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[DPENDERG at aol.com]

Improvement, perhaps, but offense sputtered, committed penalties, and could  
not push the ball in the end zone at critical points (and then the field goal  
kicking game failed us).  And, I do not think UNR presented a defense  
anything close to what we will see in most Big Ten games.  Our outlook for  a bowl 
now is very grim.  We lost two games against beatable  non-conference teams and 
now have a rough Big Ten schedule ahead.  Nothing  is impossible with 
Northwestern football, as we know, but it is a steep mountain  to climb. I do not 
think the Cats appear to be a very well coached,  finely tuned team at this stage 
in the season.  
 
On the fumble call, I think his foot clearly was out of bounds when the  ball 
came out.  I'm surprised they took so long to make the call,  but then with 
all of the controversy lately the replay official probably wanted  to be 100% 
correct.  College football should introduce the limited replay  time which they 
have in the NFL.    
 
 
In a message dated 9/22/2006 11:30:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
johnl at mac.com writes:

I  completely disagree.  I thought our offense looked MUCH improved over the  
past three weeks.  We should have yanked Kafka after he was  injured.  After 
that injury, he wasn't getting anything done.  He  was previously moving the 
ball quite nicely.  He had over 100 rushing  yards and the team had almost 300 
rushing yards.  The D held them  scoreless throughout the second half 
(Nevada's one TD in the second half was  by the Nevada D).  We must have been watching 
different games.   Obviously, the turnovers were killers, but I'd rather see 
some offensive  production with a few turnovers than a few turnovers with no  
production.

I won't go so far as to say the refs cost us the game, but  I neither think 
the non-fumble was indisputable nor was the kickoff recovery a  reviewable 
play.  The kickoff didn't really matter because we likely  weren't going to make a 
comeback at that point, but if it wasn't a reviewable  play, it shouldn't 
have been reviewed.


On Friday, September 22,  2006, at 11:21PM, Dennis W. Brandt 
<tbng at comcast.net>  wrote:

>
><  I think we got robbed on that one [i.e.,  the overturned call].
>
>Nope.  The refs got it right.   It doesn't matter anyway.  NU is one sad, 
>confused football  team.  Is there any inept method of losing they did not 
>use  tonight?  The last interception was the fault of a lethargic wide  
>receiver not moving to the ball.  But why pick on him or any  other 
>individual?  There is no "I" in "catastrophe."   Without a miracle, we beat 
>maybe Illinois this season.   Maybe.  And I gotta sit with a room full of 
>Penn State fans next  week?   Groan.
>
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