[NU Sports] about what?

[Jim Bendat]

Another very, very disappointing basketball season.  This was supposed 
to be the year that we might finally make it to the NCAAs for the first 
time, and instead we likely don't even make it to the NIT?  Very weak 
indeed.  I'm not too enthusiastic, but I'm still saying -- wait 'til 
next year.    ---- Jim B.


> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Mar 6, 2005, at 4:40 AM, Brad Wilson wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Yeah, yeah, I can already hear the excuses coming from
>> the list, the justifications, the whining about
>> illness and injuries. I careth not.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Brad Wilson
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>> "Life is more delectable/When it's disrespectable." -- Lorenz Hart
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>> "Quis ipsos custodes custodiet?" -- Juvenal
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