Anything that was near the melon was deemed as a penalty.

Anything that was near the melon was deemed as a penalty. The game doesn't get any flow in it when there's 30 odd penalties. But it's like anything new, there's going to be some teething problems.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

What can I say? ... You never can predict. You never know about any one melon until you cut into it. You put in all the work, but you don't know until the last minute if you have a good crop.

[On Chris Harrell's near fatal late-hit penalty on Wildcat quarterback Brett Basanez in the fourth quarter, which would have forced Northwestern to punt deep in its own territory with the Lions down two points:] That could have changed the whole course of the game, ... But we could have folded at that point, but you just have to know there's always going to be adversity. None of these games are going to be easy. Nothing will be given to us.

The democratic process as it has worked so far has certainly done nothing to undermine the insurgency.