[NU Sports] Thompson and Mathews returns

[DPENDERG at aol.com]

Three players responsible for two Wildcat losses?  Are you  serious?  Penn 
State or any other Big Ten team is on a completely  different level than Nevada 
or UNH.  With 16 starters returning this year,  the Cats have been 
pathetically underachieving in their non-league schedule  against four very beatable 
opponents.  A very different NU team must show  up in Happy Valley or it could get 
very ugly on Saturday.
 
In a message dated 9/27/2006 11:47:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rstetson at capps-assoc.com writes:

When the  Nevada dback and NH WR & QB who beat us are playing in the NFL  next
year....

Our Frosh QB will be making plays along with the RS  Soph who is just now 
able  to
practice.

rsl

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>  Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:08 PM
> To:  nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Thompson and Mathews  returns
> 
> 
>  
> The so-called improved  offense we saw in Reno was not playing 
> Penn State or  
>  any other Big Ten team.  It was Nevada for heaven's sake (and 
> we  still  could 
> not avoid turnovers).  Thompson/Mathews will  help, but we're 
> playing  a 
> defense which shut down the  #1 team in the country for most 
> of the game (and  the 
>  Penn State loss really was the fault of two late turnovers).  
>  I'd like  to be 
> optimistic, but the Lions will be highly  motivated for a W 
> after their  
> fourth-quarter meltdown  against the Bucks.  I just hope we 
> can keep it  close, get  a 
> few turnovers ourselves, and if we're in striking distance in  
> the  fourth, 
> anything of course can happen with the  Cardiac Cats.  
>  
> In a message dated 9/27/2006  2:50:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> WildElk2 at aol.com  writes:
> 
> 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
> 
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