Wednesday, April 1, 2009
4/1/2009
Division I-HCC-April 1, 2009
1. Economic Reaction: Where can money be cut without affecting the student athlete?
- Ways to cut costs
- If funded on own, should be able to go--Issues on rulings on Title IX
- Spring travel/competition
- Lose chance to develop and compete
- Can cut travel/overnight costs
- Limit it without eliminating
- Cutting number of dates used
- Reducing # of contests during regular season
- Increase matches and decrease costs by playing in a series format (Conference USA doing this)
- Cluster format: tri-matches; bring 2 schools into 1 other school (3 total)
- Reduce amount of time in recruiting calendar
- Eliminating media guide printing (strictly electronic)
- Cut positions and professional development-hold back some camp money instead
2. Recruiting Task Force
- Voting through AVCA link
- Still need help getting people to vote from conferences
- Have to get a certain percentage of votes
- Currently at 161 votes. Needs to be 80%; currently at 51%
- Rules/Education Emails: important especially to high school and club-education to those who don't have it
3. AVCA Update
- Spring Conference
- JVDA Event & Talent Showcase
- AVCA Social Networking on Twitter and Facebook
- Tampa speaker application deadline
- AVCA Career Student & Student Membership
- Tips & Techniques for Power Tips and Coaching Volleyball
- Tracy McWilliams @ TX State named as the new Assistant Coach Rep on the AVCA Board of Directors
