[NU Sports] Failed to finish

Sun Oct 24 10:41:38 CDT 2010

You are entitled to your opinion. I care about NU first but I love college football and love the fact that many times at the end of a season several schools (alumni and students) can have a legitimate claim on #1 or even that they had a heck of a season.  

Harry
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 I hope I speak for some when I say this, but screw Boise and TCU

I care nothing for justice in football, only that the cartel steers as much money as possible to the BCS conferences, like the Big Ten, thereby steering as much money as possible to Northwestern

College football has always been unfair in its #1 'determination'.  Why should any of us care about fairness now ?

Steer the money to the big boys, like always.  If a few people in Idaho or Fort Worth don't like it, screw 'em.  I care only about NU.

Chuck Herron  Tech '85

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> With OK falling today I am predicting

> that there will be 1 team from a non BCS conference playing

> for the title. Whether it will be BSU,TCU,or Utah, I think

I sure hope so - I'd love to see a Butler-like run in football.

But I won't hold my breath. Something tells me Lucy is there, holding that ball 

for Charlie Brown and the little guys when all of a sudden, Alabama beats LSU, 

Auburn and gets revenge on South Carolina to finish with 1 loss and sneak in at 

#2.

Heck, given the Big XII's history of B(C)S love, who's to say Oklahoma doesn't 

get in if they run the table and beat Nebraska/Mizzou in Dallas.

So go little guys! But what would really be interesting is if Oregon, MSU and 

Auburn all lose and we're left with Boise State and TCU as the sole unbeatens. 

Would the "cartel" let TWO underdogs face off for #1?

GO CATS!!!

-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG

sjtruog at yahoo.com

GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!

Super Bowl XLIV Champions!

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--- On Sat, 10/23/10, hakirsch at aol.com <hakirsch at aol.com> wrote:

> From: hakirsch at aol.com <hakirsch at aol.com>

> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Failed to finish

> To: "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>, nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com, 

"Tom Maycock" <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>, nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com

> Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010, 8:59 PM

> With OK falling today I am predicting

> that there will be 1 team from a non BCS conference playing

> for the title. Whether it will be BSU,TCU,or Utah, I think

> it will happen.  The controversy will be great for the

> sport

> 

> Harry

> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>

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> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:33:07 

> To: Tom Maycock<tkmaycock at yahoo.com>;

> <nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com>

> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Failed to finish

> 

> I agree.

>  

> Our D held them to just over 100 rush yards.  We

> forced them to beat us through the air and got a lot of

> pressure on Cousins.  

>  

> We ran the ball better than we've done all year.  I

> think I counted one series where we had five or six positive

> running plays in a row. Demos gutted out a good

> performance.  We also played a fairly penalty free game

> compared to past performances.

>  

> Not sure why we kept going back to the screen.  MSU

> blew it up every time we tried to run it.

>  

> The Schmidt fumble was huge.

>  

> The fake punt was basically the game.

>  

> Their O line and big backs got a little momentem after that

> we were never able to it get back.

>  

> I also think that Persa was hurting by the fourth

> quarter.  He appeared a little gimpy. That may be why

> so many of his throws were sailing on him.

>  

> It wasn't quite the shootout I thought it might be, but it

> did turn out to be a game where we had the ball with two

> minutes left and a chance to win it.  I think most

> anyone on this list would have taken that offer before the

> game started.

>  

> Jeff

> 

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> on behalf of Tom Maycock

> Sent: Sat 10/23/2010 7:04 PM

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> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Failed to finish

> 

> 

> 

> I said before the start of the game that we'd know by the

> end whether or not NU

> is a good football team. The good news is that we are, I

> think, a pretty good

> team indeed. The big keys to me were whether our O- and

> D-lines were good enough

> to line up with a team like MSU, and they are.

> 

> Unfortunately, the MSU D-line is probably a little bit

> better than our O-line,

> and that was a key to the game. But flip any one of several

> key plays (fake punt

> and the Cousins fumble we couldn't cover, the

> should-have-been 60-yard TD to

> Stewart) and we probably win. I'm proud of the effort, and

> proud of the strong

> showing by the NU fans in the stands. I really do think NU

> has turned a corner

> in terms of our general competitiveness, talent level, AND

> fan support.

> 

> Nice to see Adonis Smith really starting to work into the

> offense. There were a

> lot of glitches in the Persa-Smith handoffs, but Smith

> showed me a lot. I expect

> him to be the starting RB in a week or two--and I hope he

> starts getting a

> steady dose of carries. It's time for the "committee" thing

> to come to an end.

> 

> The only real downside (other than losing) is that Persa

> was just way off on

> those last few possessions. I don't know if the bumps and

> bruises threw him off,

> or he couldn't adjust to the (by then very strong) wind at

> his back, or what,

> but he wasn't on target down the stretch. Strange and

> somewhat surprising.

> Still, his efforts throughout the game were near-heroic at

> times.

> 

> Very different feel than the Purdue game. Disappointing to

> be sure, but this

> week the Cats played well--very well, just not quite well

> enough. You have to

> give a lot of credit to MSU. We shut down their running

> game, but Cousins was

> very solid. He made a lot of great throw, and just as

> importantly, he wisely

> threw the ball away a number of times to avoid sacks and

> keep drives alive. MSU

> is a very good football team. Probably not quite national

> championship caliber,

> but very solid.

> 

> If anything, this loss makes the Purdue loss hurt even

> worse. We should be 6-1

> with our only loss a narrow defeat to a top-10 team. Worthy

> of a solid top-25

> ranking. Instead, we're 5-2 with tough road ahead. Iowa and

> Wisconsin will be

> huge challenges, Illinois seems to be improving, and

> playing at PSU is never

> easy. This team may be better than last year's, but

> equaling last year's record

> will be tough.

> 

> Tom

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