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Husker Volleyball won the Big Ten Championship last year. In the offseason our Assistant Coaches left, leaving Cook to rebuild his staff. At Louisville, Dani Busboom took a team that went 12-18 last year and got them into the NCAA tournament this year with a 24-6 record. At Illinois, Chris Tamas took a team that went 17-14 last year and got them back in to the tournament with a 21-10 record. That's a combined 16-win improvement over 2016, meaning these are two pretty good coaches, and were pretty big losses for Cook. All he did was rebuild his staff, have a better record in 2017 than in 2016 with a much younger team, won the conference and earned an easy berth in the NCAA tournament.
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Cook won the Big Ten Coach of the Year from the other coaches. The media gave it to Russ Rose, Penn State's coach, who returned a stable Asst. Coach staff and most of his big guns from last year's team. It's a traveshamockery that Rose got half a share of Cook's award. There is zero argument to be made that Rose's coaching job this year was on par with Cook's.