[NU Sports] Interesting Post from Another Board

[John A. DeGroat]

Tennessee's coach bounced the coaches that were responsible for the Vols 
lousy year.  If the poor defense and kicking game during Walker's tenure 
aren't his fault, he should bounce the defensive coordinator.  At a 
company where I worked, when someone screwed up and got the company into 
hot water, the view was don't blame the person, blame the person's boss 
who should have been aware of what was going on.  Not a bad philosophy.

John  DeGroat

SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:

>>      7 years at Northwestern, 448 win/loss record.
>>He has lost more games than he has won.
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>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.
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>>  2 winning seasons
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>>  One shared Big Ten championship
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>>  Three seasons in which he won six games or more. 
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>Actually four - 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005
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>>  3 bowl games, but lost all. Blown out by Nebraska,
>>lost to a MAC team, Bowling Green, and to UCLA. 
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>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.
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>>  Six of his seven years, his special teams have
>>been poor.
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>I wouldn't say six of seven - we've had some good
>return games especially, as well as good kickers
>during his span.
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>>  Does not have a coach's TV show. In his third
>>year, he discontinued Northwestern's show, which had
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>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.
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>>  So, Mister or Madam AD, would you hire Randy
>>Walker? 
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>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.
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>GO CATS!!!
>-SjT
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>STEPHEN J. TRUOG
>sjtruog at yahoo.com
>GO CATS!!!
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