The NCAA Women’s Volleyball Rules Committee met this week. They decided to keep substitutions at 12 per set, and to allow players to go under the net to pursue an errant ball in the opponent’s free zone. I would have preferred the opposite result on both counts — but I also would have preferred us to stick with side-out scoring, so maybe I’m not the best judge of things! And at least they didn’t make a dramatic change like the move to 25 points. If I’m not mistaken, rule changes will from now on be restricted to every other year. So (assuming they don’t come back and add anything else later this year) the volleyball rule book will be locked until 2012.