[NU Sports] Our opponents this yr

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

After those first five minutes, I thought we might have a blowout win ... but that just wouldn't be Northwestern football, I guess. :)

I agree on both points ...

- We need to worry only about Purdue now (we have a bye week after that anyway), and beating a rested Boiler team desperate for a win in the prime time spotlight.

- We will not (and should not) be ranked now or at 6-0 if we can beat Purdue. We gotta beat MSU to get ranked. (So I'm guessing we cheer for Sparty next week against the Wolverines so they climb higher???).

So 5-0 feels great and is good for now ... but just beat Purdue for now.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT


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--- On Sat, 10/2/10, Alan Abrahamson <alan.abrahamson at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alan Abrahamson <alan.abrahamson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Our opponents this yr
> To: "Weinbaum, Willie" <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com>
> Cc: "nwu-sports at tssi.com" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8:04 PM
> I think we get ranked only after we
> beat Purdue and MSU.
> 
> But first things first. Let's beat Purdue.
> 
> I love it because we have been on the winning end of so
> many of these
> stroke-out games but, gawd, it would be so nice if we would
> just blow people
> out (hard to believe that this member of the class of 1980,
> three wins in my
> four college years, can even write that with a straight
> face!). But it's
> true. If we don't make these stupid mistakes, we win that
> game yesterday by
> two or three touchdowns.
> 
> Go Wildcats!
> 
> --
> 
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Weinbaum, Willie
> <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com>wrote:
> 
> > With Rice in deep 4th Q trouble, it appears everybody
> NU had played/beaten
> > this season will be on the short end today and by a
> big margin (Vandy vs
> > UConn, Rice vs SMU, ISU vs SIU, CMU vs Ball
> St.).  Given the performances
> > this season of our five foes and NU's escape today
> against 1-4 Minnesota,
> > it's hard to argue for a ranking for the Cats. 
>   Would likely take a W vs
> > PU and a 6-0 record at the halfway mark to crack the
> Top 25.  But the
> > ranking isn't important, the record is.
> >
> > >From Blackberry - please excuse typos
> >
> > W. Weinbaum
> > Producer
> > 212-916-9864 (24-hour voicemail)
> > willie.weinbaum at espn.com
> >
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