September 11th, 2016 at 9:12 AM ^
I'd note that the reality is that AT LEAST one of the power 5 conference champs doesn't get it, but you are absolutely correct. Michigan fans should want the Big Ten to look good in NC play, except Penn State in those years they have recruits that we want (and in those years they don't).
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have another Frost or disrespekt thread? Cuz we got those too.
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September 11th, 2016 at 12:31 AM ^
Why comment on "bad threads"???
September 11th, 2016 at 12:50 AM ^
You're apparently laboring under the delusion that anybody else here gives a rat's bleeding ass what you think.
September 11th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^
Dude, why don''t you just knock it the fuck off with telling us what we should care about?
What I really don't care about is WHY you were raised to believe that you were the world dictator of when people could be fans and what they should care about. I only care that you grow up and realize that you are not, or, alternatively, that you retain your beliefs but never post here again.
September 11th, 2016 at 10:37 AM ^
TheGhostOfYost, is that you?
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September 10th, 2016 at 7:53 PM ^
Pretty much every person that's ever met Pat Fizgerald likes and respects him.
Scott Frost is a ****.
September 11th, 2016 at 7:15 AM ^
For example, Fitzgerald was down-to-earth and gave props where due after his team was blown out at the Big House last year. He didn't claim that, well, his team out-hit Michigan.
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They poured literally everything they had into that game, and after OSU edged them out for a win, they had nothing left for the rest of the season. Everything bad that could happen to them happened.
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September 11th, 2016 at 1:56 PM ^
This right here sums them up completely in the years that I've been following them.
September 10th, 2016 at 7:42 PM ^
Isn't Northwestern football cyclical? They win, followed by some rough years, then they win.
September 10th, 2016 at 8:34 PM ^
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All these big ten teams losing does us zero favors.
I mean, fuck Penn State obviously, but seriously Northwestern.....
September 10th, 2016 at 7:52 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 7:45 PM ^
This is really, really bad. Fitz has a lot of leeway in Evanston, he's close with the president (who is actually pretty into football), and the administration really supports what he's doing with the program. But... you have to think the patience has to be eroding. He isn't that teflon-level untouchable.
September 10th, 2016 at 7:52 PM ^
I think he is a decent coach but has very little talent to work with.
September 10th, 2016 at 7:57 PM ^
Here's the thing: NU is pretty much an outlier--it's not a peer institution within its conference (small, private, tries to situate itself as a peer to the Ivies/Stanford/etc.). It's not in a state with a huge amount of talent. It's a very small private school with modest, though far improved facilities, and a glorified high school stadium. No rivals that anyone gives a shit about.
And then you add in the higher academic standards for athletes, what's Fitz supposed to do? This is not going to be a great program again--but it should be a team that scores more than 7 points against SIU.
September 10th, 2016 at 8:38 PM ^
they probably could compete with Stanford (football wise) in getting student athletes nationally but, unlike Stanford, they don't have the base of talent in their own state...
Fitzgerald, as much of a headache as he can be, is probably the best they can do and is not that bad of a coach for the school...I think he leaves NW when he is good and ready.
September 10th, 2016 at 7:55 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 10:17 PM ^
He is NW ceiling
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September 10th, 2016 at 7:48 PM ^
The players on their team are bad at footballing.
September 10th, 2016 at 7:51 PM ^
Remember the only team in the regular season that beat them when they went to the Rose Bowl?
The NW of my youth couldn't win anythng...
NW nowdays loses these type of games but then could very well beat Wisconsin or Iowa (remember in 2014, NW went 5-7 and beat Wisconsin, Penn State, and Notre Dame).
For every two games that they lose that they aren't supposed to, the win a game that they aren't upposed to...
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That 1995 Miami OH team lost at The Big House two weeks later...and then Northwestern won @ The Big House the next week.
EDIT: Yes, I had to look that up but I seemed to remember that Miami also played Michigan that year...interestingly, Miami OH also beat a moderately decent Cincinnati team that year.
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Tom Herman at PSU would make for a fun schedule every year but I don't want PSU to have nice things and I think he stays down south. Dantonio, Harbaugh, Meyer, and Herman in one division would be insane although I think Dantonio retires in the next 5-7 years.
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