Friday checkin: MVB, BVB extra ICYMI

Ran into former Warrior and Olympian Clay Stanley in Hawaii Kai today. Really good to see him. He was out with his family for dinner.
_______

The Warriors are wrapping up their bye week with longer practices, more weight work, and split-squad practices rather than A vs. B.

Interesting to chat with the players about seeing UCI, the last team they played last season, the team they beat in the Big West semifinal, and what should have been enough to get them the at-large berth.

For the most part, they have put 2018 behind them. As Charlie Wade said, it’s not UCI’s fault that the NCAA gave them the bid. Bottom line: They need to win, and win on the road, starting next week.

Friday results
No. 4 Pepperdine def. Concordia-Irvine 23-25, 25-16, 29-27, 25-22
No. 13 George Mason def. Penn State 25-22, 25-19, 25-18
Queens def. Mount Olive 25-21, 25-18, 15-25, 23-25, 15-10
UC San Diego def. UC Santa Cruz 25-18, 25-20, 25-23
Lincoln Memorial vs. Alderson Broaddus – Canceled
Sacred Heart def. NJIT 25-19, 21-25, 25-9, 26-24
Saint Francis def. Charleston 25-23, 25-18, 25-22
Princeton def. Harvard 25-18, 23-25, 25-22, 25-20
_____

Please check out the great job by our Brian McInnis on Hawaiiwarriorworld.com.

Great video and other things from our joint interview with Coach Hall on Wednesday. Something Brian was able to touch on was the new system of coaches protests about opponents’ lineups.

His comments:
What’s there to protest, you ask? Well, if the array of talent of a team’s five flights isn’t in the spirit of ranking your best pairs from the first flight to the fifth, a coach might object. That’s been a problem in the past, Hall said, but he wants to be very selective about pulling out the protest card.

Reposting Hall’s comments:
“The thing that’s new about beach volleyball this year, we can protest immediately once the lineups are in. We’re not going to, but there’s penalties and kind of some teeth to the rules this year, which is great. You have to submit one hour before you play, and then each coach gets to evaluate the lineup and decide whether you want to protest or not. And then there’s an opportunity to protest afterward as well, which is probably what will happen most this year.

“Basically you see their best player playing at 4. That kind of egregious thing. Or somebody playing at 4 and all of a sudden they’re at 1 the next dual. That’s illegal. Those are easier to catch. But the subjective ones, somebody we think is the best at a low flight, is mostly what will probably happen. And you gotta really kind of see a track record. We won’t start, if there’s anything egregious, until you see five, six duals of a program. Because kids change, develop. And it doesn’t say put your best kids at 1 — it says put your best pair at 1.”