Quotes about northwestern (16 Quotes)


    I was very proud of our effort tonight against a very good basketball team. We made a run at them but they withstood like a veteran team does. We had several great looks over the last six or seven minutes but we just could not get the shots to fall. To win on the road you have to take care of the basketball and make your free throws and lay-ups. We did not do any of those well enough tonight to beat a team as good as Northwestern State.

    That was a good win for our guys tonight. We beat a good basketball team. Northwestern State was picked to finish first in the conference. We really needed this. Every game is going to be a grind in this conference.

    That's how you win games, if you attack and you're aggressive. The Northwestern game, we watched that and saw where we had a lot of opportunities where we could (have) and we didn't attack.




    We are very proud to be included in the ESPN Bracket Buster Saturday pool, and feel we are very deserving of consideration, ... Both Northwestern State and SFA have enjoyed success over the last three years, and we feel they will represent us very well. We thank our good friends at ESPN for their interest in Southland Conference basketball.


    On Chris Harrell's near fatal late-hit penalty on Wildcat quarterback Brett Basanez in the fourth quarter, which would have forced Northwestern to punt deep in its own territory with the Lions down two points That could have changed the whole course of the game, ... But we could have folded at that point, but you just have to know there's always going to be adversity. None of these games are going to be easy. Nothing will be given to us.


    We've seen this offense before with Northwestern, Indiana and Bowling Green, so it's not totally new to us. They'll watch tapes on what we struggled with, and they'll attack us the same way. We have to prepare for what has hurt us in the past.

    I've made clear my commitment to Northwestern. I'm not a 1-800 guy, calling everybody. Does everybody have a price Sure. But there's a value in the kind of kids I get to coach, the institution I represent, where I live. I don't know if there's a better job.


    I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

    Obviously the first game, they played well offensively and with Northwestern you have to make adjustments. Somewhere you have to pay attention to the scouting report and if we do that, we can shut them down.

    For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!

    It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.



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