[NU Sports] Questions

[Jeff Beamsley]

I think that it is all of the above including Baz.

I agree that winning will resolve this, but it will take leadership from
Fitz to earn the trust of the team.  It will also take the team to realize
that they are part of the equation here too.  They have to be willing to
commit before anything good is going to happen.

I know that we all hoped that Fitz would be able to fill the void left by
RW. As much as he may want to be, Fitz is not RW and the team is going to
have to change as a result.  They haven't all figured that out yet.

Jeff

BTW, I'm not sure the player/parent issues with RW ever completely
disappeared. But we covered some of the reasons for that in a previous post.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Lamberton [mailto:rstetson at capps-assoc.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:17 PM
To: jeffb at hilgraeve.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Questions

If the Blank is "Randy Walker" then its almost to be expected.

If the Blank is someone else, then I don't know what to tell you.

All I know is that these kinds of rumors swirled around the team during RW's
two bad years also, and quickly disappeared [except on the message boards]
once the team started winning.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Beamsley
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:56 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Questions
> 
> 
> Roy,
> 
> I agree that this is the case on virtually any competitive team where 
> you have starters and reserves.  This particular piece of gossip 
> (that's all it is at this point) came from the parents of a starter so 
> it suggests a little more serious discontent.  But given everything 
> that everyone on this team is going through, I'm not surprised that 
> they are having a tough time rediscovering their team unity.  They 
> aren't playing as well as they are capable of playing.  As a result, 
> they aren't competitive.  The good news is that they don't like to 
> lose.  The bad news is that some may be thinking along the lines of, 
> "If _____ (you fill in the blank) were here we wouldn't be having 
> these problems."
> 
> They (and we) need to trust that Fitz will lead them out of this, but 
> it could easily take most of the season do it.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Lamberton [mailto:rstetson at capps-assoc.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:38 AM
> To: jeffb at hilgraeve.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Questions
> 
> Over the years I've learned that when a team isn't winning there are 
> almost always problems with the coaches and coordinators when you talk 
> to the kids who aren't starting or playing regularly.
> 
> I've had parents question my choices, and last night I heard an earful 
> about player choices made by coaches at the lower levels of our HS 
> program. [Which I didn't agree with, but kept my silence]
> 
> What I always tell my kids who raise the playing issue is that they 
> need to stop asking to play, and start stepping it up in practice. If 
> they can step it up against the starters, it makes them all better 
> players.
> 
> I think Walker approached "problems" differently than Fitz does - he'd 
> have to because he's a different guy, but I think RW was approachable 
> when a kid had a problem. [altho Webb and Walker apparently never 
> "bonded."]
> 
> Anyway, parents are the first to hear the griping from their kids and 
> will tend to share it with others who are in the same boat. I've 
> always said that on a football team there are between 15-25 sets of 
> parents who think the head coach is a genius. The rest think he's an 
> idiot for not playing their kid!
> 
> rsl
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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> Computer Applications & Support Associates and Publisher of Purple 
> Reign, The Scout.com Northwestern University Site
> (http://www.purplewildcats.com)
> AIM Handle: CoachRoy74
> ======== Go Cats -  Beat 'em All =========== "You have a Republic 
> Madam --
>      If you can keep it" - Benjamin Franklin 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> > On Behalf Of Jeff Beamsley
> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:18 AM
> > To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> > Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Questions
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Just a little gossip to add to the mix.
> > 
> > I've heard through a third party close to a football parent that at 
> > least one of the kids on the team describes serious "problems" with 
> > the new OC and DC.
> > 
> 
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