Recent content by TwistingMyMelon

Pretty fair assessment I'd say. Give or take.

No! And 7 would have been unimaginable.

I'd say that's a reasonable doubt. Remember that Ben won only 4 conference games in his first year and, of course, even fewer in his second.

There will be the usual bitching throughout the season when the team fails but I don't think this board will be all that negative toward the coach in Year 1 regardless of how the season turns out. You started seeing more demands to fire Ben Johnson in season 2 but he had the additional handicap...

He can be put in the game late in the halves when the team is in the bonus. He did help in making both free throws late in the Green Bay game.

I have no opinion on where Iowa will go bowling but I don't think they will finish 7-5. I suspect they will win both of their last two games.

Yeah, I didn't like that bowl being taken away from the conference. Good bowl in one of the USA's best locations.

Agreed. My feeling is that it doesn't matter how prestigious your opponent is if that opponent kicks your ass. All you've demonstrated is that you didn't belong there. Just because one shares a meeting with a billionaire doesn't make him one. Also, bowl games matter to me. They are the last...

I would guess that the people who picked us for the Game Above Sports Bowl don't believe that we'll win either or our two remaining games.

The big difference between those 3 and Northwestern is that OSU has averaged 36.8 points in conference, Oregon 31.6 in conference, and Iowa 27.6 in conference. Northwestern averages 18.9 in conference, only 1.2 points per game more than us. NW is unlikely to run away with the game like the...

I think their awfulness on the road has more to do with the quality of teams they faced in the conference road games than the location. They lost to OSU, Oregon, and Iowa on the road. Iowa hasn't beaten the ranked B10 teams (Indiana, Oregon, USC) they've played but has come very close. If the...

Essentially agree with all of that. I would have been surprised if they weren't favored by the amount they are favored (-5.5). Although they aren't so good offensively, they've shown that they can run at an acceptable level and we rarely have this season. Defensively, their yards per play...

Why? Did you think that a lot of people on this board are dumb enough to believe that the Gophers this year are really good?

Agreed. Portal recruits from the highest-level programs tend to have more stars beside their names coming from high school but more than a few of those players tend not to achieve much once they get to the elite collegiate ranks. I remember reading something about Cignetti where he said that...

Willis wasn't always this bad of a free throw shooter. He averaged 4.8 free throw attempts per game last season at Western Michigan and hit 72.4% of them. This season he's averaging 2.8 attempts per game and hitting 36.4%. I don't know what his problem is with free throw shooting this season...