[NU Sports] Iowa?

[Mike Nolan]

> I really have to weigh in on this subject because there is a lot of wishful 
>  thinking out there.  Bottom line, in my view, is the Cats are just an  
> average team who have struggled to beat even weak opponents this year.   They 
> are physically outmanned on both the offensive and defensive lines.   They 
> can finesse and execute well for a while (as seen against Purdue, MSU and  
> PSU), but ultimately the Cats do not have the physicality to compete for 60  
> minutes against a strong Big Ten team.  I want to be wrong, but I think we  do 
> not have the horses to stay with Iowa, Wisconsin, or even Illinois for  60 
> minutes.  

I'm still not sure how good Illinois is this year, I guess we'll find out
next week.  But since 1995 (the 'modern era' of Wildcat football), 
Northwestern is 8-5 against Iowa, 6-5 against Wisconsin
and 10-5 against llinois.  (I hope I pulled the stats out of
the yearbook properly.)  

Seems to me like a fair number of horses have been there for the past 15 years.  

This year's team?  I agree that so far they haven't played a 60 minute 
game against anybody, and they haven't always gotten the big play 
they needed to win the close ones, either, like against MSU.  
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Mike Nolan