[NU Sports] Interesting Post from Another Board

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

>       7 years at Northwestern, 448 win/loss record.
> He has lost more games than he has won.

But overall in his career, doesn't he have a winning
percentage? I don't think you'll find a coach at NU
who has a winning mark through seven years.
>    
>   2 winning seasons
>    
>   One shared Big Ten championship
>    
>   Three seasons in which he won six games or more. 

Actually four - 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005
>    
>   3 bowl games, but lost all. Blown out by Nebraska,
> lost to a MAC team, Bowling Green, and to UCLA. 

Disappointing? Yes. But the Huskers were preseason #1
that year and slipped to the Alamo. And in the other
two, we were competitive while facing a higher-place
finisher from the conference than we were.

>   Six of his seven years, his special teams have
> been poor.

I wouldn't say six of seven - we've had some good
return games especially, as well as good kickers
during his span.

>   Does not have a coach’s TV show. In his third
> year, he discontinued Northwestern’s show, which had

Do you know if Walker discontinued it or if it was
discontinued by someone else's decision -- perhaps
that it was not gaining enough viewers in a market
where NU fans are outnumbered by almost every other
Big Ten school.

>   So, Mister or Madam AD, would you hire Randy
> Walker? 
>    
I think results speak for themselves. His first four
years, he took someone else's recruits, installed a
new offense and defense and still won a league title.
Now that he has his system in, he has three straight
6-win seasons, two straight 5-3 league finishes in the
upper half of a tough conference and has done this
with three different running backs. Are there problems
on defense and special teams? Yes. But if you were a
Big Ten AD and you were looking at a coach who had
accomplished all this at Northwestern, you'd be a fool
not to hire him.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!


	
		
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