Illinois State Game Thread

[DomeRanger Posse]

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The team seems to be playing well today. Grace's last touchdown was impressive to see him running in there standing up. I've got the overlay as well, and besides flashing me back to 1983, I have no idea what's up with it.

[DomeRanger Posse]

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I can't believe that Youngstown is getting knocked around like that. What's going on over there in the armpit of Ohio?

[Trapped in California]

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I think YSU's second string QB (who is now the starter) had his knee injured last week. They may have been playing with their 3rd QB.

Still, he was not responsible for all of those MO ST points

[Chitown Panther]

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Good win...could have been by more...but a win is a win.

[Newsbreaker]

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Good effort today. The defense struggled to get off the field a little bit, and we were obviously limited a little on offense by Lewis' injury, but Grace looked very good and a conference win is a conference win.

Big week coming up. NDSU has been sufficiently welcomed to MVFC play, and they're absolutely up against a wall now.

[DomeRanger Posse]

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I thought we looked really good tonight. The only thing that worried me was the number of penalties in the fourth. The five, maybe ten minutes of the quarter things got a little sloppy, although with Illinois State playing hurry up, we were probably just a tad off balance at times. Good win, guys. Now let's open it up for NDSU. It's now Bison Week! Let's go buffalo hunting!

[JayJ79]

attendance?

According to Rima on the pregame show, Troy Dannen announced a sellout for this game.

however the official attendance was 16,100, which is slightly less than capacity (16,324).

Not that a couple hundred people less is THAT big a deal. But I'm slightly confused.

[Chitown Panther]

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If all who attended, purchased tickets...good news!!!!

[Mountain Panther]

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Grace seems to be improving every week...that's good news.

[06panther10]

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Great crowd tonight. Good performance by the Panthers. A lot less sloppy than they have been in any other game this year. Grace was a stud tonight, and he really did well making up for the loss of Corey in the rushing game.

[UNI MadCat]

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Great crowd tonight. Good performance by the Panthers. A lot less sloppy than they have been in any other game this year. Grace was a stud tonight, and he really did well making up for the loss of Corey in the rushing game.

I'm just curious as to how it constituted a 'great' crowd? I thought it was fairly lethargic until people were told to get in it by Bob and I have never seen so many people leave a game at halftime of a good game. Sat on the 'old' people side until the start of the 3rd and noticed about 1/3rd of the students never came back (fairly normal) but moved to the opp side for the the rest of the game and realized just as many people on that side had left. I'd also be surprised if there were 16,100 in there... lots of open seats in all four corner red sections. Thought some of it might have had to do with having such a great weather day outside. Who knows?

Tailgating was a different story... continues to get better and better. Myself and the fellow alumni I was with joked that we saw more variety of student t-shirts referencing something to do with 'drinking' paired with 'uni tailgating' (we saw at least 15 different varieties) than total number of people who typically tailgated for a home game back when we were in school.

[JayJ79]

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I'm just curious as to how it constituted a 'great' crowd? I thought it was fairly lethargic until people were told to get in it by Bob and I have never seen so many people leave a game at halftime of a good game. Sat on the 'old' people side until the start of the 3rd and noticed about 1/3rd of the students never came back (fairly normal) but moved to the opp side for the the rest of the game and realized just as many people on that side had left. I'd also be surprised if there were 16,100 in there... lots of open seats in all four corner red sections. Thought some of it might have had to do with having such a great weather day outside. Who knows?

No doubt. The east side was half empty before the 3rd quarter even ended, while it was still fairly close. (don't know the status of the west side, as that is where I was seated, and I couldn't really judge).

And the crowd was quite lethargic for much of the game. There were a few third downs when I swear I was the only person cheering. sheesh. (yes, it was later in the game, but still!)

And it made me happy (in a twisted sort of way) to hear the people behind me complaining about not being able to see because of "people standing up". I wasn't even standing all that much, just for 3rd (and 4th) defensive downs, and after the occasional big play. But like I said.... I was on the west side.

[Panther-at-Arms]

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The crowd around me was great...the folks behind me never stood up but they didn't complain about us standing up. I was on the east side on the 50 right below the cameras and everyone around us was getting into it. I had a blast and it made me wish I could get to more than one game a year. One thing that really surprised me was the amount of redbird fans...I don't think there could have been more than 50?

As far as the running game, I don't think missing #1 hurt us a bit. Law was pounding it up the middle...does anyone know what he averaged per carry? And Collins did a good job too...man, he's got quick feet!

Now lets move on to the Bison!

[FOTY]

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I'm just curious as to how it constituted a 'great' crowd? I thought it was fairly lethargic until people were told to get in it by Bob and I have never seen so many people leave a game at halftime of a good game. Sat on the 'old' people side until the start of the 3rd and noticed about 1/3rd of the students never came back (fairly normal) but moved to the opp side for the the rest of the game and realized just as many people on that side had left. I'd also be surprised if there were 16,100 in there... lots of open seats in all four corner red sections. Thought some of it might have had to do with having such a great weather day outside. Who knows?

Tailgating was a different story... continues to get better and better. Myself and the fellow alumni I was with joked that we saw more variety of student t-shirts referencing something to do with 'drinking' paired with 'uni tailgating' (we saw at least 15 different varieties) than total number of people who typically tailgated for a home game back when we were in school.

I for one was surprised when they announced attendence. There were some empty seats, but there were a number of individual standing on the South deck. I figured we'd be just over "sellout".

As for tailgating, I was completely shocked when I showed up in the North lot at 11:45 to find very few open spots. We ended up in the South lot and enjoyed the different atmosphere (more family orientated as opposed to the students in the North). The only disappointment with the South lot - we never did find the porta-potties

[JayJ79]

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As far as the running game, I don't think missing #1 hurt us a bit. Law was pounding it up the middle...does anyone know what he averaged per carry? And Collins did a good job too...man, he's got quick feet!

D-Law had 19 carries for 84 net yards, which makes 4.4 yards per carry.

Grace had 13 carries for 99 net yards, for a 7.6 ypc average.