OT: Wake

[NJCat]

Deacons up 18 on UNC late in the second half. Another "good loss" for NU. And shows what a good coach plus the transfer portal plus relaxed admission standards can do at a small private school......

 

[Rebel II1]

Deacons up 18 on UNC late in the second half. Another "good loss" for NU. And shows what a good coach plus the transfer portal plus relaxed admission standards can do at a small private school......

Although Jake LaRavia who killed us and is a star there was an Indianapolis kid with a 4.3 gpa and NU didn't want him out of high school or when he left Indiana State last year.

 

[NJCat]

Wake beat BC by 30 tonight. If Wake, a school with half the undergrad size of NU, can be 17-4, why not NU? Get a decent coach, mine the transfer portal and make a commitment to being competitive by enrolling student athletes who can both hack the academics in an appropriate major and compete for championships.

 

[HawkCat]

Yep. Sometimes the hire of an unglamorous guy from a mid-major can be the right hire if the guy can flat-out coach.

 

[NUChicago]

Yep. Sometimes the hire of an unglamorous guy from a mid-major can be the right hire if the guy can flat-out coach.

Randy Walker

 

[Purple Pile Driver]

Wake beat BC by 30 tonight. If Wake, a school with half the undergrad size of NU, can be 17-4, why not NU? Get a decent coach, mine the transfer portal and make a commitment to being competitive by enrolling student athletes who can both hack the academics in an appropriate major and compete for championships.

Easy. Sign me up.

 

[willycat]

Wake beat BC by 30 tonight. If Wake, a school with half the undergrad size of NU, can be 17-4, why not NU? Get a decent coach, mine the transfer portal and make a commitment to being competitive by enrolling student athletes who can both hack the academics in an appropriate major and compete for championships.

Looks like we need to have a change in admission standards.

 

[NUCat320]

Yep. Sometimes the hire of an unglamorous guy from a mid-major can be the right hire if the guy can flat-out coach.

That was the Fran McCaffrey model. It’s worked out great.

Jeff Boals from Ohio U. is the guy I’m monitoring. Boring old guy who has done a bunch of winning.

 

[CappyNU]

That was the Fran McCaffrey model. It’s worked out great.

Jeff Boals from Ohio U. is the guy I’m monitoring. Boring old guy who has done a bunch of winning.

Ohio is his alma mater though, would he leave that for a Big Ten job?

 

[phatcat_rivals223240]

Looks like we need to have a change in admission standards.

this is going to sound like a Turk/Ned post or CMT(?) OSU "buddy", but I have a close friend who has a family member at Duke athletics (so you are getting this fourth-hand). He says they absolutely expect even the one-and-done's to do the school work. I am dubious, I don't imagine Zion cared what he got in Biology 101. Or maybe 102, because he may have had to stay eligible for a semester. Anyway, we discussed it politely and he insisted that they do not recruit kids that can't do the work. One dissenting voice anyway