Was just reading those. That dude is bizarre.

Yeah, what a nutjob. He must be wearing a tinfoil hat. Why does he think Mark's lateral was so dumb? If he is tackled the game is over and NU loses. The player shouldn't be worrying about the team you bet covering the spread. The saddest part is O'Donnell is a talented writer. I think there's something wrong with his head and I suspect it is related in some way to the distillation of corn.

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This one was so "Dim"-"sum"-

@jodonnell17: Clarence Darrow & Johnny Cochran combined could not defend 2H play calling of NU OC "Glitch" McCall vs Ohio St; he is a huge liability.

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That touchback that led to the blocked punt and the touchdown call in the 4th were awful.

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Lotsa of late money on NU. Saw them down to 6, from 7.5 at one point. Saw 6.5 -120

Had to be 30,000 OSU fans in the house!

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It was a good game to watch. Northwestern has a couple of good QBs. Those two are fun to watch and interesting how they don't miss a beat on offense when they just swap them out constantly.

Ohio State barely escaped its two toughest tests and really shouldn't lose to anyone from here on out but they don't belong in the championship game. Florida State, Oregon, Alabama, and Baylor are just putting the hurt on teams and doing so in dominating fashion.

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Northwestern should be proud of how the team played. But they don't have the hogs on the offensive or defensive lines. It's like NIU trying to beat an ACC team. The schools that don't recruit the pro level talent have to play a perfect game to win. NIU does not have a quarterback who can win them the game. I thought the blocked punt was a big turning point in the game. I also don't understand how the guy goes in the end zone and then is the first touch the ball on the half yard line. But I do think Ohio State is beatable, so maybe another team will pull it together and beat them.

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It was a good game to watch, I was frustrated by the last couple of minutes.

Side note, and this has nothing to do wit NU - I thought they played pretty good.:
The "class" of the Big Ten looked really, really mediocre (probably a gentle description) last night, in a not-so-hostile environment. Turnovers, miscues, bad play calling. Not sure they have a chance to finish undefeated and get into the BCS Championship.

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Unfortunately, everything your saying is right. Buckeyes are probably in the 10-15 range nationally.

Wait, are we referring to the actual writer or our very own Dim O'braincell? I never found his writing that impressive other than laying some wood on woozie and booboo or whatever he called them.

That presser with Gar Forman was priceless. Maybe the writing was good, but the questions were horrendous.

We're talking about the real tweets of the real Jim O'Donnell. I think that Forman presser was after O'D had already gone off the deep end. I always liked him in his younger days. I thought the Weezy and Boo-Boo stuff was hysterical, but come on, who puts shit like that in a major metropolitan daily? And whatever you want to say about O'D, where the fuck was the editor?

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Florida State was lucky to escape with a victory at BC last week

It's Oregon, Alabama and everyone else.

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Florida State Clemson this week, so I guess we'll see

Now Mully is calling for lasers on the goal line to determine where people's feet are on touchbacks.

Who knew this game would change the future of football.

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Everyone saying how pleased they are with NUs effort is really indicative of the problem with NU football.

Coach Fitz would get his shit pushed in if he lost that type of game to UCLA were he to go to USC but he get's an attaboy from the fans after blowing a 10 point 4Q lead at home to a team they matched up with well (I don't believe for a second he is anything but a distant consideration for USC)

I think they are and will always be the cute little story and everyone is implicitly cool with that.

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Are you not impressed with his 26–31 conference record?

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Are you implying NU isn't an underdog when compared to OSU?

The Buckeyes played horribly. Northwestern should have won. How many blown 4th quarter leads for Coach Go Cats is enough?

I think this NU team matches up well against this OSU team as they proved for 3.5 quarters. However, factually speaking they were an underdog.

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I think its pretty damn impressive that a program that has every disadvantage working against it (college-football-wise), can remain competitive in one of the leading conferences in the country. College football is inherently unequal, so I think playing a football factory close is impressive. Fuck the "no moral victories" b.s., you can't watch that game and be impressed with NU and how far they've come in two decades.

I know its been said before, but to accomplish what NU has is nothing short of amazing when you consider that they also have the highest grad rate in the country (they take care of their players) and the highest APR.

And bad spots happen all the time, so I'm not trying to make excuses... but if we got a real spot and perhaps if Nick VanHoose didn't get called for a B.S. "unsportsmanlike conduct" tackle, we would be looking at a much different outcome. This game could have gone either way. I think the program represented itself really well all things considered.

There was also a blatantly obvious block in the back on Ibrahiem Campbell on a 4th quarter OSU reception. Allows OSU receiver to gain an extra ten yards and ultimately a TD.

Northwestern has no disadvantages. In fact, Fitzgerald and Northwestern uses who they are as an advantage. They are literally winning recruiting battles by selling those so called "disadvantages".

The "poor Northwestern" act is getting old.

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Now THAT is funny.

like I said, cute little northwestern

How did Stanford do this weekend?

The Cats are competitive in years the conference is down.

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Name the disadvantages. Most are either true for most Big Ten schools, or it has been turned around and is being used to HELP recruiting.

You can't complain about the "disadvantage" of high academic standards and then use it as a recruiting tool.

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Now THAT is funny.


1) Smallest alumni
2) Smallest athletic budget
3) Worst stadium
4) Second worst athletic facilities
5) Located in a pro sports town
6) Academic requirements (that we actually enforce unlike ND)
7) 10th in the Big Ten in alumni located in Chicago
8.) Longest losing streak in D1 football
9) Did I mention academic requirements?
10) Higher standard to not rape, kill, thieve while pursuing your degree

I could go on, but you get the point.

I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Are you implying Northwestern should be getting similar recruiting classes as OSU?

Yes you absolutely can. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that when you reduce your pool of applicants, that it works against you. I agree that "Fitz tries to sell the NU degree," but you aren't so dense that you actually believe that resonates with 4 or 5 star talent who want to go to the NFL. That's really not debatable.

I think he is trying to say Fitz can't have it both ways, but that's not what we are arguing about. Fitz tries to spin it, but if you truly think that academic requirements are not a hindrance, I'm not sure what else to say. It's absolutely an obstacle to recruiting.