Volleyball team complains about skimpy shorts

"I'm just here to cover the game. No really, I am."

 

I don't want to live in a country where dirty old men can't walk in off the street and watch high school girls play sports, dammit.

 

When teams (especially high school teams) wear the teeny-bikinis, I can guarantee you 95% of the time, it's due to the insistence of the coach.

The only girls who want to wear the scanty-panties are girls who are pretty close to perfect 10s, have no concern whatsoever about a few surplus ounces on the cheeks, and want to strut their stuff. That describes probably 5% of volleyball players.

Functionally, it's ridiculous. There is no functional reason volleyball players must wear teeny-bikinis, other than the coach likes the way they look. Again, I don't know exactly what's the root of that motivation, but I do have a few guesses. : :

 

The terrorist win if we allow "grandpa" to walk in and watch high school girls play volleyball.

 

Those skimpy shorts are the main reason why I love covering preps.

 

But most teams don't wear those anymore, right? I haven't seen any team wear the bun huggers in seven, eight years (and I used to have an alphabetical list of every school - prep and college - that did..not really). It's the spandex shorts now, which are short and revealing, but not like the old bikinis (like cross country runners, track runners wear, etc).

And if you're going to be a dirty old man, skip the volleyball and go to gymnastics.

 

I played high school volleyball back in the Stone Age.

We didn't wear spandex. We had horrid polyester monstrosities that we complained about, but the shorts didn't fit like we had been poured into them.

Despite the handicap of not wearing spandex, we played pretty darned well.

Rosebud plays high school volleyball. We parents hate the spandex shorts, the players hate the spandex shorts -- I know several girls, good athletes at that, who refuse to go out for volleyball for one reason, that's right, spandex.

All the teams in this area wear them.

Personally, I think it's time for a revolt, ditch the spandex.

And any coach who tries to tell me the demands of the sport require shorts which leave nothing to the imagination can explain to me how we managed to play volleyball in the Stone Age and how come basketball players can still play while wearing shorts which more closely resemble skirts.

[/rant over -- for now.]

 

That's pretty much the way it was at this school.

The county had three high schools, one that was uptight about everything like that, one that wasn't judgmental when I first walked in for one of their matches and the other school doesn't offer volleyball.

 

"You only cover us when we wear ass-revealing shorts."

 

It's true. If D.J. Augustin can get away with wearing what looked like a burnt orange kilt, then volleyballers can probably don some shorts.

 

Clearly you've never seen my chicken legs

 

I just don't like the baggy stuff. It just doesn't look right.