[NU Sports] NU bowl stuff plus signing day

[John Labbe]

Just one comment:

Was the Rose Bowl in 96 an "away" game for us?  I was just reminiscing about this the other day.  By my reckoning, the 1996 Rose Bowl was the largest gathering of NU football fans in history.  I recall that the stadium was more than half purple.  The entire city of Los Angeles was apparently giddy about Northwestern in the Rose Bowl, from purple de-icing fluid at LAX to Charlton Heston parting the purple sea.

Is this an inaccurate recollection?


 
On Friday, January 05, 2007, at 07:08AM, "mlinhardt at netzero.net" <mlinhardt at netzero.net> wrote:
>The alamo bowl debacle has been brought up and that made me think of 
>our bowl futility as compared to ND.
>
>5 straight lossses.  
>Did we underachieve or were we the lesster team?  
>Were they just bad matchups?  
>Was it the standard Big Ten bowl, which road game for us and a home 
>game for the opponent?
>
>Here are my theories
>Sun Bowl -- opponent better, good matchup, neutral field
>Motor City Bowl -- NU equal, good matchup, neutral field
>Alamo Bowl -- NU equal, bad matchup, away game
>Citrus Bowl -- opponent better, good matchup, away game
>Rose Bowl -- NU better, good matchup, away game
>
>I think the Sun, Motor City, and the Rose were our best chances for 
>wins as we had at least 2 out of three not being to our disadvantage.
>
>For the Rose we had the best situation, however the Big Ten in general 
>does a major choke job vs. USC.
>
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>
>Signing Day is Wednesday, February 7th.  
>Anyone know why it has been changed to a 2pm event instead of evening?
>Also why it is not at NU and instead at the ESPNZone in Chicago?
>
>We go every year, but to have to take a half/full day vacation to 
>watch signing day makes our attendance this year seem unlikely.
>
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