Saunders Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 Added CollegeFootballNews preview. 1 Quote Link to comment
brophog Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 21 minutes ago, Saunders said: Added CollegeFootballNews preview. That is one inconsistent preview. Page 4/5 alternate between saying 'bowling may be difficult' and 'both sides of the ball are good enough to win 6 games without a problem'. 1 Quote Link to comment
Saunders Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 Added the SBNation preview. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/6/28/17496908/northwestern-football-2018-preview-schedule-roster 1 Quote Link to comment
brophog Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 3 hours ago, Saunders said: Added the SBNation preview. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/6/28/17496908/northwestern-football-2018-preview-schedule-roster And this is the good one..... 1 Quote Link to comment
junior4949 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 On 6/11/2018 at 7:14 PM, Redux said: They go 5-7, we hang 48 on them. Next. I'd say the bolded is about right. A Pat Fitzgerald coached team typically falls on their face the season after winning 10 games. Quote Link to comment
brophog Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 37 minutes ago, junior4949 said: A Pat Fitzgerald coached team typically falls on their face the season after winning 10 games. I completely disagree with that statement. For that statement to be true, it assumes a drop in performance from the 10 win season to the next. The last time Northwestern won 10 games, in 2015, they averaged less than 20 points per game and had a 0.0 yards per play differential. The time before that was a 0.1 yards per play differential. Neither of these years were 10 win teams, by performance. Their 2015 team was +3 games above expectation by pythagorean win expectation, so their 7 win season the year following was really just more indicative of how many they should have been expected to win. 1 Quote Link to comment
junior4949 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 In 2012, Northwestern won 10 games. In 2013, Northwestern went 5-7 and went 1-7 in the B1G. I have never understood why so many people think Pat Fitzgerald is even a good coach. He has a losing record when playing B1G teams. He's really never even come close to winning a conference title. I'm sure Northwestern isn't the easiest place to win, but Gary Barnett did it. He actually won the B1G while at Northwestern. The guy before Fitzgerald even tied for a conference title. In his tenure at Northwestern, Fitzgerald is averaging winning just under 7 games a season. At times, he wins a couple more than his average. At others, he wins a couple less than his average. He's been there long enough to see a trend. When he has one of those decent seasons, he always follows it up by gravitating back to has average 7 win seasons. 1 Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 14 hours ago, junior4949 said: When he has one of those decent seasons, he always follows it up by gravitating back to has average 7 win seasons. But you echoed the sentiment that he'd have a 5 win season this year Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Quote On Tuesday, during his weekly press conference, the Northwestern head coach was asked about how he feels about RPO’s (run-pass options) and whether he believes it’s benefitting the game. He didn’t hold back in his response, saying “RPO’s are the purest form of communism.” “RPO is the purest form of communism,” Fitzgerald said. “I don’t understand how offensive linemen can be downfield.” “If you’re an uncovered lineman and you go 2.3 yards downfield it’s not a penalty but if you go three it is. Nobody can see it until after the ball is thrown. It’s the rules…it’s the most in vogue change, I think, in football. If you’re a purest of football, it’s not the game. It’s not. Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 20 minutes ago, GSG said: I watched this press conference today over lunch. Pat Fitzgerald is a defensive guy, he won the Butkus award as the nations best linebacker, of coarse he hates anything that gives the offense an advantage. He is also a very good listen. I don't know if he is trying to be funny, but he says a lot of humerus stuff during his PC's. Quote Link to comment
brophog Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I don't have any idea what this has to do with communism, but I agree with the lineman point. There are two rules regarding linemen that get abused to no end and that is lining up in the backfield and linemen being too far downfield. Neither is hard to call, they just consistently don't. 1 Quote Link to comment
Scarlet Overkill Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I don't think he's using the word communism properly. You'd think a guy with a Northwestern education could use the word, communism, in a sentence properly. 1 Quote Link to comment
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