This week, we go through our normal routine of recognizing digital content creators in the Men’s game. This week it was reported that the Official Fan Account for NCAA Men’s Volleyball, @ncaamvb surpassed 22.6 MILLION views! Great news for #ncaavb, but even better news for Men’s Volleyball! In our news segment we remember Steven Lee Sander, father to Taylor and Brenden, two wonderful personalities in Men’s Volleyball. Other news for the week, had former Stanford All-American Matt Fuerbringer being named as Head Coach of the USAV Beach Team as well. From there we go into the “Elephant in the Room,” that highlights the Coaching Panelists’ matches in Week 9, “Eye Catching Matches” of the week and finally, the panel’s “Ballers/Players of the Week.”

New this week, is “Jay’s Quick Hits” segment where we bounce a handful of NCAA Men’s Volleyball questions/topics on the spot for a hot take!

Thanks for listening and following! #ncaamvb #ncaamvolleyball #ncaavolleyball

This week’s episode brings on Arizona St.’s Arden Besecker and Kendall Whitmarsh fresh off the most recent AVCA poll and the first named conference pairs of the week across the nation! Arden and Kendall discuss last year’s journey for the Sun Devils as they had another great season under Head Coach Kristen Glattfelder being on the verge of heading to Gulf Shores!

Both the Sun Devils share a little about their 2026 team and recap their 1st week of play which grabbed the attention of the voters in the most recent poll, as ASU thrusts up 2 places from #11 to #9. Along with the climb, Arden and partner, Zoey Taylor, and Kendall and her partner, Olivia McElroy went 4-0 on the weekend. The latter were named Big 12 Pair of the Week!

We discuss what matches and results grabbed their attention in Week 1– which all happened on Queen’s Beach in Waikiki, HI at the Duke Kahanamoku Classic!

Thanks for listening/watching!

In our Week 8 recap of the 2026 season the Coaches’ Panel (minus Dan out with the flu)

discusses the action that happened in D1-2 Men’s Volleyball at our half way point!

But first, we shout out our Instagram content creators @1stseedvolleyball’s John McNallly and

Holly Wong of @hykchora for putting out excellent and engaging content in Men’s

Volleyball!

From there we discuss the start of a new D2 program at Mercy University, career milestones

for Kevin Burch of Ohio St. and Shawn Olmstead of BYU. As always wee flow into

our “Elephant in the Room” segment to our matches of the week and our Ballers

of the Week.

Our conversation flows into “Whatcha Watchin’” in Week 9 and we end with dropping a “Volleyball

Hot Take”—for which I recommend you take a good listen!

As always, thank you for watching/listening!