[NU Sports] Worst basketball seasons ever?

Tue Feb 19 16:09:33 CST 2008

Wait--What do you mean, "wore the suit" and "the other Willie"?  My five-
and three-year-old are not going to like hearing about this . . . .  I
suppose next you're going to try to tell me that there's no Santa Claus.
One of my fraternity brothers once told (alleged to) some of us in
confidence that he was Willie.  However, I disproved that allegation when I
saw both him and Willie in the same room at the same time later that year.
Willie is a Wildcat; are these individuals claiming to be Willie some sort
of were-cats?  ;)  -Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Jason Singer
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:46 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Worst basketball seasons ever?

Wow!! Yer right! I completely "misremembered" that!!! But we did play all
our home games at Alumni Hall that season!

The running joke in our family was that the next game (the loss against
DePaul) was televised by MSG Network in NYC and my brother was the director
of the telecast. But as it fell on the same night as Passover and my Mom
wouldn't let her freshman son stay in Chicago, I had to go home to Long
Island as did Keith (the other Willie). So a friend of mine at Willard,
Lowell, wore the suit. I remember watching the game thinking, 'Where's
Willie?". And I later found out that Lowell had an asthma attack within five
minutes of the game starting and spent the whole game sitting down under the
basket.

Never forgave my Mom for that! Or for the 13-point NU collapse in the last
1:40!

Such better memories than the current state of basketball affairs.

- jason

On 2/19/08 1:38 PM, "Peter C. Warner" <pcw at warnerpatents.com> wrote:

> Actually, it was at the stadium in Rosemont  (I was there too - I stayed
> until they turned off the scoreboard.)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of jason singer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:12 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Worst basketball seasons ever?
> 
> Ah! The 1982-83 squad!!! 71-57 over Digger's Notre Dame team on St.
> Patrick's Day in th NIT!! I was Willie at that game. Awesome day at Alumni
> Hall in Lincoln Park!
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cherron604 at aol.com
> 
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:02:17
> To:rstetson at capps-assoc.com, tbng at comcast.net, nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Worst basketball seasons ever?
> 
> 
> Can we assemble a list of legit Big Ten-caliber guys that Carmody has
> brought in ?? And of those, how many stuck around ?? It makes me long for
> the days of Art Aaron, Gaddis Rathel and Andre Good...
> 
> Chuck Herron?? Tech '85
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
> To: 'Dennis W. Brandt' <tbng at comcast.net>; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:45 am
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Worst basketball seasons ever?
> 
> 
> 
> I finally got a chance to see some NU Hoops - unfortunately it was the
> Purdue
> game....
> 
> This team will probably be much improved next year, and if a big guy
drifts
> into
> Evanston, one that can pass, we'll be playing very well.
> 
> There is an interesting article in SI this week [no not the one with the
> half
> naked ladies] about Memphis' Dribble Dribble Motion offense that draws
much
> of
> its inside game from Pete Carrill and the "Princeton" offense. I thought I
> saw
> some of it sneaking into Thompson's game, with him driving the lane for
> layups.
> 
> But we still can't shoot FTs and we miss 'dem bunnies. During PU's long
run
> in
> the 2nd half, NU missed a whole bunch of layups, and freethrows. Even Tim
> Doyle
> had to comment that you can't win doing that.
> 
> As for BC - I won't call for his head just yet - but he's got to get a big
> guy
> 6-9+ or we're going to get defeated easily next year too.
> 
> rsl
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
>> Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:54 AM
>> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Worst basketball seasons ever?
>> 
>>> Maybe after coaches have seen the Princeton offense they figure out how
>> to
>>> beat it.  Georgetown is now having problems winning and I believe that
>>> they use the same offense.
>> 
>> Forget the offense style.  Northwestern does not have very good
basketball
>> players.  Coble, our best player, is a sixth or seventh man on a good
> team,
>> and Thompson would see little playing time as a freshman.  We have
neither
>> size nor quickness, we are not consistent shooters, we can't finish the
>> occasional fast break, and we can't rebound a lick.  In short, we look
> like
>> just about every Northwestern team I've watched for 43 years.  Maybe next
>> season will be better, but I've been hearing that for 43 years, too.
>> 
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