[NU Sports] The basketball team

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Sorry, but it IS past time - WAY past time - to pay attention to the 
basketball team's won-loss record.  A few years back when we were .500 in 
the Big 10, that was great, but not only did we not swim forward, we sailed 
backward to Doormatville.  Carmody is not the problem except in his 
inability to recruit quality basketball players to Northwestern.  Yet, we 
cannot isolate him as the sole recruiting concern.  Our eternal losing 
credentials and demanding academic requirements are also major issues, as 
are our small, relatively unimpressive facilities.  Nonetheless, somehow, 
someway, tiny Wake Forest convinced Tim Duncan to go there.

I hope you are right about the youth and the incoming class, but my gut 
reaction to that is to quit promising to kiss me and PLANT A BIG BUSS ON MY 
CHOPS ONCE!