[NU Sports] genius or luck?

[Roy Lamberton]

Having coached with a guy who hated to punt...

But really, you usually punt outside 2 yards because its so easy to load the box
against that kind of play. [remember that 3 things happen when you pass, and 2
are bad]

When you do that, its because you either want to put the game on the defense's
back [which according to Roach they like[ or you're afraid of your offense not
picking it up.

As it turned out, we stuffed them on that punt and got decent field position [or
did they drive it] anyway we got the points at the end.

Here's another thing to think about - Thompson and Philmore don't drop the long
passes and then would NU have been up enough ?

Go Cats-  time for da bucks

rsl

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> Since no one else has mentioned it:   I think that Walker 
> made a HORRIBLE
> decision to punt on 4th and 2 from the Iowa 41 when we were 
> down 27-14 and there were about 8 minutes left in the game.  
> Given our defense, how can you give the ball back to the 
> other team in that situation?  Was Randy playing for "field 
> position"?  At the time I was screaming to everyone around me 
> that this decision would cost us the game.  Fortunately I was 
> proved wrong, but I must admit that had Iowa capitalized on 
> the 4th quarter interception and gone up three scores, I may 
> have joined the throngs that exited the stadium in disgust.
> 
> Anyway, don't mean to throw cold water on the victory parade. 
>  It was great watching the Bumblebee People grow quiet and 
> sulk out of Dyche/Ryan.
> 
>                         SS
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