[NU Sports] Football Talk

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I LOVE this time of year too.

The Sox swept the flubs, are in first place, and the cats have a chance
to win 'em all.

I have a feeling this is going to be a special year for our team.

I think last year's team was better than they were able to show because
of Persa's injuries.

This year we'll really find out what Colter can do.  If he is able to
make the same dramatic improvements in his throwing game that Persa did,
this team is going to score a lot of points.

Special teams made a lot of progress.  I expect that to continue.

Defense remains the question mark, but the fact that our schedule is
easy early should allow them to develop some more experience before we
hit the corn and Michigan tours.  I'm thinking 8-4 and maybe more.

Jeff



-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of chuck herron
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:27 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Football Talk

With another Womens Lacrosse championship settled, it would seem to be
time to turn our attention more completely to football, the greatest
game.

I was checking out LakethePosts (www.laketheposts.com), and they pointed
me to PreSnapRead's college football countdown, currently at #92
(Eastern Michigan), and I happened upon the Orlando Sentinel's excellent
College Football blog, which is currently at #75 (Florida
International).  Both of these are offering encouraging tidbits.

It looks like our schedule breaks down into two parts - the first seven
games, plus the last game versus Illinois, against lesser teams, and a
middle core of four games (vs Nebraska, vs Iowa, at Michigan, at
Michigan State), against some of the stronger teams in the league.  

Currently, against the 'weaker 8', the Sentinel has Syracuse at #92,
Boston College at #94, Indiana at #111 and Minnesota at #93.  Of course,
South Dakota is in FCS, and they have endured five straight seasons of
6-5, 6-5, 5-5, 4-7 and 6-5.  We are also looking at games in that phase
against Vanderbilt and Illinois in Evanston and Penn State at their
place.

Assuming we go 0-4 against 'the tough opponents', we need to go 6-2
against 'the weaker opponents'.  Based on the 2 countdowns, I am
currently estimating five 'weak' wins - Syracuse, Boston College, South
Dakota, Indiana and Minnesota.  We would then need one more win for bowl
eligibility, and anything better than that would help to improve our
bowl position.

Right now, I would like to embrace 7-5, which should put us in position
for a nice Bowl (Ticket City ?).  Anybody else have any thoughts ?


Chuck Herron   Tech '85

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