[NU Sports] No predictions?

[Roy S. Lamberton]

This game comes down to Kafka, Zeke, Brewer, Batman, Wootton, Smith and the rest of the Seniors.

They have something to prove - something that half this list seems to believe - that NU's talent is just not there and we play "over our heads."

>From where I sit and watch the games, NU plays 100% and loses when they let down. I sit and watch million dollar a year receivers drop passes on Sunday, and wonder why some of our sure handed guys (Peterman? And others) are sitting at home.

IN any case, Brewer and Zeke are a pair of guys who can make the plays if Kafka is on target.

What we need for the NFL are a couple of scouts who believe in the bigger, faster, smarter philosophy practiced by Walker, then Fitz in recruiting. After watching the little guy from Rutgers light up the Steelers yesterday, I can't see why Tyrell isn't starting somewhere and given that the Cowboys win with two undrafted players (Romo and Austin) adds the exclamation point!

Go Cats - 2010 is the Bowl year.

rsl

 

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Beamsley, Jeff
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:26 AM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] No predictions?

You've been singing this song for a long time.  
 
During the season it was that NU didn't have the athletes to compete in the BT.  Instead of giving up, NU, despite injuries and graduation, went 8-4 with big time wins against Iowa and Wisconsin (who one would assume DO have the sorts of athletes that you think NU needs).
 
Now that we are in the bowl season, it is that cannard that SEC is able to recruit better athletes than the BT - so NU is doubly cursed.  Not only don't we have the athletes necessary to win in the BT, but the BT clearly doesn't have the athletes to compete with the SEC.
 
Team speed may have been a secret ingredient to success in the 80's when Miami changed the college football landscape.  It is no longer a secret.  Everyone recruits for speed.  But speed alone doesn't win football games.  Otherwise, USC would have had an undefeated season.
 
Instead USC lost to a MUCH slower Stanford team because that Stanford team was tough, believed in themselves, and didn't make mistakes.  They proved that you can still win with old time smash-mouth football.
 
The other NU (Nebraska) was one penalty away from beating a much faster and WAY more talented Texas team because they had a game plan that they believed in (Suh helped too).  Nebraska had no passing game.  What trick plays they tried didn't work.  They only had desire and a willingness to play the game until the end.  
 
I think the reason that you aren't seeing many predications is because we have all been enjoying holiday time with our families.
 
NU is going to win this game because they want it more than Auburn.  Auburn is going to believe, like you do, that they have the better athletes and can simply show up.  That will be their undoing.  
 
So here are my predictions.
 
Wooten is going to prove to the country that he is a fully healed big game NFL-bound player.  A healthy Kafka will be able to run as well as pass.  Zeke will get 100 receiving yards but need 25 catches to do it.  McManus will get two picks.  Demos will get a 70 yard punt and a 50 yard field goal; and Phillips will propose to his girl friend.  There will be a lot of offense, but in the end, it will come down to who wants it more.  NU wins.
 
Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Mon 12/28/2009 5:02 AM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] No predictions?



There has been a notable lack of predictions for the game.  I suspect your
hearts won't let your heads admit that we will probably go down and go down
hard.  I suspect we won't get within twenty points of Auburn.  Yes, they
lost five games, but three of them were to highly ranked LSU and Alabama by
seven points or less.  They suffered defeats at the hands of a not-shabby
Arkansas, an always formidable Georgia, and bowl-bound Kentucky.  Meanwhile,
we lost to Syracuse and Minnesota and struggled with the likes of Eastern
Michigan and Miami of Ohio.  The Cats are not in the SEC class of speed and
athleticism.  Maybe Auburn will take us too lightly, and we'll get some
breaks, or maybe the Cats will play the greatest game of their lives and
gain the team's biggest victory since Notre Dame in '95.  I just don't think
it will happen.  Lord!  I hope I am wrong.  If so, I will gorge myself on
crow, deep-fried, feathers and all, top it off with a dessert of humble pie,
and enjoy the whole culinary experience.  However, I suspect I will be
dining on pork and sauerkraut again this New Year's Day.

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