Let the season begin

and by season, i mean the Northwestern basketball season as well as the season of me bashing our head coach. now before anyone starts commenting things like "Hey shut up, you can't fire the coach just as the season is about to start" or "Why would we get rid of Carmody coming off his best season?" ...please just relax. of course i'm not suggesting that right now or even this past offseason was an opportune time to fire him. no, the right time(s) for that have come and inexplicably gone many times over. but as BC points out in this andy katz piece - complete with home video-quality interviews - the pressure is on. to his credit, he doesn't shy away from it and apparently has willingly placed the target on himself: "I think we're going to do it this year."

later this week i'll begin to enumerate the reasons why i don't share his confidence. not the least of those reasons is that Drew Crawford appears to be the only one on the team with any muscles.