Hey Gang,
If any of you haven't listened, we had Doug Lesmerises on the pod this week (check it out!)
At one point, we got into a discussion about Fitz. Doug's opinion (no doubt shared by a ton of the outside world) is that Northwestern can only get results like those in recent history WITH Fitz and is thus tethered to him. This common opinion is no doubt traced back to those 19 seasons--1973-1991, Pont through Peay--that the outside world seems to want to use to define the 100 years of NU Football pre-Barnett to prop up this "NU should be horrible" fallacy.
We're not sure how many people on the boards are in the age bracket to speak on this, but our question is:
What changed circa 1970? Strotz came in as president right as Alex Agase was producing his best teams, and the previous 2 presidents had presided over Pappy Waldorf, Robert Voigts, and Ara Parseghian, who were all perfectly fine. Did the shift come with Strotz? Earlier in the Agase era? What happened?
Again, we're going WAY back here...but hopefully someone here can speak on this?
Thanks!
WLP
If any of you haven't listened, we had Doug Lesmerises on the pod this week (check it out!)
At one point, we got into a discussion about Fitz. Doug's opinion (no doubt shared by a ton of the outside world) is that Northwestern can only get results like those in recent history WITH Fitz and is thus tethered to him. This common opinion is no doubt traced back to those 19 seasons--1973-1991, Pont through Peay--that the outside world seems to want to use to define the 100 years of NU Football pre-Barnett to prop up this "NU should be horrible" fallacy.
We're not sure how many people on the boards are in the age bracket to speak on this, but our question is:
What changed circa 1970? Strotz came in as president right as Alex Agase was producing his best teams, and the previous 2 presidents had presided over Pappy Waldorf, Robert Voigts, and Ara Parseghian, who were all perfectly fine. Did the shift come with Strotz? Earlier in the Agase era? What happened?
Again, we're going WAY back here...but hopefully someone here can speak on this?
Thanks!
WLP
