[NU Sports] 'Class-Act' Coach

[becherw at comcast.net]

Hello, boys and girls,

I find myself in agreement with our beloved coach. For the first time since I have been going to NU games, I have to say that I saw quite a bit of boorish behavior from our own fans. Quite frankly, I saw a lot of purple jerks in the stands. And it was their faces that were purple from yelling out their crap at Randy the whole game. We get it already, you hate the coach.  Wow! I can't imagine why Randy would want to "dis" you.

Becher Williams 


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: cherron604 at aol.com
> 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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