[NU Sports] There may be ...

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Eric,

I hope you are right, but those of us watching at Buffalo Wild Wings in Stamford, CT--record crowd of nearly 30--were very concerned that we could get shut out of the bowl picture at 6-6.    The Zookers just fell behind 14-0.  If Gophers can put them away, maybe we move ahead of them, given their collapse in second half of season.   And Hoosiers are up 17-10 on Boilers,  upsets in both would be huge for us.
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From: Eric Kunkel <wildelk2 at aol.com>
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:17:26 
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   When we went from taking the lead into a 3-17 hole, I knew we were in deep doo-doo.  All the deserved criticism of Sparty having a yellow streak has evaporated under D'Antonio, and 
Michigan St's QB is a gamer.  He took advantage of player-personnel decisions and executed well in the rain.  I don't think we played bad (except for the end of the 2nd Q.), but MSU played a little better.  Still, another good November.  Regardless where they end up, I think we'll match up well and finally break our bowl drought.  Texas A&M could be a problem, but Cal? Toledo? Rutgers? NC ST?  We FINALLY may be matched against someone we can handle; a big switch from years gone by.   


   Just a "PS"...Not condoning 6-6 earning a bowl, but these are the rules and it beats the hell out of how our season was going.  We will not be playing the 1940 Army Cadets or the 1969 USC Trojans in our bowl.                  GO CATS!!!          Eric


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From: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 8:29 am
Subject: [NU Sports] There may be ...


... better coaches in the land than Mark Dantonio at Xs and Os or script 
planning or motivation.

But I don't think any coach around understands momentum as well as MSU's head 
coach.

He knows just when to call a fake punt or fake FG or timeout for a runback, etc. 
And he did a nice job of waiting on exploiting our newbie corner until the right 
moment. Everyone in the stadium, including the announcers, expected him to throw 
right away at #15, but he waited until the right moment.

Ugh - we dominated 90% of that half and then got blitzed at the end.

Hopefully we take the opening drive right down and make a game of it again.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT
 
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