If You Can’t Handle The Heat

If you are a fan of the AVP then you know CHRIS McGEE! This man is the Goat of Goats when it comes to announcing. The Boyz hop on the pod and listen in amazement as Geeter tells incredible story after incredible story. The incredible story of how he found himself announcing for Good Mornin America, and both Gold medal matches in 2008 and soooo many more.

The Boyz come together to talk about the HUGE NEWS of USC and UCLA joining the Big10! How does this effect Mens Volleyball? How does this effect Woman's Volleyball? How does this effect smaller schools?

The Volleyball Community has gotta be the softest out of all sports. Other sports thrive on drama while the volleyball community keeps it on the down low. People loooovveeee drama but for some reason there just isn't that much public drama in volleyball... oh yeah and our bags smell like fish gnussy.

The Boyz decide to do shoot the podcast in the OOS KABOOS BABYY!!! We're freaking mobile and couldn't help but shoot an episode in the car. We dissect our first ever OOS x Bad Boys Volleyball hosted tournament "The Orange County Crown". What were our favorite parts? How did we get better as a team? What can we get better at?

Joe and Gage rage at each other about pregame warmups and if you should change them. Gage believes that you should stick to tradition while Joe thinks you should change it up when struggling. WHOS RIGHT?

The Boyz cruise in the back of the van as they discuss their Finals loss in the Soda City Open. The boyz also get into their excitement of their very first hosted tournament "THE ORANGE COUNTY CROWN"!

We welcome on Jhenna Gabriel and Kalei Mau on the weeks podcast! We couldn't be more excited to get these 2 island girls on the podcast. Jhenna talks about her time at University of Texas and why she left, the insane amount of pressure of playing there, and the ripple effect of losing in the National Championship. Kalei talks about the DIFFERENT format of Athletes Unlimited and the drama that ensu...

We welcome on our good friend and one of the most respected volleyball coaches in the entire world, Milan Zarcovic. Coming hot off of a back to back National Championship, Milan answers questions about winning the title, shares secrets on how to become one of the best players in the world and why every player should play short court.

THE BOYZ ARE BACK! Finally the boyz are back in person together. We answer ALL of the questions that people have been asking us. Why did we turn down the national team? Why aren't we going to Pottstown? Why aren't we releasing more slunks? Who is gonna win the NCAA Championship?

Who is gonna win the national championship? Hawaii? Long Beach? UCLA? The Boyz give their predictions... The OOS BOYZ decided to fire up not 1, but 2 TOP 5's: Top 5 Mens Volleyball Schools? Top 5 Universities that should start a Mens Volleyball Program. COMMENT YOUR TOP 5's BELOW!  

Jad Slaibeh, better known as Chad with a J is a well know YouTube and social media personality. He joins the boys to speak about his recent business venture with BoardBall!! Check out the pod to hear all about it and some possible collabs coming this summer with the boys!!

The boys break down their thoughts on who the top players in the world are!

The Boyz welcome on Dustin Watten to discuss this years mens volleyball season. Is it at an all time high? Is it at an all time low? Is club volleyball getting better or worse? Oh yeah and at the end we give our picks for the highly anticipated Hawaii vs Long Beach matchup.

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Joe breaks down his German Cup Final and the lessons that come along with it. Life as an athlete can be very up and down both on and off the court, so we wanted to talk about how to handle those moments. How have we handled our biggest volleyball losses? How do you come back stronger? All these questions and more are answered on this weeks episode.

The boys welcome on Gabi Garcia Fernandez to talk about his insane journey from Puerto Rico, to BYU and now playing with and against the best volleyball player in the world. He gives all the details on what it is like to come face to face with your idols and the personal connections with each of them.

We welcome on Erik Shoji to talk about his summers plans and his upcoming Champions league matches.

The Orange County Crown is here! We teamed up with Mike Griffin and Bad Boys Volleyball to bring you the premier grass event in California! It will be held at Huntington Beach Sports Complex from June 4-5 and has a 15k purse. To SIGN UP or for more INFO go to our website outofsystem.net.

We welcome on a a long time teammate/friend of the show Colton Cowell. We dive into what he has been doing since the National Championship and the journey back from shoulder surgery. He is possibly playing in the most entertaining volleyball league in the world.. in INDIA.

We decided to delve into the world of Crossnet as we welcome on Co-Founder/CEO Greg Meade. The full story on how they came up with the idea is WILD!

We decided to bring USA Volleyballs sports psychologist/mental coach Andrea Becker. She has seen and coached the best volleyball players in the world, so naturally we picked brains about a lot. Volleyball is such a psychological intensive sport with so many different types of mentalities, styles and players, so how do you accommodate to that as a sports psychologist. We go through the best ways to...

We have always tried to get different perspectives/roles on the podcast, so we decided to bring on our favorite ref Renee Marcellus! She has been reffing us since we were 12 years old and has been traveling the wold for international and national events ever since. BTW Joe and Micah are setters so they asked for a lot of tips on how to get their arguments through to refs haha. Typical setters...

This is long overdue, as we welcome on former ex Rainbow Warrior Taylor Averill. We get into right with the classic middle vs setter debate and things get spicy as we talk about what we think the best way to train.

Jason Hames(Nicklin Hames Dad) joins the pod and reunite with the Boyz again. Is Nicklin coming back? How do you handle conflict amongst players? How do you balance coaching and being a parent? All is answered on this weeks episode of If You Can't Handle The Heat!