And how about this one? People
are still using the term “Side Out!" I hear coaches, players and media
announcers saying, “We need a Side Out right now!” I understand what this means
and why people use it. It means that our team needs to kill the ball while we
are in the serve reception phase of the game.
People use the term because, in the volleyball world, people were
accustomed to saying "Side Out." It’s just real hard to change our ways after
something so central to our game, the Side Out, had enjoyed so much popularity
for so many years.
But doggone it! We don’t have Side Outs any more. All we have are points. So instead of using the term “Side Out,” let’s go with something like Serving Points and Receiving Points (formerly known as a Side Out).
I
am telling you…this would not fly in other sports. A baseball manager would not be heard promoting next weekend’s
game of “rounders”, which is what baseball
was called in its early history. No basketball coach would implore his players to toss the ball into a peach
basket, which was common prior to the
appearance of the backboard and rim. And football coaches would not line up a team to go for extra points.
Instead, he would design a play to go for a
two-point conversion. All of these terms were used at certain times in each of these sports’ respective histories.
But when the terms were officially changed,
people started using the newly ordained term.
Nowhere
in today’s volleyball rules (since 1998) does the term Side Out appear. So let’s find a new way to
reference serve-receive offense. Some suggestions:
Re-introduce the term Side Out to
the rule book
Receiving Point
First Ball Attack Point
Check back next week for part V of Mike Hebert's "Getting it Right" blog series!
How about we re-introduce the word "Game" back into the rule book while we are at it. I'm tired of being told we don't play a game anymore.
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While I agree with much of what Coach has to say, I do disagree on side out. I think "Side Out" has become to volleyball what "Touchdown" is to football. It is both a look back (when in football you had to actually touch the ball down in the end zone to score) and also, in the American tradition of the English language, a common use definition. Yes, it used to literally mean side out, but now, in common use, it means, score a point so we can get the serve back. It no longer means what it used to (as in touchdown) but it does now mean, let's get the serve back. Common use - everyone knows what it means today (even if it doesn't mean what it meant 10 years ago). I like it for both reasons - a nod to the past, and a redefined meaning for today.
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