[NU Sports] NU bowl stuff plus signing day

[Trey McAdams]

I think the Rose Bowl was a case of game being played on the opponents home field (or very close) where we actually had more people at the game than they did.  You also need to consider that USC has played probably 60 games in the Rose Bowl (30+ Rose Bowl games and I am guessing 30+ USC v. UCLA games).

The reverse of this is hosting Wisconsin, Michigan, or OSU at Ryan field and having them have more fans there than we do.

Not sure if this answers the "away" game question or not.

----- Original Message ----
From: John Labbe <johnl at mac.com>
To: "mlinhardt at netzero.net" <mlinhardt at netzero.net>
Cc: maureen.linhardt at plexus.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 10:30:58 AM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU bowl stuff plus signing day

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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