[NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach

[Roy Lamberton]

It was in one of the Sun-Times suburban papers

NU coach irked by boosters
http://www.nwherald.com/SportsSection/college/359066922952848.php

I suspect they caught Randy talking to his "friends."

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of cherron604 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:06 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach
> 
> 
> Just saw this in this morning's Tribune - here's our 
> 'Class-Act' coach dissing his own fans (page 9, under the 
> headline 'Kicker gives alumni spirits a lift"):
>  
> The context of the story is that a video of Demos was shown, 
> and greeted with cheers.
>  
> "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."
>  
> (Can't get the exact link from the Tribune web-site - it is 
> subscribers-only.  Maybe there will be a link to the quote in 
> the Sun-Times or Daily Herald)
>  
> Apart from the wisdom of a sub-.500 coach, with plummeting 
> attendance, ripping his own fans, did it ever occur to the 
> Central St brain trust that video of a good kicker might make 
> the fans happy, even cheer ?  If they did not want them 
> cheering, why even show the video ?  And this crowd probably 
> included some of the program's most loyal fans - why is he 
> ripping them ?
>  
> And I do not believe that any fans have anything against Joel 
> Howells.  He is a kicker placed into a bad situation 
> (walk-on), and he did his best.  If they are mad at anybody, 
> it is at a mean-spirited, bunker-mentalitied coaching staff 
> that puts players into bad situations, then blames the fans.
>  
> Chuck Herron    Tech '85
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