[NU Sports] Whew!

[neonrye at aol.com]

Yes, Chuck, it was a Big Ten officiating crew, and the "homer" announcers (from the Duke radio broadcast) on the webcast were crying about them at times, while at other times they said the officials did a good job.? These guys didn't really know what game they were watching.? They also made mention once of a small NU contingent.? Glad to hear the Purple and White were well-represented.

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: CHerron604 at aol.com
To: sjtruog at yahoo.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:00 am
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Whew!



Not sure if this was apparent on the radio or webcast, but something looked  
odd in the last possession of the first half.
 
- on the first play, it looked like Sutton got out of bounds.  Yet the  
scoreboard clock appeared to keep running.
 
- on the next play, Sutton got the first down, and still the clock kept  
running.
 
- It looked like the first clock stoppage was when we called a time  out.
 
- Also, did anyone think we should've tried a really quick pass with 6  
seconds to go in the half ?  Was the CJ slide play simply to get between  the 
hashmarks ?  Or did we have time for one quick pass to the corner  ?
 
I also didn't hear at the game - was it a Big Ten crew ?  Duke has  mostly 
brought (incompetent) ACC crews to their games in Evanston.  Did  Eanet say 
which kind of crew we had ?
 
It was pretty dry out there - the sun was out and it was hot much of the  
day.  It must've been 80 degrees and 80% humidity during the game - and not  
even 
a hint of a breeze.
 
Great NU contingent at Wallace Wade, by the way - maybe 20% ?  We  occupied 
almost one quarter of the stadium, though we were kind of spread out,  and 
contributed a lot of noise.
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
In a message dated 9/6/2008 10:33:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sjtruog at yahoo.com writes:

Didn't  get to see the game but I saw the webcast highlights on the BTN - not 
pretty  in many ways, but kind of fitting given how we were down there and 
couldn't  score at the end last year.

I think Duke is a better team than last  year ... but we still should have 
won by more. Still, get the win and get  home. We'll take it.:)

Around the league, Minnesota's win was  impressive. Not so much the offense 
(we knew they'd be decent) but the  defense. Hard to get much of a read on 
teams like Purdue and Indiana with the  competition, but it looks like the 
middle 
of the pack in the Big Ten is going  to be quite competitive this year.

Next week things step up for the  league with the two big games in California 
for the Bucks and Bucky, Big
  Blue's Notre Dame game and the intriguing 
Oregon @ Purdue matchup.

As  for us, just get the win. The Ohio game the following week will be  
interesting, but we can't look ahead of the Salukis.

GO  CATS!!!
-SjT

* * * * * * * * *
STEPHEN J.  TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!




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