The Cougars could be playing on their home court for another National Championship.

Good luck Cougs!

cute...

Thanks, Coach Tom Peterson, for pushing for this great opportunity for our community and state. Although you are at Utah State now, your positive influence is still being felt at BYU, and will be for years to come. We miss you, Coach. It was a colossal mistake for BYU Athletics to let you go.

Why not do it in the Marriot Center? I bet they could pack that place for the championships!

I played on the BYU JV team with Tom. He's a great man and was really thrown under the bus by BYU. I realize that BYU probably had to do that to convince the NCAA that they were "cleaning up the program," but it's still a shame.

In reality, BYU never did anything outside the "spirit" of the rules, even though "technically," some rules were broken.

Much like Coach Majerus paying for a meal for one of his basketball players, nothing was done with the intent to gain an unfair recruiting advantage. Everything that occurred was done for purely humanitarian reasons.

Good luck to the Cougars on their upcoming volleyball season. It would be fantastic to see them playing for the national championship on their home floor.

I have to agree that they could fill the Marriot Center. The Smith Field House is full on many BYU home games. I love the atmosphere of the Smith Field House, but I am guessing that many fans will miss out because of limited seating. BYU has had some awesome coaches, and has a great coach now in Shawn Patchell. I hope to see BYU playing for the National Championship in Provo.

Hopefully, if tickets sell out quickly and demand is great enough the venue could be changed from the Smith Fieldhouse to the Marriott Center.

Love BYU sports, proud of BYU volleyball accomplishments over the years(especially the national championships), but didn't they get slammed by the NCAA for recruiting violations last year (maybe the year before that, I'm not sure)? How do they now get to host the National Championships so soon after that mess?

I think it is awesome, but I'm just surprised...

Study up on the "recruiting violations" that BYU was charged with and you'll understand better why the NCAA is still having BYU host the National Championships.

If you really understood the nature of the charges you would understand that there never should have been any charges to begin with, but that's what happens when bureaucrats apply the letter of the law, instead of the spirit of the law in making judgements.

Hats off to Tom Peterson, the only head coach of any NCAA sport to lead two different teams to a National Championship (Penn State-1994, BYU-2004). He built BYU's volleyball program from the ground up, coaching its club team to three National Championships in the 1980s.

With all due respect, it wasn't Tom Holmoe, but Tom Peterson that arranged for the National Championships to come to BYU. BYU's selection as host has been under wraps for quite some time.

Dear Puzzled: You don't seem to understand that the technical violations leading to the sanctions were grounded in the misguided, but sincere, humanitarian efforts of a few individuals.

Now that the controversy has died down, perhaps it is time to give credit to the man that made this possible. BYU playing host to the National Championships would not have been possible without the efforts of the humble scapegoat that is Tom Peterson.

I call on Tom Holmoe to be reach out his Super-Bowl ring laden hand and be his brother's keeper by inviting the former coach to the event he worked tirelessly to bring to Provo.

That'll be sweet. If BYU can make it too the National Championship game they ought to move it to the Marriot Center. It could be the most attended event ever in collegiate Volleyball History.

If BYU doesn't make it, the Smith Field House will have sufficient seats.

I was at the Final Four in the Pyramid in 2003. BYU had more fans than Pepperdine did there. How many can they have in Provo? You know the California Schools won't be thrilled with this decision.

I was a teammate of Tom Peterson's and he is a great coach, but to be fair, Carl McGown is the man responsible for building BYU's volleyball program from the ground up.

Coach McGown led BYU to its first two National Championships in 1999 and 2001. McGown posted 205 victories in just 13 seasons, averaging nearly 22 victories per season from 1996 to 2002.

On May 28, 2002, Tom Peterson was named the head coach of the BYU men's volleyball program, replacing legendary coach McGown. Peterson both played and coached under McGown in the late '70s.

Peterson coached BYU to its 3rd National Championship in 2004.

We have to consider this is going to be a rebuilding year for our team. Remember that only 2 MPSF teams will get to the Final Four and we lost four out of five our starting hitters in Perez, Sorenson, Charette, and Holmes. They combined for almost 75% of our offense and were our toughest servers. They were the only ones who had double digit service aces.

However UCI, UCLA, and Hawaii return with almost their entire team in tact, each with maybe one lost player to graduation. Pepperdine only loses their starting setter. Long Beach has a critical loss in Lotman but returns a strong supporting cast.