A few months ago, we asked you all to caption the picture below from Big Ten Media Days.
Well, it appears that poor Adam Rittenberg has once again summoned up the courage to stand within arms reach of our very own Coach Pat Fitzgerald. The results.... well... we will let you judge for yourself after the jump...
This Week's Internet Idiocy
Actually, it is not really idiocy, part of this could be taken as a compliment-- the fact that our head coach is a desired commodity... but this column in general makes the blood boil just a little bit. The part that is really bothersome is not them saying that he would just up and leave-- we should not be so naive to think that a situation could not arise in the program in which Coach Fitzgerald would want to leave--it happened before with Coach Parseghian--if the climate is right anything could happen. The part that stings is the somewhat "given" notion that there is some sort of limit to what the NU program can accomplish.
Programs emerge and disappear from "greatness" all the time-- anyone remember when Oregon was not good? Or Boise State? On the other side, what has Notre Dame done recently? Syracuse is improving but they are far from the national spotlight they once prominently occupied. The Baylor Bears are re-emerging of late as well but they are also far from what they once were. Maybe a couple decades ago, when there were no scholarship limits, revenue sharing, Big Ten Network, etc., this argument would have held more water, but the notion there is some sort of limit to what the Northwestern program is capable of, in this current college athletic climate, is as off-base as the columnist's figures on Coach Fitz's salary. Northwestern may never get there, but it will not be because of some mythical bar preventing them from reaching that level. Any bets on who the well-known figure who "knows Northwestern well" could be?
MOVEMBER
The calendar has changed over to November... Coach, it is time to put aside any fears and doubts and grow your mustache.
If our impassioned pleas are not enough to convince you, you can now do it and support a good cause in the process!
The "Movember" movement, started in 2003, involves men growing their mustaches through the month of November to help raise awareness and funds to combat prostate cancer.
We believe that Coach's potential mustache could EASILY land him in this ChicagoNow Top 10 mustache list. (Burt Reynolds? Brad Pitt?? Seriously, Coach, the door is as WIDE open as Mike Trumpy was for his 30+ yd reception at the end of the half vs Indiana for you to take your rightful place among the mustached elite.)
Quote Of The Week
From Coach Fitz's press conference: "The first [concussion] happened when I was two years old and I fell off a slide,
I won't bore you with that great story but it explains a lot about the
way I am and I'll leave it at that."
Filed under: Football
Tags: football, northwestern, pat fitzgerald, Penn State, Wildcats
Based on the article (airport after a PSU road game a few weeks ago, someone familiar with Northwestern), my predictions for who gave the quote would be Musberger (didn't he call the game?) or Barnett (did he call the game on radio?) or maybe Vanderlinden (wouldn't Fitz's former LB coach/PSU defensive coach be someone "familiar" with Northwestern and/or Fitz)?
Of those, only Barnett and Vanderlinden as the source scare me....Musberger would really have no clue.