[NU Sports] Dump Carmody - Name Hardy Interim

[Jonathan Hodges]

Indeed, I left that part out of my comparison (a hasty one, I admit).  The
bare minimum bar for a bowl game now is a .500 record and Carmody has
achieved that mark just 3 times during his 10 year tenure.  Over that same
span, NU football has been .500 or better at the end of the regular season 7
times.

In any case I was attempting to argue that Carmody still hasn't reached the
level of success that the football program has under multiple different
coaches.  I don't think there's much argument with that.

Jonathan

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Herman Wang <herms at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   (To compare to football, it would be like NU hiring an
> > FCS coach who runs a "gimmick" offense and instead of leading them to a
> > conference title like Barnett & Walker, he would go to 2 low tier bowls
> > (think Detroit) during a 10 year span - fortunately Barnett, Walker, and
> > Fitz have been substantially more successful than that). It's just time
> to
> > take it to the next level.
>
> This is a flawed argument, as more than half of FBS teams get to go to a
> bowl game, whereas only 65 out of 300+ Division 1 basketball teams get to go
> to the NCAA tournament, plus another 32 to the NIT.
>
> If football had the same percentage of teams making a bowl game as
> basketball teams making the NCAA tournament, I doubt any of Walker's last
> three teams would have made a bowl game.  The 2005 Sun Bowl team might
> barely have qualified.
>
> I'm not trying to diminish the accomplishments of Walker or to talk up what
> Carmody has done, but basketball and football are two different animals.
>