This last week brought more than a handful of upsets and a multitude of stellar play in the young 2024 NCAA Men's Volleyball season. From Penn St.'s TWO upsets of Ohio St., the remaining undefeated teams of GCU, Stanford and Long Beach St. it has been pure intensity and excitement from week to week. The share their thoughts on Week 4 action, their players of the week and give us insight of what to look for in our "Whatcha Watchin'" in Week 5 segment!

It’s the Dan Friend Birthday Episode! In this week’s episode Dan Friend shares some information on the recent approval of Division 2 Championships and how it could be implemented in the next few years. Obviously growth in the men’s game is being seen throughout D1 as well with the addition of Menlo College, Vanguard and now William Jessup University. We take a few moments to explore this growth before we go into our normal weekly routine. When it comes to growth on the men’s side lots of...

NOTE: Interviewed Jacob, before the MIVA weekly awards came out. Congrats, Jacob on being selected MIVA Offensive Player of the Week! Interview with Senior OH, Jacob Pasteur of the current No, 4 Ohio St. Buckeyes, who are off to a stupendous 4-0 start for the 2024 season. A lot of the success has been due to the play of Jacob as he gears up for the 3rd annual First Point Collegiate Challenge in Austin, Texas.  In our discussion we discuss the end of the 2023 season, the NCAA Men's Volleyball...

This week’s episode starts out my remembering and honoring Tom Tait, the founder of Penn St. Men’s and Women’s Volleyball who passed late last week. He was the catalyst of volleyball in Pennsylvania, the East Coast and EIVA. Coach Tait invested his life into volleyball and the people who were around him—including Russ Rose (PSU WVB) and Mark Pavlik (PSU MVB). The CVW MT20 crew discusses some of the top matches in Week 2 of the 2024 NCAA Men’s D1-2 Volleyball season that include a few upsets...

This week our coaching panel of Brad Rostratter of UCSD, Dan Friend of Lewis, Jay Hosack of George Mason and Theo Edwards of CSUN along with host, Rob-on-the-Mic, discuss the following news items of the week: Allowance of “The Double” from VolleyballMag.com The AVCA Preseason Pol, going to a Top 20 for the first time (hence the name change on the show to CVW MT20) 10 Loyola splitting the matches vs. No. 3 Hawaii (Lukas Anderson serving sub 5th set at 12-8, between OC boys (Jake Read, Cole...

Happy New Year! Tonight teams begin to take court for the first time in 2024 Men's D1-2 Volleyball season-- and with that HUGE EXCITEMENT! It was IMPERATIVE we at least get some matches we're watching out for this week, but as things would go some great news items have broken so we discuss those also! We start off with the renaming of the MIVA Championship Trophy; discuss the retiring of MiddleHitter.com's Jerry Strub and his longtime contributions to the game; VolleyballMag.com's "Hotshot...

The BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN... or at least on the CVW Men's Top 15! This week, the guys shout out to a former colleague, David Hunt, who received his 2nd consecutive National Championship as an Associate Head Coach for the Texas Longhorns. From the weeks of NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament action we saw significant viewership and attendance. The CVW Crew takes a look at how that can impact the Men's/Boys' side. Afterwards, we'll "kinda" preview the 2024 Men's Volleyball season with what the...

College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 11/7/23: In this special AVCA Fall Pairs Championship the newly crowned Pairs National Champions, TCU’s Lina Khmil and Hailey Hamlett share their experience at John Hunt (not Dave Hunt, like Rob “Freudian slipped” for former Men’s Top 15 contributor) Memorial Sports Complex in Huntsville, AL on their road to the National Championship match. We chat a little bit afterward about what the Sandy Frogs could like in 2024 come February!

With the 2023 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship in Fairfax, VA, a new champion has been crowned-- the UCLA Bruins, however, there was no shortage of excellent play from the opening rounds until the finals. With that, the CVW crew reviews the matches and All-America reception (video available on @robonthemic YouTube), and discusses their thoughts on each match until the final! We had to run through the matches during the week but we'll most likely have one more episode to recap issues and the...

From Tucson, Arizona, to Gulf Shores, Alabama to Fairfax, Virginia, the CVW crew makes due with what they've got to discuss final week of Collegiate Beach Volleyball tournaments, the NCAA selection show, and what to expect at Gulf Shores-- all while on the road! Listen in

The home of the 2023 Men's Volleyball National Championship is at George Mason University's Eagle Bank Arena, so in this bonus episode of College Volleyball Weekly Jay (since Jay was doing NCAA business) shares his thoughts on the conference tournaments that happened this last week, as we go into even more detail of HOW GOOD THIS BRACKET IS (HUGE KUDOS TO THE NCAA COMMITTEE)! Jay and Rob discuss some of the eye-catching athletes and matches leading up to the teams' automatic qualification,...

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties I'm working through there are no intros/bumpers. Hopefully they'll be back soon! Instead, we jump right into the nitty-gritty. Timestamps MAY become available but my tech issues have usurped A LOT of time. Sorry. First of all, thank you to all the listeners who came up and introduced themselves to Rob at the Big West Men's Volleyball Championship! This week the CVW Coaching Panel (minus Jay Hosack) of Dan Friend of Lewis, Brad Rostratter of UCSD and Theo...

NOTE: You'll notice some differences in this week's episode. Had some technical difficulties producing. Hopefully normal format episodes will be back out next week! Thanks for listening!   This week, the CVW crew looks to the trees! The trees of Stanford in special guest and Freshman standout, Kelly Belardi and usual suspect, Charlie Ekstrom. This week saw very little movement in the CollegeBeachVB.com poll between 11-20, however, with upsets galore in the top 10 delve into the results and...

Week 15 of the NCAA Men's Volleyball season has concluded and the remaining conference tournaments (outside of the MIVA) will be in full effect! This week the CVW Coaches' panel share there thoughts on each of the conferences' regular seasons and what to look for in their conferences' tournaments. The MIVA already featured one conference tournament upset, but can more be had as the Conference Carolinas, Big West, MPSF, EIVA start up, while the MIVA goes into the semis & finals! NOTE:...

As we move closer to the postseason we discuss Top-20 results that included some top-10 upsets, and how they've affected voters' analysis in the CollegeBeachVolleyball.com and AVCA polls. Then the CVW Beach crew discusses the conference scenarios for the AQ berth and the 13 potential teams that will be vying for 8 At-Large berths.  As always, we discuss what we'll be keeping an eye on in Week 8-- which for all of us will be the Center of Effort Challenge being hosted by Cal Poly, that will...

The Coaches’ Panel prepares for the final season of regular season play, except for Dan of Lewis—who starts the MIVA Tournament on Saturday. As always, we discuss some of the eye-catching results from Week 14 and delve into AVCA poll voting. We then transition into postseason outlook and assessment by the guys. Being that there will be MANY great matches this week, the guys try to pick just one to watch, then pick their Coaches’ Pick Player of the Week! Rob also mentioned that the link to buy...

The entire Beach crew is back-- after a Spring Break hiatus. Alan, Charlie, Kate and Rob discuss the tail end of the top 20 of both the CBVB and AVCA polls. LIterally a couple of votes separate the teams toward the back end of the top 20 and it's going to be a challenge which team will be worthy of an At-Large. The crew also discusses the following topics of the week: TCU atop for the 4th week in a row, MoVR Ratings leaders, top performers, the East Meets West (along with top performers doing...

Along with the "usual suspects" of CVW, we've got special guest, Larry Wraither, Head Coach of Ft. Valley St. to chime in on the following topics of the week: #1 Hawaii at #12 CSUN x2 - Theo confirms, "They're (Hawaii) good." UR Princeton over #9 Loyola - Ben Harrington is THE REAL DEAL UR CUI over #5 GCU - It wasn’t Yuri, but Gage! BYU/Pepperdine Series in Provo - 37K Performance by Jasper, and The Miks Show #14 Ohio St. over #1 Penn St. - OSU followed up with a win vs....

This week we're invaded by FROGS! Sandy that is! Alana & Charlie were off the episode this week, but kindly stepping in is AVCA All-American and Spanish Olympic Team Hopeful, Dani Alvarez and mainstay Kate Privett of TCU. We briefly discuss the "March to May" Tournament in Gulf Shores and the "Surf and Turf" in Miami last weekend. We also chat about the little movements in the latter part of the CBVB and AVCA polls. Rob then hits the "Sandy Frogs" for the hot teams and athletes so far in...

This week the CVW crew opens up with the CVW Inter-Panel match of the week between UCSD (Brad Rostratter) and No. 12 CSUN (Theo Edwards). From there we look at some of the top-15 matches that the panel's eyes. Of course, there were some unexpected outcomes-- and it's going to come down to conference tournaments and who's hot when it counts. We'll also touch on conference standings as well!  As always, the crew closes out with the Coaches' Pick Player of the Week and matches to watch in Week...

Week 3 saw a few hot teams rise closer to the top like LMU and Tulane, in the recent AVCA and CollegeBeachVB.com polls, while other teams have maintained a steady winning trend like the "top 4" of TCU, USC, UCLA and FSU, and Arizona. In the discussion you have Cal pressing upward while the Stanford Cardinal are finding their way! Alana Rennie of Arizona, Charlie Ekstrom of Stanford and Rob Espero chat some of the top items of Week 3 while giving us the lowdown on what's to come in Week...

This week the CVW crew discusses the Outrigger Invitational briefly and some other matches that caught their attention in week 10. Afterwards, they launch into the first “Fan Question” episode of the season—and there were some good ones we’ll have to address in upcoming episodes (Thanks, listeners!). Questions, from recruiting, great volleyball memories, changes in the game to Jay’s golf game and Theo’s Gatorade fridge. As always, the guys do their, “Coaches Pick: Player of the Week.”

Alana Rennie (Arizona), Charlie Ekstrom (Stanford) and Kate Privett (TCU) along with Rob Espero (@therobonthemic) discuss some of the MANY big duals and matches Week 2 of the young Collegiate Beach season had to offer. The No. 1 gets taken down by No. 4 creating a new No. 1 team in the nation. We'll talk about some of the conferences' weekly pairs-of-the-week recipients and conclude with top duals to watch this upcoming week!   Be sure to follow their programs and social media accounts-- and...

This week the CVW crew tries something new: "Coaches Pick," where are coaches' panel pick the topics/matches/issues to discuss. The topics range from CRS/video review system, the 'Bows, Charleston, talking through the net, the "Catch and Throw" phenomena happening in the men's game and 5th-set, walk-off, ace winners. For next week's episode we're looking for fan questions! DM @robonthemic on Twitter or @therobonthemic on Instagram and the coaches' panel will take a stab at your inquiries!

And the 2023 Collegiate Beach season is ON! And there is no shortage of news, milestones, upsets and star performers! This week, Charlie Ekstrom of Stanford Beach and Kate Privett of TCU Beach chime in on the new and buzz-stirring matches of the week and drop a few names of top performers. As always, the CVW crew identifies matches/duals/tournaments they'll be keeping an eye on as the heat is only getting started for 2023.