Postgame reaction

[JayJ79]

Yeah, when we went into the kneeldown with that much time left, I felt almost like that Texas State fan that they showed on TV during the semifinal game in '05. WTF?

Just run some frickin plays! If you don't want to play Corey Lewis because of his ankle or whatever, put in Derrick Law! Just tell him to be SURE to cover up the ball, priority #1.
In running such plays, you're bound to use up extra seconds, not just in the running, but in unpiling the players in order to get the ball spotted and the playclock started. And hey, you might even get a first down. And THEN you can kneel.


The defense worried me too at the end, letting them march down like that. Though SIU is a good team, but we definitely needed better coverage.

[Matt Trump]

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

Believe me, it was much worse in person!!

[Chitown Panther]

Yeah, when we went into the kneeldown with that much time left, I felt almost like that Texas State fan that they showed on TV during the semifinal game in '05. WTF?

Just run some frickin plays! If you don't want to play Corey Lewis because of his ankle or whatever, put in Derrick Law! Just tell him to be SURE to cover up the ball, priority #1.
In running such plays, you're bound to use up extra seconds, not just in the running, but in unpiling the players in order to get the ball spotted and the playclock started. And hey, you might even get a first down. And THEN you can kneel.


The defense worried me too at the end, letting them march down like that. Though SIU is a good team, but we definitely needed better coverage.

this is what pissed me off. get someone healthy in there.....

[06panther10]

One thing i never understand in football...prevent defense...it prevents you from winning(well almost anyways. Yes, way too conservative down the stretch and bad clock management. But i guess that doesn't matter now...

[Matt Trump]

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.

Football 101 is that when you have a lead and a solid running game, you keep the ball on the ground as much as possible to chew clock and wear down the defense. The goal of every football team is to be able to have the lead at the end of the game and run the clock out.

As much fun as it is to step on the gas and keep throwing it everywhere, a team with the lead wins it on the ground.

[Matt Trump]

this is what pissed me off. get someone healthy in there.....

Lewis looked fine when he ran. It was SIU's d that was responsible for coralling him.

[06panther10]

They marched down so easy because we were giving the underneath stuff to stop the deep ball. It never works but im sure thats what they were instructed to do, so i dont think it is necessarily the defenses fault.

[Matt Trump]

They marched down so easy because we were giving the underneath stuff to stop the deep ball. It never works but im sure thats what they were instructed to do, so i dont think it is necessarily the defenses fault.

They looked uninspired at that point, like the game was over.

[TravelingPanther]

defensive coaches weer talking about SIU having to beat us in the Cover 5 with about 5 mins left.

[Cap'n Cat]

Easy guys. They'll learn from this game.

WIU is no "gimme". I'm more worried about them than I am YSU and SIU.

[Dome fan]

I was WIU pounded 508 yrds on the ground on MSU! OUCH!!

[Purple For Life]

I was screaming my head off, waving my towel, shaking my keys, and so many students looked at me as if I was drunk or had lost my mind. WTF is wrong with them? Sigh. We need a superfan section for those of us who actually want to go nuts supporting our team instead of having social hour. There were some girls behind me who were SITTING DOWN when we were inside the 20, getting ready to score. FFS, stand the F up, and cheer on your team, you lazy sacks of crap! Go socialize somewhere else!

[mamacat]

My daughter is a student at UNI and was sitting in the student section. She said you have to stand up to see because everyone is standing. A lady that was sitting by her called her a B---h and told her to sit down. I told my daughter after the game she should have reported her to an usher!!! If you don't want to come and participate in the atmosphere I say stay home!!! No need to call people names!!!

[UNIChippewa]

I don't have a problem with running the ball with a lead as opposed to going for a big play to hit the jugular. Those can can backfire on your pretty easily, as I think it did a few times with SIU when we intercepted a couple of their deep passes. Granted, they were playing catch up to us.

I had to watch the game at Pepper's. Tickets were sold out, and the view at McLeod would have been pretty lame. Just that one TV, and they were going to have to kick people out for the volleyball game anyway. Nice idea to show it in there, and what a beautiful facility, but kind of lame execution. Anyway, the CFU feed had only the score and the quarter, no time remaining, no down and yards graphic or anything like that, so I had no idea how much time was remaining when we took the knees there at the end (volume was hard to hear as well). I would have been flabbergasted if I had seen how much time was left knowing that the Salukis had one more timeout left that we weren't going for one more timeout.

[Blue42]

My daughter is a student at UNI and was sitting in the student section. She said you have to stand up to see because everyone is standing. A lady that was sitting by her called her a B---h and told her to sit down. I told my daughter after the game she should have reported her to an usher!!! If you don't want to come and participate in the atmosphere I say stay home!!! No need to call people names!!!

Unforunately some UNI fans are still learning that attending a college football game typically requires some degree of active participation.

And if you want to sit on your arse in complete comfort then you should stay home and watch the game on TV.

If someone is sitting in the student section and telling people to sit down they are obviously clueless. Hell we were even standing up on the west side on a regular basis.