[NU Sports] At the end

[Jonathan Hodges]

He was a "co-offensive POW" shared with Michigan's RB Carlos Brown last
week, for the record.  But, it's hard to argue against a guy that completed
16 consecutive passes to start the game and set a school record for
completion percentage while throwing for almost 400 yards and became the
first Big Ten player in 5 years to record a TD passing, rushing, and
receiving.

I concur that guys really only deserve awards if in winning efforts,
although I acknowledge that in today's "fantasy football" world, huge stats
carry a ton of weight.  He did have a big error on the night (the INT that
turned into Syracuse's game winning FG drive) and NU lost, but in today's
stat-driven world it's hard to dismiss those numbers, especially when there
wasn't a ton of other performances as well rounded as his that week.

Jonathan

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM, <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Does anybody else have a problem with Kafka getting Big Ten honors last
> week against Syracuse despite losing the game ?? Doesn't this reinforce many
> of the bad things about football (i.e. stats are everything).? The Big Ten
> needs to amend its rules so that only players on teams that win that week
> are considered for Big Ten player of the week honors
>
>
>
> Chuck Herron?? Tech '85
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beamsley, Jeff <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>
> To: Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 11:33 am
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] At the end
>
>
>
> Amen!?
> ?
> Other teams have seen our challenges with run exploited by eastern and are
> going to make us stop the run.?
> ?
> On offense, we're living through the first year of a new qb. He happens to
> be a senior, but this is new territory for him and it shows. I have hopes
> that we will see his decision making improve, but I'm not sure that life is
> going to get a lot better on D. We may have to live with high scoring as our
> gameplan for the rest of the season.?
> ?
> Jeff?
> ?
> Sent from my iPhone?
> ?
> On Sep 27, 2009, at 10:14 AM, "Tom Maycock" <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:?
> ?
> > My 2 cents:?
> >?
> > For the second week in a row, if a couple of plays had turned out >
> differently, we'd be talking about one of the great QB performances > in NU
> history. Unfortunately, the plays Kafka didn't make > overshadowed those he
> did again this week. Same for the receivers--> huge games from Fields,
> Markshausen, Dunsmore, etc. But a couple of > drops really hurt.?
> >?
> > But those few misconnections shouldn't have been the difference. > Kafka
> and the gang didn't play championship football, but what they > did should
> have been enough.?
> >?
> > The big problem was our inability to stop the run up the middle, > poor
> tackling, and a lack of...something (energy? focus? > enthusiasm?) on a
> couple of key drives.?
> >?
> > Ultimately, I suspect we miss Mims and Gill way more than I thought > we
> would. I really think that if you plugged those two back into > this
> defense, we'd be in a very different situation.?
> >?
> > The reality is that we are now talented enough to hang with most > teams,
> but we have a very small margin for error. Last year was no > different in
> that respect, but the 2008 Cats made just enough plays > to put Ws on the
> board.?
> >?
> > I'm certainly not jumping off the bowl bandwagon yet, but a bunch of >
> things need to improve. The Cats really need to shore up that > interior
> defense, work on both ends of the kickoff game, and start > making those one
> or two extra plays on offense.?
> >?
> > Oh, and play Arby Fields more. Wow, he's got a huge upside.?
> >?
> > Tom?
> >?
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