[NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach

[Roy Lamberton]

Not sure, but I think the story was written by the same writer who dumped on
Carmody last week.

Must be trying for the annual Sun-Times "Telander Award"

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of 
> mlinhardt at netzero.net
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:23 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Cc: Maureen.Linhardt at plexus.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach
> 
> 
> The Northwest Herald
> NU coach irked by boosters 
> http://www.nwherald.com/SportsSection/college/359066922952848.php
> 
> This is a article has a much worse quote:
> "Nobody out there has ever had to walk into an arena with 
> 50,000 people and had to make a kick that meant anything. 
> Most of them would crap their britches over a $2 Nassau, let 
> alone a kick on national TV. If I hurt somebody's feelings 
> out there, that is too bad." 
> 
> We were at the press conference.  We did not clap for the 
> kicker as we believe it is a problem with a lack of a 
> dedicated special teams coach not with talent.
> 
> Recruiting rankings are depressing, but obviously GB and RW 
> are able to outproduce many teams with much better 
> recruiting.  To that end either they are better coaches or 
> better recruiters.  Either way you have to give them their due.
> 
> Sporting News
> Recruiting rankings fun, but don't mean much
> Year after year, many top-rated newcomers fail to pan out 
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11030262/
> 
> I news.googled -- northwestern recruiting -- It gave me the 
> standard articles, but it also have a few articles of 
> recruits we lost out on.
> 
> One guy had a toss-up between us and stanford and eventually 
> chose stanford.  
> 
> Another guy was recruited as a defender(DB) and vandy said he 
> could try offense(WR) and he liked that flexibility.  
> 
> RW says he plays straight with the recruits.  If that is true 
> maybe RW looked at the depth chart and told him that he had a 
> lot of depth at WR and did not need another one.  For that I 
> would give him credit.  GB used to like to tell the story 
> about D'Wayne Bates and being offerred at NU as a QB.  When 
> D'Wayne came in and was low in the depth chart, GB 
> encouraged/pushed him into WR.  Were GB's intentions good?  
> What if RW would have told Bates the likely truth and Bates 
> went elsewhere?
> 
> An interesting story how the other half lives...
> 
> Ann Arbor News
> Eastern Michigan forced to do more with less 
> Budget constrains many of EMU's recruiting choices 
> http://www.mlive.com/eagles/aanews/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/11
38806617270860.xml&coll=2

-- cherron604 at aol.com wrote:
"I consider the source," coach Randy Walker said later: "Nobody out there has
ever walked into an arena with 50,000 people and had to make a kick that meant
anything.  He didn't have his best day [in the Sun Bowl], but it's unfair when
people have no idea, no clue what it's like in that place."



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