[NU Sports] Future of NU basketball

[Mark Ament]

If you are comparing him to Amaker then you are comparing him to a coach 
who is very likely to be looking for a job in the spring if his team 
doesn't make the tournament after what has been a rather lackluster 
tenure so far.  I, for one, am rather happy that for whatever reason, we 
didn't hire Amaker.  His team's underachieve worse than Carmody's and, 
by his own admission,  he is unable to recruit the caliber of student 
that attends NU.

I am no more pleased about the Cats performance this year than anyone 
else.  I expected more in the Big 10 than we have seen but I probably 
shouldn't have given the warning signs from the win over Wheaton and 
loss to Cornell.  In any event, I'm not ready to throw in the towel on 
Carmody.  As noted, the Princeton offense can be exciting to watch with 
the right players.  I think he can recruit if he can sustain a 
breakthrough into Chicago that appears to have begun in the last couple 
of classes.  I think the addition of Tavaras to the staff will begin to 
pay dividends in the next couple of recruiting classes.  I may be 
looking at this with purple glasses but I'm just not quite ready to give 
it up.
Mark

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Jeff Beamsley wrote:
> So what is it going to take to turn this program around?
>
> Are we all coming to the conclusion that Carmody just isn't the guy?
>
> NU tried to get Amaker.  He went into a terrible situation at Michigan that
> basically got worse as soon as he got there.  They have had success in the
> past, so in some ways it isn't the basketball wasteland that NU is, but Bo
> has also said Michigan will NEVER pay the basketball coach more than the
> football coach.  Amaker has stuck it out and appears to be able to get the
> sort of players that we wish we had.  His kids are graduating and for the
> most part, staying out of trouble.  
>
> Seems like Carmody is the sort of guy who is always going have teams which
> overachieve.  I had hoped that as he works his summer camps and starts to
> build a reputation in the community, he would be able to get better kids who
> valued education over a shot at the NBA.  Instead we are getting better kids
> who still remain projects or have glaring weaknesses (no inside game) rather
> than proven well rounded players.  I think that we are getting better, but
> it is at such a slow rate that we might not see a winning record in the BT
> for another five years.  
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:46 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Carmody and substituting
>
> NU's basketball team is lacking in talent in every possible category, just
> as it always has been.  It's amazing that Carmody accomplishes what he does
> given that all he has are supporting players.  I doubt there are more than
> one or two players on this team who would be more than a seventh man on any
> other top 30 NCAA team.  As to blaming him for not substitutin, I am going
> to assume that he knows his deep bench players' skills better than anyone on
> this list. 
>
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