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To: Rambi who wrote (16686)	1/20/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

Damn. In the whole scheme of things, besides my family, there are only a couple of things I'm really passionate about. St. Louis Cardinals baseball and college football (Big 10 style) are at the top of my list. I have followed Northwestern football with some interest since age 10 or so, passionately since I was a student there and fervently since the Rose Bowl year. And today our coach up and quits for a money grab at Colorado. Coach Barnett will forever be remembered as the coach who brought NU football all the way back from the dead. Denny Green had the job when there was barely a pulse and left with the program still on life support. He left years ago for Stanford, and now coaches the Vikings. Francis Peay inherited the position and we kind of staggered for a few years, much more competitive but still basically 3-8 when the season was over. Coach Barnett came in and maintained the 3-8 tradition for a couple of years then, BOOM, two Big 10 championships in a row, a trip to Pasadena and every NU alumnus this side of Charlton Heston had jumped on the NU bandwagon, which 15 years ago included only a handful of extreme die hards. So we reward the great Barnett with a 12 year contract for some pretty good money, and the program benefits from the pocketbooks of rich benefactors who thought they would never live to see the day that NU would win more than they lost, much less go to the Rose Bowl for crying out loud. And how does Mr. Barnett reward us? By knocking on the door for every coaching opening imaginable. Let's see. In the last 3 years there's been UCLA, Georgia, Texas, Notre Dame, USC. You get the picture. But he always came crawling back to NU with the promise that he would honor the remaining 11, 10, 9 years on his contract. Until today. When the turncoat takes the job at a school that didn't even want him in the first place and had to come begging after their first choice turned them down. Colorado. From now on, Colorado is on my shit list. I hope Nebraska, Kansas State, Missouri and all those other Big 12 schools kick the crap out of you every year so you can feel like we NU backers felt back in the darkest days of the late '70s and early '80s. Why? Because you had it made at NU, buddy. You had job security (9 years left on your contract), no pressure (all we ask is to beat Michigan every once in a while and a bowl game every few years; doesn't even have to be the Rose Bowl), and fans who were naming their kids after you. But you had to sell out. And now all you Colorado Buffalo fans get to fret every time Notre Dame, Michigan, UCLA, USC, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Florida State, Penn State, Auburn, LSU, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington, etc. is looking for a new coach. Because no matter what Mr. Barnett says, he'll go for the money and prestige over the honor and dignity associated with building young men of character and putting a team on the field that we all can be proud of. Coach Barnett, you gave us a great ride. But you forgot that we were there to give you the chance to become the coaching commodity you are today. Of course, as Dennis Miller would say, that's just my opinion. I may be wrong.