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By: Skip Myslenski
He is the product of a different generation, an age not mottled with so many wires, and is well-known
for unleashing his sarcasm on today's eminence of technology and its hold on our very lives. But
Monday morning, with his 1-5 Wildats set to start the second half of their season Saturday against
Iowa, Pat Fitzgerald turned to that field while addressing his players.
"There are three magic buttons to getting things fixed, but they all have to be pressed at the same
time," he would explain that afternoon at his weekly presser. "That's control, alt and delete. You know
what that does, Louie, to your computer?"
"Sure do," said Louie Vaccher, the publisher and managing editor of WildcatReport.com.
"What does it do?" Fitzgerald asked.
"It's starts it over," Vaccher said.
"It restarts it," Fitzgerald fairly screamed. "That's what we talked about this morning. About restarting.
If you just hit one, it doesn't work. All three have to be hit at the same time. Like offense and defense
and special teams. Hopefully we hit them all at the same this week as we prepare, and then we
mature and figure out just because you prepare doesn't mean you're going to win. You have to go
out and compete and make it happen on Saturdays. We're just not getting that at a consistent level
right now."
The 'Cats have toppled the No. 20 Hawkeyes the last three falls, and their 14-10 win last November
at Kinnick Stadium was the one that wrapped up their West Division title. There is some history, then,
