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Post by highflyer on Dec 21, 2006 14:44:06 GMT -5
Last year when Nebraska were blown out by Washington, people went after Cook for coaching such a poor game. This year, Washington gets obliterated by Stanford and not a word about the non-coaching done by McLaughlin. As far as I could tell, McLaughlin did absolutely nothing while they were getting destroyed. As a matter of fact, whatever he did between the second and third games made things even worse. People are very quick to annoit their favorites as geniuses, but he was anything be a genius at the final four. Actually, Cook looks like the newest genius, at least until they get beaten anyway.  |
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Post by Phaedrus on Dec 21, 2006 14:48:43 GMT -5
If McLaughlin had the Cauldron as his methodlogy. (Very picturesque, very mysterious and forboding. Kind of fantasy like)
What should Cook have? The wok? The crock pot?
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Post by beachman on Dec 21, 2006 14:49:36 GMT -5
If McLaughlin had the Cauldron as his methodlogy. (Very picturesque, very mysterious and forboding. Kind of fantasy like) What should Cook have? The wok? The crock pot? I think he just had better players! ;D |
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Post by beachman on Dec 21, 2006 14:51:15 GMT -5
And furthermore had McLaughlin not had the transfers come in he would have been in deep trouble and wouldn't have gotten out of the regional!
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Post by Keystonekid on Dec 21, 2006 14:53:02 GMT -5
Not sure we should be throwing the genius tag on anybody. They are both among the top of their profession. Way to much was made out of Mclaughlins genius as it relates to the "cauldron" it is a concept that has been around for a long time, and was not even developed by Mclaughlin. It was created by Anson Dorrance at North Carolina. Read "traing soccer champions" it is a great read for any coach in any sport. Feel free to use the genius tag as often as you please in regards to Dorrance.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2006 15:07:45 GMT -5
I have genious tag on all my underwear. Cuz you never know...
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Post by Pirate VB Fan on Dec 21, 2006 15:12:07 GMT -5
And furthermore had McLaughlin not had the transfers come in he would have been in deep trouble and wouldn't have gotten out of the regional! Stevie was the year before. She red-shirted the first year. Since she played club with Christal and Courtney (and played for five years with Christal in school), getting her to transfer to UW was a no-brainer. Certainly helped, no doubt. As for Janine: nice to have, but the drop-off to Jill Colleymore was not much. I doubt that having Jill play instead of Janine would have cost us the regional final. Anyway, isn't getting players into your program a part of coaching? |
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Post by hammer on Dec 21, 2006 15:13:17 GMT -5
Hey, I'll give Mac kudos for getting them to the FF -- even playing in a home regional. His team had nowhere near the precision of the 2005 Huskies who were, IMHO, the greatest sideout machine in NCAA history.
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Post by maninyellowhat on Dec 21, 2006 15:33:01 GMT -5
Say what you want about McLaughlin but his team has been in the Final Four 3 out of the last 4 years. Can anyone else say that?
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Post by vballguy2001 on Dec 21, 2006 15:37:31 GMT -5
I don't know if he is a genius....or any coach is a genius. If he was a genius he wouldn't be coaching. It only takes true idiots to decide to be a volleyball coach, knowing your going to be scrutinized by everybody when your team makes it to the final 4 three years in a row, and wins one national championship. Man Washington sucks  |
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 21, 2006 15:38:55 GMT -5
I'm sorry to break it to you peeps, but the truth is, there are no geniuses in volleyball. Only some smart peeps. And there are a lot of smart peeps in the world. So, no biggie.
I can't name any coach who has made a significant breakthrough in volleyball out of sheer out-of-the-box thinking that made us reevaluate what we know about the sport.
So, the next peep who throws around the "genius" label will get a smack upside the head.
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Post by Alberta on Dec 21, 2006 15:47:41 GMT -5
There's way too much sugar in Peeps.
You should avoid them.
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Post by MightyMouse on Dec 21, 2006 15:49:09 GMT -5
If you mean "doing nothing while they were being destroyed" as a reflection on McLaughlin's bench personality then you haven't seen many UW games because he is always like that on the bench. He's simply not a game-time screamer nor does he give the mistake death glare. I didn't think he took frusteration or panic timeouts either. I thought he did make an adjustment with the blocking for the third game (specifially for the combination play involving the middle and Richards coming up behind). The team, for whatever reason, just did not have "it" that night and it was frankly embarassing. Stanford played great, yes, but like has been said, UW played way below standard. I'm sure McLauglin communicated what needed to be done and the players knew it too, but short of putting on a jersey and going out there to pass or terminate himself there's not a lot a coach can do once the players are on the floor if the wheels have come off the bus and Karch is not one of your bench players. It was nice to see that even though the team was frusterated they did not get chippy with eachother and they were gracious to Stanford.
I'm not sure about genius, but the guy does know how to train and develop players. I agree that just getting back to the FF was an accomplishment only returning one primary passer and 3 starters. I know they all wish they would have played better, though.
Congratulations to Nebraska on the title, too. They did a great job of adressing their weaknesses and the players were clearly motivated to have a better showing this year and they reached their goal. I must say that I agree with most Nebraska fans in that they should stick with the 5-1 next year, but it sounds like the 6-2 may be what happens with all the great talent on that team.
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Post by beachman on Dec 21, 2006 15:50:27 GMT -5
I don't know if he is a genius....or any coach is a genius. If he was a genius he wouldn't be coaching. It only takes true idiots to decide to be a volleyball coach, knowing your going to be scrutinized by everybody when your team makes it to the final 4 three years in a row, and wins one national championship. Man Washington sucks Seems to me that it is a lot tougher to take a bunch of players who are NOT on everyone's list or who are NOT all Fab-50's turn them into a contender.....NOT taking a bunch of superstars to begin with and getting into a regional final or FF....Cook has as much talent as anyone, except perhaps Dunning, and McLaughlin isn't exactly hurting for talent either! |
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Post by vballguy2001 on Dec 21, 2006 15:57:44 GMT -5
I don't know if he is a genius....or any coach is a genius. If he was a genius he wouldn't be coaching. It only takes true idiots to decide to be a volleyball coach, knowing your going to be scrutinized by everybody when your team makes it to the final 4 three years in a row, and wins one national championship. Man Washington sucks Seems to me that it is a lot tougher to take a bunch of players who are NOT on everyone's list or who are NOT all Fab-50's turn them into a contender.....NOT taking a bunch of superstars to begin with and getting into a regional final or FF....Cook has as much talent as anyone, except perhaps Dunning, and McLaughlin isn't exactly hurting for talent either! isn't that what McLaughlin do?  I am confused probably because i am not a genius. Last time i checked he didn't get the fab 50 kids. sure their athletic, but McLaughlin can flat out coach...Made a little setter that no one wanted and helped her become an all american. that's impressive to me. |
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I am confused probably because i am not a genius. Last time i checked he didn't get the fab 50 kids. sure their athletic, but McLaughlin can flat out coach...Made a little setter that no one wanted and helped her become an all american. that's impressive to me.