[NU Sports] Basketball recruiting

[John A. DeGroat]

Carmody's assistant coaches are all from Princeton which may impair 
their ability to recruit anyone but an Ivy League type player since they 
don't know anything else.

John DeGroat

Jeff Beamsley wrote:

>I think that it all comes down to recruiting and the recruiting approach for
>the basketball team can't be that different from the football team.  We've
>got to find smart kids who value education and can shoot the ball.  In order
>to do that, Northwestern has to cast a much broader national net than
>schools like Illinois or DePaul who are going to depend on strong recruiting
>from the Chicago playgrounds.  
>
>Carmody seems a good coach in all other respects, so it is hard to believe
>that he is recruiting-impaired.  Even if he was recruiting impaired, most
>head coaches depend on their assistants to do most of the recruiting.  But
>I'm sure the best recruiters are probably well compensated for their
>efforts.  
>
>The only conclusion I can come to is money.  Carmody isn't getting the same
>quality smart kids that other programs are getting because he doesn't have
>the money/staff to mount the sort of national recruiting effort required to
>find them and convince them to come here.
>
>If anyone has any inside information to support or debunk this speculation,
>I'd love to hear it.
>
>Jeff
> 
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>From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
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>Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:53 PM
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>Subject: [NU Sports] Northwestern State
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>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.
> 
>Paul Levinson
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