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Down & Distance!

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I rode my bike past the lakefront stadium this afternoon. They were testing the scoreboards. I'm happy to report that, unlike last week, the down & distance were being displayed on the ribbon boards above the south stands and at the base of the north stands. The main video boards showed only the score (it's currently Duke 0, Northwestern 0), along with a giant picture of Luke Donald -- special surprise guest?
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Cats ranked 16th

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Only 16th? I would expect a higher ranking for any university that "owns and controls" the Sun, or at least the Sun's light.

New policy: "The University owns and controls the lighting in and on its buildings and properties. Only authorized University officials are permitted to alter or project light onto University buildings or properties. Requests to alter or project lighting will not be considered."

Don't accidentally shine your headlights on a building while you leave a night game.

*twits*
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The Four Fs, maybe five, that drive new Northwestern AD Mark Jackson

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CatManTrue said:
I bet Rivals got threatened with lawsuits or something.

As long as shakes, wrassler Bob, @IGNORE2 and MrWickerPark are on their best behavior, and the rest of us are adults, then the RB will be OK
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The list of names above does not include the primary offenders of the the boards guidelines
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What a difference a year makes!

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SmellyCat said:
Agree. Last year at this time it felt like we were losing recruits - and fans - left and right, had no idea if Braun was capable at all, and worrying that there would be no place to play. I'm sure there were posts predicting NU wouldn't have enough players in 2024 after the mass exodus due to three terrible years in a row and the firing of a beloved coach. If NU hadn't come back against Minnesota in Week 4 and turned its season around, who knows where we'd be right now.
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Minnesota was definitely a turning point but so was Maryland where we were a big underdog, playing our backup QB, and came back with the W that started our late season surge.
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Cats ranked 16th

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SmellyCat said:
Well, it's all about the starting point, and I guess UCLA started out with the more populous parts of L.A. (and picked up all of Hawaii last weekend), whereas USC has a tinier land mass but still has over 4,000,000 in population. NU is closer to 10,000,000 though already. Chicago's Big Ten team!

Here it is, if you want to complain, argue, or enjoy.
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It looks like UCLA got LA County and USC got Orange and Ventura, which makes sense, I guess.

Looking forward to annexing western Washington in a couple of weeks.
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What a difference a year makes!

SmellyCat
AdamOnFirst said:
Looking back at that time when the future competitiveness, and even the future existence, of our football program was under a very real extensional threat, this is a lot better
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Agree. Last year at this time it felt like we were losing recruits - and fans - left and right, had no idea if Braun was capable at all, and worrying that there would be no place to play. I'm sure there were posts predicting NU wouldn't have enough players in 2024 after the mass exodus due to three terrible years in a row and the firing of a beloved coach. If NU hadn't come back against Minnesota in Week 4 and turned its season around, who knows where we'd be right now.
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Cats ranked 16th

SmellyCat
rmndcat said:
Doesn't UCLA have to split the LA SMSA with the school from Exposition Park?
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Well, it's all about the starting point, and I guess UCLA started out with the more populous parts of L.A. (and picked up all of Hawaii last weekend), whereas USC has a tinier land mass but still has over 4,000,000 in population. NU is closer to 10,000,000 though already. Chicago's Big Ten team!

Here it is, if you want to complain, argue, or enjoy.
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What a difference a year makes!

AdamOnFirst
EvanstonCat said:
He’s talking about a likely or unlikely scenario where the top 6 programs decide to leave the B1G to create a super conference with the SEC heavies and say ND, Clemson and FSU. We could continue to be B1G members but that doesn’t mean those schools will be too.
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I don’t see it as overly likely, but if it’s a small enough number I don’t even see the departure of maybe 12-18 top brands as overly negative. Just a return to a world of NU playing against Minnesota, Iowa, Vandy, etc a lot. If it’s like 35 teams that leave then that sucks.
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