[NU Sports] God wears purple

[Dennis W. Brandt]

<Dennis,

<Before this game you wrote that NU would get blown out by Auburn and that 
NU fans were delusional to thinnk otherwise. Please take <your crap 
elsewhere. You sir have indeed grown accustomed to losing. The rest of us 
prefer to Expect Vistory and not presuppose NU <will lose.

I will keep my "crap" right here, thank you very much.  If you want to think 
with your heart, fine.  I'll continue to use my head.  NU is not a 
talent-laden football teams and, according to some here, never should be. 
The football team is going to have to prove on the field - and do so 
consistently - that victory is something fans can expect when we play the 
traditional powerhouse teams - or Syracuse, for that matter.  Yes, the game 
was closer than I anticipated, but the loss column still got one larger 
yesterday.

Nonetheless, you should retrieve the August predictions tossed about on this 
board.  I was the one who felt the Cats would win 10 games while others 
equivocated between 7 or 8 max all the way down to 3 or 4.  Everyone knew 
Ohio State would win at least 10 games, but no one knew how many games NU 
might win.  That is NOT Expect Victory.  That is hoping for it.  The bowl 
game yesterday was much closer than I expected - indeed, we should have won 
it.  You weren't cheering any louder than I was or swearing any more 
profusely when we blew a game in which all the breaks went our way at the 
end, and we still couldn't win.  I'll guarantee you Pat Fitzgerald is not 
satisfied with this "moral victory."

Nice to get my daily "crap" out of the way early.