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Northwestern's Walker a stickler for details

By Teddy Greenstein
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, April 8, 2005

Northwestern coach Randy Walker didn't lose his voice -- or his sanity -- during a recent spring practice. But he came close. Walker would have registered a 10 on the ballistic scale after watching his players sleepwalk through drills. "We forgot how to break the huddle," Walker said incredulously. "We had to do it 200 times to run 50 plays." At one point Walker blew his whistle and screamed: "Do it again! Act like you want to play!" He kept his offensive linemen after practice for an hour, ...

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