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Boston College Daily Links: Critical Season Looms For Frank Spaziani
Critical Season Looms for Frank Spaziani, Boston College (SB Nation Boston)Will Spaz be simply another in a long line of career assistants who, when given the big job, were simply overwhelmed by the position? A coaches third year is typically where you begin to see the imprint of the new staff....
Things We Totally Expect From Big Ten Media Days
The following are actual quotes and events that will absolutely occur Thursday morning in Chicago. 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Illinois head coach, Ron Zook: "Let me spell it for you hacks. U-N-T-O-U-C-H-A-B-A-L. Didn't you hear I'm the 3rd longest-tenured coach in this conference, behind Paterno and...
Five Good Minutes: Northwestern Football Preview With Sippin On Purple
Part of Northwestern preview week. During the lean months of the summer, the writers of BC Interruption will be extending olive branches to our foes in hopes of better understanding the various opponents the Eagles will face in the fall. Our first interview is with the SB Nation Northwestern blog...
Penn State Defense Grades Against Northwestern
It was a tale of two halves. Penn State started the game looking completely lost on defense. You would think after facing Denard Robinson last week, handling Dan Persa wouldn't be a problem. And yet there was the scrawny quarterback darting and shifting his way through the defense. And when he...
BSD Staff Predictions: Northwestern Wildcats
Tomorrow the Wildcats of Northwestern come to Happy Valley. Pat Fitzgerald already has his team bowl eligible, but they are looking to improve their position for the bowl selection committees. Penn State, on the other hand, is still one game away from bowl eligibility which is something that...
Nitt Links Is So Fluffy
We're less than one week away from the season opener, so by now we already know the major stories to follow with this program. So you shouldn't expect to read anything shocking between now and next Saturday. Nonetheless, here are some links worth reading on your Sunday morning. Hot Topics You Must...
Summation: Northwestern in the Aughts
This continues our series recapping the last ten seasons in the Big Ten. I. Overview If I could pick a word to define the decade of the Aughts for Northwestern, it would be "resilience." The Aughts weren't a remarkable decade for the Wildcats. While they had ups and downs like every other Big 10...
College Football's Biggest Under- and Overachievers of the Last Decade
One of my favorite stats is Pythagorean expectation. It looks at a team's points for and points allowed, and then estimates what we should expect that team's winning percentage to be. If you then look at the difference between how a team did versus its expectation, you can get a sense as to whether...
Joe Paterno Press Conference Notes
Here are your bullet points from Joe Paterno's weekly press conference. Joe thinks they are a pretty good football team. He wouldn't say if they're as good as they thought he would be at this point. He's not pleased with the block punts, but considering the things they had to overcome with...
Pat Fitzgerald will be our coach until 2015
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