[NU Sports] ugliest game ever? (fwd)

[John A. DeGroat]

Murph should take the load off of Fitzgerald at this time that's why 
Murphy should call such a meeting, not Fitz.  Murph should also be 
running his rolodex to find assistant coaches; maybe the jucos have some 
up and coming assistants.  If assistant coaches don't want to work for a 
coach who is substantially younger, he ought to adopt the philosophy of 
a friend of mine who worked for IBM in Endicott.  IBM liked to run 
marketing guys through the manufacturing operations to give them a sense 
of what goes on when they get an order.  My friend had a policy of never 
hiring someone coming in that way who was making less money than he 
was.  He was looking for people who saw going through manufacturing as a 
career enhancer.  Same concept here.  NU will have to pay more than the 
going rate to get some quality assistants that don't get hung up in 
their underwear worrying about working for a head coach that may be 
substantially younger than they are.  The other alternative is to sit by 
and watch Fitz drown because of the lousy coaches that he inherited.

John DeGroat

Mike Nolan wrote:

>> Murphy should 
>>call a coaches meeting and tell them that no one's job is safe next 
>>year, especially the defense and special teams coaches.  Fitzgerald gets 
>>a pass for now because of the circumstances surrounding how he became 
>>head coach.  
>>    
>>
>
>If Murphy is dumb enough to call such a meeting or make such a statement, 
>he should be fired! 
>
>The only decision Murphy should be allowed to make is whether or not to 
>fire Fitz.  
>
>Let Fitz decide who he wants his coaches to be, in consultation with Murphy,
>but it should be Fitz's call.  There obviously wasn't time to make any 
>adjustments before this season, and whether or not there are any changes
>after the season should be Fitz's call.  The success or failure of Fitz's
>tenure as coach will depend largely on his choices for assistant coaches.
>
>Thankfully, none of us will have any impact on any of those decisions, 
>and none of the negativity boiling over after today's game should have 
>any impact on recruiting, either.   (Recruits DO read the fan boards, but 
>most of them are smart enough to know that most fans know very little about 
>how football is played.) 
>
>FWIW, I've already heard two 'talking heads' on TV say that Smith is toast
>at the end of the season despite today's record-breaking game.  We'll see.
>--
>Mike Nolan
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