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LitlBuck;2278233; said:
You know, Coble redshirted in the 2010 season and his last year of eligibility would have been 2011, and 2011 was the season he missed that could've put them over the top. But at what point do you stop feeling sorry for them and start being critical? The Coble situation kind of underscores the poor decision-making that has allowed the NCAA-less streak to continue. What happened was that Coble was taking longer to recover from an injury, and Carmody didn't think he was working hard enough to rehab, and since Coble was unable to make a foreign trip over the summer Carmody basically kicked him off the team. That was one of the most bizarre injury situations I've ever seen, a coach basically kicking a player off the team for believing the player wasn't working hard enough to get healthy in the summer. It was more of an incredibly dumb move by Northwestern in the Coble situation than anything. Clearly the kid wanted to play basketball, as he has since played in the NBDL.
Northwestern has raked in the millions just like anyone else in the B1G thanks to BTN, yet where is the commitment to basketball? There isn't any. They have the worst arena in the league and no imminent plans on upgrading. They have no basketball practice facility. They just don't care about putting a good effort into their program. They are more interested in growing their endowment than investing in their basketball program. If they don't care enough to commit money to their program, why should you feel sorry for them continuing to be mired in mediocrity? You shouldn't. I saw they are working on an athletic complex to be placed on the lakefront (maybe something like the RPAC), and they might be able to use gyms in that complex to practice basketball in, but that is a long way across campus from where the arena is.
Carmody has had so many years, why is it that he has never gotten a roster with the talent to make the tournament? I know it's hard to recruit there, but you would think that at some point he would get a team together that is a contender - he's the 2nd-longest tenured coach in the league. I don't blame Carmody as much for the school's lack of commitment to the program, but he should've made the tournament by now. You're in the Big Ten, if you are worth your salt as a talent evaluator you will be able to field at least one team that makes the tournament in 12 years. Even if at first he didn't fully understand the level of talent he needed to go from Princeton to the Big Ten, he's had many years to get it right and hasn't.
Redshirting Crawford is basically giving up on making the tourney this season, even though they had just beaten Baylor on the road with Crawford and in spite of his injury. Of course they would've had to win many games in the Big Ten this year, which was going to prove difficult, but they are already waving the white flag.
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