[Husker] Volleyball

[Steve Reichenbach]

Cook's statement to the press should be considered in context.  That
Cook doesn't criticize Rose in a press conference is hardly indicative
that Cook "doesn't have a problem" with Rose.  If Cook thinks Rose is
a jerk, treated Yanz badly, or has personal animosity towards Nebraska,
Cook isn't the sort of man who would say so in a press conference.
What does he gain by doing so?  It would just diminish his own
reputation.

When the clip you quote was played on one of the local TV stations,
the announcer said something to imply that he (the newscaster) was
just playing the tape and that it wasn't his place to suggest it was
sarcasm.  By doing so, the announcer certainly suggested Cook might
have been speaking coach-speak rather than his opinion.  It was my
impression that Cook laid it on more-than-a-bit thick with this quote
--- to the extent that I thought there was more to it (i.e., sarcasm,
but subtly so) than the words convey.  Methinks Cook is such a class
act that he damns with excessive praise.

I don't get the impression that they are really "almost like best
buddies or brothers" even if Rose is a student and coaching alum of NU.

> 
> He didn't keep Yanz at PSU. She left and is at Nebraska, but since she  
> was not granted release has to sit out a year.
> 
> Put it this way, John Cook doesn't have a problem with it, so why do  
> we? Cook says he considers Rose like a brother.... from the article:
> 
>   "Once a Husker, always a Husker," Cook said. "I feel like Coach Rose  
> and I are probably almost like best buddies or brothers because we're  
> both Huskers.""
> 
> Normally coaches don't say anything bad about each other, but if they  
> don't like each other, they certainly wouldn't say anything that good.
> 
> BTW, we (Nebraska) have done the same, allowed transfers but  
> restricted where the transfer would go. I get the feeling it happens a  
> lot in non-revenue sports, but since there's not much coverage, nobody  
> cares... or maybe nobody notices.
> 
> Jon Johnston
> http://www.cornnation.com
> 
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Mark Landin wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>
> >> Put it this way. Businesses protect their own interests with non- 
> >> compete
> >> clauses. If Rose would have released Yanz and let her play this  
> >> year, he
> >> wouldn't have been looking out for the interests of Penn State  
> >> volleyball.
> >> He did the right thing for his team.
> >
> > By keeping a player who doesn't want to be there, and showing the rest
> > of his team he doesn't really care about how any of them feel, that
> > he's just going to do whatever he is able to in order to benefit his
> > team? Isn't this the slippery slope that ends at a place we call "win
> > at all costs"?
> >
> > By that logic, LP should never have been suspended.
> >
> > College athletics is still SUPPOSED to have a little bit of nobility
> > and altruism to it. It is NOT supposed to have a business mindset of
> > do whatever you can get away with to get something over on somebody
> > else. "In the deed the glory". Do those words ring hollow to you?
> 
> 
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