[NU Sports] Big Ten early games ...

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Steven

Its called hype.  Absolutely agree with you that kiffen's comments were hardly anything.  The bulletin board stuff normally occurs the week prior

Harry
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-----Original Message-----
From: "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:20:24 
To: <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Subject: [NU Sports] Big Ten early games ...


Well, after the two mega-matchups and other close games in league play last weekend, this one seems like a downer ... maybe we're all just itchin' for conference play to begin next week. Instead, we get endless discussion on how much Florida is going to beat Tennessee by this week.

And going off on an aside there ... I just don't get this story. For one, what did Kiffin say that was so offensive to Gator Nation??? That they were looking forward to beating the Gators? What is he supposed to do, never speak of daring to defeat the sacred Urban Meyer and Florida???

And secondly, for someone who wears his morality on his sleeve almost as much as his quarterback, why is Urban Meyer such a "duck without the U" as a football coach? He has a history of running it up, or calling timeouts late or throwing with huge leads or kicking field goals with seconds left ... etc. You can't be the good guy AND the bad guy at the same time, Urban. Either quit with the sanctimonious attitude or start behaving more sportsmanlike on the field!

But anyway, what does it say about a league when there's such a gap between top and ... well, not bottom but middle??? Back to the Big Ten!

* MINNESOTA put up a heck of a fight against Cal, especially after looking like they'd get blown out early ... but they just couldn't pull it out late. Still, a strong performance and if nothing else, it gave us views of the new stadium in the daylight and it looks spectacular! LOVE the brick, love the skyline view and love the big board. After a sluggish opening, the Gophers finally came to play today and Decker stepped up big time on the big stage.

* Speaking of teams that finally opened up their offenses, where was this OHIO STATE team last week? The D dominated the Trojans and sure didn't get this type of help. A nice thumping of Toledo for OSU, though.

* MICHIGAN followed up their big win with a clobbering of EMU. I think I need to revise that preseason prediction and put the Wolverines right up there in the Rose Bowl mix.

* PENN STATE won another game unimpressively - they better get their focus fast with Iowa coming in next week.

* WISCONSIN also finally crushed a cupcake ... but they're looking a good step and a half behind all of the league teams mentioned above.

* And finally, just when I start to think PURDUE won't be so bad without Joe Tiller, they flop at home to Northern Illinois. Ugh!

Hopefully the afternoon games will be better. I think Zona-Iowa will be a nailbiter and could be trouble for the bumblebees ... and I hope MSU can stay close to the Evil Empire in South Bend and maybe start to put a nail in their B(C)S hopes, because Purdue sure won't.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT



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GO CATS!!!


      

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