<p>errrrrrrrr</p>
<p>so our school lets in a few should be recruits...couldnt they at least beat an atlantic 10 football team. i sometimes wonder why we are even in the big 10.</p>
<p>UNH is the top-ranked 1-AA school with one of the best QB/WR tandems (the WR is about to break Jerry Rice's TD record and will be playing in the NFL next year).</p>
<p>NU has (1) a rookie coach, (2) a rookie offensive co-ordinator, (3) a new starting QB, (4) a hobbled star RB, (5) its best WR out with an injury, (6) a young DL and (7) a defensive co-ord who doesn't know what he's doing.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, it's a bad loss (though UNH is probably good enough to beat about 30 Div 1-A teams).</p>
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<p>"so our school lets in a few should be recruits...couldnt they at least beat an atlantic 10 football team. i sometimes wonder why we are even in the big 10"</p>
<p>Well - NU has won 3 Big Ten titles since '95, has gone to 3 bowl games the past 5 years and has a winning record in the B10 the past 3 years (including some of the most exciting games in college football).</p>
<p>That's not too shabby for a "small" private institution with academic requirements for recruits (the 2nd highest after Stanford).</p>
<p>Stanford, Duke or Vandy football don't even come close (the past 10 years).</p>
<p>Don't worry - this is a rebuilding season for the Wildcats. Next year, they will be a mid-tier team and the year after that, they will be competing for the B10 title.</p>
<p>What can i say, it sucks we lost to a div 1 aa team, but i do remeber when my brother played for villanova, they were ranked around 35 overall, with all D1 teams. It just sucks that we lost, and i must say you gave quite the response. one question though, i know we have requirements, but i have talked to a couple guys who def didnt meet them, granted it was only two.</p>
<p>All schools admit "student-athletes" who do not have the typical academic qualifications.</p>
<p>For big football or basketball factories (usually large state schools) - Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, USC, N. Carolina, Kentucky, etc. - they will admit any top recruit who meets the minimum standards required by the NCAA.</p>
<p>Stanford rarely accepts a recruit (fb or bb) who doesn't have at least a score of 1100-1150 on the SATs (the old standard) and NU rarely accepts anyone with a score lower than a 1080-1100 (a higher gpa will make up for a lower SAT score - a recruit with a 3.0 gpa and a 1100 score probably won't get admitted, while a recruit with a 3.6 gpa and 1080 score probably will).</p>
<p>Duke, otoh, accepts bb players with SAT scores in the 900s and they recently lowered the academic reqs. for its fb program in order to make it more competitive.</p>
<p>some good info, thanks for that...now im just gonna wait for that once a year huge upset, they havent failed me yet. so probly middle of the big ten this year and probly no bowl game until next year? Thoughts?</p>
<p>Yeah, a bowl seems unlikely this year (but a 6-6 record and a bowl is still a possibility).</p>
<p>I see the 'Cats beating Illinois and Purdue with an upset of either Iowa, PSU, Wisc or Mich St. (no Indiana this year).</p>
<p>The 'Cats spread offense is reliant on having an experienced QB - Kafka will get better as the season progresses.</p>
<p>Next year (barring any key injuries), I expect the 'Cats to have a 7-5 or 8-4 record and the year after that - a run at a B10 championship (9-3 or 10-2).</p>
<p>Nothwithstanding the bad loss - big picture-wise, the program is in pretty good shape (they already have 14 very good recruits for next year's class).</p>