KENOSHA, Wis. They appeared Friday morning in black shorts and gray t-shirts and then spent the next hour doing nothing more than walking through plays. That is how the ‘Cats looked at their last practice in Kenosha, where they scrimmage on Saturday before returning home. “Seven straight practices, day off, six straight. I really thought they fought through it hard yesterday,” Pat Fitzgerald would later say, explaining this unusually-placid scene. “We usually do this walk-through on Friday night. But I wanted to get them off their legs a little more to have a better scrimmage tomorrow. So.”
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Before his team’s departure for Kenosha, Fitzgerald opined that it had laid the foundation for its season in Evanston and that now, up north, it was time for it to build floors onto that. Did it get that accomplished? “I really think