Looks like MSU won’t be his last official.

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Last year's NET rating of each opponent:

Chicago State - 340 (Quad 4)
Northern Illinois - 297 (Quad 4)
Georgetown - 194 (Quad 3)
Purdue Fort Wayne - 235 (Quad 4)
Liberty - 118 (Quad 3)
Auburn - 13 (Quad 1) / Bradley - 102 (Quad 3)
Pitt - 193 (Quad 4)
Prairie View - 295 (Quad 4)
DePaul - 103 (Quad 3)
UIC - 283 (Quad 4)
Brown - 212 (Quad 4)

No more donations, no more support. **** these clowns.

Is there some sort of restriction on selling parking passes? The NU site makes it very easy to sell tickets, but no such option for selling the parking passes.

Has anyone here done it? Do you just list as a mobile transfer on StubHub? Any info is appreciated. Thanks!

Opportunity for those who aren't watching the game Sat to meet the crew teams on Sat (details below). You can also meet up with fellow alums and watch NU compete on Sunday (MAP).

They do have a link to register, will assume it's just for the Sat gathering -- RSVP

GO CATS!!

Anyone know what words are inked on his left arm?

Well if there are going to be changes this year, be they schematic or player,,,this would seem to be the week. Do you think we will see any changes? and if so what will they be....what changes (other than coaches changes..kinda know where people stand) would YOU like to see? For me it is throw caution to the wind....if we are going to give up points lets give em up because we are sending 6 or 7 guys....If we have players who have graded poorly and have not improved...lets lose finding out if other guys are better game players and not make practice performance the main qualifier.
Having said that I think Fitz will do zip. I want to see GHP get 1st string reps....I want to see Gil get more reps....I want to see Mueller get more reps. I would also like to see Saka and Soares get some time.

Fitz prospers in November! I believe he will turn this ship 🚢 around and beat a few solid teams down the stretch!

Time was already known - it's Maryland's homecoming - but it'll be a national BTN telecast.

Another national afternoon broadcast for NU, and another opponent's homecoming.

Smith Snowden told me last night that Northwestern is still in the picture for him. The three-star CB from Utah announced a final four of NU, Utah, Colorado and BYU over the summer. He took official visits to all of them except BYU, where his dad played. A source told me that Snowden is down to NU and Utah, but Snowden hasn't confirmed that with me yet. I'm working on it.

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We didn’t lose! Seriously though, was a welcome change to relax and watch other games and not worry about how poorly we played. The AL/TN game was one of the best college games I’ve ever seen…though it did bring back memories of Manning on the naked bootleg! Great to see Stanford take out ND too.

I watched Coach McKeown at B1G media day. Did not realize he's been at NU for 15 years.......and has had .500 or better B1G records for the last 4 seasons. In one way, Fitz-like, but definitely not on the other. Joe doesn't get any props here but he sure as hell should. "The Drama Queen...."

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Watching the amazing Tennessee-Alabama game and seeing like 50,000 people on the field (I hope no one got hurt) reminded me of all the times we got to do it at Dyche Stadium and Welsh-Ryan Arena over the years. Who's got a good story?

I still remember the 1991 game against Illinois. I recall a DPS guy trying to stop people and pulling me off the goalpost as we were leaving the stadium with it. He threw me to the ground, which is more than enough to stop me under normal circumstances, but I got right back and jogged it to the lake. We carried the goal posts all the way to North Beach. We were all so wet already (it rained the entire game), so it was a no-brainer to go right into the lake. How much more wet could we get?

I once got a flag off the top of the goalpost when it came down. It's my most prized possession.

My favorite though was a game where we got the goalposts down on the north side of the field and I looked back on the south side and saw the posts swaying and coming down from 100 yards away. It's an image I'll never forget.

I know people keep arguing about the play calling and talent.

While I agree that we lack creativity on offense and defense.

I think our biggest issue people are neglecting to point out as a foundational issue is our Strength program.

While we aren’t world beaters in recruiting, we have talent that should be more than needed to field a very competitive team.

But our offensive and defensive lines lose on their 1:1 battles constantly especially when it matter. They get zero push and have no strength to escape blocks. They seems to have the technique but without the strength needed to make it successful.

I’ve lost all hope that we’ll win another game this year!

Just want to throw something out there... This is Jeff Sagarin's view of NCAA football. Rating is used to say, for example, that Ohio State is 7 points better than Michigan on a neutral field. Schedule is the average rating of the team's opponents.


other teams


Personally, I'd rate Illinois a little ahead of Penn State. Also Purdue ahead of Wisconsin and Iowa... But essentially its back to being a two team league!
Also notable, SIU and Miami, OH are basically as good as we are this year.

Saw a certain 2nd-string QB today with a cast on his non-throwing hand...

Just finished Bama-Tenn game. Great win at home for the Vols to knock off Bama.

Also good matchup against Wisc and MSU. Indiana-Maryland game was entertaining too.

My perception after watching different BT games today is our program is really lagging behind. I’m feeling pessimistic about us winning another game this season. A comment was made during the Wisc-MSU game how much coaching skill sets needed for success have changed recently with the portal and NIL. The comments seemed apropos related to NU. We have now been passed by other “lower rung” BT programs-teams like Illinois, Indiana and Maryland look superior to us in all facets.

Just got taken off on a cart with a leg injury. I assume he won’t play next week.

Last year as the team started to circle the drain, I thought we see more young players getting playing time. You know, gaining experience to build for the future. Well he continued to trot out the same guys game after game. Near season's end, it was apparent that apathy had set in and they were just going through the motions.

Will the same thing happen this season? If it does, I believe that it's to the detriment of the team getting better. Young players lose passion and fire to play. A lot of these guys were sold on a narrative that they could help move the program to the next level. Apathy can be contagious. How many of 4, 5, or 6-year players who play every Saturday still have a driving motivation to play on Sundays? I would wager that most are thinking more about getting their degree and moving on to the real world.

I also believe that not playing young guys can hurt recruiting. High school guys have access to so much data on teams. They know the patterns. Other coaches will make sure that they know. For example, Duke is playing a lot of 2021 recruits. Players know this.
So I say, let's inject some young guys and see what happens. To me it's a lot better to see a redshirt freshman miss a tackle or fumble the ball than some 4-year guy.