If you read his post today, he admits that people don’t care about what he says.
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No he won’t. He didn’t say anything racist or insulting or degrading towards a minority group.
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.
Yeah, not reading his post. If he really believed that, why continue? Go do something that matters to someone, somewhere.
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.
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
I don't think Coach Pelini adhered to this philosophy.
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!
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
Pelini would get overwhelmed with angst and soon his team would start playing tight in response to their coach. I think the Bo Pelini era was the start of the "here we go again" feel of close games slipping away from the team. I think our won-loss record in OT games started tanking about that same time.
HS golf most likely, except for larger schools, especially girls. There would still be a "practice plan" every day but it is very, very relaxed. And while some drills and range work is done in a group setting, it is mostly individual time. Then go out on the course and play.
That’s not entirely true, Pelini’s last game here was a 37-34 win in OT at Iowa City. A game where they scored 17 points in the 4th to send it to OT.
I got that! I LOVE IT!
It has gotten more "serious" since the first year but it is still amazing!
We probably average two practices a week and we leave school early all the time.
Great point. That game was a complete anomaly though because Bo lost it worse than ever in that one. I feel like Iowa must have done something to help our team get on track. Can't remember...
Have you ever watched the 2-time defending national champion UCONN Huskies play hoops?
I don’t care about volleyball and don’t listen to this fat dipshit lapdog, but the idea that a championship coach must be calm and collected is laughable
Watch every coach in the CFP this weekend
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I would have rather waited until Friday so my bad radio take wasn’t part of any pregame Final Four conversation for Husker fans, but I can sense response and displeasure, so I’ll speak to it now:On an Omaha radio show Monday, I unfairly and wrongly diminished the coaching acumen and excellence of John Cook by suggesting his in-game coaching consists of sitting in a “folding chair” because of all the five-star volleyball players on the court. While I did this in comparison to another terrific volleyball coach, I was wrong to include Cook’s work in the comparison, and I’m sorry I said it.It was a bad point to make. I made it poorly, too. I was wrong on both counts.Though I’d never presume to think anyone over Devaney, to Cook, cares what I’d say or think, I’m sorry to all those in the program, too.While Cook, as I noted, deserves credit for his handling of Harper Murray’s off-the-court journey – it couldn’t have been managed better by any coach - and recruiting Andi Jackson when barely anyone knew who she was, these items are hardly enough praise for a coach who has won four national titles and built the biggest national brand in volleyball.Most coaching is done before a match/game ever begins, of course, and it’s also here that Cook and his assistants do terrific work. Yes, NU’s players are very talented – arguably the most talented team Nebraska has ever assembled – but they wouldn’t all be on that court, wearing Nebraska’s uniform, if it weren’t for the head coach. While I noted, in the interview, talent acquisition is a strength unto itself, talent alone won’t win much if it’s not crafted into a team.Cook does that as well as any coach in any sport. He also develops assistants into head coaches better than any other coach in the sport. A big coaching tree is indicative of excellence. I was wrong not to remember that.Beyond talent assemblage, there’s the day-to-day creation of team culture – another area where Cook excels – and the strategic innovations that he has installed over the years to not only maintain an edge in the overall sport but keep an edge on other innovative programs. I was wrong not to note that.Further, Cook is clearly an excellent in-game coach based on adjustments made as action unfolds and his consistent success with challenges.Cook is indisputably a legend, on the Mt. Rushmore of Husker coaches, and a first ballot Hall of Fame coach in his sport of choice. I’m disappointed that my radio interview would suggest otherwise, but, to many fans and readers, it did.I was wrong. It was a bad opinion, delivered poorly. Fans and readers can respond as they wish.As it relates to college volleyball, I obviously don’t know what I’m talking about, and, aside from sharing the work of my many colleagues who cover it and know far more than I do, I’m going to refrain from writing, speaking or tweeting about it until I am better educated. Obviously, I was egregiously wrong here.There are dozens and dozens of voices in Nebraska market who are more qualified, informed and insightful than I to speak intelligently about it. Follow and listen to them.In full transparency, the full interview (which includes items about other sports) is linked below.
I thought the same thing…seems like Cook is like Osborne in late eighties/early 90’s. Granted Penn St. had more talent but would like to see Cook win a few more titles before proclaiming him the GOAT.
Yeah, it varies on the sport. Football coaches don't have chairs so they have to stand up. Still though, the best coaches are the ones who exude confidence and show calm under pressure. I'm a pretty big Tomlin fan. He's spent years standing around with his hands in his pockets-- looks calm but he's always thinking. He knows every position on the field and sees the game better than most. Basketball coaches are much more active, but much of that is wasted energy. For every 10 basketball coaches who thinks they can work the refs, probably nine of them aren't respected by the officials and actually hurt their team more than help them. I know quite a few officials. They aren't stupid-- relationships and mutual respect are what matter to them.
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