[NU Sports] I hate Hawaii

[Roy Lamberton]

Also interesting was Denny Green firing the team after having a series of white
- black meetings.

I think his comment was something about "dumb kids" not playing his style of
football.

In any case, I think the change in attitude about football started with Green,
something he doesn't get enough credit for, IMHO

rsl

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> 
> 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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