[NU Sports] new math

[WildElk2 at aol.com]

I read someplace that the attendance figure of Friday's game  wouldn't be 
available until today.  Sure enough, it was listed on  Nusports.com as 10,000. 
You've got to be kidding!  Clearly, there wasn't  any more than 5,000 (probably 
3,000) at that game. Call me crazy, but in a dead  environment like that, it 
would hard to get excited.  
   I thought our play was mediocre, but we ran the ball a bit  better, and 
our FG kicker ended his slump. Conteh's fumble at the beginning of  the 3rd 
period kept EMU in the game; we go up 20-7 at that point, and it might  have been 
lights out. Still we won the turnover battle , what, 4-1?
   Numbers: Looks like we need 7 to bowl this season.  Let's  make a risky 
assumption, and assume we lose to Purdue and beat an  average Iowa team at home 
( I hope my fellow posters didn't buy into the  Iowa rhetoric in the early 
season mags; they're a .500 bunch at best).  So  we need to split 
Indiana/Illinois.  I'm more worried about Indiana, as I  see some sort of 2001 repeat when 
some one named Randel-El turned us out.
   However, our friends in Champaign seem to be coming  unglued.  Iowa shook 
their confidence, and now there's a late season QB  controversy along with a 
hard-fought bitter loss.  And if you think Ball  St.'s a push-over, think 
again.  
   Four big games for our program.  I'm looking forward to  the next few 
weeks! 
 
          GO  CATS!!!             Eric



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