Great season! Of course National Championship is the “goal”, but I’ll take a clean program that competes for a Big Ten championship, goes to and wins a quality bowl game. Well-done, guys!
My hopes every year are for the Cats to compete for the Big Ten West title, go to a decent Bowl Game and win it.
If the Cats beat Auburn, I'll consider this a very successful season.
On BTN, it was already said that the two big games next weekend were Ohio State - Indiana and Northwestern-Wisconsin. The credit will come after that win.
I see little to no praise for DB coach Matt MacPherson. I know that Jerry Brown caught holy hell when it was felt the DB's weren't playing up to potential. Shouldn't coach Mac get some kudos?
For me, the easy number one was Green not taking a sack and settling for three points, but instead trying to fight off multiple tacklers, getting injured and fumbling the ball away.
Hearing Fitz' locker room speech to the team after the game, I was ready to go out and hit somebody. And I'm 66 years old, 5'9' and 100-and-nothing lbs.!
I used to be unhappy that we had to fair catch so many punts. Now, I'm not happy that punts seem to sail over the heads of our returners and give us bad field position. I'd be happy with a fair catch if it means keeping the ball from bouncing/rolling towards our goal line.
I thought NU hired a...