[NU Sports] Houston ?

[rstetson at capps-assoc.com]

Houston area is Fitz old recruiting area, and home to several NU Football alums. (Rees,and more)

Great recruiting area in the past, still good area for the cats

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From: "SjT \\(Stephen J. Truog\\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
To: NUSPORTS <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 18:27:16 GMT+00:00
Subject: [NU Sports] Houston?

The only bowl projection posts I usually read are NU alum Mandel's -- which usually do quite well -- and he appears to now have NU on the Houston bandwagon as well.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/12/04/final-bowl-projections/index.html?sct=cf_t11_a1


It appears more people are alerting the Houston Bowl folks to the fact that Sandusky's last game was a PSU/ATM Alamo Bowl and it might not be the best publicity. 

Not sure about NU "jumping" there for a few reasons ...

1) It's Houston. And to quote my NU geography prof, "Houston is the 4th largest city in America and the 4,000th most interesting city in America."

2) It's a tougher foe than Detroit, and we'd be playing the Aggies in their backyard

3) It's not the greatest time slot ... noon on New Year's Eve ... though I guess at least NU would be used to that from the Big Ten's TV schedule

4) Have I mentioned it's in Houston?

5) It just doesn't seem right ... I know the bowls are not about what's right and all, but there's no way NU, Iowa or OSU should be accepting bowl bids ahead of Penn State, a 9-win, top 25 team whose players did nothing to deserve this fall to Dallas.

But a bowl is a bowl and beggars can't be choosy ... it's a bowl and it's in the recruiting hotbed of Texas, so if that's the way the Cartel is swinging, I guess it could be worse.

At least we know that with ATM's habit of blowing big leads this year and NU's habit of playing better once they get down by 14 or more, we could have an exciting finish.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT
 
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