[NU Sports] Football experiment

[Jeff Beamsley]

Roy,

You can't be serious.

I'm starting to believe that perhaps the cold weather may have brought 
on a bout of conservative intolerance.

We can't express our opinions anymore because it's somehow going to 
damage recruiting?

A lot of the feedback that I've received privately about Randy Walker 
has come FROM the parents of kids that he was recruiting.  The opinions 
they have formed have come FROM the parents of some of kids that ARE 
PLAYING for Randy Walker.  If you are really concerned about somehow 
sugar coating the Randy Walker experience, there is a much bigger leak 
in the dam than our piddly little list (no offense intended Mike). 

Personally I find it hard to believe that there can ever be too much 
information (at least when kids are trying to make a college choice).

If they are really interested, they should find out all that they can, 
sift the fact from the fantasy, and make a decision weighing the pros 
and cons.  From what little exposure that I've had to parents of 
potential recruits, this is exactly what they are doing.  The worst 
situation for both the kid and NU, IMHO, is a kid who hasn't done their 
homework and finds that RW's sort of program isn't a good fit for them.

Jeff




Roy S. Lamberton wrote:

>I wonder what all the virulence on the various boards that are read by the
>recruits is doing to dissuade some of the top players from considering NU this
>year?
>
>You know that some of the top players in Illinois who were not being recruited
>nationally, were carefully weighing NU vs. IL and leaning towards NU because we
>were a given. The same thing with Indiana's recruits.
>
>But to read some of the message boards, you'd think that Randy Walker was an
>absolute ogre, totally incompetent, a fool, a loser, stupid, and a whole bunch
>of names that I care not to repeat.
>
>I don't know what Coach Walker ever did to some of these [or you] guys, but the
>only other place I've seen this much hate has been in the last two presidential
>elections.
>
>C'mon people, get a life!
>
>Go Cats
>
>rsl
>
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