Gary Barnett couldn’t believe it at first. Can you blame him?
Barnett, the last football coach to lead the Colorado Buffaloes to a conference title in 2001, was in his third season overhauling Northwestern’s program in November 1994 when rumor spread from player, to athletic trainer, to graduate assistant, to assistant coach and to Barnett that senior running back Dennis Lundy made an illegal cash wager on his own team losing big.
The allegation surfaced after Lundy, then Northwestern’s career-leading rusher, had fumbled on the Iowa 1-yard line in a 36-point defeat. Might Lundy have intentionally let go to ensure Northwestern wouldn’t cover the spread?