[NU Sports] Jim Phillips Greatest Hits

[neonrye at aol.com]

My dad always taught me to "aim high".  I think Jim Phillips' dad 
taught hm that same valuable lesson.  We should all be proud that 
Phillips and Fitz want to rise to the challenge and not shrink from it. 
  Yes, it will be very tough to beat A & M in their backyard.  But, as 
Mike correctly points out, we beat Nebraska on their front lawn, in 
front of an entire stadium rooting against us.  At least at a bowl 
game, we get a decent percentage of the crowd.  I view this game a lot 
like I did before the Outback, when we were confronting an Auburn team, 
which, although it had experienced a few "down" years, came with a 
fantastic tradition and rabit fan base.  The Auburn fans were psyched 
for the Outback Bowl, but I don't think that the Aggies will have that 
same degree of intensity bawaiting acking them.  Auburn was led by a 
young, up and coming Coach, just like we were.  We still have our up 
and coming Coach, A & M has an empty waiting to be filled.  Can their D 
Coordinator rise to the occasion and lift the team--that is the big X 
Factor here.  They probably beat us if it's just talent pool against 
talent pool.  But football is more than that, otherwise we would have 
been slaughtered in Nebraska and again at home in the last game against 
MSU--when we played well, just not well enough against a very powerful, 
determined--and well-coached--team.

It's hard to "Expect Victory" when we haven't tasted it since 1949, but 
eventually we will break through.  As the Dodgers fans used to say 
before 1955, why not this year?  Then they finally were able to stop 
saying "Wait until next year."

Please, all you Cubs fans on the List, don't rain on my parade, by 
pointing out the Cubs' drought, and drawing a parallel to NU.  It's 
hard enough for me to resist bringing up my J-E-T-S, who are on the 
schneid since Joe Namath over the Colts back in Super Bowl III.

Paul Levinson
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com>
To: clzahn <clzahn at mindspring.com>
Cc: nwu-sports <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 11:53 pm
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Jim Phillips Greatest Hits

> I disagree.  I think this is a major failure on his part.  We have no 
business being in this game.  We will get blown out.  Illinois got the 
bowl that would have been good for us.  I want to finally win a bowl 
game.  We have no chance in this game.  Maybe he couldn't do anything 
to prevent it, but it is certainly not a victory.

I disagree that we have no chance in this game.  People kept saying we 
had
no chance in the Nebraska game this year, too, one of the experts had 
Nebraska
at a 97% chance to win the game.  Many of the people on this list had 
us
completely out of the bowl picture in mid-October.

This year we had a chance in nearly every game, and I believe we can end
the bowl drought this year, in A&M's back yard, too!
--
Mike Nolan

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