[NU Sports] The view from Madison

[cherron604 at aol.com]

I wonder, sometimes, whether the praise some opponents give us (about being 'smart') isn't a protective mechanism for them (i.e. NU beat us because they're 'smart', not because they're more talented or better prepared).

On a different front, Jim O'Donnell's sniping before and after the game has shown, I think, that he cannot cover the beat and remain objective.  Whoever the dispute is with - the University, the Athletic Department or the team, the Sun-Times needs to do something (like let Herb Gould work on his tan while JO sits and simmers in Chicago).

Saturday:

" The Badgers (8-2, 5-2) forage into Evanston meaning business. The Wildcats prance toward a Grade-C bowl clinging to their annual mitigations about ''character guys'' and ''building a foundation.''

Sunday:

"The 32,150 who showed up at Ryan Field on Saturday -- the majority of whom wore Wisconsin red -- enabled the Wildcats to complete their seven-game home schedule with an announced average attendance of just more than 24,000 per game. That translates to approximately 52 percent capacity at Ryan Field. Maybe they will bring friends to the Northwestern bowl game."

Monday:

"Though Fitzgerald and athletic director Jim Phillips now must convince more prestigious bowl committees that Northwestern ''travels well,'' the staff could have done the school a huge favor Saturday if it had promptly released information to all significant media bolstering their case.
Instead, Fitzgerald delivered a snappy diatribe, and prospective bowls were left looking at a school and a program that barely averaged 50 percent capacity -- approximately 24,000 per game -- for seven home games this season.
Perhaps Phillips and Fitzgerald will correct the departmental oversight with a de facto bowl economic-impact summary at the coach's noon news conference today."

Though the third one almost sounds like staff-bashing rather than Cat-bashing...It would be nice to know his exact motives.

Chuck Herron   Tech '85





-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
To: cherron604 at aol.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 12:49 pm
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] The view from Madison


Well, shame on their defensive guys for not changing the signals regularly. 
aybe they can't
ount on their players being smart enough to learn new signals each week?
I would think the coverages would have the same names, but turning them on and 
ff would require
 signal change - of course maybe the Cats also watched enough film to know 
hich coverage Wiscy
as in or changing to when they did it.
Anyway, I get tired of players whining about another coach appearing to read 
heir minds. They
ere giving away their coverages, our guys were well schooled in what those 
overages were, and
e took advantage of that. They had video of our defense, and should have been 
ble to read them
lso, but they didn't.
rsl 
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The Hank/Inside info angle is very interesting, equally interesting is the 
omplete respect they
ave for the intelligence of our guys - they go out of their way to emphasize 
t.
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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