[NU Sports] BB Coaching Change? (fwd)

[s.fridley at comcast.net]

Now that you've dropped your silly and errant take on Carmody's remarks, we can return to the heart of the issue.  I share your concern over the failure to reach a postseason tournament.  The last two years were disappointments, though I anticipated this year's results before the season started.  I think at long last that we're starting to see some better recruiting results.  Those must continue and grow and pay dividends in improved records and postseason play, including the NCAA tournament.  Nothing less is acceptable.

Let's just not be lazy with the truth when it comes to our coach's comments.  Judge him by the bottom line, not some invented version of what you find it convenient to claim he said.  That would be cowardly, too.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: cherron604 at aol.com
> 7 years, and we are FURTHER from a postseason tournament than at any time in the 
> Carmody era.  Even RB, KO and Rich Faulk managed to make the NIT - how has 
> Carmody not even managed that feat ?
>  
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s.fridley at comcast.net
> To: cherron604 at aol.com; tbng at comcast.net; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Sent: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] BB Coaching Change? (fwd)
> 
> 
> Your comments are a particularly rank and carelessly erroneous characterization 
> of Carmody's comments.   He did not offer the losing tradition as an excuse or 
> claim that a lack of success on that basis was reasonable.  He was describing 
> the losing tradition as his greatest challenge when it came to recruiting.  It 
> was said each time in response to a question or statement assuming that our 
> academic standards were the greatest obstacle to our recruiting efforts.
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: cherron604 at aol.com
> > The Carmody argument that our long losing tradition prevents us from winning, 
> > while plausible and maybe even understandable, strikes me as a cowardly way 
> out.  
> > If a 7-year CEO stood before his stockholders and told them that they were 
> going 
> > to lose money again this year, but that was reasonable since they had been 
> > losing money for so long, I am not sure that the stockholders would be as 
> > patient with their 7-year CEO as we have been with our 7-year coach...When 
> CEO's 
> > are paid big money, stockholders expect big results.
> >  
> > Chuck Herron   Tech '85