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

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And remember exactly 16 years and one day ago NU could say they were undefeated in bowl games. Which would any of us prefer the then 1-0 record or 1-9 ?

Harry
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From: "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:44:49 
To: Arthur Miller<artmiller1 at gmail.com>; bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com<bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] The bowl streak is not "media creation", SJT

Actually, I didn't mind the monkey -- it was a way to have fun with it and try and show that it didn't matter.

Media creation was perhaps a poor choice of words -- but the point is that it's a lot different than a team losing a streak of games in one season, these games were different teams/coaches/players ... it's like the AFC losing streak in Super Bowls in the 80s and 90s. If you let it get to you, then it was something ... but if you realized that those games were played by different teams and players, then you realize it's just something for the reporters to write about and doesn't really have anything to do with this year's team. But if you let it get in your head like the SEC thing, then it factors in. We tried having fun with it ... now we can just ignore it next year, when the 2012 Wildcats are 0-0 in bowls as they head off to Pasadena.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT
 
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 From: Arthur Miller <artmiller1 at gmail.com>
To: bwdolphin146 at yahoo.com 
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Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] The bowl streak is not "media creation", SJT
 
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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