[NU Sports] BB Coaching Change? (fwd)

[Hakirsch at aol.com]

I am not suggesting any answers--Just to say it must be awfully hard to  
build a good hoop program, when you have had such a bad one for a long time, and  
maintain the academic standards of a school like NU--Obviously there have been 
 successes at Stanford, Duke and Vandy. But we have tried big "name" coaches 
--  an African-american coach, a younger upstart assistant ,  someone form the 
 Ivies, etc-etc.  Nothing seems to work well.  Tex Winter   publicly 
expressed a lot of frustration at the limited list of eligible  recruits  . Bill 
Foster had taken Duke to the finals , but couldn't do much  with us. The list goes 
on and on. The only suggestion that I can  come up  with is that we must have 
a lot of guys in out own backyard , particularly at  the Chicago Catholic 
schools, that are solid players and can meet the academic  standards--I suspect we 
lose many of these "eligible" guys to other nearby  schools.  Do we need a 
head coach (not an assistant) who has great contacts  with the local high school 
coaches and can get a good pipeline going ? Not  sure how much that might 
help, but I can't suggest much else
 
Harry
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