[NU Sports] Blast!

[Cyril S. Ku]

I meant the "miss PAT was huge" not "hugh". I need to sleep more...

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Cyril S. Ku <cyril at alumni.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> From: Cyril S. Ku <cyril at alumni.northwestern.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Blast!
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com, "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 12:09 PM
> Just woke up - drove back to New
> Jersey at 3:00 AM. Here is my brief report:
> 
> (1) Nice drive from Central Jersey to Syracuse. The fall
> foliage however, is not showing yet. Saw plenty of purple
> flowers on the way - thought it was good omen.
> (2) The Syracuse fans were generally nice before and
> especially after the game because we lost.
> (3) The dome was not hot inside and actually comfortable.
> (4) NU came out flat, down 0-17 in the first quarter, ouch.
> Where's our defense? I thought defense is supposed to be the
> strength of this year's team.
> (5) I am not an expert, but I think Kafka played very well.
> I don't blamed the last interception that lost the game. I
> blamed the early deficit of 0-17. The miss PAT was hugh as
> it changed the complexity of the game. I noticed many
> starters were not in the game (injuries?).
> (6) You should be all proud of our student-athletes. They
> never gave up and fought back.
> (7) It was an exciting game. The NU alumni section was
> loud, many pieces of fight song were sung.
> (8) Althought we lost, I got the feeling that we have a
> good team. I am sure Coach Fritz will put it all together
> next week.
> 
> GO CATS!
> Cyril Ku
> 
> --- On Sat, 9/19/09, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [NU Sports] Blast!
> > To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> > Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 10:43 PM
> > Seems like our dreaded September
> > curse has reappeared.
> > 
> > Yahoo's game updater was particularly cruel - having
> NU up
> > 35-27 and then 35-34 until revising it to 34-34 for
> the
> > missed PAT. Looked like we battled back from a
> horrible
> > start but couldn't seal the game off at the end and
> > collapsed with a late INT ... very Sparty-esque.:(
> > 
> > It also seemed from the stats that our secondary got
> > torched with all the injuries.
> > 
> > Hopefully this refocuses the team - but much like SC's
> game
> > today, we knew it was a trap game and we stepped right
> in
> > it. UGH!
> > 
> > GO CATS!!!
> > -SjT
> > 
> > * * * * * * * * *
> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!!
> > 
> > 
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