[NU Sports] Attendance

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

NU does recruit minorities and in some tough areas.  I remember Barnett  talking about a NU player that he got out of a tough area in LA who had never met a white person in the normal course of events.  Barnett hooked him up with a minority alum who ha played football at NU.  This mentor called the kid every day to make sure that he was up and on his way to school and kept close tabs on him.  The kid graduated by the way.  That is what needs to be done.  If a kid hasn't been exposed to anything but a slum existence he is pretty much screwed.  One of the Michigan Fab Five went to Detroit Country Day School and afterwards commented that had he not gone there he would never have been exposed to museums, etc.  Same concept.

John DeGroat
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From: MHRJGScott at aol.com
> 2 comments and one observation 
> 1) congrats to Illinois  on a great season, I have never felt  they were a 
> bad rival, but maybe Zookism will change that.
> 2) I have suggested before that the marketing geniuses at Kellogg come up  
> with a marketing plan for football which may include my observation. Which  is:
> 3) now I am one of the most liberal listers but, you could see in the  zook's 
> physical players and in the stands that zook has got Illinois to recruit  in 
> the minority community and blue collar groups and had them be a part of  the 
> new way of wining football games, like tOSU and Iowa have done, If our  
> administration and faculty don't let us recruit "athletic types" (code words) we  
> can 
> almost never compete.
> 
> 
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