[NU Sports] basketball?

Thu Oct 16 20:27:36 CDT 2008

As some of you know, I'm the "commissioner" of American Legion Baseball in
Delaware.

Delaware is one of those states where we barely field 12 Legion teams (there
are 12 in north Chicago), and where we've only had one team go to the Legion
World Series in 82 years.

Last year one of the managers asked (I hope rhetorically) why we bother to
play Legion ball at all, since we never get out of the regionals.

Well, besides the insurance angle, and our reputation as some of the best
amateur ball in the state, we continue to play because you never know when a
team will catch lightning in a bottle, have the 5 pitchers you need to get
thru the first 3 days of the tournaments, and catch some luck in the
pairings.

NU Basketball is almost the same kind of thing - we keep trying to field a
team, and just can't seem to close the whole deal.

But to both groups I say, keep playing. Keep trying to put your team
together, play hard, and try to catch that lightning in a bottle that spells
success. 

If you don't try each year, you'll never succeed, and there's absolutely no
reason to go thru all the effort and pain if you don't expect to win it all
this year.

IMHO, Carmody's system is as good a system for NU as any other, but kids
have to stay around a full 4 years to really learn all the nuances. It works
in the Ivies against outside teams, and it can work in the Big 10 - as
Wisconsin....

rsl

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Scott Zeller
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:45 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] basketball?

I'm going to save these posts so I an do an "I told you so" this winter. I
don't think we have *ever* had a recruiting class like the one that just
came in this fall. They will not be stiffs. And unlike football, in hoops,
freshmen can make a monster impact (see OSU making the National Championship
game two years ago on what was basically a freshman team). Look for this
season to be one of the most fun times for Northwestern b-ball since riding
the el in 1983. And it will only get better after that.

Scott Zeller MD
Med '86

On 10/16/08, CHerron604 at aol.com <CHerron604 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Rich Falk, Andre Goode, Gaddis Rathel, Art Aaron etc. did win the
> games  they
> should.  They may not have been great, but they were fun to  watch.  Can
we
> even imagine fans and students riding the el to DePaul to  see one of BC's
> teams ?
>
> Chuck Herron  Tech '85
>
>
> In a message dated 10/16/2008 6:06:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com writes:
>
> I have  said many times I don't believe in firing Carmody, I just don't
see
> anything  changing even when/if they do.
>
> "If the recruits pan out." How  many times have we heard that? I predict:
> as
> usual, one will be so plagued  with injuries he's a non-factor, another
> will
> transfer because he wants to  play for a team that can beat Cornell, a
> third
> will turn out to be a stiff and  maybe the fourth will be an OK player,
> maybe.
>
> NU basketball has  never in my memory "won the games it should." There's
> always awful losses.  Penn State, which should be a win, isn't all that
> often. And
> the non-league  debacles are killers.
>
> I hope for a long football  season!!!
>
> bw
>
> "Happy are those who see beauty in the  modest spots where others see
> nothing." -- Camille Pissaro
>
>
> "Quis  ipsos custodes custodiet?" -- Juvenal
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message  ----
> From: "NEONRye at aol.com" <NEONRye at aol.com>
> To:  rstetson at capps-assoc.com; bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent:  Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:47:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports]  basketball?
>
> Having heard Jim Phillips at the NU Club of NY Sports Night  in August
> (when
> he appeared with Fitz and Kelly Amonte Hiller) and his  response to one or
> two
> queries about the futility of our Mens Hoopsters, I  don't think that the
> AD
> will give BC a very long rope.  If he doesn't see  real progress -- in the
> form of wins, and not moral victories -- my strong  hunch is that he will
> wipe
> the slate clean and bring in his own guy.  On  the other hand, if the
> recruits
> pan out, and if the team at least wins games  it should win and pulls out
> an
> upset or two over the Big Ten powers or  middle level squads, then BC will
> likely survive.  And I think that is  how it should be.
>
> Paul  Levinson
>
>
>
>
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