[NU Sports] Our last play

[Labbe John]

Regarding the last play, everyone should read the article below, which  
describes the way the play should have worked.  As reported earlier,  
it was an old play from Walker.  It had worked for us once in 2005,  
and apparently several other times for Walker.

It was really a trick-trick play.  A fumblerooski.  On TV, we could  
hardly see what happened.  And the announcers called it a direct snap  
to Markshausen.  In fact, the ball was snapped to Persa.  As the  
backup QB, you could expect the defense to be keying on him as he's  
not usually on our field goal team.  Persa then deposited the ball  
between Markshausen's feet, and ran left, as if he were running an  
option play to the left.

Markshausen was then supposed to pause about 2 seconds before picking  
up the ball and running right.  He picked it up almost immediately,  
and as we all know, Auburn wasn't fooled.

We can second guess the call all year, but I think it was a great  
call.  We just didn't pull it off.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-02-haugh-northwestern-jan02,0,6066456.column


On Jan 2, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Fellow Wildcat Faithful,
>
> I'm trying to savor what a great game we saw today, but I am truly  
> disappointed by the last play of the game. If Demos were healthy  
> then maybe this works, but with an untested kicker no one was  
> fooled. To me this seemed like a time where you give Kafka the ball  
> and let Brewer, Markschuasen, and Dunsmore get open.
>
> I know that Fitz has said that it was a team decision and that he'd  
> do it again. That's somewhat comforting, but I still think it was  
> the wrong call. Regardless, it's in the books and we can all be proud.
>
> Victory & Honor,
> Jim
>
>
>
>
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