[NU Sports] General thoughts

[Dennis W. Brandt]

If you're lucky and quit insulting the senior citizens, you might someday BE 
a member of " the St. Mary's Convalescent Home Presbys and the Mount Sinai 
Retirement Resort Hotel Kishkes."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Singer" <jintsjason at me.com>
To: "NU Sports List" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] General thoughts


>I agree that the crowd looked pretty good on TV, but did they have to keep 
>showing the octogenarians after every early score? The cameras didn't find 
>the student section until deep into the first half. You'd think it was a 
>Lawn Dart friendly between the St. Mary's Convalescent Home Presbys and the 
>Mount Sinai Retirement Resort Hotel Kishkes the way those folks politely 
>clapped and nodded their heads. Oy.
>
> Jason Singer
> jason at jasonsinger.com
>
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Roy S. Lamberton wrote:
>
>> Except for the 50% seating in the end zone on kicks, I thought the crowd 
>> shots showed a
>> pretty good turnout for Ryan on a rainy day.
>>
>> NU is on a PR roll in Chicago, finally getting some attention, despite 
>> all the Trib Hype
>> for the Evil Empire.
>>
>> NU has a local boy who bleeds Purple as a coach, and an AD who has street 
>> cred from being
>> in the area for a while.
>>
>> All the Cats have to do is win, they (the fans) will come.
>>
>> rsl
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>> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On 
>> Behalf Of Labbe
>> John
>> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 1:21 AM
>> To: mlinhardt at netzero.com
>> Cc: Maureen.Linhardt at plexus.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
>> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] General thoughts
>>
>> Regarding attendance, we actually had a pretty good turnout today.
>> According to the box score, we had 25,471 people in attendance at the
>> game, which is more than any other non-conference game at Ryan Field
>> since the September 10, 2005 game against Northern Illinois, when we
>> had attendance of 35,114.
>>
>> Heck, our attendance today was more than all but two games last
>> season--both the Minnesota and Indiana games (and all three non-
>> conference games) last season had lower attendance than today's game.
>> We had over 30,000 last season for Penn State and Wisconsin, but even
>> those two were nowhere close to sold out.
>>
>> Hopefully the relatively strong turnout today is a sign that we'll
>> have better attendance throughout the season.  (I think it also helps
>> that we have one less non-conference home game this season, so the
>> casual fan that might just take in one game has one fewer game to
>> choose from.)
>>
>> By the way, there didn't appear to be that many ISU fans there today,
>> in case anyone thinks that boosted the attendance a lot.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2010, at 5:14 PM, mlinhardt at netzero.com wrote:
>>
>>> For those of you not in Evanston here are the things you missed:
>>> Plenty of rain pregame which made attendance pretty horrid even
>>> though I thought the marketing department had some effect and our
>>> attendance would be have decent with better weather.
>>> An inflatable cat tunnel with fireworks.  Well A for effort, but
>>> kind of hokey.  Vandy had an exploding scoreboard ala veck.
>>> We have a new twirler.  Lauren's younger sister.  I believe she is a
>>> freshman or sophomore.  I had doubts on a twirler when she first
>>> showed up but it has grown on me especially after hearing the
>>> backstory from Pete Friedman how she sent an unprompted audition tape.
>>>
>>> Schmidt distanced himself from the crowd, but only in a negative way
>>> over the past 2 games with his fumble-itis.  Arby has the job by
>>> default.  We were amazed he got near 100 yards.
>>> I was so glad Persa did not run much.  With EW a work in progress we
>>> can't afford to have Persa out for more than a few plays.
>>> Venric looked decent, but he again had punt coverage problems
>>> getting in Jeravin's way.
>>> I worry about playing Dunsmore too much.  He has had a lot of
>>> surgeries.  I would rather he stay healthy for the big ten season.
>>> Rashad Lawrence.  He not only caught the ball, but ran well with
>>> it.  Our receivers are very exciting and have good yac.
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