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    (For ECat) "You Northwestern People Are Annoying"

    Evanston is a pain in the ass? Try getting in and out of State College on a game day.
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    Which Big Ten team / fan base do you dislike the most?

    The fans aren't as annoying to me as the media worship of the program in Pa. You expect Penn State to get the most coverage in Pa., but the local TV media around Harrisburg and elsewhere don't even give the scores of D2 and D3 football programs in the area, let alone cover them. The football...
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    serious question re: the future of college football...

    Northwestern generally has fewer than 10,000 undergraduate students. There are schools in my undergraduate alma mater's Division II conference that have more students. They don't fill 47,000-seat Ryan Field unless Ohio State or Michigan come calling. I've fine with having 35,000 seats and...
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    Some similarities I noticed last night, laugh if you want, but

    In 1981 I was present when my undergraduate alma mater, Shippensburg, played North Dakota State in the second round of that year's small college playoffs. The game was tied 6-6 at halftime, but the Bison wore us down in the second half and won 18-6. I remember them being very big and running a...
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    This is the offense I hope for

    It all starts with the o-line. Have a good o-line and you can run the ball and throw downfield pass routes. Have a lousy o-line and you won't be good even if you have A-level skill people. The classic illustration was Walter Payton, who averaged barely 3 yards a carry his rookie season because...
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    Dominant defensive performance.

    Unfortunately, Fitz made a very poor hire with the guy before Braun. It will always be a head-scratcher what he saw in that guy.
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    Who was there in 2001?

    I was at the 2001 game. It was kind of a bizarre experience. I didn't know the layout at Vegas, so I assumed the stadium would be close to the UNLV campus. So we hopped into a taxi from our hotel and rode for so long that I thought the driver must be scamming us, but he wasn't. The stupid...
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    bajakian sucks eggs...

    It's all a crapshoot these days. With the transfer portal and NIL, you might get some good talent, but can you hang on to it for 3-4 years? Have an off year and watch your top players go elsewhere. It's happening at all levels of college football. My Division II alma mater had a bad three-win...
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    What a Monumental win for Northwestern Football.

    Great job by the players not to pack it in after all the adversity of the past couple of seasons. The West is so awful this season that they might actually have a chance to win some more. Even though I'm not a big fan of throwing all the teams into one mega division, I'm run out of any rational...
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    BIG academic rankings

    Since the B1G has already added four of the former PAC schools, they might as well have brought in Cal and Stanford as far as I'm concerned, but TV money obviously won out over academics. Taking in just the two of them (plus SMU) was a desperate attempt for relevance by the ACC, which had no...
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    BIG academic rankings

    I went to a small Pa. state university that I'm fairly sure most of the posters on this board wouldn't be very familar with and off the top of my head I can think of alumni who are or were: a U.S. senator, one of the top-selling popular authors in the U.S. for the past 45-50 years, the CEO of...
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    Well, at least like NU they've got a big endowment

    If you're going to ban affirmative action, ban affirmative action, including legacy admissions. Don't tell me you have a meritocracy if you're going to have it in some areas and not others. This is all coming about because some kids would have to settle for going to one of the almost Ivies or...
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    Well, at least like NU they've got a big endowment

    I have no big problem with lowering the academics bar somewhat for athletes, but funny thing is I don't remember anyone ever lowering the athletics bar for me when I was trying to hook on to sports teams. And it's amusing that courts are supposedly throwing anything sniffing of affirmative...
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    Well, at least like NU they've got a big endowment

    USC 49, Stanford 3 — at halftime. Good Lord.
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    State of the program

    With an interim guy in place this year, they should have a jump in hiring a new guy and they'd better get busy. It's a crapfest now, but it's still a job in one of the two strongest conferences in the country with a great practice facility and possibly a new stadium on the way. And it's not like...
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    Would NU have won this game with Fitz?

    Fitz was 3-9 and 1-11 in his last two years at the helm. There is zero reason to believe they would have won with him on the sideline today. It's beyond demoralizing to watch this team sink from respectability in 2020 to almost dark ages-level in the span of just a couple of seasons. It's a sad...
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    How to watch NU vs Rutgers on Sept 3?

    Peacock started out as free on my area Comcast cable, but now you have to pay for a lot of the stuff as you mentioned. They've bundled Turner Classic Movies, which doesn't charge for their service, into a "bundle" that you have to pay extra to get. I now don't get TCM because I refuse to pay...
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    Football Shouldn't Be Allowed to Mess Up Everybody Else

    Some D2 schools offer 25 or more football scholarships (limit is 36). They also offer scholarship equivalents in most other sports.
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    NU offers to change Ryan Field plans

    The athletic tide is moving against schools such as Northwestern, Duke, Vandy, etc. It's all about the big bucks now. NU is probably OK for a few years, but football will eventually move to a super league model. I'm old, and with the elimination of divisions, Northwestern likely will not be in...
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    Like the players suggest, Why Can't This board...

    I'm not really much excited at all about D1 football at this point. The current realignment craze has shown (as if it needed showing) that it's basically a race to bring in the bucks as evidenced by the geographic insanity of the largest conferences now. I'm turned off that Penn State is racing...
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