[NU Sports] Around the league (was: Rants and bias ...)
johnadeg at comcast.net
johnadeg at comcast.net
Mon Sep 24 07:15:06 CDT 2007
Brown is still around because he played for NU and avoids EEO issues. Dunbar left allegedly to be closer to his family in California, but now he is back at another Big Ten school, Minnesota I think. He eithr didn't want to work for Fitzgerald or else he knew the pantry was empty.
John DeGroat
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From: CHerron604 at aol.com
> It is very hard to conclude anything other than the fact that we have a
> pathetic coaching staff. It is truly criminal that at least three of them
> still
> have jobs. They are:
>
> - Asst Coach (and D-backs) Jerry Brown
> - OC Garrick McGee
> - DC Greg Colby
>
> These three men have shown themselves to be total incompetents - and our
> hiring any of them has shown that we have not exercised good judgement in
> hiring.
>
> - Brown was an awful DC, dumped as DC and 'kicked upstairs' to handle
> D-backs, because apparently the best man to handle the secondary is a man who
> couldn't handle the defense.
>
> - McGee was an undistinguished WR coach at 'perennial powerhouse' UNLV, then
> the same here before he was elevated to OC after the unexplained departure
> of Mike Dunbar. Dunbar was a proven OC who designed a pretty good offense.
> McGee had shown no prior ability to coordinate a Big Ten offense, and has
> shown none here. Why did we name an OC with NO experience coordinating an
> offense ?
>
> - Colby's resume is pathetic. 4 years as the DC at Kent resulted in over 33
> points a game and almost 400 yards a game, mostly against 'powerhouse' MAC
> teams. So who decided he had the talent to coordinate a Big Ten defense ?
> One that regularly faces Michigan and Ohio State - not Eastern Michigan and
> Ohio U.
>
> Our horrific hiring and promotion over the last few years has left us with a
> coaching staff that most Division II schools would be ashamed of. But we
> keep bringing them back, year after year after year.
>
> Chuck Herron Tech '85
>
>
>
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