[NU Sports] Insight Bowl

[Cyril S. Ku]

The dates were 1954-2006.

Cyril

--- Mark Ament <prplehaze at insightbb.com> wrote:

> Speaking of bowls, it was nice to turn on the Sun
> Bowl and see a tribute 
> to Randy Walker painted on the field.   For anyone
> who didn't see it, 
> there were purple and white ribbons painted on the
> field with "RW" and 
> the dates of his life (which escape me at the
> moment) on the ribbon.  I 
> understand there was a tribute to him either at
> halftime or before the 
> game.  I turned to the game in the second half, so
> didn't see that.
> Mark
> 
> SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:
> >> I don't see a easy victory ahead for the big ten.
> >> They could possibly be 0-6 
> >>     
> >
> > Could be indeed, but it's not all that unexpected
> ...
> > I thought we might sneak one out today, but Purdue
> > looked awfully flat and Minny choked big-time. And
> you
> > can throw out the Alamo Bowl. First off, neither
> team
> > deserves to be there but for different reasons
> (Texas
> > got shafted worse than just about everyone but
> Rutgers
> > in the bowl shakeup) and secondly, it's
> practically a
> > Longhorn home game (well, most Big Ten bowls are
> in
> > opponents' back yards, but this is worse:) ).
> >
> > But remember that we started slow last year and
> woke
> > up in the new year. Had Iowa not gotten shafted by
> the
> > refs, we'd have been 4-0 with Wisky's upset and
> PSU
> > and OSU winning.
> >
> > I think we have a decent shot to repeat that feat
> > again this year. JoePa's an exceptional bowl coach
> and
> > if he can get that offense to just not turn it
> over,
> > they'll hang in there with Rocky Top. And Wisky,
> > Michigan and OSU are the better teams on paper ...
> of
> > course, the games aren't played on paper.:)
> >
> > But after a dreary start to the bowl season (we
> need
> > to limit the CUSA and MAC bowl bids!:) ), things
> > really picked up with the games today. It'd be
> nice if
> > the BCS lived up to last year's thrillers, but I
> have
> > a feeling none of the four on Fox will be within
> > single digits. Hope Barry Alvarez (ick) is good at
> > filler ... and thank goodness the Musburger game
> in
> > Pasadena shouldn't need that filler! :)
> >
> > Still amazing to think that a decade ago at this
> time
> > we were all in Orlando and a "Big Ten" decade ago
> was
> > that magical week in Pasadena. Hopefully we're
> back in
> > the postseason mix next year.
> >
> > Go Big Ten!
> > GO CATS!!!
> > -SjT
> >
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!!
> >
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