Steal This Thread: Northwestern Week Edition

Pretty impressive. He might not have all the stats Beckum had in 2007, but he’s a much better blocker and a definite deep threat.

They are an enigma. Every year we are supposed to beat them. But they play for broke and the game just seems to never be quite long enough at Ryan Field. The minutes pass and we find ourself trailing and then the game ends. In one sense I am relieved Persa isn’t playing, but in the other I would like to hand the good version of jNW a smackdown to cap off this season at home. If we don’t beat ourselves or come in too big headed we roll the boys in purple.

was Clay’s fumble in the fourth quarter

To put it extreemly lightly, I dislike Northwestern. I respect Fitzgerald, I just don’t like them.

NU trying to run out the clock fumbles. Mike Samuel, who had been harassed all night leads Bucky into field goal range. Matt “Money” Davenport nails a 48 yarder with 6 seconds left to stun the home team and send Bucky home happy.

We might need to take some bets on the over/under for how much longer he coaches.

It was my freshman year and Parents’ Day, and I’d bought tickets for my folks. They’d both gone to Indiana but professed to not care about college football and seemed to share my budding enthusiasm for the Badgers. During high school I’d narrowed my college choices to UW, NU and U of C, and before I ultimately chose UW we’d taken a trip to Chicago to check out the two campuses. At the time I thought my father was unimpressed with Northwestern, but come Game Day he showed up decked out in purple. Apparently a dormant dislike of the Badgers was awakened in him and he even claimed he’d always wanted me to go to NU. Despite my father’s sartorial treason the Badgers won the game easily, shutting out the Wildcats until a late diving TD catch. From the south endzone my mother managed to find me in the student section with her binoculars, and after the game I was admonished for participating in the vulgarities.

It involving Wisconsin Football opening their season with a doubleheader against Michigan and Indiana. Apparently both were easy wins so we just decided to take care of both of them on the same day.

Then Michigan State tight end Charlie Gantt came over to Camp Randall and watched the doubleheader with us. At this point my dream was getting too ridiculous, and I promptly woke up.

thinking Alabama will be ranked #1 in the nation if they win. It’s like the voters want to fit a square SEC peg into a round BCS hole…