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Post by Mocha on Jan 29, 2015 15:49:54 GMT -5
Cook coached Jordan Shaw at St. Mary's and her dad could come in handy.
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Post by Mocha on Jan 29, 2015 15:53:10 GMT -5
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Jan 29, 2015 16:16:35 GMT -5
Rob looks entirely unimpressed with whatever the joke was.
It kind of looks like this (left to right):
Brent Crouch: "Dude, I can't believe you did that."
Keegan Cook: "C'mon! Farts are hilarious!"
Rob Browning: "This is what I get for hiring a 22 year old."
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Jan 29, 2015 18:58:08 GMT -5
Cook coached Jordan Shaw at St. Mary's and her dad could come in handy. He also coached Mike Dodd's daughter, and UW needs a sand coach... OK, not happening, but talk about a "splash" hire.
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Post by mikegarrison on Jan 29, 2015 20:53:56 GMT -5
OK, not happening, but talk about a "splash" hire. Isn't it better to make a "win" hire than to make a "splash" hire? (The problem, of course, is that it takes a while to find out whether you made a "win" hire or not.)
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Post by Not Me on Jan 29, 2015 21:23:32 GMT -5
I just can't believe they didn't hire Alyssa D'Errico
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Post by Kamali'i-7 on Jan 29, 2015 23:56:21 GMT -5
Cook coached Jordan Shaw at St. Mary's and her dad could come in handy. He also coached Mike Dodd's daughter, and UW needs a sand coach... OK, not happening, but talk about a "splash" hire. You've got to be someone like a usa committee leader. someone as board member Adam Rymer or what was John Carroll. not too old in the way of former senior's Klostermann or Daddy-Holly.
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Post by vbtraveler on Feb 1, 2015 2:18:12 GMT -5
I was told by an involved coach that Wisconsin is withdrawing from that arrangement with USC, Washington and Maryland. Similarly, UCLA dropped out of the "four schools, for four years" arrangement with Stanford, PSU and Illinois after one year. A different PAC team is replacing UCLA. We'll know more when Fall schedules are released. Huh. And I think they were supposed to host this year, too. I really hope these matches are still on...I was planning on making the trek to Wisconsin this year.
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Post by tomclen on Nov 7, 2015 10:20:35 GMT -5
I suppose I understand the concerns some have over lack of head-coaching experience and age. But years of experience and being older doesn't automatically make anyone better at anything. What I don't understand is how someone can so admire McLaughlin and yet be negative about this hire. Remember, Keegan Cook was hired by McLaughlin. Yeah, hired as second assistant, not eventual head coach. Look, he may be great, but you can't say hiring a 29-year-old to be the head coach of a top ten PAC 12 team is objectively the best decision. Well, actually, maybe now you can!
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Post by ay2013 on Nov 7, 2015 12:05:01 GMT -5
Yeah, hired as second assistant, not eventual head coach. Look, he may be great, but you can't say hiring a 29-year-old to be the head coach of a top ten PAC 12 team is objectively the best decision. Well, actually, maybe now you can! Still way to early to make that call. He still largely inherited a team that was pretty intact. Let's see what he does on the recruiting trail.
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Post by hammer on Nov 7, 2015 13:05:31 GMT -5
Well, actually, maybe now you can! Still way to early to make that call. He still largely inherited a team that was pretty intact. Let's see what he does on the recruiting trail. Absolutely ... can he recruit, because that's 80 or 90% of what gets you to the promised land. And you need 3 or 4 years on the recruiting trail to determine efficacy.
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Post by bigfanofbigfan on Nov 7, 2015 13:42:09 GMT -5
He is and will be the best in the country. 3 national titles coming, mark my word
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Post by redbeard2008 on Nov 7, 2015 15:03:54 GMT -5
And you've got to be a little lucky - Thompson and Morrison basically fell into JMac's lap. Other locals on the 2005 roster: Collymore, Mussie, Myhre (BC), Lee (Oregon), Deesing (Oregon). Tomasevic came out of the blue (she actually believed she was going to Washington D.C. when she got onto the plane to the U.S.). Paige Benjamin, who became an AVCA 1st Team AA, was already on the roster.
Most of UW's current commits are locals (Bajema, Niece, McPherson, Sanders), reversing the Cali-centric trend the last several years. I believe Sanders (a 6'4" MB) is Cook's first commit. The region has produced some high quality volleyball players in the past, not all of whom ended up going to UW. We'll have to wait and see if that'll be the case in the future or not.
Success builds on success. A successful run in the Tourney will hopefully help establish his bona fides with future recruits. With a roster with six young OHs (Schwan, Scambray, Jones, DeHoog, Tanner, and Julye) and two returning setters (Tanner and Finau), the primary needs are at MB and Libero. One option for 2016 would be to switch Jones to MB, with DeHoog and Tanner at OPP (the emergence of whom make this more likely - listening AY?). (Scates at the ASU match said UW uses Sybeldon like an OH, not a "quick", in the middle.)
A parallel is Heather Tarr, who replaced a very successful coach in Teresa Wilson, at age 29 without previous head coaching experience, and was playing for (and won) a national championship four years later. Her success was largely built on local recruits: Charters (OR), Lawrie (BC), Pohlman, Salling (BC).
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Post by bigfanofbigfan on Nov 7, 2015 15:44:23 GMT -5
Did Jmac hire Cook? If yes, that's pretty amazing...he can spot and develop talents in both players and coaches
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Post by ay2013 on Nov 7, 2015 15:44:52 GMT -5
And you've got to be a little lucky - Thompson and Morrison basically fell into JMac's lap. Other locals on the 2005 roster: Collymore, Mussie, Myhre (BC), Lee (Oregon), Deesing (Oregon). Tomasevic came out of the blue (she actually believed she was going to Washington D.C. when she got onto the plane to the U.S.). Paige Benjamin, who became an AVCA 1st Team AA, was already on the roster. Most of UW's current commits are locals (Bajema, Niece, McPherson, Sanders), reversing the Cali-centric trend the last several years. I believe Sanders (a 6'4" MB) is Cook's first commit. The region has produced some high quality volleyball players in the past, not all of whom ended up going to UW. We'll have to wait and see if that'll be the case in the future or not. Success builds on success. A successful run in the Tourney will hopefully help establish his bona fides with future recruits. With a roster with six young OHs (Schwan, Scambray, Jones, DeHoog, Tanner, and Julye) and two returning setters (Tanner and Finau), the primary needs are at MB and Libero. One option for 2016 would be to switch Jones to MB, with DeHoog and Tanner at OPP (the emergence of whom make this more likely - listening AY?). (Scates at the ASU match said UW uses Sybeldon like an OH, not a "quick", in the middle.) A parallel is Heather Tarr, who replaced a very successful coach in Teresa Wilson, at age 29 without previous head coaching experience, and was playing for (and won) a national championship four years later. Her success was largely built on local recruits: Charters (OR), Lawrie (BC), Pohlman, Salling (BC). That whole Washington State vs Washington DC story, I don't by it. This is the 21st century. Would you honestly go to a foreign country and not know exactly where you're going? It's not like the United States isn't the most widely studied country in the world. Tomasevic was smart enough to enroll in one the best universities in the world, but she can't read a plane ticket or look at a map? Ummm ok.
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