[NU Sports] Walker's greatest win?

[Jonathan Michael Hawkins]

> 1 - can any game in which you yield 500+ yards and 48 points on defense 
> be considered great ? (even if you rack up 650+ yards and 51 points on 
> offense).

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores100/100309/100309402.htm
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I'll give you this.  It's not an accurate comparison because there were 
some different things about that game.  In that game, we yielded *51* 
points on defense, and *54* points on offense.  And it was Michigan, not 
Wisconsin.  But the 500+ for the D and 650+ for the O were about the same.

Yes, I considered that to be a great game.  So much so that me and my 
buddy decided that since we were sitting next to each other at graduation 
(I was on the left), we would put a sculpted N and a 54 on my mortarboard, 
and an upside-down M and a 51 on his.  Jason Wright saw it from the stands 
and thanked us for it later on that summer.

It was the greatest football game of our student careers, and I saw many. 
This one ranks up there with it.

> 3 - Can a game be considered 'great' (or even 'well-coached') if a 17 
> point lead with just over 4 minutes remaining nearly evaporates ?

I dunno.  We had lost the 2000 Michigan game, and the A-Train had rumbled 
into our secondary, on his way for the game-sealing TD, but then he 
decided to hand the ball off to an NU defender.  Similar thing for the 
Wisconsin win in 1996.  Also in 2000.  And there's something I remember 
about a certain day in Minnesota.  It was their homecoming, actually. 
Victory-something. ;-)

The Cardiac 'Cats ride again.  We won, didn't we?  Let's be happy for a 
week. :)

Go 'Cats,

Jonathan

p.s.  Yes, I would've rather the 1995 version of beating Wisconsin, but 
I'll take this one.