[NU Sports] basketball futility

[John A. DeGroat]

If anyone can turn the basketball program around it is Carmody.  He has 
been the most imaginative coach NU has ever had.  Figuring out that 
there were players sin Europe who could both play and make it 
academically was pretty smart.  By the way, maybe it is the cynic in me 
but I wonder if Duke and Indiana (at least when Knight  was there) can 
be so good and so lousy in football is because the basketball coaches 
wanted it that way, i.e., no competition for dollars.

John DeGroat

Abrahamson, Alan wrote:

>Another interesting thread, I hope, for everyone...
> I grant that North Carolina is basketball central and hope Don and others will be able to see my point because it builds off his well-taken observation.
> My take: I also grant that it's early in the season and that it may seem logically unfair to judge a team in March by what happens in November. Except that the NCAA tournament selection committee does. Because it's all about wins and losses, and who those wins are over. And if Wilmington is/is going to be that good, a win would have been damn good for our chances of making the tournament.
> Sorry to all for being blunt but, especially with the basketball program and a lifetime of futility verging on mediocrity, I am sick and tired of rationalizing losses, even losses to good teams.
> We must expect victory.
> Alan 
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>To: Alan.Abrahamson at latimes.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
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>In a message dated 11/16/2005 1:52:28 PM Central Standard Time, Alan.Abrahamson at latimes.com writes:
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>I applaud the wins over Leigh and Charlotte. But losing to Wilmington? 
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>Having only recently moved from Maryland to Minnesota, I am fairly familiar with east coast schools, and Wilmington, NC is no slouch when it comes to B-ball. Michael Jordan, I believe, was born and raised there, and the whole area is a hot bed of basketball fanatics.
>Don Williams C55
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