[NU Sports] Thompson and Mathews returns

[WildElk2 at aol.com]

Reports from The Daily Herald say that Kim Thompson and Austin  Mathews, two 
vital cogs in our offense may be back against PSU. If so, this will  give us a 
big shot in the arm in light of Kafka's availability.
   Our offense looked like a 1-A offense for the first time this  season 
against Nevada (hold on to the _#o@!c$_ (mailto:#o@!c$)  ball!)  , and the 
infusion of these players will help. Penn St. can be had, but we'll  need to play our 
best game of the year.
   As far as my optimism (or lack of..) , I saw improvement from  the EMU 
game except with all the turnovers.  We may have looked better, but  with 5 
turnovers a game, we'll be 2-10 at season's end.
   With that said, I'm much more upbeat about this weekend than I  thought 
I'd be, providing we actually do get Thompson and Mathews back, as well  as 
Kafka's situation.  In 2003 we were 2-4 and got it together; 1-3 in  2004, so I'm 
not ready to write the season off.  As important as the Nevada  game was in 
the grand scheme of things, this week's game is more so.  PSU  has lost to Notre 
Dame and Ohio St. so with their schedule they've played , they  deserve some 
slack.  But if you listen to PSU fans, the wind went out of  their collective 
sails after their poor 2nd half at Ohio St.  Morelli is  having growing pains, 
and from what I've seen, New Hampshire and Nevada had MUCH  better QBing than 
PSU. 
  Not calling for the upset yet, but let's see who plays and who sits  on 
saturday.
 
                Trust the Plan,            Eric