[NU Sports] The Bill Carmody Experience ?

[John A. DeGroat]

If Carmody gets bounced, NU will have to pay big bucks to gt someone who 
isn't using NU as a stepping stone.  What about the guy who jumped ship 
and went to Kansas and is now coaching in Divison I-AA (I think)?

John DeGroat

cherron604 at aol.com wrote:

>Here's a topic -
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>We are hosting DePaul tonight - probably the nearest team we have to a 'cross-town rival' in basketball.  DePaul is about a 5-point favorite.  Are we witnessing the end of the Bill Carmody era ?  I believe it was Brad making a great point last week - the kind of players we need to win in the Big Ten, don't want to play this kind of offense.  We hear that the endless slow starts are a result of the complexity of that offense, but the goal is making the NCAA, and slow starts for Big Ten teams mean no NCAA bid.  
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>I will grant that Bill Carmody is very brilliant at tactics, a very engaging man when he talks, and ethically pure.  I am worried, though, that he can't assemble a squad that can regularly make make the NCAA tournament.  At this point, it might almost be argued that he is less likely to make the post season (NIT) than were his less well-regarded predecessors, Kevin O'Neill, the late Ricky Birdsong, and even Rich Falk.  Right now, isn't the Carmody era neck-and-neck with the somnolent Bill Foster era (I am still bitter about the money Bill Foster stole from NU) ?
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>So who would we turn to next, in our never-ending search for basketball respectability ?  It would seem that we have to recruit the urban kids who make-up the rest of the Big Ten line-ups, young guys raised on the tough basketball courts of Chicago, NYC, Philly, LA, etc.  Do we need a young coach at one of the mid-major urban universities, or a top-conference assistant who has proved that he can recruit the city athletes very well ?  And do we need to adopt the NBA-style offense that these young athletes want to play ?
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>In the end, was the Carmody era a well-meaning experiment, to see if the Ivy League success formula would translate to the Big Ten ?  If so, there's really no shame in admitting that we gave it a good try with a very good coach, but it didn't work.
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>Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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