You know the drill for the Homecoming game- schedule somebody that you’re most likely going to beat. Alumni returning to campus need to witness a victory on this holiday which celebrates their alma mater.
Thus, when you schedule someone for the homecoming game, you are implying some disrespect. Northwestern football hosts Indiana on Saturday for their homecoming. The Hoosiers are quite good this season, but you know their history, it’s not illustrious. IU is a basketball, not a football school.
Northwestern football won their last two games in convincing fashion, both on the road, and both games were the opponents’ homecoming.
Said Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson: “It’s nice to hear the silence. Silence is a lot louder to us than loudness. Silence is deafening.”
I covered NU at MSU last week, I’ll be back in the state for Illinois at Michigan this Saturday; yet another homecoming. This seems to happen a lot.
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Illinois, like Northwestern football, gets scheduled for homecoming a lot, and Lovie Smith did actually point that fact out in his presser on Monday.
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