[NU Sports] We're not very good ...

[Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal)]

I agree with this, too -- and to echo what I wrote the other day,
unfortunately.

I had thought going into the season that we would be really, really
good. Defense wins, and I thought the defensive showing in 2008 signaled
the same or better from the defense in 2009. 

Whether injury or whatever, that hasn't happened.

Even so, and this is of course a dramatic change from Wildcat teams of
prior generations, we are not getting blown out. Which I acknowledge is
a backhanded compliment, and I don't mean it in that sense at all. What
I mean is the corollary to what Brad said below -- that is, this team is
in every game. But as Brad points out, it hasn't been able to win the
close ones.

That's because the Wildcat margin for error is so thin that one mistake
-- and the three he lists below are spot on -- has proven the difference
between W and L.

The solution, of course, is to clean up the mistakes.

Easier said than done, right?


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Subject: [NU Sports] We're not very good ...

But the case could be made we're three plays away from being 7-0:

1) Kafka's pick against Syracuse
2) The Kafka-Stewart sure-TD bomb non-hookup against Minnesota
3) Dunsmore fumble at MSU

This team, unlike many NU teams of recent vintage, isn't able to win the
close ones. That is a shame, because the games are there to be won, but
that's the way it is. 

Brad Wilson 
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