[Husker] Volleyball

[jon johnston]

Only thing I could find: ""It's a long trip to get here, and you're  
playing Nebraska in the state of Nebraska," Rose said. "Sure, it's a  
road game."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/12/17/penn-st-volleyball.ap/



Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com


On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Tony Lambert wrote:

> "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.""
>
>
> I disagree; I believe that Rose said something to the effect that  
> the only
> reason Nebraska is good year in and year out. Is that they never  
> play the
> tough matches on the road. Am I wrong with this statement?
>
>
> Tony Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On  
> Behalf Of
> jon johnston
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:02 PM
> To: Mark Landin
> Cc: Husker List; frisbee at navix.net
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Volleyball
>
> 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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