[NU Sports] pURDUE

[neonrye at aol.com]

We have three very "winnable" games left, and yet I could also see us "running the table" in reverse and losing all three if things don't go well against the Hawkeyes next Saturday.? Indiana may be fighting for bowl bid when we play them, and Illini are probably just too fast and athletic for us, and I have visions (nightmares) of Mendenhall running for 200 yards against our D-Line.



If we win out, and finish 8-4, then certainly we will be deserving of a bowl bid (Our BT record would then be 5-3.).? If we win next two games at home, and then lose in Champaign, we would be "on the cusp", and it would depend upon how Hoosiers and Sparty finish, as we are least likely to win figurative "tie-breaker" for bowl bid--and that may even occur notwithstanding if we beat Indy and thus will have won game against each team--given our attendance deficiencies, loss to Duke, etc.



The main thing is that the 'Cats control their own destiny, and if they play well and manage to take their remaining games, they will go.? You can't ask for more than that at this stage of season, and I refuse to spend any more psychic energy thinking about how the Duke loss is killing our chances.

By the way, I agree with Stephen T.--Buckeyes really impressed last night, and Boeckman is a big, tough, poised QB, who efficiently runs their offense.? He looks better every time I see him, and while Henne has always had a big rep and a big arm, he also makes mistakes at key times.? Boeckman, on the other hand, seems to make good decisions with the ball, and is very accurate.? OSU really exposed PSU--the Nits' fans must be very down this morning.

Paul Levinson


-----Original Message-----
From: Hakirsch at aol.com
To: johnadeg at comcast.net; sjtruog at yahoo.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:07 am
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] pURDUE




In a message dated 10/28/2007 5:26:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
johnadeg at comcast.net writes:

> It will probably take seven wins to get a bowl bid this year and the fact 
> that no one shows up for NU home games makes it a long shot that NU gets a 
> bowl bid.
> 
> John DeGroat
> 

And to be honest, do we deserve much of a bowl bid ?  While I would be happy 
to have us go to a bottom tier bowl, we certainly have not shown bowl material 
most of  the year-  We are not bad , but we are not  too good either .I 
havent checked our rating, but I suspect that we are not in the top half.  

Yes we have had some exciting wins, but have played poorly in many other 
games--Our record will be inflated by a very easy non-conference schedule -at 
least 3 of those games we played poorly--or at least below how a bowl bound team 

should play-

Still I am optimistic about the future--we are going in the right direction 
albeit with some starts and stops and Fitz is the right guy and will learn as 
he gets more experience.

Harry



**************************************
 See what's new at http://www.aol.com
_______________________________________________
nwu-sports site list
nwu-sports at tssi.com
http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/nwu-sports


________________________________________________________________________
Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com