[NU Sports] Basketball

johnadeg at comcast.net johnadeg at comcast.net
Sun Mar 30 06:39:26 CDT 2008


The Big Ten coaches have gotten a lot better  except for NU.

John DeGroat
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From: "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> Good point - especially since the UW and UM systems
> are so intertwined (not sure if they still offer it,
> but when I was in high school, I could get in-state
> tuition for UW or UM schools and vice versa for
> Minnesota grads). Still, I hear Tubby's upset by who
> Bo snuck out of the Land of 10,000 Lakes this year for
> recruiting.
> 
> But ugh - not a good day for the Big Ten yesterday but
> still a better tourney for us than most predicted.
> We'll be back. The talent level of the coaches in this
> league is really getting good from top to bottom -
> this was a transition year, but soon Iowa, Minnesota
> and Michigan will be up there with Wisky, MSU and OSU.
> Heck, Purdue jumped ahead of schedule and made the
> leap this year.
> 
> The big question league-wise (other than us - who
> appear to have a well-respected coach but no results)
> appears to be in the two Assembly Halls. Indiana needs
> to get a big name to stay big time. Their AD took a
> stupid risk on Sampson and it's gonna hurt them - but
> not making a good "next hire" could be even worse. And
> at Illinois, there's no doubt Webber can coach. Few
> coaches get as much out of their players consistently
> as Webber. But he just can't recruit. Every big-name
> recruit in Illinois has gone elsewhere under Webber's
> reign and he needs to do something about that in a
> hurry.
> 
> Here's hoping the regional finals are a heck of a lot
> more interesting than those Sweet 16 blah-outs.
> 
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
> 
> 
> --- Joe Thiegs <jthiegs at goldengate.net> wrote:
> 
> > Also, Wisconsin regularly got some of the best
> > Minnesota players while 
> > Dan Monson was the Gophers coach (same thing for
> > football with Barry 
> 
> * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!!
> 
> 
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