[NU Sports] Please unsubscribe me. Thanks.

[Roy Lamberton]

Gee, Guys, the "curse of the Wildcats" was just an attempt to put an NU spin on
a national sports story....

I guess it is time for me to pack up and leave too.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan 
> Michael Hawkins
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 3:27 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Please unsubscribe me. Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Martinitis at aol.com wrote:
> > And they are getting just too negative for my blood as well.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Well, that's true.  Between focusing entirely on "The Curse" 
> and the "I 
> Love Jay Mariotti and Rick Telander [oh, and Fire Randy 
> Walker, too!]" 
> Brigade, I'm not sure how much of a "fan" list this is any 
> more.  It used 
> to be like 100% fan.  Maybe now it's 70% fan, 30% "I went to 
> NU and have 
> found that incessant negativity wins friends and influences people".
> 
> I'm pretty sure I could write "the weather's so nice out 
> today" on the 
> list and someone would come back with "No thanks to Randy 
> Walker.  And if 
> Mark Murphy doesn't fire him soon I'm going to continue to 
> give my West 
> Lot pass away to Michigan fans". ;-)
> 
> Okay, enough joking about.  For real, here's some positive ideas and 
> commentary:
> 
> It's worth noting, and this is partially my fault, no one 
> wrote in to talk 
> about our 'Cats incredibly heart-filled performance on 
> Saturday against 
> Michigan State at home.  I'll try to rectify that - I was at 
> the game and 
> had a great time.
> 
> We lost, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a time when everyone 
> played with 
> the kind of guts and emotion that were displayed out there on 
> the court on 
> Saturday night.
> 
> We couldn't seem to get our open shots to fall as much as we 
> wanted them 
> to, but we did create those open looks and also gave MSU fits 
> on defense. 
> Most of the guys out there looked like they had the fires of 
> hell behind 
> their eyes.  At one point Cote was bending over under the 
> basket to tie 
> his shoe or something, MSU had gotten the rebound and was 
> about to go down 
> the court, and Vedran shoved some MSU guy who'd pissed him off.  The 
> Spartan guy goes flying *over* Cote and lands in a heap.  No call. 
> Vedran was on fire with anger and passion.  He fouled out 
> with 2 minutes 
> left, leaving to a prolonged standing ovation.
> 
> That no-call was typical of the evening, actually.  The 
> referees were just 
> horrid on both sides of the ball, but it certainly made the game more 
> interesting.  Levels of ire increased on both sides due to the poor 
> officiating, to the point where MSU tried to get into a fight 
> with us at 
> the end of the first half.  Michael Jenkins got a regular old 
> foul (under 
> the limit), but then there were offsetting technicals for 
> fighting after 
> the foul, and then one of the MSU assistant coaches got into 
> it, which 
> resulted in them having two Ts to our one.  So Vedran took 
> two free throws 
> and made them both.  Michigan State got the ball after that 
> for Jenkins' 
> original foul.  We were quite amused.
> 
> Moore drained some nice looking threes, and I think Carmody 
> may be warming 
> up to Cote - some of the postgame comments to Eanet indicated that we 
> should probably see much more play time out of him in the rest of the 
> season.  He went from 6 minutes vs. Indiana to 19 in Saturday's game.
> 
> Usually losses just crush me and leave me feeling tired and 
> depressed, but 
> this one was so entertaining and scrappy I just couldn't feel 
> bad about 
> it.
> 
> Hopefully we can translate that passion and intensity into some wins 
> against lesser Big Ten teams than MSU.
> 
> Go 'Cats,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Michael Hawkins
> <http://www.jomiha.com>
> 
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