I applaud the effort; however, we are still razor close. What if Chiles isn't good? What if Komolafe gets hurt? And so on.
Why would you single out one poster on here like this? You do you but don't call out a true fan.
He’s mentioned the large inheritance his heirs will receive in the past. Why not spend $100K of it to bring a difference maker and enjoy it in a new way?
$100k?? You need 10 times that
You make it sound as though embarrassing is inevitable. My point was the opposite.
You aren't missing anything. He doesn't like me because I frequently call out some of the ridiculous posts he makes from time to time. I am not alone, however, and I take comfort in that. Ha ha ha!
We could get a replacement for Olsen for $100K - a 30-39 yard Field Goal specialist.
I see what you’re saying in the post, but NGL you made it confusing. Requires a careful read to not get the opposite meaning,
Have you ever read Tolstoy, or any of the 19th Century Russian writers for that matter? Convoluted (or confusing) was part of the point.
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
Look, we all want to see Kafka back in Evanston someday… but you don’t need to keep quoting him.
It took my uncle (Earle Bruce) 4 years to turn Iowa State around. They were the Big 8's version of the 70's NU. NU now has a name that will get kids interested, at least on the offensive side of the ball. Kelly should bring a new dynamic look to the offense, that will get kids thinking about NU.
Is that where KJ Windham went? The gulag archipelago?
I felt so terrible for Gregor.
Um embarrassing was the word used to describe our last stadium.
In no way am I suggesting NU should not have built this stadium. However, the old stadium (except for the innards) was very cool.
A dump, yes, but for an old-timey football stadium, it had character, the west stands that is. I would have voted for duplicating that on the east, but the old concrete structure was too restrictive to renovate as a modern functioning stadium.
The early 70's at NU were good with Agassi as HC. It took a couple years but it really went down hill after Pont was hired and I believe it was the 80's that were really atrocious (I was fortunate in that I was not in an area where I could watch any of the 80s NU Football
I was just pointing out that the beginning of the 70's was pretty good so 70's was too much of a blanket statement. Couple second place finishes in BIG. The operative words were "started" and "end of 70s". And the real depths were during the 80s, We were descent through about 73 and then the slide to infamy started mid 70s. But the streak (34 straight losses I think) was in 80s So if you wanted to point to the really bad NU program needing resurrection it would be the 80's and not necessarily the 70's
Strotz was terrible, He wanted to force us out of the BIG and Pont was a tool to accomplish it, first as HC and then as HC and AD. There was no institutional support and that is why Aggasi felt he had to leave, Was just pointing out that the 70's had 2 phases. First part good and the other the beginning of the end, Late 70s and most of the 80s were really bad.
As I mentioned in another thread, there was a stretch when we were 3-65 which was mid-Sept '76 to the end of the streak in mid-Sept '82.
Me too. Same experience. Went to the ND game, 50,000+ plus in Dyche, an embarrassing experience. My Senior year, new coach Rick Venturi came to talk to the residents of Hinman House, seemed like a great guy but man what a disaster of a head coach. Fortunately I graduated and missed the worst of the Dark Ages. I came back for grad school in '82 and witnessed the streak breaking win over NIU.
I graduated in 73 and came back for some games in the Fall before I went down to AZ for grad school (also named Wildcats) so I missed 74 and beyond Are you sure Venturi was that bad a HC or was it the total lack of support from NU? Strotz was still president and Pont AD and Strotz wanted NU out of the BIG and Pont was his tool and between them they pretty much destroyed the program, His last two years of HC (preceding Venturi) were both 1-10. Don't imagine that there was a whole lot left after Pont left the position,
Me too. Came back for grad school 80-84. Was listening to the NIU game on the radio and said to my roommate - OMG - we might win so we hustled over to Dyche for the third quarter.
Hard so say on Venturi exactly. He said he wanted to change the offense but he didn't/couldn't?? recruit the talent that was needed. Was on the hunt for a mobile QB and more speed but it didn't happen. There were some racial issues going on too in the program. He eventually ended up in the NFL as a coordinator for many years so some thought he had talent.
I was there ‘71-‘75 when NU had a decent program under Alex Agase until he left in ‘72 for his alma mater Purdue. (Alex was born and raised in Evanston.) Then NU Pres. Strotz was not a fan of sports and brought in John Pont and the program began its long slide until Gary Barnett and Randy Walker brought it back to life. I’m pretty sure we had the worst record in nation during the period between post-Alex and pre-Barney. Pretty brutal.
The French would say that Pont was a bridge from relevance to the Dark Ages
Pont was the fall guy. He was actually a really nice man. Pont started coaching at Miami of Ohio and is in the HOF of both Miami and Indiana. He was NCAA Coach of the Year in 1967 when he won the Big Ten title at Indiana (finishing 9-1 in the regular season) and was the first coach to take Indiana to the Rose Bowl. Strotz was the actual evil emperor while Pont was his puppet. Strotz didn’t think sports was important and saw it only as a revenue source. He hired Pont as both athletic director and head coach so that he didn’t have to pay two people. He then forced Pont to sell his home games with Ohio State and Michigan to those schools to fund the athletic department. Strotz gave Pont no money to recruit or for facilities or assistant coaches. Northwestern kept playing high powered out of conference away games because they paid better. Pont reportedly fired himself as head coach to bring in Venturi to try and salvage the program but truth was that Pont saw a loop hole in his contract that allowed him to quit as coach but remain as AD. Venturi had no previous head coaching experience and only 4 years as an assistant with Purdue and Illinois. He was not even ever an offensive or defensive coordinator but did play for NU under Agase. Pont could get Venturi and pay him the same as an assistant coach. With a shoe-string budget, no facilities, no experience, and an out of conference schedule that was horrendous, Venturi was set up to fail and become the villain. The only reason both Pont and Venturi were fired was because the racial scandal was making the University look bad and hindering alumni donations. That is why Strotz hired Dennis Green, not to save the football program but to regain lost university donations. The fact that Green was a half decent coach was just an unexpected result. Green was promised that the University would give him a bigger budget with better facilities. When Strotz wouldn’t do so, Green abruptly left and never looked back.
I was there from 68-73. Top seasons were 70 and 71. Agase was a very good coach, Campus protests led to Rocky Miller leaving and after 15 months Strotz was elevated to President in 1970 NU had always been tight witht he budget (that is how they lost Parsegian) but nothing compared to what Strotz did. Strotz was the one that forced out Agase with the limited (read that non existent) support for the program a year after he was promoted,
