[NU Sports] One Shining Moment

[Roy Lamberton]

Paul, please don't misunderstand my premise here....

But that attitude was the one that almost led NU to quit the Big 10 back when we
were both in Evanston. Outside of a few "country club" sports [Tennis and Golf],
NU was not a bastion of athletic excellence. You probably remember the attempts
by some faculty to kill off all Div I athletics so NU could concentrate on being
an solely academic institution, using the U of Chicago model.

Forget that U of Chicago later embraced more athletics to recruit a more
balanced student body.

Anyway, I personally thin the biggest effect of the game last night on the
Wildcats is that now Oden and Conley [sic] will come back for another shot at
the NCAA.

rsl



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> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:03 AM
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> Subject: [NU Sports] One Shining Moment
> 
> 
> Will we ever have one?  Now that the Final Four is history, 
> and CBS  has 
> ended with the traditional song and collage of spectacular 
> plays in the  
> Tournament, the emptiness of the NU experience in college 
> hoops hits me once  again.  
> We have such a wonderful tradition in so many areas--stage, music,  
> engineering, business, and now even football--why can't we 
> recruit one "Fab  Five" of our 
> own to take us to the heights--not the Final Four--just the  
> Sixty-Four?    
> There are no excuses, and that's what has to come  from the 
> top (President 
> Bienen) down.  Otherwise, why don't we just give up  the 
> sport entirely for the 
> men?  It is time to demand excellence, when we  can't even 
> achieve mediocrity 
> any more.    
>  
> Paul Levinson
> 
> 
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