[NU Sports] One Shining Moment

[Mark Ament]

We have the coach that will lead us to the promised land = it will just 
take a few years until he is ready to take the reins.  Tavaras Hardy, he 
of the Cats of a few years back, has the contacts throughout the Chicago 
youth basketball scene for recruiting purposes, understands what it 
takes to succeed at NU and has the coaching skill to get it done.  He 
just needs a few years of seasoning with Carmody and when Carmody is 
ready to step down (on his terms) Tavaras will be ready.  If Carmody 
hasn't done it by then, Hardy will, believe me.
Mark

Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
> 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.
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