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[Bob Beach]

On 7 Feb 2008 at 20:30, j j wrote:

> 
> This is just my opinion but I do think you will see interest in
> basketball pick up in the next few years. I think 
> Doc is the man to spring NU basketball into being a big deal in the
> Big XII. If the bball team starts winning 
> and goes to the NCAA tourney on a regular basis you will see
> interest pick up dramaticly. Until then NU 
> will continue to be a "football" school. Being an assistant high
> school coach I would love to see NU bball 
> do well. 



     I also would love to see the basketball program do well.  But I have 
seen two posts on what it would take to spur interest in the program.  
One said 4-5 National Championships.  Well, to this point only Wooden 
has done that at UCLA so that is out of the question.  You indicate it 
will take going to the NCAA regularly.  Your goals aren't quite as high 
as the other person's goals but if it really takes that then what I have said 
about Husker fans is real and true.  NU could have some darn good 
basketball teams and not go to the NCAA.  I like Doc Sadler but to ask 
him to take NU to the NCAA on a regular basis is really asking a lot.  It 
is always going to be very difficult to bring in the top basketball players 
in the  country to NU.  The biggest reason is tradition and tradition takes 
many years to build.  If you were a premier talent and NU offered you a 
basketball scholarship and Duke, North Carolina, or the like offered you 
one, where would you go?  With that said I do indeed have an interest in 
the program and wish Doc Sadler the best.  I would like to see one day 
NU can at least consistently finish in the upper half of the Big 12.


Bob Beach