[NU Sports] Change the coaches?

[John A. DeGroat]

The Miami parent had no reason to complain or be bitter, his kids were 
starters, yet the Miami players were glad to see him go.  By the way, at 
the last MSU game in East Lansing, the parent of one of our starters 
said the players didn't like Walker and that players like Chris Brown 
who transferred to Colorado would have stayed but for Walker's 
attitude.  Walker has said that he likes to see his assistant coaches 
move on to other schools.  I read that as the corporate game of don't 
have your potential replacement working for you.  You never heard 
Paterno say that he is glad to see his assistants move  on.

John DeGroat

SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:

>>hire Walker.  I 
>>remember what the parent of a Miami player(s) told
>>me when we played 
>>Miami a couple years ago, i.e., Miami players were
>>glad to see him go.  
>>We now know why.  
>>    
>>
>
>Clue me in then - why? Because he's taken NU to more
>bowl games than any other coach in school history?
>Because Miami is a mid-MAC team now and lost another
>coach (a pretty good one as well judging by IU's
>performance this year)? Why are they glad they lost
>him again?
>
>Could it be that this parent who has come up time and
>time again was just bitter about playing time or just
>trying to be optimistic about the future with a new
>coach?
>
>And why start a baseless rumor that Walker sees Fitz
>as a threat - Fitz has zero coordinator experience --
>he's not a head coach threat to anybody in division
>I-A right now. He's a head coach for the future, but
>right now knows he has a lot to learn and is in the
>right place to learn it. Oh, and how did that work out
>for our old OC at OU? We replaced him with Dunbar and
>have continued to roll up the yardage.
>
>Sheesh - a season where no one expected us to be close
>to .500 has turned into a bowl season. And we spend
>all week leading up to the game with our in-state
>rival talking about THIS? Not where we're going? Not
>Illinois and Zook? Not great NU-UI games? Not the
>season we've had? Just replacing the coach?!?!
>Unbelievable.
>
>I for one am looking forward to the Illinois game and
>a tough matchup against rivals who are playing better
>lately under Zook since the PSU embarassment, and also
>to keeping Sweet Sioux in Evanston, finishing the
>season 7-4 with a 5-3 mark in the Big Ten and heading
>to the post season for just the sixth time in school
>history. And hopefully to even brighter days ahead
>than the last three solid years from Coach Walker and
>the Cats!
>
>GO CATS!!!
>-SjT
>
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>STEPHEN J. TRUOG
>sjtruog at yahoo.com
>GO CATS!!!
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