Optimistic assessment of the men’s game by George Mason’s Jay Hosack - Articles

George Mason head coach Jay Hosack has been involved in the game at the highest levels, including serving as an assistant coach for both USA men’s and women’s national teams and serving as a longtime assistant to men’s coach Mark Pavlik at Penn State. A year ago he took over at Mason and took the Patriots to their first trip to the NCAA tournament in 28 years. Hosack, the EIVA coach of the year, cares greatly about NCAA men’s volleyball and has many thoughts about its current situation and future, one that he says is a bright one. The final score: 1,060 to 109. Not even close. If it were a match, the losers would go home and lick their wounds, since it was a butt whupping by any standard. But it’s not a match score or even a season’s worth of match scores. Rather, this is the number of NCAA women’s volleyball programs compared to the number of men’s programs in the country. The numbers look like this (from the website scholarshipstats.com) Number of programs Men Women NCAA Division I — 23 men, 334 women NCAA Division II — 17 men, 294 women NCAA Division III — 69 men, 432 women Totals — 109 men, 1,060 women This doesn’t even take into account the NAIA (223 women’s programs as compared to 22 men’s), junior colleges (188 women’s,17 men’s), or the emerging NCAA beach volleyball programs, which we won’t even add into the equation because some of them are considered to be “dual” programs with some...

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