3yardsandacloud
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I'll add a link to this thread in the Northwestern Preview Blog/Article.
Thanks Eurocar and AstroCat.
Thanks Eurocar and AstroCat.
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N'Western Bulletin Board Material on OSU's Offense.
Luis Castillo, Northwestern D-Tackle:
"They've always been a great defense and a mediocre offense."
Coach Tressel was asked if this might fire the team up today at the Big 10 teleconference. He gave the usual answer, but I would think this type of statement would have to piss some people off (Mangold, Datish, Sims, Kne, and Schafer to name a few).
Don't have a link, saw it over on BN.
Luis Castillo, Northwestern D-Tackle:
"They've always been a great defense and a mediocre offense."
Coach Tressel was asked if this might fire the team up today at the Big 10 teleconference. He gave the usual answer, but I would think this type of statement would have to piss some people off (Mangold, Datish, Sims, Kne, and Schafer to name a few).
Don't have a link, saw it over on BN.
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3yardsandacloud
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This is from an AP article, near the end:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/sports/9775209.htm
(I'm guessing that the heading was suposed to read "Losses" not "sses", but all the agencies carrying this story list the heading the same way.)
sses haven't cost Northwestern its confidence
NANCY ARMOUR
Associated Press
EVANSTON, Ill. - For a team that's won only one of its first four games, got walloped in its Big Ten opener and now has a date with No. 7 Ohio State, Northwestern certainly isn't lacking for confidence.
"They're kids just like you out there, so you need to go out there and just play," receiver Mark Philmore said Monday. "Just because they go to Ohio State doesn't mean anything. It's just a matter of us going out there and playing."
Yes, but these are the Buckeyes (3-0), the national champs just two years ago. OK, so they got scares from Marshall and N.C. State, and their offense has been sluggish. But they still have one of the nastiest defenses in the Big Ten and an equally fearsome kicking game.
And look at their record against Northwestern (1-3, 0-1 Big Ten). They've won 24 straight, a streak that dates back to 1972. The Wildcats haven't beaten Ohio State since 1971, long before any of the current players were born.
"Sometimes teams at a Northwestern or an Indiana, they get caught up playing the traditions," running back Noah Herron said. "The tradition of Ohio State. The tradition of Michigan. The tradition of Penn State. We're not playing those years of tradition. We're playing the 2004 Ohio State Buckeyes, so we can't look at it like we haven't beat them in 33 years. What's that matter? Thirty-three years we were unlucky, so we've got to go out and change that."
The Wildcats haven't had much luck this year beating anyone, though, let alone a perennial powerhouse like Ohio State. Northwestern coach Randy Walker thought his team was making progress after it held on to beat Kansas, only to see it lose 43-17 at Minnesota.
And it wasn't the loss that was discouraging so much as the way the Wildcats lost.
"We just didn't play or execute to the caliber we expect," Walker said. "It's really, quite honestly, frustrating because we thought we had a good preparation. We got in the game and our lack of consistency on both sides of the ball allowed them to get out to the big lead and take us out of the game.
"It's a little frustrating at this point we're not further along."
But the Wildcats are convinced they're not that far off. Their biggest problem - aside from a rash of injuries on defense - is consistency. Penalties, on both offense and defense, are hurting Northwestern as much as anything.
Take Saturday's game. The Wildcats gave up 77 yards on nine penalties, compared with one, 5-yard penalty, for the Golden Gophers.
"Obviously there's a lot of frustration in the team, but we're still confident because the frustration comes from our own errors, our own self-inflicted wounds," Herron said. "It's frustration, but it's frustration that we can avoid once we start executing at a higher standard."
Ditto for the defense, tackle Luis Castillo said.
"When you go out there and you work as hard as you and give it up on a few plays, obviously it kills you," he said. "But it's things we can fix. That's the light at the end of the tunnel. It's not that we're getting driven through and our defense is getting killed on every play. It's a few little mental mistakes that we can get fixed up."
And the Wildcats have to be a little encouraged watching Ohio State's previous games. Though the Buckeyes are still ranked seventh in the country, they have their flaws. They're averaging just 121 yards rushing a game, a statistic that would gall Woody Hayes if he was still alive, and are 80th out of 117 Division I-A teams in total offense.
Still, the Buckeyes are 3-0.
"They've always been a great defense and a mediocre offense that finds ways to make plays," Castillo said. "They know how to win. That's just Ohio State for you."
But that doesn't mean the Wildcats are intimidated.
"You respect all," Philmore said, "and fear none."
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/sports/9775209.htm
(I'm guessing that the heading was suposed to read "Losses" not "sses", but all the agencies carrying this story list the heading the same way.)
sses haven't cost Northwestern its confidence
NANCY ARMOUR
Associated Press
EVANSTON, Ill. - For a team that's won only one of its first four games, got walloped in its Big Ten opener and now has a date with No. 7 Ohio State, Northwestern certainly isn't lacking for confidence.
"They're kids just like you out there, so you need to go out there and just play," receiver Mark Philmore said Monday. "Just because they go to Ohio State doesn't mean anything. It's just a matter of us going out there and playing."
Yes, but these are the Buckeyes (3-0), the national champs just two years ago. OK, so they got scares from Marshall and N.C. State, and their offense has been sluggish. But they still have one of the nastiest defenses in the Big Ten and an equally fearsome kicking game.
And look at their record against Northwestern (1-3, 0-1 Big Ten). They've won 24 straight, a streak that dates back to 1972. The Wildcats haven't beaten Ohio State since 1971, long before any of the current players were born.
"Sometimes teams at a Northwestern or an Indiana, they get caught up playing the traditions," running back Noah Herron said. "The tradition of Ohio State. The tradition of Michigan. The tradition of Penn State. We're not playing those years of tradition. We're playing the 2004 Ohio State Buckeyes, so we can't look at it like we haven't beat them in 33 years. What's that matter? Thirty-three years we were unlucky, so we've got to go out and change that."
The Wildcats haven't had much luck this year beating anyone, though, let alone a perennial powerhouse like Ohio State. Northwestern coach Randy Walker thought his team was making progress after it held on to beat Kansas, only to see it lose 43-17 at Minnesota.
And it wasn't the loss that was discouraging so much as the way the Wildcats lost.
"We just didn't play or execute to the caliber we expect," Walker said. "It's really, quite honestly, frustrating because we thought we had a good preparation. We got in the game and our lack of consistency on both sides of the ball allowed them to get out to the big lead and take us out of the game.
"It's a little frustrating at this point we're not further along."
But the Wildcats are convinced they're not that far off. Their biggest problem - aside from a rash of injuries on defense - is consistency. Penalties, on both offense and defense, are hurting Northwestern as much as anything.
Take Saturday's game. The Wildcats gave up 77 yards on nine penalties, compared with one, 5-yard penalty, for the Golden Gophers.
"Obviously there's a lot of frustration in the team, but we're still confident because the frustration comes from our own errors, our own self-inflicted wounds," Herron said. "It's frustration, but it's frustration that we can avoid once we start executing at a higher standard."
Ditto for the defense, tackle Luis Castillo said.
"When you go out there and you work as hard as you and give it up on a few plays, obviously it kills you," he said. "But it's things we can fix. That's the light at the end of the tunnel. It's not that we're getting driven through and our defense is getting killed on every play. It's a few little mental mistakes that we can get fixed up."
And the Wildcats have to be a little encouraged watching Ohio State's previous games. Though the Buckeyes are still ranked seventh in the country, they have their flaws. They're averaging just 121 yards rushing a game, a statistic that would gall Woody Hayes if he was still alive, and are 80th out of 117 Division I-A teams in total offense.
Still, the Buckeyes are 3-0.
"They've always been a great defense and a mediocre offense that finds ways to make plays," Castillo said. "They know how to win. That's just Ohio State for you."
But that doesn't mean the Wildcats are intimidated.
"You respect all," Philmore said, "and fear none."
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Maybe that's why we've outscored them by an average score of 26-9 all-time, and they've held us to under 20 points exactly one time since 1980 (and they still lost that game). Speaking of mediocre offenses, they scored a grand total of seven TDs in their last ten games against us, including a big goose egg last year. They're never, ever, scored more than 28 points against us (and they scored those 28 points only once, in a loss). Oh yeah, we've won 24 straight against them...
I just saw the dumbass comment "Thirty-three years we were unlucky, so we've got to go out and change that" after making my initial reply. I suppose they were simply unlucky in:
1973: 60-0
1974: 55-7
1978: 63-20
1980: 63-0
1981: 70-6
1983: 55-7
1984: 52-3
1989: 52-27
1990: 48-7
1991: 34-3
1992: 31-7
1993: 51-3
1997: 49-6
1998: 36-10
2001: 38-20
I just saw the dumbass comment "Thirty-three years we were unlucky, so we've got to go out and change that" after making my initial reply. I suppose they were simply unlucky in:
1973: 60-0
1974: 55-7
1978: 63-20
1980: 63-0
1981: 70-6
1983: 55-7
1984: 52-3
1989: 52-27
1990: 48-7
1991: 34-3
1992: 31-7
1993: 51-3
1997: 49-6
1998: 36-10
2001: 38-20
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FKAGobucks877
The Most Power-Drunk
Me? No, I was simply upset because this is an obvious attempt at "post padding" by Mr. Bucknuts. It is, after all, Northwestern. I thought they actually paid people to attend their games?
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those fuckers banned me the other day (thanks tsteele you asshole).
now how am i gonna get free NW tickets?
now how am i gonna get free NW tickets?
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iambrutus
Screw Blue
the "O" might not be a 35+ scoring team every week, but it doesnt' need to be, so yes, what he said was the truth, but you do NOT say something like that when you are a double digit underdog. thats just dumb, if we were an underdog to UM, you wouldn't see Hawk saying that they are mediocreTlangs said:
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MegaWoody said:
Say what you want about Northwestern's football team on the field but without doing any investigating I would imagine the GPA of the Northwestern team is as high or higher than any team in the Big Ten. Average students don't get in to Northwestern.
Well I always took mediocre to mean middle of the pack or average. Clearly our running game is less than mediocre, like it or not. While I don't recommend making such comments, because no good can come of them, I'm trying to figure out exactly what Castillo said that wasn't true about JT's offenses of the last few years.
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