Brian Cook is going back to school. Picture: Blair Hamish Source: Herald Sun
ONE of the AFL's top club administrators, Geelong chief executive Brian Cook, is going back to school.
Cook will do a six-week advanced management course at Harvard University in Boston early this season.
The Cats have given him their blessing to further his studies after he turned down a lucrative offer to join North Melbourne late last year.
Geelong president Colin Carter said the trip was intended partly to help refresh Cook after turning the Cats into a powerhouse.
Geelong chief executive Brian Cook is involved in his seventh grand final with the Cats Picture: Glenn Ferguson/Geelong Advertiser Source: No Source
"It's a six-week course for very senior executives and the idea is that, considering he has been in the role for 14 years, it is a good time to go away and reflect on the work he has done and get away from the place," Carter said.
"I know he is looking forward to it and we think he will find it quite a refreshing experience.
"There will be 50 to 100 really top-class people from all sorts of walks of life, from business and various industries, and they will all contribute to each other."
It is expected Cook will be overseas throughout April, with senior Geelong staff members to share his role in his absence.
The Cats remain confident they can continue an extraordinary run with a seventh consecutive finals appearance.
They have missed September action only once in the past nine years and accelerated a transition by blooding 10 players at senior level last season.
It was the first time in 32 years a reigning premier played that many debutants.
Carter, who oversaw the introduction of the priority draft pick as an AFL commissioner in 1993, said the Cats wanted to buck the trend of top clubs "bottoming out".
"AFL equalisation, which I was originally a part of, was designed to force us down the ladder, and based on that we should be going gracefully down the bottom - but we don't intend to do that," he said.
Carter said the performance of the team's youngsters in making the elimination final last year was a positive sign the Cats would remain a force.
The club has also bolstered its list by welcoming former Gold Coast onballer Josh Caddy, 20, and two mature-age players, ex-North Melbourne ruckman Hamish McIntosh and defender Jared Rivers from Melbourne.
New Geelong recruit Josh Caddy. Picture: Mike Dugdale Source: Herald Sun
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