness, all right, my first round draft pick, the number one overall pick in the coaches group, chat Beer Olympics. The inaugural draft, the inaugural To be competed at a later date.
Speaker 3:I'm selecting you guys ready for this? If it's my first pick, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2:I hope I'm saying his name right. Makua Marumoto, the outside hitter from concordia irvine, what? The hawaiian dude with the big tats. He's massive. He's my number one pick because he's come up, came up and talked to me a couple times. Number one, he's a homie. He's a straight chiller. So I know he's gonna be a good dude, but but he's got the size. Ariel has a good quote Beer Olympics, there's chuggers and there's shooters and I think he might kind of bring both to the table. He can outlast. He's got a good size on him. No idea, no, I know, I just can tell I could sense it. I could sense it when I talk to him. That was my number one pick. Okay, uh, that was my number one pick.
Speaker 1:Okay, concordia irvine, that's my guy I like it sure, I like it. Okay, over to you number two pick.
Speaker 2:Uh, nikolov is my number two pick for sure you're going, nikolov they've been drinking since they were like three years old.
Speaker 1:There's no question he's been like he's trained yeah, he's been training like that suggested an easy pick the age threshold over there.
Speaker 3:It's just, it's no, we're not.
Speaker 1:We're trying not to pick underage people in the United States, but international kids don't count.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, because I was going to say he's 18. Yeah, yeah, he's fine Celebrating those V&L wins. I mean, come on now, he's totally fine. That's fair. It's like Javi, puerto Rico, yes, when.
Speaker 1:Javi got in trouble when we were.
Speaker 3:For winning the 13 and under yeah, yeah, no, I mean in college, when javi got in trouble.
Speaker 2:He went into the drinking age in puerto rico is 18.
Speaker 1:He went into the athletic department was like but the drinking age is 18 in puerto rico. It's fine.
Speaker 2:And they were like okay you don't play in puerto rico.
Speaker 1:Welcome to stockton, california exactly, but okay, so so I got nikola bad chad's the snake, so let's hear Chad's one and two number one obviously had to go from the grittiest team.
Speaker 3:I don't know why you didn't do that. Lead setter captain in charge running the show Donovan okay sure.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 3:You need some leadership you gotta make sure everybody's doing the right stuff, participate in the right events, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1:Sure, I like that too.
Speaker 3:And he's gritty and there's no way that guy can't chug beers Great first pick. Yeah, I'm really happy with that actually.
Speaker 1:I can't believe you didn't pick a Northridge kid as your number one.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty embarrassed for you.
Speaker 2:I'm so embarrassed for you. When I think beer Olympics, I'm thinking I need size.
Speaker 3:I Do not bring this conversation right now.
Speaker 1:Neil, you know what.
Speaker 3:We were all there Keep going Round two Snaking it back. First pick of the second round, first pick of round two Went with the second grittiest team, the Lopes, obviously Going big time.
Speaker 3:Redshirt senior carter rogers okay and the reason I'm doing this. One bigger guy, a lot of experience, he's been there, redshirt senior not his first rodeo also competes at altitude, not with grand canyon, but he's from denver and so he's been training and he can, he can just he can go the distance when you when you need a way to well thought out, you're welcome, right? This is what happens when you give us the docket sorry okay.
Speaker 3:I had plenty of time to think about this, yeah, so he's gonna be able to compete in those events later in the afternoon when everyone else is winding down. No problem at all.
Speaker 2:I love your rationale, I love it. Yeah, it's factually correct, yeah, all right, ariel, second pick in the second round for you, good luck.
Speaker 1:I just tried to think of who the largest person is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I was going with, so McQuiggan ought to be up there. He was in my list also but it wasn't who I chose. It wasn't who I chose.
Speaker 3:That's who I chose.
Speaker 2:Genuinely good decision. My next choice Big body. Big body, it's like Andre the Giant out there.
Speaker 3:You don't know what you're going to play, but you're going to win something I got.
Speaker 1:Nikola, I got me and then I got McGuigan. We're good.
Speaker 2:Compensating.
Speaker 1:You're compensating.
Speaker 2:You're freaking, nikki, or something You're like? Just the tiniest, tiniest females out there well, yeah, it's not nikki.
Speaker 1:I love nikki, but I've got a different we all know nikki could win this too all right, all right.
Speaker 2:My second round pick. This comes from the pedigree right. When it comes down to it, sometimes it's just in your blood, it's in your dna your ability to compete at beer olympics, and I know for a fact say more that lu Luke McFall would be an absolute killer addition to the Beer Olympics squad.
Speaker 1:I agree with that.
Speaker 2:Because Aaron McFall and his mom, Lisa McFall, are great competitors at Beer Olympics.
Speaker 1:I've seen it up close and personal. They have competed in a Beer Olympics with us before.
Speaker 2:And I think the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and Luke McFall? Therefore, he would be a shooter and a chugger, and that's the unicorn that you're looking for.
Speaker 1:Luke is just the life of the party, so I applaud that pick. I think that that's great, thank you.
Speaker 2:Now let me go to my coach, if I may. I need to round out my team. I think I've got size, I've got the chugging, I've got a unicorn that can shoot and drink in Luke McFall. I'm less of a chugger but I'm definitely a gamer. I can I can shoot, so I'm going to play there. So I need someone who's going to be rounded and out. Mainly I need vibes. So I'm going vibe edition here. This is a, this is a glue guy coach. I'm going Brad Rostrader.
Speaker 2:That's so funny, for the humor, for the comedy, to bring the family together. I would love to drink 22 beers with brad rostrader on a sunday morning. You know like that would be the perfect addition to my team. So there you go.
Speaker 1:That's how I'm rounding out my squad, ariel, over to you uh, I am going very on brand for my team right now and I'm going milan thank god I had a backup, but I was yeah, I've got milan that's a layup right there, uh he can handle nikola for me great easy. He's also been drinking beer since he was three years old.
Speaker 2:This is like good yeah, I think I'm gonna look at all these games and be like what is this?
Speaker 1:I definitely went, I went to win I did go for winning beer olympics. I didn't go for. Like we're just here for a good time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm trying to mix it. I went, I went, winning that's nice, that's good for you. I'm trying to win, so I've got eastern block yeah, we're all right, chad man, I did Follow that up.
Speaker 3:You had Milan. He was my top. He was my top coach. Luckily, I'm really happy that I get to share my second, because it's also an excellent. This is years of experience, one of the longest tenured coaches in the game.
Speaker 2:I went Mark Pavlik.
Speaker 3:That's wild, that's vibes also and that's just, that's penn state for decades. I'm not, I'm not worried about him running at the end or anything like that. We're not asking him to do that, but tactically I mean, he's just, he's just gonna have it you guys are both gonna have a lot more fun at vera living.
Speaker 1:I am yeah Well, you're not going to speak. The language is your problem, it's true.
Speaker 3:But yeah, have have was the the easy number two. I like that yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow, I mean honestly, can we make this happen? That's a great sound in beer Olympics.
Speaker 3:We got to go do it in like Europe because Nikola is 18.
Speaker 2:But you, know beyond that. I think everything else kind of checks the box, Pick a date, I don't know.
Speaker 1:All right, what else? Yeah, queen of the dog. Great, I can't read that. That's a great start.
Speaker 3:Great starting question. I can't read that far away. It only gets worse from here, I guess.
Speaker 2:Would you like me to move that closer for you?
Speaker 1:Thank, you oh the ABCA rankings.
Speaker 3:I heard there was beef, exactly.
Speaker 2:I'm boycotting. These don't exist. They don't have an allergic reaction to the ABCA rankings.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What pissed you off the most this week?
Speaker 2:What pissed me off the most this week? It just pisses me off that you don't get to see who they're voting for. When you don't have ownership, people just get lazy, nothing changes.
Speaker 1:What was the laziest about nothing changed.
Speaker 2:Penn State at 20 still pisses me off. Sorry, Paff.
Speaker 3:Not what he's being recruited for anymore.
Speaker 2:They shouldn't be in the top 20. Ngit is also right there. They just lost to Penn State. That was one. I think McKendree should be in the top 10. That's just where I'm at on things. The only teams they've lost to Number 10 right now is I don't even know.
Speaker 1:Let's pull up these horse shit rankings.
Speaker 2:But I can give you what I think it should be. I can give you my top 10. But first and foremost, can we just make the announcement that from here on out, we are making to be named TBD. We have a couple great options out there right now, but the Coaches Group chat will be doing a poll each week Because, quite honestly, fuck the ABCA poll. It's bullshit. We're moving on. We're going to our own rankings, matt, to the dark side.
Speaker 1:Matt has gone, very rogue rankings.
Speaker 2:Matt to the dark side. Matt has gone very rogue. Would you like me to go my top 10 first, or do you guys have anything you'd like to share on your avca thoughts, because I think stanford should drop back also. That was another one that I was I was bumming on. Oh see, son, at 10 yes, he's on, cracked into the top 10, as they should so you okay.
Speaker 1:So who you think stanford should be back and I I would.
Speaker 2:Here's. Here's my top 10. I I agree with the majority of what they had. I'd do a little swaps long beach at one, ucla at two, because they took down irvine twice, irvine at three. I'd move usc ahead of hawaii at four, hawaii at five, csun at six. I think we bump CSUN up. The only loss they've got is two USC. Then we're going to BYU at seven. Loyola would be at eight. I'd put McKendree right behind them at nine and I'd bump Pepperdine back to ten. Stanford would be just outside the top ten at eleven. That would be my current rankings as they stand. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2:I think the Kendrick could drop at any point, as they should, if they lose.
Speaker 1:I think that makes sense and I don't think that Stanford deserves to be in the top 10 right now.
Speaker 2:Don't get me wrong. I love the Stanford boys. This is a tough love situation. You lose to the Masters you're dropping. You have to drop. I don't care if you didn't start all your starters. You lose to the Masters. You're dropping, you have the majority of your group in there. You got to take care of that win. You can't do that. You're moving back. Yeah, I agree, tough shit. We move forward. There you go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know. I agree, I think with all that stuff I'd probably kick Pepperdine out of the time before Stanford. Why? Because I like Stanford more All right fair. Don't push me.
Speaker 2:At least you're putting your name on it.
Speaker 3:Fine, yeah, I mean I don't. I think the word is just lazy on some of this stuff. Yeah, Just like it's just like oh, you get this email and you're like oh, man, like I got a, all right, just whatever.
Speaker 1:I don't like conference biases. That's the other part of this is like there is a cover for it and there's conference biases, so it's like it was also named brand bias. That's the only reason Penn state's like people don't give mckendry the top 10 because they're like what's a mckendry?
Speaker 2:okay, that's like all fun and games to say but then like, beta bay gets ranked higher because it's beta bay, so like we can't just like sure exactly why you need an elo algorithm.
Speaker 3:Agreed, completely agreed yeah, it's just human bias yeah, that's how that's, understandably.
Speaker 2:Understandably so, especially when you're dealing so things you don't know about.
Speaker 1:So we're saying that we're all about human bias. Human bias is fine, as long as the human is willing to stand up in front of everybody and say this is what I voted for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then you get yelled at if it's bad, exactly, you take ownership and then, yeah, that way, that's what's the easiest way to get people to actually pay attention, because if you're paying attention, attention, you see the results that are coming in. You're gonna make adjustments, you're still gonna have your bias just like all of us do, just like chad just admitted himself that wasn't biased, I've got my c-sum bias, obviously but that's what am I, what's my bias? What's your bias?
Speaker 1:I don't have any serbians bulgarians do I have any bias in college volleyball.
Speaker 2:Yeah, stanford is definitely a bias for you.
Speaker 1:Sure, but like get out of the top 10. I need to figure out what my bias, my actual bias, is. It's a place.
Speaker 3:It's called Sofia, bulgaria. That's your current bias right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Go Europeans. Yeah, I agree. Okay, cool so we're doing our rankings now.
Speaker 3:Who's voting for it? You, me.
Speaker 2:We're going to put it out there, we're going to put it into the ether and see who else wants to put their name on it.
Speaker 1:We have one board seat up for debate.
Speaker 2:I would love to see any college coach that wants to put their name on it. Come, put your name on it.
Speaker 3:Theo Edwards, you've been summoned.
Speaker 2:Brad Rostrader, you're a Vibes guy. Come on, vibes guy, let's see your rankings. Let's see you legitimately put it out there for the world to see.
Speaker 1:Or just calling people out.
Speaker 2:I invite any college coach that votes in the ABCA, to put your votes out there for the public to see.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's Matt's version. My version is assistant coaches. I want to make a poll for all the assistant coaches Spencer Wickets, Actually you know, what. I don't know about that. I don't want assistant coaches to feel pressure. Their jobs are dependent on things. I don't want them to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I don't want them to be yeah, yeah, I don't want to get in heat. Why do you think the head coaches don't want to show their votes? Because they don't want anything to reflect back on their jobs.
Speaker 1:But the assistant coaches are making like $19,000 a year. That's not fair.
Speaker 2:With all that big men's college volleyball money, the head coaches you need to put your name on it, sorry, okay. College volleyball money the head coach.
Speaker 1:I know you need to put your name on it sorry.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we'll let any send some emails.
Speaker 3:We'll push them. We'll put some feelers out there. We'll see if anyone wants to step up to the plate as we move on.
Speaker 1:The next item on the docket is matt hoolahan's instagram account it's a problem, he's a problem. Make it stop let's just address the elephant in the room. Matt, is the elephant get out of my room why?
Speaker 3:there's so many fucks in your all your videos it's like a lot of fucks, so many fucks.
Speaker 2:Like a hard q too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not like a ck, it's a hard oh um, matt, why don't you give everybody a little bit of insight into your uh?
Speaker 3:split personality disorder.
Speaker 2:Uh, yeah, uh, a lot of commentary. There's been been doing a lot of voiceovers as of as of late the way, uh, my favorite, so one of my favorite instagram follows of all time is a. It's a podcast group of guys called who's next sports and they do these hysterical highlight video mashups. So 1000, just a. I'm a teamu knockoff version of them and I find it hysterical. But I just wanted to apply it to volleyball and I was like I'm gonna make one of these videos, let's just see how it goes, and it kind of it kind of hit and I got a comment on. I got I got two comments on like the first one I posted being like I have never watched men's volleyball before but for some reason, I watched this entire video and I was like ding, ding, ding, I think we're on to something here, um.
Speaker 2:so yeah, I just kind of continued to mess around with it and now I just make videos about my friends Taylor Averill and Benjamin patch and Moses Wagner and Vogel getting some ass, some ass laps.
Speaker 3:How'd you even find?
Speaker 2:that, like I was. I just went back and watched it on volumetrics and saw that, saw that play happen and was like, oh, that's perfect, that's what I want to. I'm going to showcase that. But now, anytime I don't do like a surprise edit, I get a bunch of people commenting me like where's the surprise edit? I'm like I'm allowed to do other things too. Ok, let me. Let me have my time here. I just want to do my little recap videos. They're going to be really blown away when I start nerding out on club director stuff. They're going to be like, well, this is not what I fucking signed up for. Unfollow. So yeah, that's my current instagram split personality you seem like you're having fun.
Speaker 2:I am having fun. It's a lot of fun, that's. That's all that matters to me because it's a good time.
Speaker 3:I need to stop following you, probably, but like I love that you're having fun I'm actually very glad that you're doing it why is?
Speaker 1:that because I think that it uh gives people more of an insight. This is a deeper reason, but I think it gives people more of an insight of you haven't always been the club director that you are now. You used to be this shit uh, shit, talking outside hitter that like like always was like fucking with people, yeah, and like that hasn't been a part of your identity or brand for a really long time, and so I think that that version of you coming out in this is like a good thing for people to see. I think it's relatable and I think it's a.
Speaker 1:I think it's a cool thing for you to bring back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's very fair. Yeah, For those of you who don't know, we're married and so you've known me for a long time on a deeper level. But yeah, when we took over the club, so much was immediately like must look professional.
Speaker 1:Also, I was also telling you grow up. Like too. There was a lot of it that was like like every, let everybody get your shit together like grow up and we need to pretend that we're older than we are, and so, like that version of like, you kind of had to be like put away a little bit more, but I'm glad that life is a circle.
Speaker 2:And now we're back to the immature now we're reverting back.
Speaker 3:Now he has a mustache, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I think it's a good thing. I think that it's a real version of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, a lot of it is how I speak with my friends, and so that's part of what we always try and do is just communicate, like that's what the Coach's Group chat is.
Speaker 1:I do think you might need to turn it back a little bit.
Speaker 2:sometimes my dad, I got to share this story.
Speaker 1:My dad didn't text me.
Speaker 2:He didn't call me. He sent me an email.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, sir.
Speaker 2:He gave me a great my dad, such a coach, such a coach. He gave me a compliment sandwich. He's like Matt, I love you and I love what you have built at Beta Bay. I love you and I love what you have built at Beta Bay, but please be aware of how your language comes across on social media. It's a lot of like I said before, I love you and I'm very proud of what you have built and how you communicate things to all of the people out in the volleyball world. Love you, dad. Bye. So yes, I uh, I'm.
Speaker 1:I'm finding the balance of, uh, of my immaturity and I also think that that there's a lot of people that don't understand that like in social media oh yeah, like. It needs to happen more. It's not like this filtered version like instagram or tiktok or all this stuff is not supposed to be this like super curated thing anymore. It's real like and it's like.
Speaker 2:This is how you I'm not trying to hide how I talk- no, I'm trying to like and of course, I also don't think that it's there's stuff that's like this is funny, haha jokes yeah, like we're just we're having fun out here yeah it's not.
Speaker 1:It's not that deep, totally um but for every one person that doesn't agree with one thing, there are 10 people that do agree or whatever. Like there is. I did a video about.
Speaker 2:I also. I will stand by this. I'm tired of people hitting people in the face and then going under the net to apologize. Yeah, I'm tired of it Like stop, and I did that video and I had a person send me a direct message being like I got hit in the face by a volleyball and had a horrible concussion for three months and you should stop glorifying headshots or whatever. I was like all right, all right. You literally can't win, like I wasn't glorifying headshots.
Speaker 2:I was just saying stop making our sport look soft by going and apologizing every single time.
Speaker 1:I've ever made a joke about any sort of like split personality disorder that I have or whatever. People come after me and my message is saying that I like you need to stop and like that's an actual diagnosed thing. It's like I got it. Like comedy is comedy, relax, like everybody. Like the whole cancel for you being offended by one thing that happens. Okay, whatever, brush it off. People talk the way they want. It's all good, but maybe turn it back a little bit with your Less fucks.
Speaker 2:That's the takeaway I have here.
Speaker 1:Honestly, whatever Update or recap.
Speaker 3:You guys want me to take this one, or do you want to kick us off? How about from afar?
Speaker 1:Chad. What did Capitol Hill look like from afar?
Speaker 3:It looked like a lot of people talking to your 18s kids and a lot of running presidents. A lot of people talking to your 18s kids and a lot of running presidents. A lot of you standing.
Speaker 1:They were actually only there for two hours.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but like.
Speaker 1:But it looked like they were there for the entire time?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it should. A lot of you standing talking to Kylan from afar, A little bit of on the move. I think that was the escalator.
Speaker 1:Sure, but mostly stationary.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Bobby, how did Capitol Hill look from afar?
Speaker 2:The only thing I saw about Capitol Hill was Peter Criss' Instagram story with 700,000. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:He was the only one that did the repost of all the posts. He did every single one.
Speaker 2:If I did that, the boys were all about it.
Speaker 1:I think that they were surprised. They had to have been surprised. That's kind of why I was glad they were there, but it was. Can you lay it?
Speaker 2:out for the listeners of what happened?
Speaker 1:here, Okay, so my family runs a tournament and I go back every year and help them and have done the content and social media for the event for the last decade and over the last, uh, I think since last year. I think that there was a couple of kids on my team made the comment of like I want to go to that. And so this year I made it an open invite to all of them. Of like if you guys come, I'll like have you guys work for the staff and like you guys can like we'll have you guys do anything. Like we've got we've got room for you guys. And so four of them worked at the event and one of them was coaching in the event. So I had five of them there, um, and it was like I mean it's, it was like chaos is the easiest way to describe it. It was. I mean they were taking pictures the entire time. Like it was yeah, it was wild, wild it was really fun to watch it was the coolest thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was just, it was. I mean, it's happened, I don't know. It's something that, like I'm trying to navigate, of like how it was much different for me this year than it was for any other year because, like I can't go outside without like people taking wanting to little girls and stuff, and it was super fun. Um, I also couldn't have like a normal conversation on the floor ever, so that was a little bit difficult. Um, it's just like a different experience now. But like we had this like meet and greet that I showed up to at the awards area, whatever, and like like packed, like absolutely packed, and like I couldn't even believe it. And then like was standing there and watching and like they are all off to the side and all of the girls are like taking pictures with them, and all I wanted to do like the whole time was like just watch what was going on there, because it was just the cutest thing.
Speaker 2:I've ever seen. It was really funny watching Riley and Hallie watch all that, because they kind of dealt with it last year, but this year they realize it more than people taking photos with you, but then also people taking photos with the boys. Hallie, who loves Peter, onriel's team, was like getting jealous and so she was like just staying and she was getting in all the photos with peter and like, uh, it was just fun to watch them, just how. Yeah, the whole the whole environment.
Speaker 1:Also, like we all go to these tournaments for a full weekend and you, uh, who you are before the weekend starts and then what you go through until after the weekend, it feels like you're a whole different person by the end. And so for the kids that were there for them to go through that and like just see what it was like on the other side of it, see how the event is run on the other side of it, they were so tired. I've never seen them as tired as they were at that event.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Um it's a different it's a just, you work different muscles in your brain. I don't think they've ever seen the amount of stimulation that you go through.
Speaker 1:I mean, they were, they were so tired and, yeah, it was just a really really special thing for them to. I don't know what it would have been like if all of the girls weren't taking pictures of them the whole time, because it really was, I think, worth it for all of them because they were getting so much attention and so, for as tired as they were, it was awesome. If they weren't getting all that attention, I don't know how it would have been.
Speaker 2:I'm never coming back, they're like. This is the worst Like can I give a little micro shout out?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I sent Chad the video. Kylan captured it. But uh, we were all at the social media booth and Ariel's taking photos of the. Uh, a bunch of girls and a dad came up to me on the side and he like, looks at me and he just turns his phone it was so wild he's got the coaches group chat, episode six, up on his phone he's like this is you he's like I, I'm literally was I'm listening to you right now.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh oh, episode six. A banger, I mean, I get it on video kylan's filming me this whole time and like the guy comes over and he just like turns his phone. He was just listening to it.
Speaker 2:He was just yeah, he's like he had his AirPod on.
Speaker 1:He was listening to this podcast and I and then Matt was like hey, look, and like I, and he shows me and I was like, oh my gosh, immediately we're nationwide baby.
Speaker 2:So to our guy out there yeah, we love you, our one guy.
Speaker 1:We appreciate you. Yeah, that's what it's like. You're one of our tens of listeners get into the ground floor.
Speaker 3:It's a niche kind of product.
Speaker 1:It was so cute though yeah it was awesome it was a really really great weekend it was.
Speaker 2:it was minus the kids getting sick and we were supposed to go to Mexico. That didn't happen. That's a story for another podcast, don't worry about that.
Speaker 1:Whatever, but it was cool for the kids on my team.
Speaker 2:CHC was a great one, for sure.
Speaker 1:Anything happen in the women's volleyball world.
Speaker 3:All I can think of is when you were, like announced that she retired and I'm just like, oh, I think of this one, when you were like announced that she retired.
Speaker 1:Did anybody die recently?
Speaker 2:No, no deaths, no retirements that I'm aware of.
Speaker 1:I think the real question in women's volleyball is what are all the Florida players going to do?
Speaker 2:They made their hiring decision.
Speaker 1:They made their hiring decision. They made their hiring decision and I think the girls have kind of like put themselves in an interesting position of like hire who we want, now they didn't, and now they're like whoa do we, what do we do? So I'm interested to see how that plays out.
Speaker 2:Can I break some news?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:On the on the pod.
Speaker 1:We have a men's opening.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Chrisris did that happen today? That happened today, cypher cypher.
Speaker 1:Thank you, chris stepping down.
Speaker 2:Okay, from concordia, their interesting assistant coach is stepping in to be the interim head. Uh, but yeah, I got word from a reliable source. Why I don't know, I'm not going to speculate. This is a breaking news concordia is a revolving door yeah, I mean it is a tough, it's just a tough place. Yeah right, like support wise, it's definitely on the lower compensation scale. Um, it's an expensive place to get kids into. You don't get a lot there, so second head coach out mid-season uh mid-season yeah.
Speaker 2:Wild. I don't know what the circumstances are If he is moving into a different coaching position, if he's out of the coaching ranks altogether, whatever it may be, but yes heard today that that is a step that is taking place. And then we did actually have another men's volleyball coach that got poached to the women's side. Uc San Diego's assistant coach.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, she's a USC now.
Speaker 2:Now at USC Blossom Sato.
Speaker 1:I love how this podcast treats women's volleyball like the majority of the country treats men's volleyball as like this kind of afterthought. Yeah, that's like, it's like our children we always talk about men's volleyball and then sometimes we're like, oh yeah, women's volleyball, but then we go right back to men's volleyball really, really quickly our kids.
Speaker 2:Our kids literally think that volleyball is a boy sport.
Speaker 1:They have no other every time they see girls play volleyball, even at the tournament, they're like, wow, this is all girls I'm like yes, this is all girls. I'm like, yes, this is all girls. What are you talking?
Speaker 2:about. Yeah, yeah, they're shook. We took them when the first time we ever took them to Stanford women's game. They were like we're going to the girl, they have a girls volleyball team, so weird yeah that's.
Speaker 1:But that's the world we're in. So women's volleyball. Okay, I will say my favorite, my favorite moment from capitol hall. Really quickly, we splice this in here. Yep, no, I mean, you can, we can end whatever. Uh, we don't have anything else in the back, I don't think. Uh, riley, these little girls come over and they're trying to take a picture or whatever, and riley's over doing bag tags and they start talking to her and I see them like having a conversation and so I'm like listening and they go do you play volleyball? And she goes, yeah, and I was like, what are you talking about? You?
Speaker 3:play volleyball. She was like yeah, I play volleyball.
Speaker 1:And it was like she was trying to impress these little girls. It was like that is the cutest thing I've ever seen. It was. It was awesome yeah thing I've ever seen. It was it was awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was like looking up, she was like yeah, eyes wide, totally not in her head.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah it was really cute. She doesn't have a lot of interactions with girls volleyball players so I was like that's awesome yeah, she also just loves kids that are older than her too.
Speaker 2:She's like this is amazing. You're talking to me, uh, but chad, give us your. You had a woman's volleyball update. I was I.
Speaker 3:I was going to say they announced the ABCA first serve teams and those matchups.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the Vanderbilt's in it. Right, and he's in it yeah.
Speaker 1:Corbelli making it Russell. What are we talking about?
Speaker 3:This is so they started doing this, or they brought this back last year and it was like Wisconsin and Nebraska and whatever, but it was like the opening weekend that you can compete for women's volleyball so this is like the last weekend of August-ish.
Speaker 3:And so they made it bigger this year. So they start in Lincoln and Nebraska plays Pitt, stanford plays Florida, on Saturday, penn State, creighton, kansas and Ulmer take on Vandy for the first time in their season, and then Sunday, nebraska, stanford, florida, pitt, and then they move on. Monday they go up to Sioux Falls and South Dakota. I don't know exactly why, but Texas A&M plays Minnesota and then Kansas plays Penn State up there.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's just the ABCA putting on the event.
Speaker 3:It is, yeah, like I think in. I don't know if they do like all of it or how exactly it goes, but I know in lincoln they're doing it in pba, like the big where they play basketball, the pinnacle bank, um, rather than devaney and they're trying to make it a big big thing and get a lot of eyeballs on the sport early in the year, kind of thing cool.
Speaker 1:So if you want us to come out and be there for that, let us know I'll be there, are you?
Speaker 3:I booked my ticket this morning, oh really well, I thought about going this past year because, like Volley Station does some stuff so you're going to Volley Station, not with us do you want to go to Lincoln during the first weekend of Bay to Bay practices?
Speaker 1:yeah, probably great, come on down, okay cool yeah, there's no direct flights that stinks, I know but you gotta go to denver first uh, yeah, san jose denver, yeah, dang, that's cool though it's like a.
Speaker 3:It's like college basketball yeah, so you can book it in nine months just so I know I'll text matt yeah I like it.
Speaker 2:That's a college basketball runs a bunch of those style of events at the beginning of the year too, just like you bring a lot of top teams together in a different, like you know, neutral site, different neutral site type of a place.
Speaker 1:Bring the top podcasters in to cover it.
Speaker 3:Sponsored by Volleyball World. There you go.
Speaker 2:All those D-list celebrities.
Speaker 1:I love that I keep making a plug for us to cover things. And I'm not trying to be a reporter, I'm just trying to go to cover things and I'm like, not trying to be a reporter, I'm just trying to go to fun things.
Speaker 2:If I can say, fuck a lot, I'll be a reporter.
Speaker 3:We could report on it after the fact, from this couch that's true, and we're gonna do that. No matter, nobody can tell us not to do that, I'll let you know how it was, if you don't make it.
Speaker 1:Join us next week for another episode of Chad's podcast with the hula hands.
Speaker 2:It's the best. Adios.