[NU Sports] General thoughts

Sun Sep 12 08:32:59 CDT 2010

I resemble that remark!

There were shots of young and old. There were even a fair number of students. What was missing were the shots of big crowds in the opponent's colors. I take that as good news. 

For all the hand wringing and back seat driving we've done on this list about how to get butts in the seats, the first evidence that we may be making progress and now we're concerned that those butts are too wrinkled?  

The cubs found out years ago that gold isn't just in the teeth of our seniors. If Phillips can make the cats the darlings of retirees, more power to him. 

Jeff

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On Sep 12, 2010, at 8:06 AM, "Jason Singer" <jintsjason at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
>> 
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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
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>> 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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