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Cats Favored By Less Than A Field Goal Vs Miami OH

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Opened at 3.5, current consensus is 2.5. Low total opened 43.5, down one to 42.5. Hard not to see Fitz's uninspiring non-con history influencing the market. Hopefully Braun starts a trend of coming out of the gates strong. Rutgers shouldn't be held against him.
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Miami (OH) vs Northwestern Odds, Betting Trends, and Line Movements - 08/26/2024

View the best Miami (OH) vs Northwestern odds, betting trends, and line movements for 08/26/2024. We've got their head to head and last 10 game results.
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Sullivan the better QB at IA scrimmage?

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PurpleWhiteBoy said:
When Wall Street firms look for summer interns, they only consider students from a limited number of universities. Northwestern can be one of those, depending on the firm. Iowa is not one of them.

Most kids who apply to Northwestern are hoping to attend. Northwestern is known as a target school, especially in the Midwest. The kids with Ivy League credentials might use NU as a safety. A lot of kids from the northeast and west coasts really only know Northwestern by its academic rankings.

Most kids from the Midwest who think they have a good chance at being accepted at NU will usually apply to Wisconsin or Illinois or Michigan or Ohio State or Purdue as a safety school, depending on where they live. Many will apply "Early Decision" to Northwestern, meaning they must attend, if accepted. Obviously this is completely in favor of families who expect to pay the full tuition. Kids from families with less money can't commit like that.

Education isn't strictly about the material. Its about the quality of the professors, the competition from your classmates, the amount of material covered and the uplifting aspects of being surrounded by highly capable people. Thats one thing that gives the top universities a big advantage, such that Macro Economics or Organic Chemistry at Northwestern is usually more educational than it is at "lesser" schools.

Obviously there are stars that graduate from every school, but many of them are attending those universities for financial reasons.
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So, what you’re saying is that kids at Iowa aren’t making a bad 40-year decision, right?

(We can all be thankful that ~99% of the population does *not* want to work on Wall St.)

[Usually the terms are ‘reach’ (maybe I’ll make it) and ‘target’ (I’m right in line with who is there) and ‘safety’ (I’m better than 75% of the kids there).]

Anyway, we’ve got football to talk about.
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How many games will the Cats win in 2024?

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TheC said:
When our board "dad" steps in to disagree with you, you know you're wrong....
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While I don’t agree with the characterization of Porter being slow
and contact-avoidant, he only averaged 3.9 yards per carry last year, and only cracked 4.0 in four of his 11 games against P5 competition.

He is a lower-tier playmaker than Kirtz or Henning.

NU will be a better team if Porter sees his touches decline because Caleb K. and/or Himon are taking them away.
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Anyone up to speed on Miami OH?

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Saturday feels like a game that could go either way. I think I saw the line favoring us -2.5 which isn't exactly a vote of confidence from the book. I don't know about who Miami lost or gained since last season but they had an 11-win season last year including the MAC championship. They apparently lost to App State 13-9 in their bowl game but my general impression of App State is they are typically capable of fielding a very formidable team.
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Best seats in the house?

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I’m going to the game on Saturday and curious about the board’s opinion on the best place to sit.

50 yard line is almost always awesome but I’m concerned that 8-10 rows up on the west sideline stands won’t be enough up to get a good view of the game (especially since it’s my kid’s first game).

Am I better off being 15-20 rows up in the south end zone?
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How many games will the Cats win in 2024?

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BleedingPurple15 said:
Porter is not a playmaker. He's slow, unbalanced, and falls down at the first sign of contact. Rather we would have kept Tyus.
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Falls down at the first sign of contact? That's not what I've seen. In fact, Porter tries to bowl over anyone who contacts him. While I'd prefer that he'd use cuts and stiff arms to avoid tacklers, I'm not sure we've been watching the same player for the last three years.
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Sullivan the better QB at IA scrimmage?

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NUCat320 said:
(@PurpleWhiteBoy meant to quote your comment here also. Tagging instead. Th is is a can’t-miss comment!)

There are roughly 4000 degree-granting institutions in the country. Northwestern and Iowa are way more similar than different. Both universities are excellent 40-year decisions. To imply that Sullivan, even if he had left Evanston without a degree, was somehow harming his chances of success in life by graduating from Iowa, was a bad look.

I suspect that most organic chemistry classes at Iowa and NU teach roughly the same things. Or is chemistry different west of the Mississippi?


Success is far more about who you are than where you went. The far more damning thing about Sullivan is, in fact, that he chose to quit NU rather than compete for the job.

Note that I feel the same way about the kickoff keys “you’re my driver” thing, and about “state school” chants.

I’m kind of a snowflake, I suppose.
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When Wall Street firms look for summer interns, they only consider students from a limited number of universities. Northwestern can be one of those, depending on the firm. Iowa is not one of them.

Most kids who apply to Northwestern are hoping to attend. Northwestern is known as a target school, especially in the Midwest. The kids with Ivy League credentials might use NU as a safety. A lot of kids from the northeast and west coasts really only know Northwestern by its academic rankings.

Most kids from the Midwest who think they have a good chance at being accepted at NU will usually apply to Wisconsin or Illinois or Michigan or Ohio State or Purdue as a safety school, depending on where they live. Many will apply "Early Decision" to Northwestern, meaning they must attend, if accepted. Obviously this is completely in favor of families who expect to pay the full tuition. Kids from families with less money can't commit like that.

Education isn't strictly about the material. Its about the quality of the professors, the competition from your classmates, the amount of material covered and the uplifting aspects of being surrounded by highly capable people. Thats one thing that gives the top universities a big advantage, such that Macro Economics or Organic Chemistry at Northwestern is usually more educational than it is at "lesser" schools.

Obviously there are stars that graduate from every school, but many of them are attending those universities for financial reasons.
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How many games will the Cats win in 2024?

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PurpleWhiteBoy said:
Do you really think it was the players who started figuring things out?
As opposed to Braun getting thrown into the deep end of the pool and learning how to swim?

I'm only responding to save you future embarrassment on this matter.
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Everyone grew, but players who had lost for two years didn’t know how to win anymore. They didn’t know what it was like to play for a guy who really, really wanted to win, instead of a guy who really, really wanted to protect his assistant coaches’ feelings (and run the ball goddammit).
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How many games will the Cats win in 2024?

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NUCat320 said:
When they stopped playing to remember their old coach, and started playing for each other and for their new coach, they started figuring things out.
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Do you really think it was the players who started figuring things out?
As opposed to Braun getting thrown into the deep end of the pool and learning how to swim?

I'm only responding to save you future embarrassment on this matter.
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