[NU Sports] One Shining Moment

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

I think Paul has a point.  The answer is spend enough  money to make a get a real shot at improving th program.  Duke has  obviously made the decision, a wrong  one in my opinion, to not putting  any real effort into the football program, but rather putting it into basketball, and lacrosse (until the PC crowd jumped in, and to baseball to a lesser  extent.  My son who lives in Virginia came to the last Duke game we played there and said that thee are high school stadiums that are better than Duke's.  As one of my Army CIC mentors once said, judge people by what they do, not by what they say and what Duke's and NU's words say are none thing and their actions something else.

John DeGroat

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From: "Roy Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
> 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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> > Subject: [NU Sports] One Shining Moment
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> > 
> > 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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