Postgame reaction

[unigriff]

as for the kneel downs...it reminded me of watching the UNH game...again having the lead, and in GREAT field position after that fumble and we run conservative and dont even get a first down, and then UNH almost does the impossible as well. When SIU had 4 seconds left, i knew it would be UNH-isque again....a W is a W however ugly it may be.

[Panther FANatic]

My COmments

As a former player coming back and seeing how "BIG TIME" it is on campus now made me extremely jealous and proud! I took a tour through the new locker room and have to say it is one of the nicest locker rooms I have ever seen. Not only does UNI have a recruiting advantage due to tradition, the DOME, and ability to play year in and year out for the championship. Now it has facilites that make you feel like you are playing BIG TIME college football. The taligating atmosphere and the game-time atmosphere are like nothing I have ever seen. I can remember coming to play in games 1.5 hours early and not seeing ANYONE tailgating!

[JCPanthers]

I have watched the tape of the game and the reason that we took a knee is due to the fact that Farley thought that SIU was out of timeouts. Kind of embarrassing, but you can see his reaction after SIU called their last timeout he was yelling "they still had a time out?"

[r54uni]

Haven't seen much talk about watching the game from the MC. How many people? Atmosphere? Just wondering. Did they kick people out early cause of the volleyball game?

[01PantherFan]

Post game article in Waterloo courier

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/10/16/sports/local/doc47137803a4324062929986.txt

[TCuni]

20 people in the Mac at most.

[Newsbreaker]

20 people in the Mac at most.

With the game on TV, I didn't figure there'd be reason for many to take the University up on that offer.

[GonzoCat]

I know some people from Ankeny who didn't have tickets and were driving up to tailgate and watch the game in the McLeod. Now maybe (probably) they found tickets outside on Saturday, but that was their plan as of Thursday night.

[UNI MadCat]

I have watched the tape of the game and the reason that we took a knee is due to the fact that Farley thought that SIU was out of timeouts. Kind of embarrassing, but you can see his reaction after SIU called their last timeout he was yelling "they still had a time out?"

Its unacceptable and knowing this little tidbit makes me more upset about it than I was before, when I just thought it was bad strategy (not that I didnt want you to tell us, of course!). Every football and basketball team has someone assigned to this task and clock managment (usually the same person). Not to mention that its listed on the d@mn scoreboard. Obviously, we haven't heard much about it because the end result was still ok but, my gawd, people lose their jobs over stuff like that!!

I hope they get this ironed out so it never, ever happens again.

[Panther-Sheik]

Its unacceptable and knowing this little tidbit makes me more upset about it than I was before, when I just thought it was bad strategy (not that I didnt want you to tell us, of course!). Every football and basketball team has someone assigned to this task and clock managment (usually the same person). Not to mention that its listed on the d@mn scoreboard. Obviously, we haven't heard much about it because the end result was still ok but, my gawd, people lose their jobs over stuff like that!!

I hope they get this ironed out so it never, ever happens again.

I'm with you...But the positive is that they are able to learn from such a bad finish to a game without having a mark in the loss column.

[FerociousCat]

I have watched the tape of the game and the reason that we took a knee is due to the fact that Farley thought that SIU was out of timeouts. Kind of embarrassing, but you can see his reaction after SIU called their last timeout he was yelling "they still had a time out?"

Almost Chris Webber embarrassing, thank god we didn't lose. Not very often you see a team take a knee and then punt, I don't think I've ever seen it before & certainly never want to see UNI do it again.

[JayJ79]

does anyone else find it rather odd that the HOME team ended up with 2 delay-of-game penalties, yet the visiting team (who was supposed to be hindered by the sellout crowd) had none? Not to mention us having to burn our timeouts a number of times.

Hope this doesn't become a problem down the road.

[oldcat]

I thought the ref was winding the clock pretty quick after we took the knee. It was faster than what he was doing during the game up to that point.

[Khan4Cats]

Its unacceptable and knowing this little tidbit makes me more upset about it than I was before, when I just thought it was bad strategy (not that I didnt want you to tell us, of course!). Every football and basketball team has someone assigned to this task and clock managment (usually the same person). Not to mention that its listed on the d@mn scoreboard. Obviously, we haven't heard much about it because the end result was still ok but, my gawd, people lose their jobs over stuff like that!!

I hope they get this ironed out so it never, ever happens again.

To Farley's defense, I'm pretty sure I heard the Referee announce that Southern was taking their "Third Timeout" when in actuality it was their second. The scoreboard was correct. This is not to entirely excuse, because I agree that there needs to be someone assigned to tracking the timeouts for certain, but if that is indeed what was announced, it gives some explanation for the call.

My biggest beef was that we seemed to go into a complete stall offense in the fourth, leaving our defense to have to play something like 10+ minutes of the quarter on the field, they were gased on the last scoring drive by Southern and had to make a major gutcheck to get the pick and then make the final stop.

[pwjmjt]

I counted 4 separate occasions during the game where the officials on the field requested that time be added to the clock. On 2 occasions there was 1 second added and on 2 other occasions the request was for 3 seconds to be added. All instances were when SIU had the ball.

That is a total of 8 seconds. Had none of the time been added back and the rest of the game went as happened on Saturday, we would have been punting with 1 second left. I'm surprised no one else has commented on this.