[NU Sports] Michigan game..

[Kaplan, Neil]

I love what Coach Carmody stands for.  I loved his work at Princeton
(even though I am a Penn alum).  I completely agree with his attributes
below.

However, there are two things that I've come to recognize...

1. We will never, ever compete in the big ten with this style of play.
We have no hope of doing so with this offense.

2. The team is boring to watch.  The Penn State game was unwatchable.  I
see no chance of looking forward to watching any of our games.

Look, even when football goes 4-8 - most of the games are interesting.
Our coaching must be extremely creative to compete.  Some years we were
so far ahead of the rest of the league that good coaching trumped lack
of talent.

My habits for Cats basketball are approaching my enthusiasm for the NBA
which is only if there's nothing else to do.





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Kudos to Dennis for a most excellent post. 


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Sent: Sun Jan 07 08:13:43 2007
Subject: [NU Sports] Michigan game..

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. 

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