‘Cats Football Video Fix; Plus Hoops vs UIC

Posted by Lake The Posts on Saturday, December 1, 2012 · 8 Comments

Its championship weekend and we’re all missing our ‘Cats football fix. Have no worries, Northwestern Highlights is here to help us all out. Simply CLICK HERE and type in the code NU2012 to enjoy.

‘Cats – UIC

Bill Carmody and crew return to action today vs in-state foe, University of Illinois-Chicago at 1pm at Welsh-Ryan. The game will be tape delayed on Comcast Sports Net Chicago tonight at 7pm ct and will be available on BTN2Go. The Flames are a much improved 5-1 squad and most recently downed NIU by 12. The two teams are 3-3 alltme and are meeting for the first time since a UIC win in Evanston in 2005.

The ‘Cats desperately need to get back on track today as a battle at Top 20 Baylor looms on Tuesday night. After the 77-57 blowout loss to Maryland on Tuesday, NU will likely need to beat at least Baylor and/or Butler, Stanford to keep that non-conference resume looking OK.

Reggie Hearn led the way Tuesday with 19 points, but our live-by-three, die-by-the-three system proved deathly. The absence of Drew Crawford for big stretches and Jared Swopshire foul trouble impact our rebounding, a Carmody-era Achilles heel. NU had vastly improved in this department thanks to Alex Olah, who wasn’t quite up to the test of playing that kind of talent. I’ve got high hopes that this is the type of game he could flourish in. We’ll be back in a bit.

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Al

Ouch. That’s a bad, bad loss.
Bear44

This is a very bad team with very few scoring options. They will be lucky to be 500 overall. I hope this will wake up Carmody supporters. His departure is way overdue. This recruiting class will bring no changes. Let’s wake up before we are losing 20 games again. I would imagine the 16 -20 losses that are staring these guys in the face will secure his departure.
Chasmo

After this awful loss at home to a bad team:
* It’s hard not to return to the debate about whether Bill Carmody can inspire his team or develop the mental toughness in his kids to win games.
* It’s hard not to see why Louisville told Swopshire to go elsewhere this year because he really is just a role player who is capable of having a good game once in a while; in other words, he’s a lot like Reggie Hearn.
* It’s hard not to accept the fact that Drew Crawford is not able to be a team leader and go-to guy. For this team to have a chance to play in the NIT, he has to play at an all-Big Ten level and so far that isn’t happening.
This team in is a funk right now and we know Carmody is incapable of bringing them out of it. The kids are going to have to do it on their own. Teams often reflect the personality of their coach and if that’s true, it could be a long season.
Let’s hope for the best vs. Baylor and then Butler but there is a very good chance that the Cats will get blown out in both games and their confidence level will be so low that this could be the start of a long, losing season.
It’s hard to be optimistic right now.
bandcat

Brad Stevens auditions next Saturday! These guys are just way too tight.
Nate

This could be one of those “uh oh” kind of seasons if they struggle to find points like this…yikes. Luckily there’s still time to get this figured out before conference play starts. A win @Baylor would be great for the RPI, but I don’t see it.
UVA Cat

We got beat by UIC on the same day that Baylor upsets #8 Kentucky. Yikes!
Let’s hope we get some things figured out in the next 3 days, though I’m not overly optimistic about it…
- cs93
  
  I’m not optimistic at all. The Baylor game will be ugly.
CatInTheHat

Teddy G says 75% chance we are bowling I’m Orlando…

2013 NU Football Schedule

Date	Opponent	Result
08/31/2013	at California - ESPN2 9:30PM	-
09/07/2013	Syracuse - BTN 5:00PM	-
09/14/2013	Western Michigan - BTN 8:00PM	-
09/21/2013	Maine (FCS) - TBA TBA	-
10/05/2013	Ohio State - ABC/ESPN OR ESPN2 7:00PM	-
10/12/2013	at Wisconsin - TBA TBA	-
10/19/2013	Minnesota - TBA TBA	-
10/26/2013	at Iowa - TBA TBA	-
11/02/2013	at Nebraska - TBA TBA	-
11/16/2013	Michigan - TBA TBA	-
11/23/2013	Michigan State - TBA TBA	-
11/30/2013	at Illinois - TBA TBA	-

2012 NU Football Schedule

Date	Opponent	Result
09/01/2012	at Syracuse - ESPN2 11:00AM - Highlights	42 - 41
09/08/2012	Vanderbilt - BTN 7:00PM - Highlights	23 - 13
09/15/2012	Boston College - BTN 2:30PM - Highlights	22 - 13
09/22/2012	South Dakota (FCS) - BTN 2:30PM - Highlights	38 - 7
09/29/2012	Indiana - BTN 11:00AM - Highlights	44 - 29
10/06/2012	at Penn State - ESPN 11:00AM	28 - 39
10/13/2012	at Minnesota - ESPN2 11:00AM - Highlights	21 - 13
10/20/2012	Nebraska - ABC 2:30PM	28 - 29
10/27/2012	Iowa - ESPN2 11:00AM - Highlights	28 - 17
11/10/2012	at Michigan - ESPN 11:00AM	31 - 38
11/17/2012	at Michigan State - ESPN2 11:00AM - Highlights	23 - 20
11/24/2012	Illinois - BTN 11:00AM - Highlights	50 - 14
01/01/2013	Mississippi State - ESPN2 Gator Bowl 11:00AM - Highlights	34 - 20

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