DBK Difference Shows at Dream Team Camp

"This is easily the most talented roster of talent this camp has ever had and we have had a worker or participant every year of it." a couple told me "Didn't know if we were coming back to a Husker Volleyball event again, but with Dani my daughter didn't want to miss this thing so we made the drive." an out-state parent said "My daughter didn't have Nebraska on her list at all last Summer, but Louisville was very high.  The day Dani got this job, she said Mom, I have to be a Card and a Husker fan now, and can I go to the Dream Team if I get invited?"

So what you saw and heard today at Dream Team Camp were the results of the hire. DBK and her culture are starting to pay off.  More talent (how is that possible), even better recruits wanting to come to Nebraska than before (how is that possible), people coming back to Nebraska, and people who didn't like Nebraska coming from another fanbase because their favorite coach is now at Nebraska.  All of these things added to 48 athletes in the gym, and you couldn't pick out an A, B, or C court (I'm not sure there were such).  When you can't distinguish All-American Keoni Williams from a 2029 Prospect, then the staff is doing something right, bringing in the talent.  You couldn't take enough highlights; it was such a talent-filled gym.

Competitive, of course, but it was athletes from all over working together and getting better.  The students taught the class as I've seen so many times in a DBK gym.  The professors conduct their teaching off the court in one-on-one sessions to avoid wasting reps or calling out athletes.  Film time is vital for building relationships.  Reps are maximized, and again, the athletes work together.  All the while, your new Husker leader hardly acting like that at all, moving around her new gym, meeting her campers, smiling, giving encouragement and coaching, and then observing and off to another group. 

Some coaches do that only because it's camp and they are recruiting, DBK does it because that is the culture she wants for her program.  The best athletes in the nation, playing in the best facilities in the nation in front of the best fans in the country.  She wants them completely relaxed and not worried about getting yelled at by a coach, so they can go be the best athlete they are.  Guess what, that philosophy hits home pretty well with 15-16-year-old female prospects deciding where to go to college.  So today you saw just a little bit of what I've been telling you about in how the Dani Culture would start paying off in a Devaney Center full of All-Americans, that like someone over there said, "with this group, who the heck needs to have NTDP, they're all right here in Lincoln."