The 2017 NCAA women’s volleyball season is winding down slowly, with many institutions set our to make their claims for change during the “comment period” for NCAA legislation proposals.
What this means is that in November, the NCAA will provide minor changes to legislative proposals once conferences and institutions have had their chance to recommend their adjustments. Though, they will be making note of their changes the volleyball-specific legislative proposals will not be voted on until April 2018.
In the meantime, there are a few NCAA volleyball rule changes that are up for debate now.
1. Evaluation Days
- Proposal 2017-25: Counting evaluation days for coaches employment in non-institutional, privately owned camps outside of the contact/evaluation period and outside of a 50-mile radius from campus.
Essentially what this is proposing is that coaches working for a non-institutional and privately owned camp or clinic outside of a 50-mile radius from the campus will now count towards the coaches 80 annual evaluation days. With this though, if they are working a camp or clinic within 50-miles of the campus it will not count toward the 80-day limit.
This does eliminate the pressure of coaches feeling the need to work all of these camps it does put a strain on geographically isolated colleges. If a college is isolated from a larger metropolitan area, this comes at a real disadvantage for the coach.
2. Recruiting Calendar
- Proposal 2017-45: Recruiting calendar changes and the addition of more quiet periods.
This would put a huge advantage for a coach by shortening the days they are able to recruit from 291 to 218 days. The quiet periods would be as follows:
- August 1-31
- December 1-January 31
- February 1 – the Thursday before President’s Day
- May 1 – the Thursday before the first weekend of June
This rule change is to help college coaches be able to spend more time with their families, to spend more time coaching and training their players and lessen the amount spent on recruiting for college programs. This also helps out potential players in that their club season could be cut just slightly shorter to prevent the risk of injury and allow them to spend more time training on skills.
3. Off-Season Transportation
- Proposal 2017-67: The elimination of the ground transportation restriction during the non-championship playing segment.
Currently, unless there is not another Division I institution within a 400-mile radius of your school you have to use ground transportation. This proposal would allow for institutions to fly their teams to off-season competitions.
This is most beneficial in that is would not restrict a team competitively based on their geographic location. Though, this could potentially add more costs to some schools that are not in a decent vicinity of a major airport.
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