Late 4th quarter drive summarizes the entire season
by Mike Breese on Nov 21, 2009 6:10 PM CST
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Print| Northern Illinois at 5:38 | NIU | OHIO | ||
| 1st and 10 at NIU 27 | Chandler Harnish pass complete to Landon Cox for 22 yards to the NoIll 49, tackled by Kenny Jackson for a 1ST down. | 28 | 31 | |
| 1st and 10 at NIU 49 | Chad Spann rush for 8 yards to the Ohio 43, tackled by Gerald Moore and Marcellis Williamson. | |||
| 2nd and 2 at OHIO 43 | Me'co Brown rush for no gain to the Ohio 43, tackled by Noah Keller. | |||
| 3rd and 2 at OHIO 43 | Me'co Brown rush for no gain to the Ohio 43, tackled by Dak Notestine and Patrick Tafua. | |||
| 4th and 2 at OHIO 43 | Timeout Northern Illinois, clock 03:36. | |||
| 4th and 2 at OHIO 43 | Chandler Harnish rush for 1 yard to the Ohio 42, tackled by Lee Renfro and Patrick Tafua. | |||
| DRIVE TOTALS: NIU drive: 5 plays 31 yards, 02:02 NIU DOWNS | ||||
The above sequence has it all.
Spann runs for 8 yds. OK, so let's take him out of the game. Enter the smaller, less effective back with a bad ankle to run twice up the middle for zero yardage. Let's not put in a proven, bigger back in Justin Anderson. Let's just give it to pitter-patter-then-fall-down Me'co Brown and see what happens. Spann might have been banged up, but this was for all the marbles. Brown was banged up too.
Wasted timeout. Then comes the Harnish keeper that you could have seen coming from a mile away. Game. Set. Match.
There goes the MAC title race. Bowl game likely, but we'll be somebody's 2nd choice. Up next is Central Michigan in a anticlimactic short week matchup the day after Thanksgiving. More to come later, right now I'm exhausted.
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I love the defense Kill has brought
But he has to do a better job with offensive play calling and with clock management.
frustrated, but not surprised
Oh well. I don’t understand the calls either, and I agree they summarize the whole season.
I also figured we would lose this game, since we are inconsistent and were matched up against a good team on the road in a big game, so I was hoping for a win but not surprised by the loss.
I know all fans like to whine about their losses, but it’s just really frustrating to know that at least 3 of our 4 losses were blown games that we should have won. We could be 10-1 right now, maybe even 11-0 if you throw Wisconsin in there, but that’s a stretch. But we deserve to be 7-4 because of baffling coaching decisions in the running game combined with avoidable mistakes. I would be a lot happier if we overachieved to get to 7-4, but since we’ve underachieved to get there, it’s definitely frustrating.
I hope we just get a bowl now. We have one more win over last year, but that’s no guarantee things will play out better, if at all. The chances of a marquee matchup are out the window.
It's the little things
Things that we can iron out throughout the offseason, because a majority of this team will return to play next year. Plus we get to play all the freshman that we redshirted this year.
The extra bowl practices will do wonders for this team in terms of player development.
Red and Black Attack - Northern Illinois Pride
Wasted timeout, indeed!
If you’re gonna take a timeout anyway, why doesn’t anyone at least ever line up and try to draw the defense offside, and then spend the timeout if it doesn’t work?
A bowl bid is always nice. But a shot the division title on Friday would have been sweet.
I think that we were running a hurry up offense as it is
And we didn’t want to waste any extra time on the clock. If we wasted seconds off the clock to try and drive them offsides, it would have been dicey to get the ball back and score later in the game.
Red and Black Attack - Northern Illinois Pride
My thing on the timeout is
If you end up taking one to save clock come up with a play you have run two time you faced a third or fourth and short (I think once in that drive) this quarter.
Bowl prospects/ Open it up next Friday
I see where CBS Sports has NIU going to the New Mexico Bowl vs.Nevada, and Bowling Green going to the EagleBank Bowl – wow, 5 MAC teams going bowling! I just don’t see that happening
Note to coaching staff: open it up against C, Michigan, let’s get creative on offense – have some fun out there
Why not? 5 MAC teams went last year (including a 6-6 team)
There are about the same number of Bowls opening up this season (cant be filled) but the MAC is doing Much Better. Last Season
BSU 12-1
CMU 8-4
WMU 9-3
Buffalo 8-5
NIU 6-6
All these teams went to Bowls, and lost..
This year
CMU 9/10 wins
Temple 9/10 wins
Ohio 8/9 wins
NIU 7/8 wins
BGU 6/7 wins or Toledo 6 wins
by Tim Riordan on Nov 22, 2009 11:43 PM CST up reply actions
In my opinion
A MAC team that doesn’t have 8 wins on the season has no reason to complain they’re not going bowling.
GO HUSKIES BEAT THE CHIPS!
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