[NU Sports] Michigan game..

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Same ol' Bill Carmody product:  A hustling, well coached, talent-starved 
basketball team.  The trey is the Cats' one weapon, but they usually arrive 
with a half clip of ammo, and the bench offers no supply line.  There is not 
one other aspect of their game that can take up the slack.  As always, they 
are inept under the boards, don't have a bench, can't shoot freethrows, and 
don't have a single player who can regularly create a shot.  The first half 
rebounding edge was an aberration, a product of many long rebounds and some 
lazy play by Michigan.

What to do about Mr. Carmody?  Do you fire a gentleman who runs a clean 
program and coaches like a demon but can't recruit a lick (or hasn't so 
far).  I say he stays.  Once he's gone, who replaces him?  We tried a 
so-called great recruiter, and he was worse than worthless.  Besides, the 
hole from which Carmody was contracted to climb was decades in the digging 
by his predecessors.  He should get at least ten years to turn it around, 
but turn it around he must because the Northwestern University basketball 
program, given its endless failures, remains ridiculous.