| rule changes for TV -
10-29-2007, 10:55 PM
I understand what the author is saying and why(basically to change the game again for TV)
But I do not play on TV and most of the people I know do not either. We play for the love of the game. It is volleyball, not garbageball. What is next, 3 hits and a bounce on each side?
You are suggesting turning the game into "Catch and Throw" which is exactly what we have played so hard to grow above on any competitive level.
Granted, any person watching TV who does not play our game or even know the rules, would probably play catch and throw volleyball at church or his backyard BBQ and think that is the way the game is played in competition on higher levels.
We have to maintain some rules for players to follow, or the next generation of volleyball players will have suction cups sewn onto their fingertips so they can lay out for that ball grab, and toss it backwards over their shoulder blindly for a hitter to jump on the setter's back for more height and do a 360 jib, then a roundhouse throw to the back corner of the opponent's court. Now that would have TV viewers tuning in!!
But it isn't volleyball. |