Sam stepped in it...

[Zeke2005]

There are people that care what that guy says? Pffffff.

If you read his post today, he admits that people don’t care about what he says.

 

[Zeke2005]

He may be in danger of losing his job over that monumental stupidity.

No he won’t. He didn’t say anything racist or insulting or degrading towards a minority group.

 

[Dean Pope]

This kind of echoes my thought.

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That last comment is spot on. Cook gets his kids prepared. Show me a coach who is up pacing around and yelling instructions to the kids and I'll show you a guy who either (1) must feel like he has to coach effort or (2) is seeing lots of mistakes. Either way, his team is not ready to play. A third reason coaches get off their chair and stomp around is because the coach is nervous or isn't handling his own emotions very well.

This perception that a volleyball coach cannot coach from sitting down is B.S.

 

[Lincoln100]

If you read his post today, he admits that people don’t care about what he says.

Yeah, not reading his post. If he really believed that, why continue? Go do something that matters to someone, somewhere.

 

[Lincoln100]

There are seriously people who complain about HOW Cook coaches?

Sam is the guy who filled water bottles in high school, and now somehow knows stuff. Goodness gracious.

Careful, they laughed at this guy too.

 

[Lincoln100]

No he won’t. He didn’t say anything racist or insulting or degrading towards a minority group.

Plus, people don’t care what he says, so …

 

[Ki11ersker45]

REALLY BAD take. Especially when you consider he is getting bunch of women to work together and gel as a team. That ain't easy.

 

[BTF69]

I really only see HS VB and those coaches don't do a lot of standing up and yelling and running around. In fact, most sort of sit, then stand up and use their clipboard to hide their hand, they give a signal, they sit back down.

 

[huskerfan66]

Terrible take but Sam said it was and is a terrible take. He owned it. I have a policy not to kick someone who is kicking themself.

John Cook is a preeminent volleyball coach. He is the head coach who does his coaching before the game. To use the football analogy, you do not see the head coach at the bench with the white board in game; you see coordinators and position coaches doing the active coaching. Head coach keeps the 30,000 foot view. Plus Cook's coaching tree is highly indicative that he cultivates not merely great players but great coaches.

Exactly. What I was eluding to when I mentioned the assistant coaches and was just talking to the wife about the article/comment. The tree has branches

 

[dinglefritz]

No he won’t. He didn’t say anything racist or insulting or degrading towards a minority group.

there’s a reason he quickly made a public apology.

 

[huskerfan66]

That last comment is spot on. Cook gets his kids prepared. Show me a coach who is up pacing around and yelling instructions to the kids and I'll show you a guy who either (1) must feel like he has to coach effort or (2) is seeing lots of mistakes. Either way, his team is not ready to play. A third reason coaches get off their chair and stomp around is because the coach is nervous or isn't handling his own emotions very well.

This perception that a volleyball coach cannot coach from sitting down is B.S.

Pitts did and lost (standing on the court)

 

[HBK4life]

 

[Husker.Wed.]

• Stay calm and composed:
  Wooden emphasized the importance of not letting emotions dictate coaching decisions during a game, maintaining a level head to make sound adjustments.

I don't think Coach Pelini adhered to this philosophy.

 

[PeliniTheCrutch]

I really only see HS VB and those coaches don't do a lot of standing up and yelling and running around. In fact, most sort of sit, then stand up and use their clipboard to hide their hand, they give a signal, they sit back down.

You just don’t understand.

Reserve basketball coaches are clearly the best coaches because they are shouting the whole time.

 

[RedBaloneyPony]

You just don’t understand.

Reserve basketball coaches are clearly the best coaches because they are shouting the whole time.

By that metric the parents of pee wee wrastlers should be up for nomination of best coaches!

 

[BTF69]

You just don’t understand.

Reserve basketball coaches are clearly the best coaches because they are shouting the whole time.

So I did reserve BB (girls) one season and by the 3rd game I was like "Why the **** am I screaming?"...I literally coached the rest of the season from my chair and/or right in front of my chair.

My dream is still to get to coach golf. No yelling, no practice plans, no "defense"...just a bunch of days off.

 

[PeliniTheCrutch]

So I did reserve BB (girls) one season and by the 3rd game I was like "Why the **** am I screaming?"...I literally coached the rest of the season from my chair and/or right in front of my chair.

My dream is still to get to coach golf. No yelling, no practice plans, no "defense"...just a bunch of days off.

Bowling my man. Bowling.

 

[Bruce1981]

Wow, he admitted he said something stupid and apologized for having said it. What a monster. No one around here would do anything like that!

I'm sorry I said Nebraska would go 10-2 preseason

 

[ptgolf]

So I did reserve BB (girls) one season and by the 3rd game I was like "Why the **** am I screaming?"...I literally coached the rest of the season from my chair and/or right in front of my chair.

My dream is still to get to coach golf. No yelling, no practice plans, no "defense"...just a bunch of days off.

At what level of golf would you be coaching that there’s no practice plan? Certainly not college

 

[mgbreis]

At what level of golf would you be coaching that there’s no practice plan? Certainly not college

mini-golf?

 

[Zeke2005]

there’s a reason he quickly made a public apology.

It wasn’t because he would be fired if he didn’t.

 

[headcard]

 

[Harry Caray]

Sam might be vindicated after this choke job