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

[Mark Ament]

Griffin has run into a couple of bad games, by his standards, that has lowered his completion percentage.  After four games he had more touchdowns than incomplete passes, not interceptions mind you, incomplete passes.  Simply amazing.
Mark 

 Mark S. Ament
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On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:05 PM, nolan at tssi.com (Mike Nolan) wrote:

>> Tom, thanks for your comments.  On Persa, I agree with you 100% and he
>> certainly looks frustrated out there at times.  Though he has made a couple
>> of costly throws that have led to big point swings the past 2 weeks, he is
>> generally operating at a high level and giving NU a shot in every game.
>> Note that he's completed 74.8% of his passes this year, ahead of last year's
>> Big Ten record-setting 73.5% performance.
> 
> According to the NCAA statistics page, Russell Wilson is at 73.15%, just
> behind Persa's 2010 Big Ten record for completion percentage.  
> 
> Baylor's Robert Griffin III is at 78.02% completion at this point, down 
> from earlier this season, but he's still on a pace to shatter the all 
> time record of 73.6% by Daunte Culpepper, which Persa JUST MISSED last year.  
> 
> Persa doesn't currently qualify for the NCAA statistics page because of the
> games he missed.  (He has to have been in 75% of the games, which he
> should JUST make by the end of the season.)  
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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