[NU Sports] (no subject)

[John Labbe]

To me, this was just a case of a stupid question getting a stupid 
answer.  It's not even clear what the question was, but apparently a 
reporter asked whether he had read a certain book, and he dismissed the 
question saying he hadn't read any books since elementary school.  As 
far as I know, the only place we've read about this is on one 
reporter's blog on sports.aol.com.  Big deal.  Perhaps it was clear at 
the time that this whole discussion was a joke.  We simply don't know 
from this one reporter's account, which itself admits that Cofield was 
probably joking.


On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Jeff Beamsley wrote:

> I agree.  It would have been much better if he had said that he reads
> recreationally and recently finished Alan Greenspan's new memoir, but 
> had a
> few quibbles about his particular implementation of economics theory.
>
> He's young.
>
> He didn't think about how the newspapers were going to construe a 
> comment
> like that.  Or perhaps he was posturing for his teammates, because he 
> likely
> gets a fair amount of abuse from some of his peers that he graduated 
> from
> Northwestern.
>
> You're right.  We don't know.
>
> Clearly though, we care.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Hakirsch at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:35 AM
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> Subject: Fwd: [NU Sports] (no subject)
>
> In a message dated 10/16/2007 8:34:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> Hakirsch
> writes:
>
>>>> suspect that he was joking.  If he didn't value education, why
>>>> would he
>>> have stayed around to get his degree (Communications Studies)?
>>>
>>
>> Who knows  ? who cares ?--The point is that it didnt look good for an
>> NU grad saying that publicy--If our "competitive advantage" is well
>> rounded athletes, we sure don't want to have kids  say things that we
>> would expect to hear from the sports programs that don't care about
>> their athletes' academics
>>
>> Harry
>>
>
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