[NU Sports] Tommy Amaker

[Jeff Beamsley]

If you took the Amaker and Michigan associations out of this e-mail, you
could use the same descriptions almost word for word for our coach.

I've already agreed public ally that we are going to keep Carmody until he
voluntarily resigns or retires.  So, heaven forbid anyone take this as a
"fire Carmody" post.

But I think that it is interesting that Michigan, even with it's
suspensions, loss of scholarships, disqualification from post season, an old
cavernous arena, and other associated challenges that put its basketball
program at a competitive and recruiting disadvantage STILL held their coach
accountable for the team's failure to get back to the NCAA tournament.

Now they are going to get another coach who is going to be hired with the
understanding that the same thing is going to happen to them if the team
doesn't get into the NCAA tournament.  Who do you think is going to appear
in the NCAA tournament first, Michigan or NU?

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:36 PM
To: NU Sports List
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tommy Amaker

> Somebody is going to get a terrific coach now that U of M was dumb 
> enough to can Tommy Amaker.  NU had a

I dunno - I'm still not sold that Amaker wasn't one of these "flavor of the
month" coaches who had a huge rep and no delivery. And I'm not sure he would
have been able to work magic at NU or if he'd have even stayed here long
enough to try. Regardless, his star has fizzled fast ... maybe he'll find a
right fit, but he certainly had many, many chances at Michigan. Bottom line
is that he left both Seton Hall and Michigan in rather mediocre shape - his
resume won't jump to the top of many lists anymore.

> Michigan suffers by comparison to Michigan State when it comes to 
> basketball just as it is the reverse for football.  State of Michigan 
> basketball

Maybe a little, but it's not nearly as wide a gap as football. For one, U of
M fans don't have the Sparty Inferiority Complex that MSU does in football.
Also, Michigan has a rich basketball history that certainly rivals MSU's --
and their recent history is strong as well, albeit now wiped from the record
books. The scholarships were no doubt a hinderance when he got there, but
those went away and Amaker still couldn't take a regular Sweet Sixteen team
from the '80s and '90s back to the NCAAs.

Further hurting him, I believe, was seeing OSU, Purdue, Indiana each recover
from their recent bumps in the road and get back in the dance in recent
years while his senior-laden team could not.

It will be interesting to see who Michigan gets, because the Maize and Blue
are certainly a sleeping basketball giant that could be awaken fairly easily
with their pipeline to Detroit (MSU may have Flint, but U of M still has
Motown) and presence nationally.

Sadly, if they find the right person, we might just have Minny and PSU to
keep us company come postseason in the Big Ten as all of the other programs
seem to have righted their ships and found some great coaches to keep
building programs with (except for Iowa perhaps, as Alford may be the new
ex-wunderkind on a hot seat now).

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!


 
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