[NU Sports] The bowl streak is not "media creation", SJT

[Arthur Miller]

I think his point is that it's a media fiction that the bowl streak
*matters*.  Personally, I cringed at Fitz's "monkey" bit because it lends
credence to that fiction.

Texas A&M had their own bowl losing streak until their win against us,
having gone 0-5 since their last win in 2001.  OTOH, we have Rutgers who is
now 5-0 in their last five bowls, having picked up memorable (that's
sarcasm, BTW) wins in the Pinstripe, St. Petersburg, PapaJohns.com,
International, and Texas bowls going back to 2006.

Does anyone think less of the A&M program, or more of the Rutgers program,
because of their recent bowl records?  I think we all know the answer.






On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:03 PM, <bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The NHL's "winter classic" (pushed back an hour because of too much
> unwintry warmth) is a media creation.
>
> NU has lost nine straight bowl games. That is a fact. Not a nice one but a
> fact.
>
> I see your point here -- and I agree the monkey was perhaps a bad idea --
> but can't blame the media for NU bowl futility.
>
> Brad Wilson
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