[NU Sports] One Shining Moment

[Dennis W. Brandt]

So it's back to the old "dump Carmody" routine.  And who will you get to 
replace him?  "Anyone" never coached a winning basketball team.  The odds of 
getting a renown coach with a winning track record to come to Northwestern 
are three:  very slim, less than very slim, and you have got to be joking. 
Coaching changes are no guarantee of winning and certainly never have been 
for Northwestern.  Even the fabled Bobby Knight has failed to take Texas 
Tech to heights of glory.  Coaching isn't the problem at NU.  Recruiting is, 
and that is not all on the shoulders of the head coach.  We need flashy 
facilities that will impress a kid on a recruiting trip, and that we do not 
have.  Neither has Northwestern ever had an assistant basketball coach who 
could appeal to the black player.  Maybe Taveras Hardy is that guy, but that 
remains to be seen.  The university just might have to take a flyer on an 
athletically gifted but academically marginal kid, too, but they have shown 
no inclination to do that.

And dump basketball for a minor sport such as lacrosse?  Please.  Dump 
lacrosse so you have more money to spend on basketball.