[NU Sports] about what?

[John Labbe]

What I don't really get about your whole rant is that apparently you 
would at least be satisfied with a few more wins and an NIT bid, but 
having lost those games, it's doomsday.

Further, we've won more games over the last 4 year period than any 4 
year period in school history, and you'd rather exchange these players 
for players who would play with more "heart," however that's defined, 
but have an abysmal 5-22 season.


On Mar 6, 2005, at 4:40 AM, Brad Wilson wrote:

> Chat about another dismal road loss for men's hoops?
> About the continued inability to get it done when it's
> required, when a win is necessary? About the usual
> problems - poor shooting, lack of defense,
> lackadaiscal rebounding, general lack of heart?
>
> This season came down to this game at Indiana -- for
> any number of reasons, the biggest being the UTTER
> FAILURE of this team to beat garbage-barge teams --
> and the 'Cats mailed it in, rolled over to a team they
> handled at home.
>
> I am sorry to say this but this bunch of hoopsters is
> a FAILURE. No heart, no urgency, yet plenty of excuses
> and plenty of the usual B.S. about next year and
> injuries and all that crapola. I'm sorry but when the
> chips were down (my apologies for the cliche) the
> 'Cats laid down all season. I hope Carmody's sad-sack
> troops look at Penn State's 1-and-whatever Big Ten
> season and hang their heads in utter shame.
>
> I can't wait for this whole bunch to use up their
> eligibility and begone. I am tired of the broken
> record, tired of the excuses, tired of the
> justifications. By any standard the Big 10 (outside of
> Illinois) was WAY down this year and ONCE AGAIN we're
> below .500, encumbered by embarrassing losses -- could
> the loss at Illinois have been any more hideous? --
> and weeks of Big Ten road failures. When does it end?
>
> Yeah, yeah, I can already hear the excuses coming from
> the list, the justifications, the whining about
> illness and injuries. I careth not.
>
> We ripped, trashed and evierscated a football team
> that after all, finished .500 and finished 4th (!) in
> the Big Ten for its failures and struggles. Give me 10
> such football teams for one of these sad-sack bunch of
> hoopsters.
>
> I'm no longer drinking the purple Kool-Aid with hoops.
> It's time to produce. If Thompson doesn't want to go
> to class, get rid of him. If Hachad and a half dozen
> other don't feel like hustling, don't feel like
> getting a rebound, get rid of them. Maybe it's time to
> ditch the Croatian connection which has produced
> NOTHING.
>
> I'm sorry about being so negative, I really am. But I
> am sick to death of a men's basketball team that is
> one letdown after another. I could live with losing
> with heart -- as football generally did -- but
> basketball's gutlessness is a disgrace. Carmody needs
> to look in a mirror and see if he likes what he sees.
> If he doesn't. then GET RID of the losers and let's go
> 5-22 with walkons, that I can understand, at least.
>
> And so we plod onwards to another 73-56 loss in the
> Big Ten tournament to whomever, not, as I have said
> before, that it matters; our gutless wonders can lose
> to anybody (they already have, of course).
>
> Brad Wilson
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