Quote Originally Posted by Doggie_Style View Post
Watching Florida win last night to make it to the semi-finals made me think what a disaster our Volleyball program has been. Loafers made a Rick Ray-esqe hire a few years back and the program suffered. With one win in conference play this year Cohen has decided to make a change and it will be interesting to see what he does. Vollyball is a great sport and really fun to watch if you knowthe game. MSU should not be at the bottom in any sport and I trust Cohen to help rescue Volleyball at State.
One thing though- Coach MCFatch was not a Ray type hire- he won in the state of Arkansas before coming to State. One problem State has w volleyball is recruiting. Very few MS schools take it seriously and you don?t have a lot of quality athletes coming out of the region to go to your school. That?s why we have a roster full of Texas and mid west type ladies on the team. It?s a real hard draw to get high quality -highly sought after type kids to come across country to play. This same thing has been said by both of our previous 2 coaching staffs

Coach Hazlewood is trying to boost volleyball in Jackson w an academy type program to help promote the sport in Mississippi. Hopefully her efforts will payoff down the road.