 Hello and welcome into the Aldous Berzins show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Aldous Berzins head coach of the men's volleyball team. And coach, first of all, congratulations on your first collegiate victory. You guys go out, play wells, and you pick it up, one nothing, and then get to play pretty well for the rest of the weekend as well. Yeah, thanks. I didn't think of it that way, but that's right. That's my first collegiate win was my first match. And I should say our first match. I didn't win. The players won. But yeah, Wells was a nice 3-0 victory. I got a chance to get everybody in. It wasn't easy. And what I found is I don't think any team in D3 will be easy. So I learned not to look past anybody. Right, absolutely. No teams are underestimated, especially with the quality of teams that you're playing. You play a bunch more quality teams this weekend. Another four matches lined up for you on Friday and Saturday. Right, so I've been trained at it one point at a time, one match at a time. But yeah, we were going to play Mount St. Joseph. They're a team from Cincinnati. They're coming a long way. And Ohio is a hotbed of boys volleyball in the high school level. And then we have Wilson in the evening, Friday evening. And another nice team. And then Marion and Elmira on Saturday. Those are all going to be awfully important matches, big matches as you get ready for the conference schedule. That'll be coming up in a week or two. Talk a little bit how important you mentioned it, that a lot of the players got playing time and meaningful planning time. Talk about how important it is to get those guys in, get them experienced before you head into these conference games. Well, I think in my first interview with you, I talked about how I see players as starters and finishers. And nobody's on the second unit. I want everybody to have a role. And what worked out last weekend, the two matches that we won, everybody got in. Two matches that we lost, I went with some primary players. And so Wells, that was actually a pretty tough match. The first set went into extra points. And the guys that I had starting did a really good job of playing really hard in sets two and three so I could make substitutions and get everybody in. Because everyone trains just as hard. They're all lifting weights and practicing hard since last fall. So I want everybody to have a role. And to contribute. And they certainly have been contributing. And hopefully we'll get a couple more wins out of this weekend that you've got coming up. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking. My primary goal is to tally's in the win column. And but this is, I look at it as a preseason. Like this weekend, there aren't any in-conference teams. So I'm going to look at different players in different positions and try to play some different systems, see what works best, where I can highlight the strengths of our guys. And we still have a couple more weekends of this similar multi-match weekends before we get into our first conference match against Karn. And the importance of this weekend, you get to play at home. You get to have your first home match on campus. Yeah, I haven't really thought about that. Yeah, that's where I come from. Maybe I should stop talking about myself, but it's the international pro level. There's really no home in a way when you're playing overseas a lot. And so I never differentiated my effort playing in a home game versus an away game. It was like every point was really important. And that's what I. But I'll take it, if these guys get more fired up, I think they will in front of their parents that come or the women's volleyball team they come cheering for them. And the student body that would be definitely help. Yeah, absolutely. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck in this weekend. In your first home match, hopefully we get a W for you. OK, thank you. He's All Dispersons. I'm Joe Wamba. And this has been the All Dispersons show.