[NU Sports] Carmody job security

[Dennis W. Brandt]

> We can all make excuses for Carmody but the reality is that he hasn't cut 
> it.  Watching the MSU game, when we fell behind he took his usual position 
> of sitting on his butt with his legs crossed sending the message that 
> we're going to lose and I quit.  The players can read body language too. 
> When he leaves the only way the program will improve is to spend enough 
> money to acquire a Tubby Smith just as Minnesota did.
>
As a coach, Carmody is excellent.  His teams play about as well as their 
talent allows.  As a recruiter, he sucks at the Big 10 level because he 
never pulls in players who are great athletes.  As we saw again last night, 
Michigan State is a far more talented team than NU, a statement that has 
been almost universally true of our opponents since I matriculated in 1964. 
Talent, talent, talent.  We have some, more than in past years, but still 
not nearly enough to compete for an NCAA berth, although we might pull off 
an upset or two.  Carmody recruited height, but he didn't recruit 
rebounders, which is what has caused us to be 0 - 2 and likely 0 - 7 before 
we get to Indiana.  Shurna has possibilities, but Rowley is a project on the 
scale of the Hoover Dam.  We have no go-to guy to break down a defense, 
little speed relatively speaking (and we're faster now than ever), we don't 
jump well, we have no muscle except Rowley and he is painfully slow, most 
often we cannot finish a fast-break (except maybe Thompson), and we're lucky 
if we pull down one contended board in ten tries.  That describes forty-four 
NU basketball teams for me.  Enough already.