I didn't know the AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) was still a thing

So here I am sitting in my air conditioned apartment on a lazy Sunday afternoon in my sweatpants awaiting the orgy of TV that will come later tonight (Game 7, GoT) and I see this in my Facebook Feed:

My First thought was, "These guys still have jobs?"  Don't get me wrong I played High School Volleyball in upstate New York which was about as masculine as male figure skating, and as such, I loved the AVP growing up in the 90's when Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes were dominating the tour and you basically fell out of your chair anytime they didn't win a tournament, but last I heard, the AVP went bankrupt.  Naturally I do all my fact checking on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Volleyball_Professionals

It looks like they don't spell it out clearly, but looking at the timeline there isn't much news between 2007 and 2012.  Based on my own personal experience, I know there was an AVP event in 2009 since I volunteered at an event in Phoenix:

Wikipedia says that the tour came back in in 2012, which I estimate to mean they were broke from 2010-2012.  Personally, I think financial troubles hit way before that.  I remember Karch and Kent dominating the tour and pulling down $400K a piece a year, but there were still 9 or 10 other guys making six figures - there was plenty of prize money to go around.  Then I remember seeing a blurb in 2000 how the top AVP money earner was David Swatik (a guy who was a setter at UCLA...only volleyball nerds like myself know this stuff) checking in at $91,000.  91 Grand is nothing to sneeze at, but that's a pretty big drop off.  At that declining rate, by my calculations, the top prize for winning a tournament in 2016 is an over-the-pants handy.

Anyway, this is the AVP I remember:

Karch Kiraly wearing that bad ass pink hat and giving zero fucks.  Being a fantastic blocker despite the fact that he's only 6'2", carrying that future Stanford MBA Kent Steffes on his back because while Karch won with other partners later in his career, Kent didn't win shit without Karch.  Either way, the KK tandem was responsible for taking food off the table of the other teams because they just won so damn much.

Now this is the current picture on the AVP website:

What the hell?  Other than the fact that one of the women is holding a volleyball, I wouldn't have guessed that I was looking at professional athletes.  These people look like bit characters on Law & Order: SVU.  Dude in the backwards baseball hat would be cast as a Heroin addict, guys on the ends would be extra uniformed cops who aren't important enough to get a line in the show, woman in the middle with the ball is the mom of a victim, and I guess the woman to the right of her could play her daughter.  The last remaining person to cast?  Oh what the hell, lets maker her the stripper/hooker who's trying to get her life back together.  That always spices up an episode of SVU and gives Benson someone to save.

Anyway - the whole point is the AVP is still alive and kicking, though I think it's behind the WNBA in popularity which isn't exactly something to brag about.