Postgame reaction

[igo4uni]

igo4uni's postgame reaction: Woo Hoo!! Panthers win, Panthers win!!!!

[igo4uni]

Wow, SIU sure got a lot of passing yards.

Comments??

[pantherclaw]

5 yards, holy crap that was close

[Panthers#1]

I know we won and it's a great win over a great team. I just want to bring up some points for discussion. I've got to say offensive play calling in the 4th quarter was pathetic. When we got a turnover deep in their territory, we did not take advantage of scoring. We run the ball nowhere, get penalties and make our kicker try to make another 50 yard FG which gets blocked. When you are that close to the end zone, to don't try to control the clock, you put the ball in the end zone any way you can. If we get a touchdown, we go up by 20 and they would have to score 3 TD's in about 5 minutes. We put everything on our defense and luckily they came through. In the 4th quarter, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. By doing that, we came within 5 yards of pissing it down our leg. Hopefully, the freaking coaching staff and players will learn how to put a good team away. I know we have won all of our games at this point and we have had some big wins but I don't know if we have figured out how to really put a team away. Just my opinion.

[Mountain Panther]

I know we won and it's a great win over a great team. I just want to bring up some points for discussion. I've got to say offensive play calling in the 4th quarter was pathetic. When we got a turnover deep in their territory, we did not take advantage of scoring. We run the ball nowhere, get penalties and make our kicker try to make another 50 yard FG which gets blocked. When you are that close to the end zone, to don't try to control the clock, you put the ball in the end zone any way you can. If we get a touchdown, we go up by 20 and they would have to score 3 TD's in about 5 minutes. We put everything on our defense and luckily they came through. In the 4th quarter, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. By doing that, we came within 5 yards of pissing it down our leg. Hopefully, the freaking coaching staff and players will learn how to put a good team away. I know we have won all of our games at this point and we have had some big wins but I don't know if we have figured out how to really put a team away. Just my opinion.

[DomeRanger Posse]

I agree. From what I saw from the stands, we worked hard at not losing. I realize that not every play is going to go your way, but I think we got comfortable with a lead and were just trying to not screw it up. It almost bit us in the butt.

[Chitown Panther]

We are notorious for trying to run the ball when we NEED to out of Shotgun. That is my only real complaint.

This game should have been over after the first possession of the 2nd half, but I'll take a win against Top 25 competition any way we can get it. Pretty or Ugly.

[Schack]

I know we won and it's a great win over a great team. I just want to bring up some points for discussion. I've got to say offensive play calling in the 4th quarter was pathetic. When we got a turnover deep in their territory, we did not take advantage of scoring. We run the ball nowhere, get penalties and make our kicker try to make another 50 yard FG which gets blocked. When you are that close to the end zone, to don't try to control the clock, you put the ball in the end zone any way you can. If we get a touchdown, we go up by 20 and they would have to score 3 TD's in about 5 minutes. We put everything on our defense and luckily they came through. In the 4th quarter, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. By doing that, we came within 5 yards of pissing it down our leg. Hopefully, the freaking coaching staff and players will learn how to put a good team away. I know we have won all of our games at this point and we have had some big wins but I don't know if we have figured out how to really put a team away. Just my opinion.

Well said!

[dasJamin]

I didn't have a problem with running the ball in that situation. The problem I had was when we started kneeling the ball with a 1:30 left in the game and SIU had one timeout. They played a good game, but that was my biggest argument with the play calling.

YOU NEED THAT ONE MORE FIRST DOWN! Just run a called play, it would have wasted a few more seconds to run than just kneeling it and Punting with 10 secs.

[TravelingPanther]

I was furious with the clock management in the last 1:30.

[Matt Trump]

The defense somehow forgot how to play at about the 4 minute mark and let SIU walk down the field to score a touchdown. That was very disappointing to see. The fans started leaving and the players acted like the game was over at that point. There is no reason for SIU to score as easy as they did.

I don't even want to get started on the clock management at the end of the game. You don't take a knee with well over a minute left when the other team still has a timeout left. Normally, you run the ball until you get a first down. I was seriously waiting for SIU to either block that punt or take the return to the house.

There were a lot of things that went wrong in that last 4 minutes but at least we got the win.

[igo4uni]

but at least we got the win.

Yup!!!!!!!!!!!

[TravelingPanther]

seconded. hope we can have some fun in macomb.

[CanuckPanther]

While I STRONGLY disagree with Matt's post about the music, as music is VERY personal, and not worth anyone imposing their ideas of it on others, I fully support his ideas on the last 4 minutes of the game. I truly had a difficult time understanding what was going on. HAPPILY, it all came out just FINE

[strike00]

Is it just me, or does it seem to be a common theme with this coaching staff that if UNI is up by more than one score in the second half (even early in the second half) they just shut down the offense and go really, really conservative? it seems like we almost dared the Salukis to comeback.

that said, Great job by the Panthers tonight on a huge win! Great atmosphere tonight.