[NU Sports] Early lines, etc.

[Alan Abrahamson]

SjT: Drink the Kool-Aid.

Not sure your argument about why the Wildcats are due for a drop-off because
we've lost key players holds water. Last year, we went into the season
without our top offensive player (Bacher, to graduation); our top defensive
player was on the mend from a nasty bowl-game injury; our best receiver in
2009, as the season would turn out, had not been a significant contributor
in years past; etc.

The Northwestern system now is designed to do what elite programs do. You
get guys in from high school; they redshirt; they take over their junior and
senior seasons and, bang, you've got eight, nine or more wins.

Incidentally, the important thing I'm reading in all that has been written
so far about the 2010 Wildcats is that this team has enormous speed. We all
know speed kills.

Will there be rough spots during the season? Surely. But, looking at the
schedule, there is not one single game that we can't win. Not saying we
will. I'm saying we are capable of winning every single game.

Frankly, I'm bummed we don't get Michigan and Ohio State.

Make my Kool-Aid a frosty purple, please!

Alan



On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:08 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
<sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Sure would love to drink the purple kool-aid, folks, but just about any
> team (save for a few elite programs) would be rebuilding if they lost their
> top offensive player, top defensive player, best receiver and the vast
> majority of their offensive production. Only five home games ... (by NU
> standards) a tough NC schedule ...
>
> I love our coach and like this team a lot, but let's just focus on taking
> care of business one week at a time and avoiding the early slip-up - if we
> get to that brutal November schedule with 7 or 8 wins already in the bank,
> then I will happily imbibe the purple stuff with my serving of crow.:)
>
> For right now, just beat Vandy! It's not Bama, but it's still an SEC school
> on the road, no walk in the park.
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
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> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
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