[NU Sports] The 'Cats Awaken and Rise Northwestern

[Joe Thiegs]

Yeah, when I see something like that, I always think, "What a stupid thing
to say."  Especially when part of Coaching 101 is to make sure your team
never looks past an opponent.  I really doubt the Purdue guys didn't play at
100% effort.  I instead figure it's a subconscious defensive mechanism to
try to protect the ego. Thinking about statements like those a little
harder, it just seems to me that the alternative to saying, "We really
weren't trying," is to say, "They're a better team than we are," which
probably is a tough pill to swallow for a lot of teams when comparing
themselves to NU.  I figure, though, that in a few years teams might start
motivating themselves to play us--you know, as "a great opponent."  :)  -Joe


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Odd quote from one of the Boilers

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081019/SPORTS0602/81019
0368/1070/SPORTS0602


"Cornerback Brandon King admitted that something was missing for the
Boilermakers.


"You have to come into this game like we did against Penn State and Ohio
State," he said. "I don't think we came in with the same mentality, playing
against a great opponent. We came in thinking it might be easy and it
wasn't."

Tiller must be losing it to a) let players on a 2-win team think a road game
at a 5-win team would be easy, or b) let one of them say it to the press.

Here's hoping the Hoosiers, Gophers, Buckeyes, etc.?think 'it might be easy'

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85


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