[NU Sports] I wonder

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Based on some comments from other posters, I wonder: .

1. Why Fitz didn't just fire all the assistant coaches the day of his hire, immediately get new ones in time for training camp, or just coach the whole team all by himself.
2. Why anyone would think that Murphy calling a meeting to show up Fitz and the entire coaching staff could possibly think that loving experience would "take the load off" Fitz.  To save time, why not just go into the post-game locker room and scream, "Loser!" in Fitz's face.
3. If Nick Roach would have put a big hit on the punt returner, knocked the ball loose, and the Cats had scored would anyone be griping about his presence on the return team.  I believe we might be reading, "It's about time we took special teams seriously."
4. Why do I seem to be the only person (based on previous posts on this topic) who recognizes that Michigan State fell way behind because they didn't give a damn and played like it.  That is why the halftime commentators said, "Larry Smith has lost his team."  He found them temporarily - until the next MSU debacle.
5. Why an entire team collapses just because the starting center gets hurt.  (See 6 below.)
6. How come so many refuse to admit the truth that our football problems forever have stemmed from a paucity of athletic talent.  If we don't play perfectly for 60 minutes, we can't win.  While talent has improved from the hellish days of yesteryear, a much-coveted football player at Northwestern is still pretty much the Lone Ranger on campus, and political correctness obviates the presence of a faithful Indian companion who can pass rush.  MSU won because their talent is much better up and down the line.  Give talent enough time, and the juices will begin to flow sufficiently to overcome a rotten attitude.  It did.
7. Why it is that we blow a 35-point lead with only 25 minutes of football remaining, and some bring up a referee's handling of a punt.  (I'm amazed no one mentioned the probably bogus late hit call on Cory Wooten even though it made no difference in the game, thanks to a subsequent interception.)  The horrible specifics of disintegration are irrelevant when a team is in a total state of collapse.  If "A" doesn't take place, "B" will.
8. Why, after seeing that missed field goal at the end of the first half, were the first words out of my mouth, "We are going to lose this game."  Making that field goal would likely have done no good (MSU would have just scored a TD at the end), but making that one and another instead of suffering that interception in the endzone, would have.  (The interception was hardly Sutton's fault.  Just one of those things:  a good hit at the right time and that damn bad bounce into the defender's hands.)

Assisting in recruiting?  Now that's something that Murphy can - and probably does- do.