[NU Sports] Northwestern State

[John A. DeGroat]

It all goes back to the inability to recruit.  In my opinion, Carmody 
has one last chance to prove that he can recruit.  If the 2006-2007 
proves to be just like all the rest than he has to go and NU has to pay  
whatever it takes to get a top notch coach who can tell players who 
won't hustle to go find somewhere else to play.

Baseball is another program that has gone nowhere since the days of Fred 
Lindstrom and isn't likely to improve as long as there is no change in 
that coaching staff.

John DeGroat

NEONRye at aol.com wrote:

>Is it just me, or does anyone else on the List get annoyed seeing that that  
>well-known academic and athletic institution of higher learning, Northwestern  
>State, located in Natchitoches, Louisiana, in the NCAA Brackets, while our  
>obscure alma mater, lingers in the netherworld of college hoops?  As much  as I 
>respect Bill Carmody and the way he seems to handle NU hoops, I think I  have 
>reluctantly reached the conclusion that we need a change--perhaps in the  
>nature of hiring a high-visibility former NBA player who wants to coach in  
>college.  I look at BC's success with Al Skinner (whom I remember as a  teammate of 
>"Dr. J." on the NETS) as perhaps a paradigm for the direction  NU may have to 
>go.  We need a dramatic move to break the cycle of  consistency (i.e., never 
>making the NCAA's) that is the sad hallmark of our  basketball program.  There 
>is just no longer any excuse for our abjet  inability to show up--for at 
>least one year--at the "Dance".  March Madness  to me is the frustration I feel at 
>seeing one of my colleagues at work reveling  in his George Washington team's 
>run this year.  Just once I want to see us  among the 64 teams that make it 
>and to take off from work and go to a  "regional".  And when I see Seton Hall 
>(whom I, along with President  Bienen, saw the 'Cats beat in their own house in 
>NJ) make it, and then go  out with a whimper, it just adds to my frustration.
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>Paul Levinson
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