You da man CappyNU. The Cannoli pasta way.

Here's an interesting angle on the game. Our Jason Boue sat in the student section on Saturday at Ryan Field and wrote about the experience.

You guys may have noticed by now, but I’m happy to announce that @CappyNU is joining the WildcatReport team as a board moderator. He started late last week, but I’m just getting around to posting the news.

Moderating message boards is a difficult job and he has some extra large shoes to fill, but I’m confident that Cappy will be up to the task.

Please make Cappy happy by following the Rivals Message board rules, and you won’t even know he’s here. That’s the goal.

Welcome aboard, Cappy!

Back on track with a 3 - 1 win over MSU!

All times CENTRAL, and all games played on Saturday, October 15. Rankings come from the AP poll. All games nationally televised unless otherwise indicated.

Northwestern is off this week.

And the rest:

#10 Penn State @ #5 Michigan
11:00 AM, FOX
PxP: Gus Johnson
Color: Joel Klatt

Minnesota @ #24 Illinois
11:00 AM, BTN
PxP: Brandon Gaudin
Color: Jake Butt

Maryland @ Indiana
2:30 PM, ESPN2
PxP: Anish Shroff
Color: Brock Osweiler

Wisconsin @ Michigan State
3:00 PM, FOX
PxP: Tim Brando
Color: Spencer Tillman

Nebraska @ Purdue
6:30 PM, BTN
PxP: Cory Provus
Color: Matt Millen

Iowa, #2 Ohio State, and Rutgers are off this week.

Fitz’s Record with Hankwitz as DC:
Overall: 96 wins, 67 losses (59%)
Conference: 58 wins, 49 losses (60%)
Bowl games: 5-5 (50%)

Fitz’s Record without Hankwitz as DC:
Overall: 14 wins, 28 losses (33%)
Conference: 7 wins, 21 losses (25%)
Zero Bowl Game Appearances

Updated post Wisconsin 2022.

The data confirms it again.

The results are in and 100% of the posters now agree that the DC should go.
CatManTrue was right, after the msu game when he highly suggested ie., JON doesnt know what he is doing.

But there is 1 holdout to side with madness and it is Fitz.

If we carefully look at TPOF this is the exact sorta thing we should expect.

Fitz caught a break and has a new AD who wants to play it safe so the only way to stop Fitz' madness is for Pat Ryan to have a meeting telling him that he needs to make the wanted changes.

Separately, i think the problem is greater than JON. Fitz must go. It simply isnt good enough to say nobody real wants to come here and coach under him and that recruits avoid us like the plague now.

It’s time for our AD to put on his big boy pants and earn his paycheck.

Although it’s probably justified I don’t see them firing Fitz, but he needs to be provided the appropriate activation energy to make certain changes especially to his staff.

The program needs to aspire to be better- the Big 10 is one of the top 2 conferences in football, we have or are in the process of investing huge amounts of capital into the facilities, and will soon be reaping even more $$ from the conference media deals. Having 3 seasons out of 4 with 3 or less wins shouldn’t be acceptable in the current environment. No way, no how should we be losing back to back home games to the likes of SIU and Miami of frickin Ohio. If a coach can turn around the worst program in major college football (Kansas) then there is the right match for NU, and the “intelligent“ people making lots of money need to adjust and figure it out or also be shown the door.

I’m wondering if he still thinks he made the right move. Thoughts.

Can anyone on the board give me the direction as to the appropriate way to share info about a local high school football player who might be a potential recruit down the road with NU? I want to make sure I don't step on any NCAA rules etc. I just would like to know the proper communication channels for such info.

1996 USC, Rose Bowl (ABC) - 30.4 million (19.4 rating)
1997 Tennessee, Citrus Bowl (ABC) - ~13 million (8.3 rating)
2018 Ohio State, Big Ten Championship (FOX) - 8.659 million (5.0 rating)
2020 Ohio State, Big Ten Championship (FOX) - 8.031 million (4.65 rating)
2013 Ohio State (ABC) - 7.36 million (4.4 rating)
2008 Missouri, Alamo Bowl (ESPN) - 6.076 million (4.6 rating)
2010 Auburn, Outback Bowl (ESPN) - 5.685 million (3.5 rating)
2020 Auburn, Citrus Bowl (ABC) - 4.781 million (2.79 rating)
2022 Ohio State (ABC) - 4.76 million (2.7 rating)
2017 Kentucky, Music City Bowl (ESPN) - 4.626 million (2.8 rating)
2022 Nebraska, Dublin (FOX) - 4.419 million (2.52 rating)
2020 Wisconsin (ABC) - 4.245 million (2.35 rating)


Joins the list of 4+ million viewer Northwestern games under Fitz and 3rd highest for a win behind the Citrus Bowl and Music City Bowl wins. Now our highest rated Big Ten win under Fitz above 2020 Wisconsin.

Past 5 years has seen a lot of big games for Northwestern (including a lot of 2-4 million viewer games), which is obviously good exposure for the program. Will only increase in the future as there's more opportunities in the new media deals to get major TV slots, but also 2 more schools in the conference fighting for those slots.

Just shows how important a game like this Dublin game can be; it's on par with bowl games (which are typically the highest viewed games outside the conference championship and other Ohio State games).

A little serious a little tongue in cheek.

1. northwestern fans on this board don’t know much about coaching football. I’ll keep O’Neil another year

2. frost won’t get fired as Nebraska may win 7-8 games

3. we have an o line

4. we have a running game with unreal depth

5. fitz has balls and they have grown over the past decade

6. we have special teams. Minus the field goal

7. Please can we get rid of fox

one hilinsky spelling
Kept saying why are we running the ball
We ran it cause fitz trusted his online and running backs.
I’m sure there is more.

one more

Louie. You went out a limb and picked the cats. Keep it up.

😜

Wildcat football is back! Can the 'Cats exact vengeance in Ireland? Will the infusion of new blood turn things around for Scott Frost and Nebraska? Will the Northwestern defense return to form in defensive coordinator Jim O'Neil's second season?

This is pretty cool. Anyone here friends with Mike?

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Hey Gang,

Here's another updated link for our Summer Big Ten Previews, which are through Iowa at this point.

Michigan
Indiana
Michigan State
Rutgers
Nebraska
Duke
Southern Illinois/Miami (OH)
Penn State
Wisconsin
Maryland
Iowa

Apple Podcast Link

Thanks, and Give No Quarter!
Sam, John, and Scuzz/The West Lot Pirates

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Greg represents NU very well. Doing great stuff for the Cleveland community.

Does Big Ten go after Stanford? Seems like they would be a better fit in Big Ten than residual PAC 12 or Big 12.

live out of state, any news ?

2023 OFFERS LIST (66)

2023 OFFICIAL VISITS (25)

2023 COMMITMENTS (19)

QB (1)
Aidan Gray (IL)

RB (1)
Caleb Komo

WR (2)
Ricky Ahumaraeze (MO)
Frank Covey (IL)

TE (2)
Camp Macgee (FL)
Chico Holt (TX)

OL (4)
Dylan Senda (MI)
Jordan Knox (SC)
Anthony Birsa (IL)
Alex Doost (AZ)

DL (3)
Michale Kilbane (OH)
Dylan Roberts (AZ)
Tyler Gant (MO)

LB (2)
Nigel Glover (OH)
Justin Cryer (TX)

DB (4)
Damon Walters (IL)
Cole Shivers (AZ)
Jacob “JJ” Lewis (CA)
Joshua Fussell (OH)

Committed elsewhere; off the board (43)
Howard
Carter
Smith, Will
Hartford
Kasper
Lake
James
Bahr
Mikeska
Taylor, D.
Ryzk
Berglund
Neal
Bootle
Manning
Houstan
Brown
Okunlola
Page
Omosigho
Hoffler
Marshall
Umeozulu
Piscciotti
Link
Ramil
Heldt
Spence
Duclona
Simmons
LaVallee
Dengohe
Wilson
Braxton
Burgess
Gregory
Thieneman
Gardner
Geweniger
Williams, Sean
Williams, Krystian
Leacock
Jenkins
Adebawore
Porter
Brown
Robinson
Snowden
Sanford

Good coach, good program, great town.

Keeping a running tally of the players coming into and leaving the NU program.

Amarion Nimmers from the Quad Cities.

One to keep an eye on.