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

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I think it's about maturity and leadership.

Nobody plays a perfect game.

What this team is lacking are the leaders who are going to go out and  
make a play to grab back the momentum when it feels like it is flowing  
against us.

That's why it feels like we play great until we encounter some  
adversity. Then we never seem to get it back.

I'm not close enough to the team to speculate why. Hopefully we'll see  
some of the young guys emerge as leaders before the season closes.

Jeff

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On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:36 PM, "Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal)" <Alan.Abrahamson at nbcsports.com 
 > wrote:

> 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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> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:15 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> 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
> Sent on the Sprint(r) Now Network from my BlackBerry(r)
>
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