UPDATE: Ta’Quan Roberson was NOT offered by NU
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Unbelievable.. for 99.00 dollars and the best coverage of all NU major sports … why are you even following NU sports
Why? We rarely apply that principle to the posters around here…
Yes, please keep your uniform on
Not likely with a talent depleted team with no stellar D. This hot transfer they are expecting, must be a real gunslinger.
Have a feeling Sully will be the Ryan Young of football. A bunch of posts every time our current QB burps and Sully has a gain from the line of scrimmage.
Hopefully he doesn’t land at a Division III program; we can’t talk about those guys.
It's interesting to me that Bryant, to a casual observer, was unimpressive until Q4 of the MN game. Then, PSUs D overwhelmed our line and injured him. Then he missed 4 games.
Someone might say 'what's so great about him?' At that point.
And then....
What a warrior..
How about all the work Lou and Matt put in? Would you pay for that??
I remember Roberson from the 2021 Penn St. - Iowa game. Both teams were in the Top 5 and Kinnick Stadium was rocking, but Penn State came out strong with its starting QB Sean Clifford, but then he got hurt in the 2nd QTR and Penn State's offense could do almost next to nothing with Roberson in and Iowa came back to win narrowly (and Roberson was, possibly unfairly, the scapegoat in eyes of PSU fans):
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No. 3 Iowa rallies past No. 4 Penn State to remain undefeated
Here's what you need to know from the Week 6 Penn State vs. Iowa football game. No. 3 Iowa defeated No. 4 Penn State in the ranked matchup.
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Yeah even I don’t mind reading Coral’s posts if it means supporting Lou and Matt.
…mostly.
No more post there - I assume it was was deleted? Whose post was it, and what did it say?
You mean all the deleted and locked posts and threads? I would pay if they really backed off or provided a non-safe space area, behind paywall or not, that those with some thicker skin could post more freely.
Paying to get censored for the benefit of maybe getting a little information a bit earlier seems to send the wrong message 🤷♂️
I do pay, and I'm not happy about posts being deleted that relate to the actions of President Schill that expose the University to potential legal liability. Why this is not relevant to athletics, such as recruiting, is beyond me. However, I won't hold my breath waiting for a response from the mods.
It's not related to athletics, because he is testifying about a political issue, not an athletic issue.
But I still wonder what it means for the football lawsuits after Schill is canned.
I suppose we'll cross that bridge when your hypothetical comes true or doesn't.
To me, Hilinski looked terrified at times, back when he was playing.
The O-line was porous and he'd look downfield and either
a) see that nobody was open
or
b) see a blur of activity and not be able to identify his open receiver(s).
Then he'd look at the guys coming toward him and duck or start running for his life.
Ben Bryant stood in there, felt the pressure and threw good passes.
However, Hilinski probably has a better arm in practice.
I hope he isn't a hopeless case. Its possible he'd be okay with better blocking and targets.
Not disputing this, but why wasn’t he as terrified when Bama and Georgia was sending their pressure against him? Were the Cock WRs and OLs so much better than ours?
Or did Bajakian just ruin him and Hunter?
Our top 5 D under Hank looked horrible the next year, many of the same players looked completely different under JON, and then they magically became decent again when Braun took over. I can’t help but to believe it maybe could have been the coaching and schemes.
Hunter was bad under Mick as well. He had his only good game (MSU) under Jake. That game was 59.5 minutes of garbage time, though, due to JON.
Hunter couldn't see the field. I'm sure of that. I can't blame Bajakian.
I never saw Hilinski at South Carolina, but I think its a safe bet to say their receivers were better than ours. Hilinski started taking classes in Jan 2019... He played pretty well that fall after the starting QB was injured. Got sacked 19 times in 11 games, so he was getting hit. The next year he didn't play much at all... then he transferred to NU.
Quite possible that our offensive scheme was a factor, but he hasn't improved, which is on him as well as the coaches.
Disagree, but at this point arguing will get me nowhere.
He is at the pinnacle of everything NU, including Wildcat athletics, in these unprecedented times.. And we are still getting to know him. That makes nearly everything about his public activities both interesting and relevant to us fans. We want to know and share opinions about the man in charge.
Would you tank discussions about KAH speaking to Congress about Biden's re-writing of Title IX? Or the state of women's sports and transgenderism? Or the impact of state NIL laws on the landscape of highly successful non-revenue women's sports? I hope not. Sometimes sports and politics and/or the law merge to create issues we fans are interested in.
Let me respectfully object to substituting your judgment and heavy handed censorship for the informed wishes of your NU sports fans.
GOUNUII
All of these items you've mentioned are related to athletics in some way, so no, I would not remove them. What Schill is testifying about currently is not related to athletics.
Duly noted.
Very well put my old friend, Your post reads like a blurb from an appellate court brief or argument. You are right and Cappy is wrong, but he'll never admit it. Nonetheless, I'm happy because I can continue to savor your post for some time. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Northwestern’s President is testifying before the United States Congress, and we can’t discuss the potential athletic consequences of his performance/testimony?
It’s sad about the censorship. I have never met Cap like I have with you or GoNU, sure he is a passionate NU fan and overall great dude, but he has a huge blind spot to the impact of University mismanagement as it relates to Athletics and he’ll never admit it. I would love to share a libation with him some day.
An overwhelming number of folks disagreeing and pleading for leniency hasn’t gotten him to re-evaluate that position, so you two successful counselors aren’t likely to sway his thought process. Ironically, I believe all this issues would just play out and die in normal thread discourse, but digging his heels in actually exacerbates the situation.
Schill is intimately related to the force and direction of Northwestern Athletics. At a time when both NU and the college sports world remain embroiled in athletic, political and legal uncertainty. Being the new kid on the block and having already ignited a firestorm of dissension on several fronts, I think it's pretty obvious that Wildcat fans would like to size him up in whatever context he appears and no matter the subject. We don't get many chances to do that. In fact, his comments on a subject far removed from athletics could be extremely telling on what kind of cloth he's cut from and what we can expect from him as we work our way through multiple challenges to NU remaining competitive at the highest level of college athletics.
GOUNUII
What are the potential athletic consequences of him testifying in regards to political protests on campus? Again, if his testimony was about improperly firing football coaches, hazing in sports, or any of the things GoU mentioned, by all means, have at it.
