[NU Sports] Fwd: overtime

[Beamsley, Jeff]

Let me see if I understand this clearly. 
 
You're growing bitter about 47 years of virginity.
 
You'd like the NU basketball team to recruit a big guy to help put a smile on your face.
 
And you'd like all of this to happen in a nationally televised tournament?
 
You know, just the thought of it puts a smile on my face too.
 
Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Sat 3/12/2011 9:36 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Fwd: overtime



Had we pulled off an upset over OSU yesterday, I would have been deliriously happy.  I also would have been stunned because I had little doubt they would blow that game in regulation and was dead certain we could not win it in overtime.  I've come to that from forty-seven years of witnessing many a game just like yesterday's, precious few of which have ended with an NU victory.  If nearly a half-century of following a program that has annually ranged from inept, at worst, to not-good-enough, at best, makes me "bitter," so be it.  I, too, used to cling to moral victories as a positive, but you can take solace in that only for so long before you realize that many moral victories equates to many losses.  The program's on-going tournament virginity is inexcusable.  It's time to get laid.  Now, THAT would put a smile on my face.

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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Fwd: overtime




Dennis, sometimes I think you're just a bitter old alum. No one is happy that the Cats lost yesterday, but to not take pride in how hard they played against the best team in the nation is to have lost all perspective IMHO. The better team won but the NU kids played perhaps the game of their lives. Shura looked like the Shurna of old, Juice got hot as the game went on, Crawford was a beast on theh boards, and NU looked like a real, physical Big 10 team for the first time I can recall. Yes, there were some typical melt-downs (Luka!!?!?!) but these aren't a bunch of 4* and 5* kids who expect to win, the margin for error for NU was miniscule. Particularly with Cobb and Capocci out.

I for one am happy with what I saw, and have moved from the "BC must go" camp to the "keep BC but upgrade the facilities if you're serious about winning in the Big 10" camp (assuming there IS such a camp!).

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net>
To: nwu-sports <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 11, 2011 2:35 pm
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Fwd: overtime


Yes, the Cats played their guts out, but let there be no pride for losing
nother winnable game.  Drew Crawford missed shot after makeable shot that
ould have given us a decisive win.  Again at crunch time we lacked the
tuff to win.  When oh when will it be our turn?

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