Former No. 1 WR prospect eligible at Northwestern

Good Luck Kyle! The Trojan Family wishes you a great season.

Kain Colter better get Big 10 good and stay Big Ten good and use Prater properly. Course all this depends on the increasing nut-job Fitzgerald to use all the parts properly.

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Originally posted 10:55 AM ET  08.01 by George W. Watson

Kain Colter better get Big 10 good and stay Big Ten good and use Prater properly. Course all this depends on the increasing nut-job Fitzgerald to use all the parts properly.

WTFJJ?!?!

Need to change the batteries in my decoder ring for this one.....use his nutt parts properly?

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Originally posted 11:36 AM ET  08.01 by WPS

WTFJJ?!?!Need to change the batteries in my decoder ring for this one.....use his nutt parts properly?

Every year, NU starts out well and then falls apart. They don't get better, they get worse, losing to doormats in late October and November. Colter, a QB/receiver last year, has to match the level of Big 10 play at all levels, that's all, to earn a bowl bid. (I should have said "stay as good as Big Ten" in the original post.) All NU and "Fitz" want to do is go to a respectable bowl anyway - although they went to the "Meineke Car Care Bowl" last year. They know they can't win a title or even a division.

Fitzgerald, who seems to be "coach for life" now is a former rah-rah LB under Gary Barnett and stepped into head-coaching when Randy Walker bought it in 2006. He was LB coach and recruiter then and, for some reason, was vaulted into head coaching, probably by a team vote. For an LB coach, his defenses suck. He's pretty cuckoo, too: haircut's a little tight. His forte seems to be recruiting and gladding up the team. Not a good field general. Prater is gold, Colter is bronze, but "Fitz" will probably find a way to make them both Lead by the end of the season. And that's the view from Green Acres.

Barnett is a sleaze bag. Walker died at a most inopportune time. NW didn't have a whole lot of options when it elected to promote Pat Give-em-fits-gerald. At the time, most thought that Pee Eff was a temporary plug-in HC and that NW's PTB would woo an accomplished coach. Well, that didn't happen. It's Northwestern. The PTB would rather steal accomplished professors from land grant universities. Pat's teams play some exciting football (they look good losing). They've been invited to (and lost) a Bowl Game each of the past four seasons.

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Originally posted 01:42 PM ET  08.01 by Tin Man

Barnett is a sleaze bag. Walker died at a most inopportune time. NW didn't have a whole lot of options when it elected to promote Pat Give-em-fits-gerald. At the time, most thought that Pee Eff was a temporary plug-in HC and that NW's PTB would woo an accomplished coach. Well, that didn't happen. It's Northwestern. The PTB would rather steal accomplished professors from land grant universities. Pat's teams play some exciting football (they look good losing). They've been invited to (and lost) a Bowl Game each of the past four seasons.

Good post. Barnett: converted pool boy Buttermaker type opportunist. Walker: I thought a good guy. PF: meh, until increasing nutso-ness. (What's this about a state-of-the-art facility ON Lake Michigan just for precious football players? NU again? Jeez.) I didn't think the Wildcats looked very good losing in the "Meineke Care Care Bowl." Seemed inept on defense, Fitz's forte? Late time-consuming drive by A&M shouldn't have happened. And at that time of the year, you got to that on the coach.

Prater is a good kid. Wish him well at his new home.