[NU Sports] Failed to finish

[Tom Maycock]

We were saying the exact same thing. If he takes a knee at the 5, MSU snaps the 
ball in victory formation and NU has as close to zero chances as you can get. 
Instead, he scores, and they are kicking off against the wind (to a guy in V. 
Mark who had already put a scare into them a few times), and we've got time on 
the clock. I was really hoping we'd make them pay for that stupidity, but 
obviously it didn't happen.

Just underscores how "right" Ben Johnson was to take the slide against Minny.

Tom



----- Original Message ----
> From: "hakirsch at aol.com" <hakirsch at aol.com>
> To: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>; nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com; 
>nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 5:27:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Failed to finish
> 
> Again a little sidelight would be to ask ho come the MSU guy scored the final  
>touchdown rather than taking a knee at the 5 or wherever ?  A knee would  have 
>allowed MSU to take a few more knees and clinch the win. Instead the final  TD 
>allowed us to have a shot with a minute to go of tying the game.   Obviously it 
>didn't matter
> 
> Harry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hakirsch at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010  22:07:18 
> To: Mike Nolan<nolan at romaine.tssi.com>; <nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>;  
><nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com>
> Reply-To: hakirsch at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports]  Failed to finish
> 
> As soon as the weather got better  we started  losing.  I honestly think this 
>was key.  MSU had a tough time passing  with a wet ball. Once it was dry they 
>worked us like a fiddle.  Yes how  could we fall for the fake when they beat ND 
>on one ? But had it continued to  rain we would have pulled the upset
> ------Original Message------
> From:  Mike Nolan
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> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject:  [NU Sports] Failed to finish
> Sent: Oct 23, 2010 3:04 PM
> 
> At halftime  Fitz was asked what his team needed to do in the 2nd half.
> 
> His answer  was:  finish.
> 
> Unfortunately, that was what they DIDN'T  do--again!
> 
> I really HATE losing to Sparty!!  I'm not sure that the  announcers on ESPN 
>didn't
> cheer louder than the MSU fans in Evanston when  they took the lead.  
> 
> BTW, with Penn State's win today, if they can  win at home next week against 
> Michigan they will be playing the Cats at home  looking for JoePa's 400th 
>victory.  
>
> --
> Mike  Nolan
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