[NU Sports] NU bowl stuff plus signing day

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

My definition of away vs. home for non-conference games is as follows:
Does  you or the opponent play at home in the stadium?
Does your conference or the opponent's conference play at home in the 
stadium?
Does your conference or the opponent's conference play at home in the 
same state?
Is the weather similar to either team/conference weather at that time 
of year?  Even in cases of a dome I think bowl game weather is a big 
factor.

That is why I considered only Motor City and Sun Bowl as neutral sites.

-- John Labbe <johnl at mac.com> wrote:
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.
>
>************
>
>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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