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Stuck between a rock and a hard place…

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GOUNUII said:
Put it in context. There was a long time when ...

I was bet my house certain I would never see NU Purple in the Rose Bowl end zone.
Or see NU beat OSU.
Or Notre Dame.
Or Penn St.
Or Michigan.
Or have a player featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Or pound Iowa into submission, in Iowa City no less.
Or be a winning part of Instant Classics.
Or spend over a billion $$$ on state of the art football facilities.
Or win bowl games against SEC teams.
Or have multiple 1st round NFL draft choices.
Or have a HC that was viewed as a pillar in the profession.
Or meet and become friends with more than a few great NU fans.

Living through most of the Dark Ages gives you a lasting appreciation for the great seasons, the great people and the great moments,

Still, I remain disappointed that NU has anything less than an NIL program that is Top 5 in the country. Serious minimum salaries for all 1st year recruits. More for those who stand out. That's the NU future of playing to win in the BIG.

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I'm with you all the way my friend and would add that we've had two players on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Darnell Autry and my old roommate Jack Cvercko. I have copies of both of them thanks to my daughters. Go 'Cats!
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Purple Pile Driver said:
I am not sure about us winning today even if we hit shots. MSU is loaded. Their guards got to the hole easily and they had a big standing under the hoop the entire game. A big that can actually catch the ball and make a move or two. From my vantage point they down shifted as soon as they got up by 20.
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If Barney scores his norm season avg they win. Instead he just kept chucking up bricks. Sparty had 0 fast break points against us I think they avg 17 or so.
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Purple Pile Driver said:
I am not sure about us winning today even if we hit shots. MSU is loaded. Their guards got to the hole easily and they had a big standing under the hoop the entire game. A big that can actually catch the ball and make a move or two. From my vantage point they down shifted as soon as they got up by 20.
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If Barney had his normal game, it’s also a very different story. We’ll never know.
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Stuck between a rock and a hard place…

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GOUNUII said:
Side Note: Ohio State's football academic standards are every bit the equal of Notre Dame's. The Buckeye's are much stronger than people outside the program give them credit for. Notre Dame's are nowhere near what they would like people to believe. It's a toss up between the two.
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Interesting...and given ND's self-driven narrative, surprising. How do you come by this knowledge?
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Purple Pile Driver
Skunkpilot said:
The season ticket holders that are selling their seats for these prime time games need to be getting called out. Not cool. Also barnheizer who threatened to go to the nba and come up with 4 points tonight not cool either. Refs were fine. The berry tripping call was awful. Also the leach foul early on as well for the plus 1. All things aside if we hit any sorts of shots today we win.
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I am not sure about us winning today even if we hit shots. MSU is loaded. Their guards got to the hole easily and they had a big standing under the hoop the entire game. A big that can actually catch the ball and make a move or two. From my vantage point they down shifted as soon as they got up by 20.
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The season ticket holders that are selling their seats for these prime time games need to be getting called out. Not cool. Also barnheizer who threatened to go to the nba and come up with 4 points tonight not cool either. Refs were fine. The berry tripping call was awful. Also the leach foul early on as well for the plus 1. All things aside if we hit any sorts of shots today we win.
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Game Thread: Northwestern vs. No. 16 Michigan State

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PurpleWhiteBoy said:
Thats a rather optimistic take!
I missed the first half of the game because I didn't bother to see what time we were playing. After the Purdue game, where we really had no answers on either end, I wasn't looking forward to facing the Spartans.
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Defintley true. Some crazy bank shots went in, airballs went to their players directly etc…..was that the reason nu lost? No. Could it have accounted for 5-8 points in the first half? Yes.
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Parking Sunday

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The Evanston residents near the stadiums are total curmudgeons. Plenty of other homes located not in close proximity to a university and a sporting venue. Go find one of those! I’ve never seen anyone making noise or causing a problem when leaving the arena. Just people quietly walking back to their cars. All the homes around there have giant driveways and garages, so it is unlikely to affect their parking.
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Baz=Heisman said:
We really do have some absolute clown STHers, many of whom are rich but still have to squeeze every dollar out of their “investment” versus keeping those seats purple. Legit, it would be better to keep those seats vacant!
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No doubt. I will say that winning the last two years has improved the problem although it still exists. I’ve had tickets about 8 years and it used to be worse. Possible solutions-
Offer sth an easy way to donate tickets to some locals.
Crack down on sellers by looking at who is in the seats consistently. Sounds difficult but not really difficult.
Monitor who is selling repeatedly via seatgeek.

I don’t think the school is interested in doing the work.
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