[Husker] NU-TAMU is close to call

[Steve Cornelius]

Here's a couple more links related to the game at Wrigley Field including a
webcam outside the park (showing the marquee) and an article from the
Chicago Tribune about the difficulty of laying out a football field inside a
baseball stadium.

http://bit.ly/9hXk8t

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > My guess is they are there due to the venue, not the teams.  The GOPHERS
> beat IL
> > last week.
> > Roger Lohr-Mpls
>
> This past week was a good one for new/interim coaches, Minnesota and
> Colorado
> both won, as did the Cowboys in the NFL.
>
> I think the Northwestern AD has been pushing this really hard, he's
> trying to raise their visibility in the Chicago media, and the game is
> a sellout.  (However, Wrigley holds over 10,000 less than Dyche/Ryan,
> so don't expect the Huskers game in 2012 to be moved there.)
>
> I'm told that after last weekend's games, Northwestern's victory over Iowa
> got only about as much coverage as Notre Dame and Illinois, but in some
> ways
> that's an improvement over the coverage they got when I was an undergrad
> there.
>
> The Illinois-Northwestern game is on ESPNU, though earlier in the season
> there was talk about it being on ESPN2.  (Northwestern fans would have
> preferred it be on ESPN2, because of the Pam Ward factor, the Cats always
> seem to do well when she's calling the game.  She's aware of the Pam
> Ward factor, incidentally, and thinks it is hilarious.)
>
> As to Persa's backup, Evan Watkins is a redshirt freshman, 6'6" and about
> 250
> (a good six inches taller than Persa, and probably a step slower) but he
> hasn't played enough to know what he's capable of.  He did come in
> when Persa got dinged against Indiana and threw a bullet of a 13 yard
> pass on 3rd and 8.  But after that he didn't do much passing.  He's 3 of 7
> for the year.  He's also a local player, from the west suburbs, so making
> his first start at Wrigley should be a big deal.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
>
>
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