[NU Sports] I hate Hawaii

[Jeff Beamsley]

That spanned a lot of my time in Evanston too.

I remember thinking when they brought Denny Green in from Stanford, here's
another interesting PR ploy.  I was happy we had hired an African American
coach, but I was wondering why we and he would want to come into such a
hopeless situation.  We were so programmed to believe that the whole
football system was stacked against a school that refused to weaken
admission standards, that even the thought that we could have a winning
football team seemed comical.

Regardless of how you feel now about GB, every coach and fan at NU now owes
him a little bit of gratitude for opening our eyes to what was possible.

Jeff
 

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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] I hate Hawaii

I think the general concensus was that Strotz was from the Uof C
philoshoshy of -de-emphasizing collegiate atheletics and therefore was fine
having a team that was getting killed week after week where every first down
was  cause for a Rose Bowl cheer.
 
Having a 1-31 record under Venturi and a  two 1-10  seasons for  Pont's last
2 years as head coach didn't seem to shake up much. I suspect  that when the
athletes, particularly the African -American ones complained about  Venturi,
combined with our horrific record, that there was a  realization that we had
to have a new program top to bottom. (Pont, who was  then just AD at that
time, had similar accusations leveled at him  when he was Coach at Indiana )
 
Getting Single as AD and Green as head coach , both from Stanford, showed
that we finally were going to attempt to address some major problems--
 
Harry
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