(04-16-2018 06:37 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  

(04-16-2018 12:23 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_...1523899251

NAIA will sponsor men's volleyball as a championship sport next year.
Could play a role not only in recruiting but perhaps some more realignment.

Maybe eventually. At the moment participation in Men's Volleyball (as an "invitational sport") is pretty low. 34 Schools this year. And since there's no restrictions on schools being "associate" members of other conferences for individual sports, there isn't a need to switch conferences based on the needs of a single sport. So for example the Mid-South is going to officially support men's volleyball next year but only 3 "real" Mid-South teams will be participating. The rest come as associates from the Sun, Appalachian and River States conferences.
http://www.mid-southconference.org/article/6460.php

I don't see men's volleyball affecting alignment anytime in the near future. There's no reason to. Single sport affiliations are too easy.

But next year they will have 6 more teams to bring to 40 teams which is the minimum to sponsor a championship. Could affect the 2 Calif. Conferences since they overlap. But the single division in basketball will be the catalyst.