 Welcome to the Aldous Bursons show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson men's volleyball head coach Aldous Bursons and coach 12 games already into the season 10 and 12 on the year Your team has climbed as high as number five in the rankings. Just talk about your team's performance so far Well, yeah, we've won a lot more than we've lost. I have a senior heavy starting lineup I'm starting with my three three captains. I have Landon Schwartz is playing and Jason Gardner along with Billy Rousseau So we have that a mixture of that and Some of the younger guys like the freshman that well the guys were a freshman last year have a year under their belt a particular Reynolds and Logan smiley on the floor a lot and Bosco is healthy so And we've had a change in the setting position With a transfer that's been just dropped in from Evan Christian Taylor So he's a graduate student in a mature position in that setting position, but he's He's backed up by Alex who as a freshman and I started last year So we're pretty we're pretty deep in experience and guys are hungry to do really well Kind of can't mention Stevenson men's volleyball without length mentioning Landon Schwartz He broke the division three service ace record. He's only 20 away from setting the all division record We could talk about him all day as a volleyball player, but he's also one of your leaders talk about him How he leads your team? Yeah. Yeah, he's very vocal. I mean he is like You know what I like about him is He's even if it's not going well because what happens like when we played Stevens the block is king on land in So he's you know, he pulls two three blockers his way Even in those situations, you know when he's having a rough match hitting he's passing great or he's you know Serving well, you know with his eight. So it's not sometimes all parts are the game aren't working But he's mature enough to still talk to the team and timeouts and be a leader Even though he himself it might be struggling a little bit. So He's gonna face that this year. You know the scouting report is stop landing Which is fine with him and it's good for the other guys because they Don't have guys king on them blocking but his passing is really held up That's part of the game that you know if you watch You don't realize that that is just so critical that you stay in system with good passes And yes, I'm broken down, you know, since I've been here and I think that's serving record I think that's raw aces, right? It's not it's his percent I think it's just a big number right like thousands of it. That's because he never comes out He shouldn't you know, he just I never sub him out He's always has a serving opportunity He's normally my first server. He starts, you know, right at the right front and then he rotates to serve You know, I pretty much Other coaches there are tactics where you you flip you change your starting rotations and stuff like that but I pretty much say well See if you can beat us with landing serving first because he's gonna score a couple real points and You know what getting to an ace. It's like an ace per set, you know, almost Get it just a couple point like that lead you can win 25.3 Yeah, you mentioned it before you're starting to now get into Mac play your conference play You're defending champions. You're the inaugural champions a season ago But other teams are starting to get better some are now in their second year or third year So talk about conference play Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. That's All the teams are better now Even Wilkes and Weidner and the ones that were kind of at the bottom of the conference there In Arcadia is ranked nationally. They have a really nice program good coach and So that'll be a battle That's another goal besides winning all five sets is to win our conference again So that's gonna be a battle with Arcadia. I say Alvernia Messiah. It's kind of the top four Messiahs, you know beat Hunter at the King clash. So they're you know, they these are teams that can play volleyball And if you're off, you know, they'll they'll Catch you so And Mr. Accordia Is a nice program we added Eastern I Think I mentioned them all it's you know one more team this year with Eastern will be a new team So yeah, it'll be a battle there. I think the top four teams In particular Arcadia will be a really tough one Well coach who wish you the best of luck moving forward and we'll see you back here soon. All right For head coach all dispersants. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the all dispersion show