Kicker: Horse talk 101

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s always good to think outside the box when negotiating terms with your boss.

But Nebraska Cornhuskers women’s volleyball coach John Cook took that to another level! He didn’t ask for more money or more time off. He wanted a horse!

Last year, Cook explained the connection of coaching to horses. This from HuskerOnline:

JOHN COOK: There's a great book I read called Think Like a Horse. Horses can communicate with you. They want to do what you want ‘em to do. But you have to figure out a way to communicate with ‘em to get ‘em to do what you want to do. So I've tried to take some of those principles into my coaching.

That’s a mark of a great teacher! Not to mention, Coach Cook is also honing his skills for rodeo competition on the side!

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: He’ll have all the horsepower now.

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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