[NU Sports] Respect

[Dennis W. Brandt]

With due respect to my friend, Marilyn Zilka, I completely understand your 
feelings.  On the other hand, you have been much closer to the people in the 
NU football program than most of us, so Randy's loss is very personal to 
you.  As possibly the only member of this board (I hope) who has buried a 
son at much too early an age, I can tell you from sad experience that you 
must move on with life, the next day, the next week or month, but you have 
to move on.  When that loss is as personal as a son or a dear friend, it 
takes a long while but much less so when it's someone you have admired but 
never knew personally, which is the case for most of us.  No one means any 
disrespect to Randy Walker or his family.  I'm sure he and they would like 
nothing better than the Wildcats to win it for The Coach this season, which 
means getting down to the business of choosing a new coach.

I never gave Ron Vanderlinden a thought, but wouldn't that be a great match 
for NU?  Perhaps we should start hoping.  What would Penn State have to say 
about that?  I doubt that JoePa would object to the move because he's a good 
human being, although RV would have to take the lateness of the date into 
consideration.