Last week, the NCAA upheld its decision to vacate the Warriors’ 2002 national championship because four-time All-America outside hitter Costas Theocharidis was a member of a professional team in Greece before enrolling at UH in August 1999. Theocharidis said he did not receive pay, did not have an agent and did not sign a contract. The NCAA prohibits a player from being on a professional team, even if the player did not receive money.

The NCAA administers the national championship tournament, but not the regular season or a conference’s postseason tournament. UH is a member of the MPSF, men’s volleyball’s top conference.

MPSF executive director Al Beaird said conference officials "briefly talked about" UH’s situation, but decided "there was no reason to go down that road. ... We don’t plan to take any action."

As a result, UH’s regular-season and MPSF tournament records during Theocharidis’ Warrior career (2000-’03) will stand. Theocharidis also will be allowed to keep his four all-MPSF all-star awards and remain in the UH record books as the school’s career kill leader.

"That doesn’t matter to me," Theocharidis told The Advertiser today. "I don’t care about kills or awards or anything like that. I care about the championship. We lost that, and that’s so unjust. I wish I could take all of the awards and trade it for the championship again."