Long Beach State Athletics!: Re: MVB: NIL Tournament in Februray cancelled

The bigger issue here is the Long Beach St has decided to fund TWO D1 mens sports that barely have any national exposure. Facts?

Water polo and Volleyball have 27 and 28 teams nationally. Only mens rifle, fencing and skiiing have less.

Mens sports that have more participation that LB COULD have instead?

1. Soccer - 210 D1 programs
2. Swimming 130
3. Wrestling 78
4. Lacrosse 76
5. Ice hockey 64

Maybe it's time to add a soccer program. You have the field and the balls (?).. Maybe get out of the WP game since you're NEVER going to beat the SC, UCLA, Stanfords of the world.

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I think it says more about how disorganized this event was as well as naive and ineffective USA VB and whoever was. All fluff and no show. Would be interesting to get from Speraw what went down, and be frank about it.

It was to do a 'test drive' for the 2028 Olympics and promote VB for OC and the Honda. It's pretty obvious the HOnda Center didn't need or want that. Maybe USA VB thought they could get a 'freebee' tossed their way.

It was going to pay NIL money. I mean, 72 athletes, say $1.5 each average. that's $100k. Obviously nobody was going to belly that amount up, more naivety

the idea of Big West vs. MPSF top teams was fantastic, the thing is it didn't need either NIL or HOnda to make it happen, could have taken place on one or two sites (Galen or PYramid), and not conflict with Basketball. More lack of foresight

in the end looks like Beach will play @ UCLA as usual, so not that much of a biggie

hindsght is 2020, just another demonstration of trying to do too much when too much didn't need to be done.

If USA VB was leading the charge, they had an epic swing and a miss.

can imaging some Hawaii fans forked out money to travel for it, and left in the lurch.

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Says a lot about the stature of men's volleyball in the NCAA when you can't get enough money for the top four teams in the country...

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the entire thing fell apart.

for now, Beach schedule now has @ UCLA on Feb. 20, so back to the traditional home and home with UCLA.

wanted to see us play USC this year.

that tourney needed a lot of money for what they were trying to do. Hawaii points the finger at USA VB et. al.

https://x.com/HawaiiMensVB/status/2016272725787214049