2011 northwestern

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WITH SPECIAL GUEST DENARD ROBINSON. FOR THE WHOLE THING! Big thanks to Bryan Fuller for setting that up. Please listen to Part 1 first if you haven't already.

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Previously: 1879, 1901, 1918, 1925, 1932, 1940, 1947, 1950, 1964, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1985 p.1& p.2, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2011 p.1

Special Guests: Craig Roh, author of The Pass Rush Bible and Denard Robinson

[Writeup and player after THE JUMP]

Previously: Western Michigan, Notre Dame, Eastern Michigan, San Diego State, Minnesota

Northwestern

Schedule:

  • @ Boston College, 24-17 (W)
  • Eastern Illinois, 42-21 (W)
  • @ Army, 14-21 (L)
  • @ Illinois, 35-38 (L)
  • No. 12 Michigan, 24-42 (L)
  • @ Iowa, 31-41 (L)
  • No. 21 Penn State, 24-34 (L)
  • @ Indiana, 59-38 (W)
  • @ No. 10 Nebraska, 28-25 (W)
  • Rice, 28-6 (W)
  • Minnesota, 28-13 (W)
  • No. 14 Michigan State, 17-31 (L)
  • Texas A&M, 22-33 (L), Texas Bowl

Record: 6-7 overall, 3-5 B1G, 5th place Bo Division

Stats:

  Offense Defense
Rush: 166.6 ypg, 45th 176.7, 83rd
Pass: 254.2 ypg, 38th 230.4, 71st
Total: 420.8 ypg, 34th 407.1 ypg, 80th
Scoring: 28.9 ppg, 51st 27.7 ppg, 66th
T/O margin: +3, 40th

Recap: My friend who went to Northwestern tells me that the campus isn’t as pretty as I remember it (from about a decade ago, when I went there for nerd camp) due to deforestation. Can someone confirm this? If so, that sucks.

 

That has nothing to do with their football season, which was one most Wildcats fans would probably want to forget. You kind of don’t feel too bad for them, though, because they set themselves up for disappointment. But hey, at least the Heisman campaign was pretty epic. I wonder if I asked nicely I could have some surplus Persastrong dumbells.

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I said I would write a final opponent watch to recap the season. This is not it. I'll have that one next week.

About Last Saturday:

Bad guys - 0, Good guys - a billion

HELLO.

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