[NU Sports] Expectations for our football team

[John A. DeGroat]

Now there is a thought: bring back Ron to replace Walker.  The last I 
knew he was on Paterno's staff after getting bounced at Maryland so that 
they could bring in a former Maryland player as coach.  That guy then 
ran away with the ACC championship using the players that Vanderlinden 
had recruited.  Not only  could Vanderlinden coach, but he was a good 
recruiter as well.

John DeGroat

cherron604 at aol.com wrote:

>Two points:
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>"He also seem's smart enough that he will try to solve the problems on kick coverage and defense."
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>The problems have existed for 7 years of the Walker regime - when does his solution kick in ?
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>"I do wonder if we will always have some trouble on defense."
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>As we will all recall, we had one of the nations best defenses (ranked #1 one year, I believe) under Ron Vanderlinden and Gary Barnett.  So we know it can be done.  It just isn't being done now.
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>Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Clark Zahn <clzahn at mindspring.com>
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Sent: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:32:11 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
>Subject: [NU Sports] Expectations for our football team
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>I am certainly not an expert on football, but I do qualify as a long time Cat 
>fan as Ara was coach when I was there.  First I would agree that we cannot 
>expect to frequently compete for the national championship.  Once in a great 
>while when everything falls into place it could happen,  but usually the 
>football factories have a built in advantage.  We can expect to have a winning 
>record except when we are hit real hard with injuries.  I don't think we can 
>expect NU to have the depth that UM or OSU has.  We can also expect to often 
>compete for the Big10 championship.  I believe the RW can do this.  He's shown 
>that he is flexible enough to adapt to the athletes he has, rather than force 
>those same athletes to adopt his system.  He also seem's smart enough that he 
>will try to solve the problems on kick coverage and defense.  His main weakness 
>seems to be too much loyalty to his assistants.  I expect that he will address 
>that problem.  I certainly would not be in favor of bringin!
> g in some other coach who would want to impose his "system" on our team.
>
>I do wonder if we will always have some trouble on defense.  When you are on 
>offense you get to dictate the flow of the game.  Smart plays and smart players 
>can often overcome deficiences in talent.  When you're on defense you have to 
>react to what the other offense does and playing smart can't always overcome the 
>athleticism of the opposition.
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