[NU Sports] One Shining Moment

[Roy Lamberton]

Joe Kennedy's dad was on WGN a few weeks ago....and Kaplan asked him about BC..

His response was that there were only 3 guys who could actually be reasonably
successful at NU [win about .500 most of the time and finish in the middle of
the Big 10], Pete Carrill, Bob Knight and Bill Carmody.

He then said that Knight probably wouldn't come, Carrill wouldn't and we had BC
so...

'nuff said

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Mark Ament
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:51 PM
> To: Dennis W. Brandt
> Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] One Shining Moment
> 
> 
> 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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