Some News to Come Out of the AVCA Conference

Credit to "coachdavid" from the VolleyTalk Message Boards:

The R2 is moving to the table to do video review, net contacts will be caught by video. There's no plan to add a VNL 'admit touch bonus'.

LOVB had to pay ESPN to carry their matches, CBS is giving PVF a portion of the ad revenue.

Profitability target is for the middle of year 3.

Schedule is so much better because arenas are picking PVF over G-league and PVF was able to get better dates, which will hopefully lead to better ticket sales.

Everybody got to be a free agent after year 1 so that Dallas and Indy would be able to pick up players.

She seemed a little irked by the online accusations that they missed great players in the draft. Some still have spring on campus classes they need to attend, some told them they intend to go to LOVB/overseas.

Draft rights are for 2 years, so they're hoping to get some of them back from overseas/LOVB next year.

They didn't have a formal 'declare for the draft' procedure because if a player isn't drafted, they need to do a ton of paperwork to regain their amateurism with NCAA

To unnamed coaches who were unhappy with the draft date "give me a better date" since she's landlocked on the season dates. Her coaches calling is no different from LOVB or European coaches and agents calling.

CEO gets several ownership interest feelers every week. The price tag is a couple million with some strings attached (liquid value, asset value). Expansion is a matter of when not if.

She seemed pretty irked that their season is landlocked. They don't want to start before NCAA is done, they have to have time for those players to come into training camp and ramp up, so they can't start before January. They also can't go deep into May because they risk losing all their national team players and she doesn't want a championship without those stars.

There's a medical manual that is new this year, that details how the clubs have to handle injuries. I didn't have the courage to ask if that was a reaction to the Danielle Hart situation. I also didn't have the lack of manners to ask why they didn't have that in place day 1. But it seemed like she'd seen some feedback and wanted to do better there.

She seemed really irked that LOVB is taking money from club parents, just as a general principle.

She decided to put the draft together 3 weeks before it was due and her staff was ... super happy. /s