[NU Sports] Hallelujah

[CHerron604 at aol.com]

I would give the new guy 3 major 'goals' to work on:
 
- Bring some respectability to Men's Basketball.
 
- Get big crowds back into Dyche Stadium.  That means addressing  traffic 
ills, parking problems, lousy concessions, the whole deal.  Dyche  needs to be a 
weekend destination - just like Soldier Field (and, unlike Soldier  Field, 
affordable for families and kids).
 
- Improve media relations - Fitz, the new AD and the new basketball coach  
should be on the rolodexes of all of the Chicago sports media types -  
Sports-talk radio, TV sports anchors, local columnists.  Bruce Webber and  Ron Zook of 
the U of I and Jerry Wainwright of DePaul seem to be  all over radio, TV and 
the papers - our guys need a better presence.  Fitz,  I know, can be just as 
interesting and inspirational as Zook.  Things  need to change to the point 
where Fitz is Chicago's college coach - not Zook or  the arrogant guy from the 
Evil Empire.
 
Oh, also raise a lot of money, make or keep our facilities competitive with  
those of our conference mates, and keep the whole operation honest and above  
reproach.  
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/28/2008 7:40:49 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
Hakirsch at aol.com writes:

a  message dated 2/28/2008 5:17:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
sjtruog at yahoo.com writes:

> I'd love to see NU go after Mike  Montgomery. He does
> the FSN Pac 10 commentary a lot of times and  still
> seems to have the desire to coach.

One never knows , but  I can't see him leaving the Bay Area do take on the 
project of  NU.

He had a huge contract from the Warriors that has set him  financially for 
life (and his kids' lives too)-He lives in a beautiful  home in the hills 
near 
Stanford and has a nice easy job as a  commentator.  Contrast this with time 
on 
the road recruiting,  coaching  every day, and  traveling the mid west during 
the 
cold  winter of basketball season.  He would really need to have a huge 
amount  
of passion 

Harry




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