NCSA College Athletic Scholarships Blog

One more opportunity for women to play sports in college popped up this week with the NCAA officially approving sand volleyball as an emerging sport. The announcement builds on the momentum the sport generated at the 2008 Olympics. Unfortunately, some skeptics in the volleyball world are already questioning how the execution of the sport will be possible.

Cal Coach Rich Feller described his worries scheduling second form of Volleyball in the spring right in the middle of his primary recruiting season.

“I’ve been on the road recruiting the last six weekends,” Feller said. “There’s no other time to do. Could I coach (the sand game)? Sure. Would I be able to do both? It gets muddy.”

Many believe the NCAA is simply chasing dollar associated with a sport that received the largest amount of prime-time minutes allotted at the Olympics while drawing an impressive 20 million viewers. The blog-o-sphere is already buzzing around the question of what the female competitors will be allowed to wear. No one doubts for a second that scantily clad competitions added to NBC’s ratings haul.

Does a sport so closely associated with another already sanctioned sport belong in the NCAA? Should the NCAA support a sport that reaks of sex appeal? Are some blowing this out of proportion?

What do you think?

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