[NU Sports] We Have A QB!!!!

[Roy Lamberton]

Since Fitz is the special teams coach....

And I think we'd be short sighted to blow out Washington, Colby and Bates given
the state of the kids coming up.

If you actually look at what happened, MSU exploited Nick Roach's early
departure by throwing to the spot where Malleo, who was the only backup there
[Simpson is hurt], putting a WR up on a LB. I don't care how good you are as a
LB coach, you can't produce a Nick Roach out of the air - it takes 5 years.
Malleo's been a LB for 1.

MSU's O-line, which had been shakey all game suddenly decided they were going to
block. Once again, 3 D-Line, 4 D-Line, hell, we could have rushed 6 D-Linemen.
They were going to give Stanton the 2 or 3 seconds he needed to make the play in
the 2nd half.

NU has been on a mission over the past 2 years to recruit speed. The kind of
speed that it takes to play in the Big 10. My point Thursday in the Scout.com
article was that all of our guys coming in are as fast, if not faster than the
starters now, and maybe as fast as some of the MSU guys who were out there
breaking up passes at the end of the game.

The O-Line, which looked decent, suddenly lost their middle, the glue that was
holding it together, and we saw errant snaps, after Trevor got hurt.

Some will say these are excuses. As a coach, they're things we need to work on.

Anyway, I'm tired of 5 years of fire this coach or fire that coach based on how
the team plays on a given Saturday. I'm always amazed at how great an assistant
can be when the team is winning, then the next week he's a dunce because....

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
Computer Applications & Support Associates
and Publisher of Purple Reign, 
The Scout.com Northwestern University Site
(http://www.purplewildcats.com)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of John A. DeGroat
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:39 PM
> To: NEONRye at aol.com
> Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] We Have A QB!!!!
> 
> 
> We may have a quarterback but we still have the same rotten 
> defense and 
> special teams that we have had going back as many years as 
> you care to go.
> 
> Fitzgerald needs to replace all of his defense and special 
> teams coaches 
> and start all over Otherwise, we go back to the 1980's.  It 
> shouldn't  
> take a Ph.D. in logic  t o figure out that the defense plays 
> way too far 
> of of the receivers.  This is the same problem that has 
> plagued NU going 
> back to when Walker arrived.
> 
> It's too bad that the game was on national TV because it will 
> scare off 
> players that might otherwise have an nteret in NU.
> 
> John DeGroat
> 
> NEONRye at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >What a great opening drive.  Bacher looks like the real 
> deal--a worthy
> >successor to Zak and Brett.  Look no more, Fitz, your leader 
> is now healthy  and 
> >ready to rumble.  Who cares if he is not the second coming 
> of Michael  Vick as a 
> >runner, he knows how to throw the football, make decisions 
> and run the  "O".  
> >Let's go 'Cats, the turning point in the season is at hand.....
> > 
> > 
> >Paul Levinson
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