It’s difficult to describe how hopeless it appeared for the Northwestern Wildcats. With 17 minutes left on Saturday night in a nearly empty Ryan Field, they trailed Minnesota 31-10. But that doesn’t even say it. It was theThe Gophers’ head coach P.J. Fleck had been careful and cautious all game, as is his style. He had punted near midfield and would do so again.
Anyone who’s been to a big athletic university will tell you that the last students to leave such a game are the new freshmen. They don’t really have many friends yet. They’ve only been on campus a month. They’ve got no place to be, no one to meet. They are usually the last holdouts, not because of uncommon faith, but because of no other plan.
Though what he’ll try to make them believe on Saturday on the same Ryan Field is quite a bit tougher of an ask – that they can upset #6-ranked Penn State. Braun has acknowledged he leaned inordinately on the offensive assistants under coordinator Mike Bajakian to run the offense, of which he’s not fully equipped to have an active hand. Braun knew how to coach defense.
His main target was another 5th-year player, little wideout Bryce Kirtz. Before the night was through, the 5-11, 190-pound Kirtz, who’d endured four knee surgeries in his college career and never scored, amassed 215 yards on 10 receptions including two TDs. Transfer A.J. Henning, who’d caught 25 balls in three years at Michigan, is no bigger than Kirtz, but fast. He had a couple of key short catches.
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