[NU Sports] This season

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

As this was my prediction I will respond.

I will exclude new coach and new quarterback arguments, but give some 
other points.

We are 1-5 vs. Miami(OH) with the last win being in 1963 with their 
coach.

MAC teams get psyched to play BCS schools, especially at home.

We seem to come into the first game unprepared.  Since 1995 we are 7-6 
in openers.  We had good wins vs. Notre Shame('95) and Oklahoma('97), 
but we had awful losses against Wake Forest('96), Miami('99), and Air 
Farce('02).  The 5 missed field goal TCU('04) debacle still gives me 
nightmares.

I don't discount Nevada, but once they see our Miami loss and some 
marginal play against weak competition in the following two games they 
will get overconfident.  With three games behind him our QB will be 
more comfortable and the playbook will open up.  Also he will be 
battle tested having to rally the team and be used to playing tight 
games.

-- Kenneth Maresco <marskm at verizon.net> wrote:
On 7/14/06 3:58 PM, "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com> wrote:

 
>> Thu 08/31/06 @ Miami OR Fri 09/22/06 @ Nevada -- I
>> think we will lose at Miami and win Nevada


Why do you think Miami is a loss? They return 2 starters on defense 
and 5 on
offense. I think with a 2nd year coach and lots of inexperience, we 
should
definitely win this game, even breaking in a new quarterback, given 
all that
they will be breaking in. I think Nevada will be whole lot tougher.

KM 

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