Sunday Afternoon Quarterback: A Weekend with the Purple People

He unsuccessfully tried to lead a few weak cheers, then resorted to throwing things at the rest of the students in the section.

These are your Northwestern fans.

In many ways Northwestern is like my school, Washington University. They are both moderately-sized universities, with similar academic programs and ridiculously-high tuition that we'll all be paying off for decades.

Even the girls at each school are about the same, which may or may not be a good thing.

The female populations of Northwestern and WashU aren't nearly of the quality of your generic Big State School, but they aren't as bad as, say, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Tech, or MIT.

Thank goodness I didn't go to those schools.

To Northwestern's credit, their academics are top-notch. Their engineering, communications, and law schools are some of the best programs in the country. In terms of major Division I athletic programs, Northwestern—along with Stanford, Duke, and Notre Dame—has one of the best in American academia today.

However, unlike Notre Dame and Duke, Northwestern doesn't have the historical reputation as a powerhouse in football or basketball.

This may be why no one seems to really care about sports at this school.

Northwestern does count Stephen Colbert and Brent Musberger as alumni, though—which is cool in its own regard.

I was slightly worried about the quality of this football game. My school has some of the most apathetic fans I've ever seen, and I thought Northwestern fans might be the same way.

But I did have some optimism, though, because at the very least I'd get to see former “Mr. Ohio” Tyrell Sutton run the ball.

I'd also get to see the only Asian-American quarterback in Division I football, C.J. Bacher.

I hear he's only half-Asian, but that's more than any other quarterback in college football right now.

(If I'm wrong, please let me know and I'll sincerely apologize to all the Asian/half-Asian QBs in the Football Bowl Subdivision I’ve neglected.)

The last East Asian quarterback I knew of was Hawaii's Timmy Chang, and he set quite a few passing records. Based this fact alone, I will now conclude that Asian quarterbacks are superior in every way humanly possible.

Forget Tim Tebow. Forget Andre' Woodson. I want a guy like Timmy Chang on my team.

In addition to Sutton and Bacher, Northwestern's supporting cast had helped the Wildcats to a 5-5 record leading up to the Indiana game.

Northwestern has some solid players, including stud sophomore defensive back Sherrick McManis and junior linebacker Prince Kwateng—a finalist for “Best Name in College Football”—but no one on their roster has the same mystique as Indiana junior wide receiver James Hardy.

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