[NU Sports] Interesting article in the daily

[Roy Lamberton]

Raises a couple of questions:

1. Did Dunbar leave because he thought Walker was moving away from the Spread to
something else?
2. I Fitz is more hands-on the defense, who is watching over the offense, since
he's also the special teams coach.
3. When does Fitz sleep?

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Neil Kaplan
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:12 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Interesting article in the daily
> 
> http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=uwire-
> catsseeingchangesinfootbal&prov=uwire&type=lgns
> 
> 
> "While Walker was the offensive maestro who powered NU's spread attack,
> Fitzgerald's ideas rest on the defensive side of the ball. Colby
> described Coach Walker's defensive checkups as walking in, seeing how
> the coordinators were doing, and leaving if all systems were good. A
> change of pace has occurred in Fitzgerald's first 16 games as head man
> -- the presence of a head coach in defensive film sessions, with a
> supply of ideas and a wealth of expectations."
> 
> 
> Found this really interesting given our incredibly innovative offense and
> our usually pathetic defense and spec teams in the Walker era.  In
> retrospect, the level of offensive innovation was a once in a generation
> thing.  The level of surprise that we had in 2000 with our version of the
> spread in the B10 was almost unprecedented.  Remember how completely
> unprepared people were to play us?  Now everyone else has caught up.
> Because of our talent pool, we need to consistently be innovators - that is
> our key to success.
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