[NU Sports] Big Ten losses and why I love them

[Jonathan Hodges]

Remember that NU did play Ohio back in 2005 for what was Solich's debut for
them, and NU won 38-14.  I believe Bacher got some playing time late in the
game and ended up throwing an INT into the end zone.  But it also featured
the coming out party of Sutton who rushed for 104 yards and 2 TDs.

Jonathan

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > The rest of the league is a toss-up.  How can Michigan be that bad?!?
>
> I see Michigan as a classic example of the round peg (players) and square
> hole (system) on offense.  I'm not sure what the problem is on defense,
> but it was questionable at times the last several years so this may just
> be a continuation of that.
>
> The question will be whether Michigan can adjust the new system enough to
> the existing personnel to win 7 games, which has to be about the minimum
> the fans will put up with.  (Right now I put that at about 50-50.)
>
> Bill Callahan made a HUGE strategic blunder his first year at Nebraska
> and stuck with his new system even when it clearly wasn't working, and as
> a result he had the first losing season at Nebraska since JFK was
> president.
>
> Since he was the fair haired boy of the AD (who supported if not mandated
> the change in offensive system at Nebraska) he had no chance whatsoever
> of being fired for that, I don't know that Rich Rodriguez has that luxury.
>
> BTW, I've seen at least one bowl prognosticator who thinks Nebraska and
> Northwestern could meet in a bowl game again this year, though I think
> that's a big stretch.  I wonder if the NU players feel they owe Frank
> Solich a thumping?  I guess we'll find out on Saturday.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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