[NU Sports] Basketball debacle

[Dennis W. Brandt]

> Coble's loss is absolutely devastating in a way no single FB injury could 
> be. There's no one remotely like him on the team.

A true statement, but the team I saw last night has more problems than 
losing Kevin Coble.  We have no center.  None.  Not on defense.  Not on 
offense.  Not on the boards.  None.  And we have no power forward.  We again 
will be outrebounded by every team taller than the Little People Daycare 
Center.  We have precious few fine athletes at guard and small forward. 
Shurna will have to prove he can be consistent, which he certainly did not 
do last night.  He will have his good games but is not talented enough to 
carry the team.  Thompson and Nash will provide spark, but Nash has been 
subject to streaks of erratic and out-of-control play.  Crawford looked 
quick and may offer positive results before season's end, but right now he 
is woefully inexperienced.  Some other frosh or soph may step up.  But who? 
That fellow did not play last night.  Our only run came after it was all 
over but the shouting about the lack of NU basketball talent.  Like the 
football team - indeed, worse than the football team - they must play a 
near-perfect game to win, and they ain't a gonna do that often in the Big 
Ten. May I please be wrong, but I don't think I will be.  I now enter my 
45th year of bad-to-mediocre NU basketball.