But on Monday we will hear that we’re improving. Not seeing it overall, but we did improve our yardage which means nothing if you can’t score.

Well, our offense might have been impotent but at least it was balanced -- 179 yds rushing, 169 yds passing.

And our defense might have given up an appalling 373 yds rushing, but they didn't let NWern beat us through the air -- only 88 yds and no TDs there.

Always willing to spray a little Glade on the manure pile.

Fire Tim Albin

Akron looked good on that first drive.

We made 27 look like Earl Campbell and made 26 look like Walter Payton.

Perhaps one of those sports analytics guys like Nate Silver will come up with some sort of equation that shows the biggest drop any sports team ever had. It could gauge teams that had hopes of winning their conference to utter desolation with regard to wins and losses and statistics all within one season. A further metric could determine how fast their season went off the rails. At this point, we could give just about any death spiral team a run for their money.

It wasn't like Northwestern were world beaters and this weekend was exactly a showcase weekend for the Big Ten with the Minnesota debacle against BG and Wisconsin's disastrous fourth quarter performance against Notre Dame. Yet we made Northwestern look great again with our no show performance.

In another era in sports and or World History, someone would step up to take the blame and offer to resign. Coach Albin's a known figure being here as long as Coach Solich. The concerns voiced on this board coming with those with inside knowledge about his lack of organizational and leadership skills were not a mystery. However, it seemed like everyone was just crossing their fingers. It ceratinly won't help his legacy if Coach Solich sold the new AD on a man about whom many had serious questions. In our world today, no one resigns or calls themsleves out for such a debacle, they just collect their checks and promise that things will get better, a perfect metaphor for our sad age.

One drive does not make a game. 🤦🏼‍♂️

The sport is a Marathon and not a sprint.

In said database you will find with a quick glance:

Bobcats, Ohio-2001

Bobcats, Ohio-2012

No. But when he came in in the 2nd quarter -- after the offense had bogged down after Kurtis's fumble -- he had an 11-yd run for a first down that seemed to give the team some spark. Of course, that was followed with a stupid delay of game penalty thanks to the coaches getting the play in late. He can be worked on to become a better passer. Making Kurtis a better runner isn't going to be easy.

There aren’t many of them.

The guy working at the coffee shop two blocks from the stadium said, “There’s a football game today? Yeah, they have those every once in a while.”

I’ve never exited a college football game and had no traffic around me before. I was at Portillo’s in Skokie in 10 minutes and on 94 within a half hour.

Yeah, I got that snobbery from a couple NWern students in 1973 when I had an internship at WGN.

As some of you know I got my master's degree from the junior institution in Cowtown. I had also applied to Northwestern. They put me on a waiting list for a possible GA appointment. I had been on said list for a month or so when O$U calls with a firm offer. I had really hoped to go to the Medill School of Journalism because it was one of the top schools in the nation. However, when I called NW to tell them I had a firm offer from Ohio State and wondered if they could tell me my chances of getting a GA position at their school, I was flabbergasted at their response. This is fairly accurate paraphrase of what graduate coordinator in journalism at NW said to me, "Well, son, if you are even considering Ohio State, you are probably not the kind of student we would want here. I think you should go ahead and accept their offer." I hung up somewhat shaken, and called Galen Rarick, his counterpart at the Big Farm, and accepted the OSU offer. So, I concur, NW is a very stuck up and arrogant place!