Episode 22: Recruitology "The study of Program Power Values" how colleges land on the pyramid

About this episode

The episode explores the PPV Pyramid and its implications in volleyball recruiting, focusing on program trends and athlete evaluations.

We explain the other half of the PPV Pyramid and how it came to be. There is the athlete PPV Chart and then the program PPV Chart. Recruitology is the study of volleyball recruiting and it's patterns and predictability. I break down who is rivals with who, what programs tend to recruit where and and why the actual athlete PPV score doesn't matter as much as the Level does. This is a generalized look at my study of program recruiting trends over the past 3 seasons and p...

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Host: Darren Tipton

Topics covered

• volleyball recruiting
• PPV Pyramid
• program recruiting trends
• athlete PPV Chart
• program PPV Chart
• recruiting patterns

Keywords

• volleyball
• recruiting
• PPV
• program trends
• athlete evaluation
• recruitology
• sports

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Organizations: Recruitology, PPV Pyramid

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