[NU Sports] Re: signing day

[Beamsley, Jeff]

This was a great recruiting class.

We were strongest in the Chicago area which is the way that it should
be.  This is our turf.  

Next we should be getting smart kids in the upper Midwest who choose NU
over Michigan or their local school because of academics.  That happened
too.  Finally, in other parts of the country we should be winning some
kids away from our peer academic schools (Stanford, Vandy, Duke, etc.).
It appears we did that too.

Every verbal signed, which demonstrates that these are good character
kids too.

We addressed skill positions where we had graduating seniors with high
potential recruits (QB, RB, LB, and receivers)

Don't know what more you could ask for.

Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of cherron604 at aol.com
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:47 PM
To: jonathanwhodges at gmail.com; e-west at northwestern.edu
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Re: signing day

Let us remember it was only 13 years ago that we missed a perfect
regular season by one game?due to a few problems on special teams.? That
team may not have had any 4- or 5-star recruits.? As long as we have a
schedule that allows 4 non-conference games (3 at home), and allows us
to miss 2 conference teams a season, the possiblity, while faint, does
remain

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>
To: Eric West <e-west at northwestern.edu>
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:16 am
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Re: signing day



Northwestern football has it's priorities straight when it comes to
goals.
Clearly listed in the football meeting/film room are the following
priorities: graduate, be national champions, be Big Ten champions, be
bowl champions.  Fitz has done nothing but say the right things in terms
of priorities and has the program aiming high - i.e. this season wanting
not only to make a bowl game but win (NU got closer to achieving that
than it has in 60 years), and his "one game at a time" attitude was
really taken up by this whole team and one could see the results in the
record.

We may have our own thoughts on this list, but the fact is that the
program has its head in the right place and is always aiming high.  Even
if they know a national title is a pipe dream, they would never admit it
publicly and are always striving to succeed.

Jonathan

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Eric West <e-west at northwestern.edu>
wrote:

> Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
>
>> So let's get this straight:  All you doctors, lawyers, business 
>> people, etc. who have done so well from your days at Northwestern are

>> content to be middling?  I assume you are not content with the 
>> average or even the merely good.  Why expect it from your football
team?
>>
>
>
> So let's get this straight: you think that Afghanistan should change 
> its name to "Zafghanistan" so that some other country can get a turn 
> at being alphabetically first? It's as accurate a summary of your 
> statements as yours is of ours.
>
> If you want to try again, you can start by explaining how seriously 
> contending for the Big Ten championship every year equals "middling," 
> then move on to what recruiting rankings have to do with anything
substantial.
>
>
> Eric West
> e-west at northwestern.edu
>
>
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