[NU Sports] So you think the Cats are "snake-bit"

[Dennis W. Brandt]

<I guess RW and Gary B figured out how to get 119% out of 3 star players.
<NU's problem always will be the smaller recruiting pool, but like Navy, we're no longer the perrenial "doormat" - invited to play everyone' homecoming game.
<Remember the 70's

70's.  Hell!  I remember the mid '60s when we weren't much better.

RW's defenses were always bad.  Indeed, the 2000 team's defense was about as poor as this year's version.  We won shootouts that year because defenses hadn't yet figured out the spread.  The only chance we have against Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State is if they have a down year.  We have defeated Michigan once in a freakish shootout and PSU and OSU never since the Fitz-at-linebacker years when those three were playing at their expected level.  You've got to defeat the big three if you want to win the Big Ten championship.

Unlike you, I am not happy with no longer being the Big Ten doormat, and that damn well isn't good enough for Pat Fitzgerald.