It's crazy to believe, but you could literally track the source of Nebraska's four-plus decade dominance in volleyball to a waste paper basket's contents in North Carolina.
It's true. At least, that's where Paul Sanderford fished a couple of fliers from his women's basketball coaching office at Louisburg College. These small handbills – one from the University of Minnesota, the other from the University of Nebraska – advertised vacant volleyball head coaching positions.
Sanderford gave them to the school's volleyball coach, a man named Terry Pettit.
Make sense now?
For had Sanderford not encouraged his coaching colleague, or had Minnesota been more open to hiring a male candidate, who knows if Nebraska becomes a trailblazer in volleyball?