[NU Sports] season over?

Sun Oct 26 21:17:10 CDT 2008

How does the coaching staff permit any of our guys to assume anybody would  
be 'easy pickings' ?

Chuck Herron   Tech '85

In a message dated 10/26/2008 8:05:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com writes:

Fitz and  Peterman pretty much summed it up, this team doesn't yet trust 
themselves.  

They figured that Indiana was going to be easy pickings. When that  turned 
out not to be the case, they couldn't match indiana's intensity because  in the 
end the game meant way more to Indiana than it did to our guys.  

As far as injuries are concerned, Indiana kids were coming off the  field 
almost every series, but they never quit. In comparison, the TV sideline  person 
commented on how subdued our team was with plenty of time left in the  4th. 

Fitz has got a lot of work ahead of him to prevent this from  becoming a full 
on MSU-style second half collapse. 

Jeff

-----  Original Message -----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com  <nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>
To: 'Mike Nolan'  <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com  
<nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com>
Sent: Sun Oct 26 17:23:39  2008
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] season over?

I am not willing to  totally blame the offense for falling apart against an
inspired Indiana  team that seemed to have the speed to close in on many of
our slower  developing plays.

The Hoosiers had watched a lot of film and knew  exactly how and where each
of our standard plays would develop. After the  first drive, they put a
player on Sutton, stepped up their coverage, and  brought pressure from the
inside. We could put a couple of plays together  and move down the field, but
they pounded Tyrell until his wrist gave out,  then pounded Bacher until his
leg went also. 

Sutton and Bacher were  having trouble with handoffs all game - not sure why,
but if Tyrell hurt  his wrist, that's a good place to start the analysis.

Brewer was still  finding his way, and Peterman seemed to catch the dropsies
in the 2nd half.  Indy was able to play coverage that covered all of the
receivers.

In  any case, the D played well enough to win this game, altho we maybe
played  a little too loose.

Still, we hold on to the ball, punch in one more TD  and we come away with a
narrow win over a team that is regaining confidence  and injured starters.

I was frustrated watching, and am really worried  if CJ is done for a couple
of games. I'm encouraged that Ill-noise managed  to get beat  again.

rsl

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From:  nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf  Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:25 PM
To:  nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] season over?

>  6-6, 2-6, I fear. 
> 
> See you in Detroit? I hope?

If NU  finishes 6-6, that means they finish with 5 straight losses,
and Detroit is  probably the best they deserve anyway.

Obviously a lot depends on the  condition of Bacher and Sutton.

Conteh seems to fill in reasonably well  and has alternated with Sutton
quite a bit, but Kakfa is still the  inconsistent player he was in 2006.  
(Without much playing time, why  would anyone expect otherwise?) 

Hopefully this team isn't done yet,  but Fitz has his work cut out for him
now with four difficult games left on  the schedule.
--
Mike  Nolan

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