[NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football

[Roy Lamberton]

The big thing [for me anyway] is that nobody coaching NU has had 3 consecutive 6
win seasons since Hanley.

Others have had better records during their time here, but they've never put
together 3 consecutive .500 seasons.

Back in the old days, it was harder to get enough top players to come to NU
because a kid could go play at the local U on scholarship and sit on the bench.
Now with 85 schollies, more top kids consider NU, but you have to give credit to
RW & Co. for picking kids that will play in his system. 

RW does have to have another big winning season or two to get over .500 for his
time here, but the longer you coach somewhere, the harder it is to pull a long
term record over .500 if you've had a couple of bad years at the start but
Walker is on track to start to improve that career record at NU, and maybe wind
up with one of the longer tenures at NU and in the Big 10.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Beamsley
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:21 PM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Other Facts About NU Football
> 
> 
>  
> Slow down there big fella.  
> 
> No disrespect intended to Pappy, but I think that Ara P. 
> might have a bone to pick with you.
> 
> First of all, not including this year, RW's record from 
> 2000-2004 is 27-33 (.450).  Ara's record (plus one year of 
> Alex) from 1960-1964 is 24-21 (.533 my gosh a winning 
> record!).  Alex turned in a 4-6 season in 1965 to make their 
> combined six year total for the sixties 28-27 (.509 also 
> winning!). Even if NU goes 3-0 the remainder of the season, 
> that makes RW's record for this decade so far 36-36 (.500).  
> Close but no cigar.
> 
> Jeff
>