Iowa Game Thread

[tjbison]

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Damn guys nice game, weird ending Great showing for you!!!

[UNI Prof]

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The REAL positive is that they won't fire their coach and try to get Farley. Seriously.

[MikeyJoe]

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Tried to start a new thread, but apparently I can't do that here. Just registered here to say good game to UNI. Obviously as an Iowa fan I'd like to make excuses for how they played, but I know UNI wasn't at full strength either. This game was way, way closer than I thought it would be, and UNI looks to have a pretty solid team. Good luck in the FBS this year.

[jnutt]

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DAMNIT! Had a guy open in the end zone earlier. Crap. Oh well. Good to see our 3rd string RB can take on the highly touted Iowa Defense. I really wanted this one. The arrogance of Hawk fans is out of control. To quote

"You gotta admit that a UNI loss doesn't hurt your season but it would ruin OUR season. So even you, as a Panther fan, have to admit you want Iowa to win so our season can continue. I mean, a win or loss doesn't mean anything to you." followed by "Ricky Stanzi has a shot at the Heisman"

Thank goodness for this site.

The most important thing for me is that NOONE was hurt. I was afraid Grace would rush up the middle and get smoked like he has before. He played a solid game, a few mental errors to be expected in game one. Carlos looked great for being in his first college game and going up against a Big Ten school. It should be a blast watching this team this year. As long as we can stop getting suspended

[01PantherFan]

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On the Hawkeye board allot are giving UNI credit as they damn well should but of course there is plenty of idiots that make it sound like Iowa crushed UNI, makes it easy to hate the hawks I guess, Iowa better do some work for ISU thats all I can say and as far as winning the big ten as so many Hawk fans were so sure of I doubt that but time to forget this game and start thinking on our next game and keep the goal in mind lets see 2009 be the year we get our first National title !

[DrewDog]

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Coach Farley said it best when talking to Gary and Petey "We out played Iowa and should have beaten Iowa!" Great effort but tough loss!

[jnutt]

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On the Hawkeye board allot are giving UNI credit as they damn well should but of course there is plenty of idiots that make it sound like Iowa crushed UNI, makes it easy to hate the hawks I guess, Iowa better do some work for ISU thats all I can say and as far as winning the big ten as so many Hawk fans were so sure of I doubt that but time to forget this game and start thinking on our next game and keep the goal in mind lets see 2009 be the year we get our first National title !

Iowa State needs to get their headsets in order first. UNI will roll this year

[Blue42]

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This is the part where Iowa fans say that UNI is a shoe-in for the fcs national title because they battled the Hawks to the wire.

Because most are so marginally knowledgeable about the breadth of college football that they assume that this UNI team is a fluke of FCS and there are no other teams of that caliber.

Unfortunately that's not the case. UNI will find themselves in 4 or 5 dogfights like they were in today against good teams most Iowa fans have never heard of.

[jnutt]

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This is the part where Iowa fans say that UNI is a shoe-in for the fcs national title because they battled the Hawks to the wire.

Because most are so marginally knowledgeable about the breadth of college football that they assume that this UNI team is a fluke of FCS and there are no other teams of that caliber.

Unfortunately that's not the case. UNI will find themselves in 4 or 5 dogfights like they were in today against good teams most Iowa fans have never heard of.

Actually a number of the games are against teams that finished the seaon wining 4 or less games. UNI still needs to focus every week but the schedule does not look as tough as it has in years past

[Blue42]

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Actually a number of the games are against teams that finished the seaon wining 4 or less games. UNI still needs to focus every week but the schedule does not look as tough as it has in years past

Agree. I'm counting a few playoff games in that number.

[Newsbreaker]

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Good post, Mikey. Thanks for stopping by.

Dear MVFC,

Consider UNI "reloaded."

[JayJ79]

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I haven't had time to read through this thread yet (just got back home from the game), so this might have been covered already. But how much do you think Grace HATED sliding on his first (or one of his first) scrambles, where he ended up a yard short of the first down? I'm guessing he was totally fighting his gut that was telling him to deliver the hit on the defender.....

Of course, sliding is the smart thing to do, especially early in the season in a non-conference game. Now I hope that if the same siituation comes up in the playoffs, I hope he runs through it.

[JayJ79]

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This is the part where Iowa fans say that UNI is a shoe-in for the fcs national title because they battled the Hawks to the wire.

Because most are so marginally knowledgeable about the breadth of college football that they assume that this UNI team is a fluke of FCS and there are no other teams of that caliber.

Unfortunately that's not the case. UNI will find themselves in 4 or 5 dogfights like they were in today against good teams most Iowa fans have never heard of.

actually, a number of Hawk fans DID tell me pretty much just that on the walk/cambus ride back to our vehicle.

[JayJ79]

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I kind of got a bittersweet chuckle out of the Iowa fans celebratory reactions to the blocked field goal(s). And the announcement for people to stay in the stands.

No disrespect to the Panthers, but the notion of Iowa fans storming the field after skin-of-the-teeth win over UNI would have been really pathetic. (granted, if UNI HAD made that FG, I have to admit that I probably would have ended up on the turf. so perhaps I'm a bit of a hypocrit)

[JayJ79]

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Hopefully we made it through the game without any big injuries.