[NU Sports] 41 points at PSU

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I agree.

I also think that the challenges of turning the program around are
greater than with football for the following reasons.

1. There are more smart football players than smart basketball players.
2. There is more national competition for those smart basketball players
from our peer academic schools than in football.
3. Kids who go to Duke and Stanford have a chance to play in the NBA.
Kids who go to Northwestern don't.

The good news is that it only takes on special kid to turn a program
around.  The problem is that those special kids get highly recruited.  

Carmody came with a Euro recruiting conduit, but it hasn't produced any
of the sort of players that could turn the program around.  

We need a coach that can recruit that special kid from the Chicago area
and in the meantime keep making incremental progress with the program
every year.

Carmody can make incremental progress getting the most out of under
recruited kids.  Don't know if he is the guy who will be able to
out-recruit all of our competitors for our "Mark Aguirre".

Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:51 AM
To: Jim Leonard
Cc: Northwestern Wildcats
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 41 points at PSU

> Is there anyone left out there that wants to see Bill Carmody come
back for a 
> 12th season?

Can you convince me that:

1.  Someone else would be able to do a better job.
2.  Someone worth having would be willing to take the job.
3.  NU is willing to devote the resources needed to do a better job.

If not, then why spend money firing a coach who is probably doing
about as good as can be expected given #3, and hire a new one?

Sorry to say, but I don't think NU basketball has improved 
significantly since 1995 (pre Carmody), and is still stuck in 
the same mentality that football had throughout most of the 
70's and 80's, and we know how those teams fared.  

I'm glad I'm not the AD at Northwestern.
--
Mike Nolan

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