[NU Sports] It's over

[Eric West]

On 1/1/2011 4:21 PM, Beamsley, Jeff wrote:
> We lost.
> Big deal.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you overall, but I have to take issue with 
that. Not winning a bowl game is a big deal, as it is basically the 
team's primary goal each year.

> Nobody at halftime would have given this team a snowball's chance in hell to have the ball with a chance to win at the end of the game. Yet there they we were.

I'm also tired of the "moral victory" angle. I bet the team is tired of 
that too. We're in a better place than that, and have been for 10 years 
if not 15. If anything, their (not-quite) comeback today made it more 
frustrating, because it suggested that once again our team only played a 
partial game.

The great news is they can still get better. For today, we have a right 
to be sad. I just want a bowl win.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu