[NU Sports] the grad rates show that...

[Trey McAdams]

Tommy Amaker situation is actually worse than that.

He did want the job.  He was offered the job...But, NU
insulted his wife.  She is a very successful
psychiatrist (I think or Dr of some sort).  When they
had the Amakers up to Chicago for the interview.  The
NU crowd "tea-partied" Dr. Amaker.  Which, to say the
least was the wrong approach.  They should have been
trying to find a practice for her.

So responsibility for that lays squarely at the AD. 
You are recruiting the coaches and their families. 
Some more so than others.
 
--- BSchooler at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/15/2004 4:57:53 AM Central
> Standard Time, 
> bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > ... Kevin O'Neill's hiring was the biggest single
> > disaster in NU's athletic department in years. A
> > foul-mouthed, overbearing creep, he was miserable
> in
> > every way. 
> 
> Even worse, Tommy Amaker (sp?), a highly regarded
> Duke assistant at the time, 
> was openly campaigning for the Northwestern job.
> Yes, there was some talk 
> that he had rebuffed Northwestern years earlier, but
> he apparently felt he wasn't 
> ready for a head coaching position at that time. But
> he did feel he was ready 
> in 1997, but Rick Taylor, in all his stubborn
> stupidity, hired Kevin O'Neill 
> instead.
> 
> Bob Schooler
> 
> Bob Schooler
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