But the Northwestern football program is way behind where I would have expected it to be, say, five years ago. Five years ago, I saw a trajectory that could put NU in the too half of the division regularly, in the top 25 always, and competing for division championships occasionally. I thought that NU had comfortably passed or was on the verge of passing iowa, indiana, Purdue, Illinois, minnesota.
I think even the most optimistic projections for this season have NU in a mid-tier bowl game, and I would say that reasonable projections would say that fewer than six wins is the likely case, due to the strength of non-conference schedule.
There's a significant presence here that believes that things are mostly fine with the nu program, even though the program has had back to back declines and appears headed towards starting a redshirt freshman at QB.
I am not happy to write that I'm disappointed with where the program is, but I'm comfortable saying that that is my current situation.
This does not mean I have an axe to grind or an agenda. This simply means that I would have thought, in 2010, that the absolute floor for NU would be six wins by now.
Gosh, I wish it were Labor Day weekend.
I think even the most optimistic projections for this season have NU in a mid-tier bowl game, and I would say that reasonable projections would say that fewer than six wins is the likely case, due to the strength of non-conference schedule.
There's a significant presence here that believes that things are mostly fine with the nu program, even though the program has had back to back declines and appears headed towards starting a redshirt freshman at QB.
I am not happy to write that I'm disappointed with where the program is, but I'm comfortable saying that that is my current situation.
This does not mean I have an axe to grind or an agenda. This simply means that I would have thought, in 2010, that the absolute floor for NU would be six wins by now.
Gosh, I wish it were Labor Day weekend.
