[NU Sports] Basketball (ugh!)

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Granted, McGaw Hall (sorry, Welsh-Ryan family, but I like to call it McGaw) is off campus, but it is only 2900 yards from University Hall (via Sheridan Rd and Central St).? I wonder how many of the new Big Ten Arenas are that far or a little further from the bulk of student housing ?? Carver Hawkeye Arena seems pretty remote, OSU's new arena seems pretty remote also.? 

It is also a pleasant arena, good seats, very intimate - a long way from the dirt floor/wooden bleacher mess I first stepped into back in 1980.? Now that arena probably would have harmed recruiting (though we recruited some nice players back in the days of old McGaw - Falk's NIT team that played their games at DePaul must've been intrigued by the wooden bleachers and dust cloud that existed in there).

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85


-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net>
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:07 pm
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Basketball (ugh!)



<I can not for the life of me understand why Northwestern can not recruit enough 
guys to win. 

I have stated here in years past, usually drawing strong disagreement, and I'm 
sure I'll hear "we can't!  we can't!  we can't" this time, too.  One of our 
problems is facilities.  They are old, small, and off-campus.  We have seen 
throughout sports that new stadiums and arenas attract larger crowds and are 
certainly impress more recruits than Dyche [sic] and McGaw [sic].  Is it the 
only problem?  No, but I do remind you that Minnesota in part built an on- or 
near-campus football stadium because the Metrodome, acceptable for football, is 
far away.  The very act of a university committing dollars to facilities is a 
recruiting tool.
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