I hate rally scoring in volleyball

[pokerfan]

I played a lot of adult league (coed and mens, court and sand) volleyball in my twenties and thirties but I got out before everything switched to rally scoring (point awarded on every serve). The concept of side-out always seemed integral to the game in my mind and now it is gone forever.

[Bennyboy]

1. Me too. Side out is what the game was all about.....

And serves that hit the net are good? Blasphemy.

[pokerfan]

2. I hate that!

I no longer recognize the sport I once loved.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Is that why it's now 25 to win?

I covered a lot of prep volleyball when I was a sportswriter, and it was 15. :shrug:

[pokerfan]

4. Yeah

The reason for the change is to make the length of the matches more predictable and consistent for television.

Volleyball obviously doesn't enjoy the pull that tennis has. I would love to see the howls if they tried to change the rules of tennis.

[bigwillq]

5. I like it.

I think it makes the game more exciting...and it makes sure that every point counts.

[pokerfan]

6. less exiting for several reasons in my opinion

1) It makes the serving more conservative in general because a blown serve is a point for the other team. You don't see aggressive serving like you used to.

2) It makes it virtually impossible to stage a big comeback and what's more exciting than comebacks? I've been in games where we've been down 14-0 and managed a comeback win because we had a great side-out game. Rally scoring forces you to make the comeback all with one possession.

3) A game/match should never end on a service error. That is a very anti climatic way to win, i.e. not exciting.

Just my thoughts on the matter.

[bigwillq]

7. I feel you should get a point

everytime you make a play...I didn't like when you could make a kill and not get a point b/c it wasn't on your serve.

[pokerfan]

8. But, with rally point scoring

a team can win a point/game/match without even handling the ball.

And with sideout rules, winning back the serve is as important as scoring a point because it prevents the other team from scoring. With RPS, owning the serve is virtually meaningless.

[KamaAina]

9. So do we!

many of us out here (where V-ball is considered a major sport) have noticed that the decline of both UH men's and women's volleyball closely followed the introduction of rally scoring. We are not all convinced that's a coincidence. :tinfoilhat:

[Bennyboy]

10. Thee are more reasons than that however.....

The athletes decided they knew more about the business end of the sport than business people and they just ruined it. No sport has ever been able to thrive without biz people in control of it and that goes doubley for VBall. Once they were the darlings of ESPN and now they are nowhere.

Of course rally point scoring was a move made by marketing people to get the casual fan interested in the sport again. They also changed the terminology, games are now sets, dinks are no longer mentioned (Wimpy)etc..

I played the game every day of my life from 1972 till about 1990 and it is my favorite. playing for serve is what the game is all about. Agressive serves are no longer in fashion like they used to be either.