[NU Sports] armistice!!

[Frank F. Loomis III]

Brad,

For those of us who think win or lose Saturday, RW should go, waiting until after the bowl game to express our whys, likely will be too late. The matter will be moot. 

Logic says in the immediate days following Saturday’s game, the powers to-be will do something about RW’s status. They will not wait until after a bowl game. 

So, for us to be heard, no matter which side we’re on, we need to speak out immediately after the Illinois game.  

Frank Loomis

To: Joe Thiegs, Alan Abrahamson, and Kare Capria, thank you profusely for your kind words of welcome-back. You make this outspoken-old codger feel so good. 

 

Brad Wilson <bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com> wrote:
I propose an armistice on the Randy Walker stays-goes
discussion.

If NU beats Illinois Saturday, I propose there be no
more RW stays-goes talk until after the bowl game.

If NU does not beat Illinois Saturday, the only reason
I won't be writing the first post calling for RW's
head is because I'll have flung myself from the
parapets of Memorial Stadium in anguish and grief
(can't stand Illinois!). If NU loses Saturday I could
live with firing Walker on the spot.

But if NU wins in Chumpbanana, we're 7-4 and bowling
in a year when none but the true prophets, those
touched by the hand of the gods, our own Cassandras
(because nobody listened) among us (was that you Jim
Bendat?) predicted while everybody else was predicting
disaster. 

You can argue how much Walker had to do with that and
how much he didn't, and I suspect we will, but it is
an impressive accomplishment and one all NU fans
should be proud of. We'll have a bowl game to look
forward to, perhaps against a longtime power such as
Tennessee, Florida or UCLA (yikes?). 

I feel, at such a time, the focus here should be on
our student-athletes' accomplishments and successes,
bowl game strategy, and the like, and not on whether a
coach stays or goes. I think those kind of discussions
-- while necessary at times -- will be out of place
during bowl season with a team that went 7-4, 5-3 in
the league (third or fourth). 

Yes, it could have been better, and, yes, the OSU game
was awful, a real downer. 

But I just don't think it's appropriate, given a 7-4
bowl-bound team, to be talking about firing the coach.
It's not fair to Walker and his staff and certainly
not fair to the kids who have given us so many thrills
and so much excitement this fall.

Sure, if the bowl turns into a rerun of the Alamo
debacle, RW-must-go talk is more than appropriate. 

But can't we wait until then for that talk? Now, let's
just take it all in and enjoy the kind of success over
20 years of NU students, alums and fans never dreamed
of?

I am sure friendly and unfriendly fire will shoot down
my armistice before it gets a chance at life. And on a
list dedicated to the exchange of ideas, that's as it
should be, and I in no way wish to silence anybody.
But maybe it has a chance...

Brad Wilson








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