[NU Sports] Must-read

Thu Mar 15 14:03:52 CDT 2012

Speaking of Amaker:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/harvard-crimson-return-to-ncaa-tournament-under-tommy-amaker-but-academic-questions-remain-031412

"The definition of Harvard is its pristine academic reputation. But since
Amaker's hiring, that standard has a different meaning for its men’s
basketball team."

Discuss.

Jonathan

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:58 AM, <hakirsch at aol.com> wrote:

> Winter did say he had never seen a transcript like Mike Campbell's when he
> saw his straight A high school record from Knox,Ill
>
> Harry
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
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> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:38:00
> To: 'Eric C West'<e-west at northwestern.edu>; 'Northwestern Wildcats'<
> nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Must-read
>
> That's fine, but the story does point out that the admissions guys DID NOT
> make a call on
> the two transcripts, the interviewers did, essentially telling Amaker that
> those two would
> not, in their opinion, get into NU.
>
> I do remember Tex Winter in 1973 or 74 getting commits from a bunch of top
> Chicago
> roundballers, only to get just a couple into school. It sorta adds fuel to
> the fire - the
> Winter story was in the Daily Northwestern if you want to dig thru the
> archives....
>
> rsl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Eric C
> West
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:42 AM
> To: 'Northwestern Wildcats'
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Must-read
>
> Yes, fake urban legends are often as hard to get rid of as kudzu,
> especially when lazy
> "reporters" need something to punch up their blog.
>
> Even though I know it will have the same effect as talking to a brick
> wall, I will yet
> again offer the following (completely verifiable) facts:
>
> 1. Only the Office of Admission makes admission decisions, including for
> athletes.
> 2. The Office of Admission doesn't even have contact with current coaches;
> they certainly
> wouldn't talk to prospective ones, nor would they serve on an "interview
> committee" for
> one.
> 3. No one in the Office of Admission would ever make a spot decision based
> on a
> non-applying student's "résumé," whatever that word is supposed to mean in
> this context.
> 4. They certainly wouldn't give such an admission decision to an outsider
> who wasn't even
> the student.
>
> I happen to know these things because I worked in the Office of
> Undergraduate Admission
> for four years, but they aren't exactly secrets. No doubt Amaker was a bit
> turned off that
> recruiting at NU was more difficult than at other places, but the story as
> told in the
> blog is simply 100% false. It's also quite insulting to Hurley and
> Laettner, implying that
> they are somehow world-class morons. (Speaking completely unofficially,
> and with no facts
> to back me up, your grades don't have to be all *that* great to be
> admitted as an athlete
> to NU.)
>
> Roy (and Aaron, and anyone else), it's your right to continue to be
> skeptical if you
> choose to, but why don't you apply the same skepticism to the story
> itself? Why not look
> for even a shred of tangible evidence regarding the origin of the story
> (which might
> exist), let alone evidence that it's true (which doesn't exist, because
> it's not true)?
>
> I can only guess at the answer: the story is fun to tell, and re-tell, and
> "report" on
> lazy newscasts, and maybe put on Wikipedia from time to time. Truth isn't
> always nearly so
> fun.
>
> That's my last word on this subject...at least for another twelve years.
>
> Eric West
> e-west at northwestern.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Roy S.
> Lamberton
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:52 AM
> To: 'Alan Abrahamson'; 'Northwestern Wildcats'
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Must-read
>
> But there is that Amaker story again....
>
> rsl
>
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> organizations of which I
> am a member.
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> http://coachroy.org
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> American Legion
> Baseball Director Media Relations - Little League
>  Senior League Softball World Series
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> - Speech 1974 -
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> intelligence and
> energy of her citizens cannot cure - Dwight D. Eisenhower =  =  =  =  =  =
>  =  =  =  =  =
> =  =  =  =  =  = If we become a country in which we say, 'Please, tell me
> how to live,'
> We're Doomed!"
>                   -- Pete Hamill, "Prohibition"
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Alan
> Abrahamson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:07 PM
> To: Northwestern Wildcats
> Subject: [NU Sports] Must-read
>
> http://tobaccoroadblues.com/2012/03/13/the-last-wallflower/
>
> But for nary a word on Kevin Coble, it pretty much sums up the
> Northwestern basketball
> experience.
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