Nebraska Volleyball Coach John Cook Goes Viral for Whining After Losing to Texas
The Texas Longhorns volleyball team swept Nebraska to win the National Championship on Sunday to win their second-straight National Championship. And UT did it in historic fashion.
Texas did something no team had previously done in NCAA women’s volleyball history: win back-to-back titles via sweeps.
After the loss, there were plenty of sour grapes from Nebraska head coach John Cook, who was asked, “In what ways has Texas set the bar that you and other teams have to match now?”
Cook said, “I gotta think about that. But, uh, you look at tonight’s match, half their starting teams are transfers, they’re all fourth and fifth year players… so, that’s how they’ve been building their team, that’s how they built last year’s team. I like what we’re doing. I like recruiting kids and trying to make them be great.”
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This is obviously the dilemma that’s happening across all of college athletics with the transfer portal and NIL. But for coach Cook, it comes off awfully petty.
Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott has been at the helm in Austin for 23 years and is playing by the rules. If John Cook doesn’t like the rules, he should take it up with the powers that be across college sports.
And there’s something to be said for getting a new group together every year and trying to make sure they bond and gel properly. That isn’t as easy as it seems, no matter how high the talent.
In the end, John Cook can
