Bold coaches, elite players and a football blueprint have put Nebraska volleyball on the brink of breaking the women's sports attendance record set in a 2022 UEFA Champions League match in Barcelona.
The evolution of Nebraska volleyball began with Pettit scheduling matches on the same day as football games, urging those leaving the stadium to come watch his team. He even hung volleyball signs in the bathrooms to promote matches.
"You do it to develop relationships," Pettit said."Maybe Hooper, Nebraska, goes through 25 years and doesn't have a player that can play on the university team, but then along comes Jordan Larson." "My mom was asking, 'Is there anything we can do?''' Borer said,"and this gentleman overheard it and said, 'We have some extra tickets. Here's two tickets.' Then after that ... we started acquiring ways to get tickets, networking or getting them off the street."
Nebraska celebrated its second national championship in 2000, when first-year coach John Cook led the Cornhuskers to a perfect record, including a win over Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament final. be a football coach. Just out of college, he landed a job teaching geography at Francis Parker High, a private school in his hometown of San Diego, California. It came with a free apartment under the condition that he coach girls' basketball, softball and volleyball.
The following season, the sellout streak began. It should be noted that this was also around the time that the football team began its downslide. Longtime records fell during this unprecedented two-decade period that included six coaching changes and nine losing seasons. From 1976 to 2013, Nebraska went 511-36 at the Coliseum. But in 2011, when Nebraska announced that its basketball teams were leaving the Bob Devaney Sports Center for Pinnacle Bank Arena, Osborne, Nebraska's athletic director at the time, wanted volleyball to make Devaney their home.
Cook said he had a list of things that had to happen to the Devaney Center to facilitate the move, and they wrote them on a notepad on his desk. So back in Cortland, Busboom trained and trained to become the best setter she could be. She was offered a scholarship to Nebraska, and of course accepted. She played in every match as a freshman and spent three seasons at setter.
Volleyball Day in Nebraska has piqued the curiosity of coaches in other sports, too. Patty Gasso, who has led Oklahoma to three straight NCAA softball championships, has said she would like to follow Nebraska volleyball's lead and play a game at OU's football stadium. An Oklahoma spokesperson told ESPN there haven't been any recent updates on that possibility.
Cook recently spoke to the football team. New coach Matt Rhule asked him to, and Cook gave a 25-minute Power Point presentation. He told them that every day was fourth and 1, just like it's 13-13 in the fifth set for the volleyball team. "It was unfortunate," Alberts said."I can assure you with our volleyball program, they get anything they want."
While the football team hasn't been to a bowl game since 2016 and men's basketball has lost at least 20 games in three of the past four seasons, volleyball has become arguably the most beloved program in the state. Cook is the biggest success story. No current coach, men's or women's, is as revered, or regarded, as he is.
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