Dienhart's Week 4 Hot Takes

[rwhitney014]

For those of you who are not Dienhart fans, take a look:

7. No Big Ten team has been more impressive in 2015 than Northwestern. The home win vs. No. 21 Stanford and then the triumph at Duke give the Wildcats the two most impressive wins for any Big Ten team so far in 2015. Home games with Ball State and Minnesota are next. What’s it mean? NU could be 5-0 when it goes to Michigan on Oct. 10. How neat would that be?

8. More Northwestern, because I just can’t get enough Purple. While defense and running the ball have been huge keys for the Wildcats, special teams also have been a big factor. NU ran back a kickoff 98 yards for a TD at Duke. The punt team is allowing minus-two yards per return (No. 2 in the nation). The kickoff return team is averaging 40.2 yards per return (No. 3 in the nation). And NU has hit 7-of-8 field goals. No doubt, some of the success can be attributed to Jeff Genyk, the former Wisconsin special teams coach who is working as a consultant for NU.

http://btn.com/2015/09/25/big-ten-football-tom-dienharts-hot-takes-heading-into-week-4/

I forgot about Genyk's return. Always good to have more expertise on the staff.

 

[SmellyCat]

give the Wildcats the two most impressive wins for any Big Ten team so far in 2015.

Hey, I'm as big of an NU fan as the next guy, but bigger than MSU's win over Oregon?

 

[pawildcat]

MSU's win is certainly the biggest scalp for the conference so far, but you could argue that NU's win over Stanford is more impressive because few saw it coming. Most observers gave MSU a good chance of knocking off Oregon.

 

[rmndcat]

MSU's win is certainly the biggest scalp for the conference so far, but you could argue that NU's win over Stanford is more impressive because few saw it coming. Most observers gave MSU a good chance of knocking off Oregon.

I will be following Oregon v. Stanford very closely.

 

[villox]

"The kickoff return team is averaging 40.2 yards per return (No. 3 in the nation)."

That's not hard when we've had precisely 7 kickoff returns, one of which went for a touchdown.

 

[JournCat]

He has to be talking about a collective two wins as opposed to a single one. No one has a better pair of wins, etc.

 

[SmellyCat]

That makes more sense.

 

[hdhntr1]

I will be following Oregon v. Stanford very closely.

Don't you love the transitive property.

 

[hdhntr1]

"The kickoff return team is averaging 40.2 yards per return (No. 3 in the nation)."

That's not hard when we've had precisely 7 kickoff returns, one of which went for a touchdown.

Even without it, still averaging like 30 which is still pretty good