[NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach

[Jeff Beamsley]

He certainly could have been more graceful in his remarks, but I don't have
a problem with this.  In fact, I was a little surprised that he would jump
so quickly to Howells defense.

This is just a coach protecting his player.  Howells had a terrible day and
ended up getting pulled, which is embarrassment enough on national TV.  Now
Howells gets to relive it because of getting the equivalent of the Bronx
cheer on signing day.  IMHO, it was RW's way of telling Howells that he
still had a place on the team.

Jeff

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Roy Lamberton
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:14 PM
To: cherron604 at aol.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach

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."

rsl
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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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