[NU Sports] hoops

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When NU is a poor free throw shooting team, when the players don't show any improve over the prior year either physically or in playing skills, whose fault is that?

John DeGroat
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From: Brad Wilson <bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com>
> I wanted to clarify that I took Carmody's "we're far
> away but not that far away" to be referring to the
> program as a whole, not a reference to the Michigan
> State loss. Obviously, the latter was a very close
> game. 
> 
> I can't see how anybody can look at NU hoops,
> big-picture, and not see that comment as delusional.
> "Not far away" would mean being a 18-12 team left out
> of the NCAAs by one or two spots that has a nice run
> in the NIT, not a team that finishes 2-14 in the
> league and ends the season with just one decent win
> (DePaul). Far away, we are. Not far away, we are not.
> 
> And, please, spare me the "things are looking up"
> posts. I have read the same posts for years after the
> latest 13-17 season, how this kid coming in will make
> a difference, how this assistant coach will recruit
> better, how more experience will help, if only this
> kid didn't get hurt, etc, etc, etc. And the results
> never vary.
> 
> That said, I still say keep Carmody. We won't do any
> better. And maybe next year IS the year all you
> optimists say will be coming. Maybe.
> 
> bw  
> 
> "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that 
> accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due 
> process of law.
> 
> "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an 
> age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember 
> that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to 
> speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular." 
> -- Edward R. Murrow, 1954.
> 
> "Quis ipsos custodes custodiet?" -- Juvenal
> 
> 
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