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

[Beamsley, Jeff]

RW's teams were some of the most penalized in the league.  As I recall, he viewed it as evidence of effort.
 
Jeff


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




After a lot of years watching our guys (since 79), from very bad to pretty good, I always hoped that the intangibles - avoiding stupid penalties, avoiding stupid mistakes, understanding complicated offenses/defenses, winning the 'close ones' - were more a property of well coached NU teams - while we might not always out-talent or out-speed an opponent, we could always outwork, outprepare, outlift, outwit, etc.  And we seemed to have those intangibles that could often turn a close game into a victory.



My problem this year is that I see bad penalties, mistakes, cases where we should have known better, etc. and I wonder - on paper, the current recruiting classes definitely grade higher than the classes in the Barnett/early Walker era, but I am not altogether sure that those higher 'grades' are translating into guys who are less prone to silly penalties, mistakes, poor judgements and the like.  We also seem to be losing 'the close ones' lately.



I have heard said that Football, like all sports is more a game of reflex and instinct than thoughtful consideration (because thoughtful consideration takes too long in most of us).  A pure athlete has to see a situation and act instinctively. 



Are our guys now more instinctual, but also more subject to actions that are not always as beneficial to the team ?  Why do our recruits grade out better, but play in a way that is different from some earlier teams that did not grade out as well ?  Or does this just prove that recruit grading is a (very) inexact science ?



The kind of mind wandering that takes place on a Tuesday after a loss...



Chuck Herron   Tech '85




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From: Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal) <Alan.Abrahamson at nbcsports.com>
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Subject: RE: [NU Sports] We're not very good ...




I agree with this, too -- and to echo what I wrote the other day,
nfortunately.
I had thought going into the season that we would be really, really
ood. Defense wins, and I thought the defensive showing in 2008 signaled
he 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
rior generations, we are not getting blown out. Which I acknowledge is
 backhanded compliment, and I don't mean it in that sense at all. What
 mean is the corollary to what Brad said below -- that is, this team is
n every game. But as Brad points out, it hasn't been able to win the
lose 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
etween W and L.
The solution, of course, is to clean up the mistakes.
Easier said than done, right?

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ubject: [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
) The Kafka-Stewart sure-TD bomb non-hookup against Minnesota
) Dunsmore fumble at MSU
This team, unlike many NU teams of recent vintage, isn't able to win the
lose ones. That is a shame, because the games are there to be won, but
hat's the way it is.
Brad Wilson
ent on the Sprint(r) Now Network from my BlackBerry(r)
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