[NU Sports] YES!!!

[Mike Nolan]

College football just gets crazier every week.

Illinois was not only the favorite in the spread (how many times has an
unranked team been favored against a Top 5 team?), they pulled it off in 
fairly convincing fashion, never trailing (just like the Cats!)

Meanwhile, Penn State and Iowa are both struggling to find an offense,
Michigan didn't exactly blow away a MAC team, Kansas beat ranked K-State,
and Louisville's season continues to fall apart as they lost to Utah last
night.  After last week's big win over Oklahoma, will Colorado be
looking past Baylor?  

You know the Irish have fallen on bad times when the most interesting
lead-in to the game ESPN can come up with is that this is their first
trip to Pasadena since the days of Knute Rockne.

Oh well, back to the madhouse.  Maybe the Cubs can prolong the agony
another day?
--
Mike Nolan
 
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> 
> I don't care how awful our defensive tackling on sweep
> or toss plays was.
> 
> I don't care that our special teams were a mixed blags
> of nice blocks and poor FG snaps and kicks.
> 
> All I care about was that CJ Bacher was absolutely
> frickin' ON FIRE today and led our team to a MUCH
> NEEDED win in East Lansing!
> 
> In fact, just give the entire offense game balls. MSU
> came out the second half hitting as hard as you can
> legally but the line kept holding off their blitz,
> Conteh kept fighting for yards, CJ kept his cool and
> Peterman, Ross, Thompason, Yarborough and Ward kept
> making the clutch 3rd and long catches.
> 
> This wasn't bad D by MSU, though they were sloppy at
> times. This was precision execution by as focused an
> offense I've seen in awhile in purple. McGee really
> seems to be finding a rhythm as a play caller these
> last two weeks and the execution and poise is right
> where it needs to be.
> 
> We needed this one. After blowing the Duke game,
> getting whacked at OSU and giving away Michigan, we
> showed a lot of heart here.
> 
> So now we're 3-3 and staring at a second half where
> there are certainly no gimmes, but where all games are
> winnable if we play like we did on offense today and
> shore up the tackling on D to Michigan game levels.
> 
> Let's start next week by mashing Minnesota for
> homecoming.
> 
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
> 
> * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!!
> 
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