[NU Sports] There may be ...

[Jonathan Hodges]

Given that there is no longer a requirement to take 7-5 teams over 6-6
ones, I think there is little chance that NU gets shut out altogether.
Michigan essentially locked up a BCS at-large spot today, opening up
another Big Ten slot.  A win by NU certainly would have been nice, but
they're heading somewhere.

--
Jonathan
On Nov 26, 2011 4:47 PM, <neonrye at aol.com> wrote:

> 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.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Kunkel <wildelk2 at aol.com>
> Sender: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:17:26
> To: <sjtruog at yahoo.com>; <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] There may be ...
>
>
>   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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> To: NUSPORTS <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> 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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