2025 AVCA Presentation - The Romo Effect
Video, slides, and resources
Here are my video and my slides from “The Romo Effect”. The video is about an hour long so I don’t think it will show up in the email. You can go to the web version of this to see it. It was recorded with my iPad but it picks up the sound well enough until the AVCA posts their video.
Please reach out with questions, thoughts, opinions, etcetera. I’m always open to hearing from you.
I talk about fans coming to volleyball through connections rather than from channel surfing. I think the television networks have data that supports a healthy amount of casual viewers but I do believe we’re missing what volleyball fans care about as well as how the game actually works.
I want to reiterate that this presentation isn’t intended to call out broadcasters. It’s a call for change in the systems that support those broadcasters. It’s a call to action for fans to deepen their connection to the game.
For the most part, the stats I discuss could be calculated and displayed using data that is already being collected by college SIDs using NCAA Live Stats. Getting them would require some changes to their software as well as changes to the packaging of that data by Stat Broadcast and others.