[NU Sports] The view from Madison

[Beamsley, Jeff]

These days there appears to be economic advantage to be the guy that
stirs the pot and calls people names.

O'Donnell may have some legitimate beef about some past injustice and
has decided to take it out on NU now.  My neighbor still holds a grudge
against UoM because they rejected his daughter and give us the stink eye
when we put out our NU and UoM flags (oldest son graduated from UoM).  

More likely he has just found a role that gets him more publicity than
he previously was getting, so being a smart guy, he's running with it.

Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
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Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:41 PM
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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





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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.
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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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