Please don't anybody...

[TravelingPanther]

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I made the mistake of getting on my Facebook just now and all I can say is...


Is it absolutely impossible for any Iowa fans to give credit where credit is due????


Okay --- I realize there were many very nice Iowa fans after the game today. Maybe I just need to get some new friends. Cuz I sure know a lot of ignorant ones.

Only 2 of my friends at their crow. Fans in Iowa City were great though.

[Cat80]

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I totally agree with you. This is a prime example why after we play Iowa I will never wish them luck, but rather hope they lose every game. All month long and expecially this week with the suspensions and injuries all I hear is how the score will be 56-0 and we will never score on "one of the best D's in the country" and how the Oline is the best ever and blah blah blah. Yet UNI proves that wrong, loses on the last play of the game and Iowa fans act like they won the NC. I didnt hear a single Iowa fan talking trash DURING the game when they were scared to death in the first half, but then afterwards WOW. It sucks that this makes the nice Iowa fans look bad because there were a lot of them today who were genuinely impressed by UNI.

In addition, there was a lot of 'panic' cheering, the sort of I can't believe this is happening, c'mon Hawks type of cheering. That said, could still use my normal voice and be heard by the person next to me. Not a lot of dancing in the streets by Iowa fans after this one, was there? Not a word after the game, but a couple of respectful head nods.

[Leatherhelmet]

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Iowa is not a mediocre Big Ten team. They are the #3 or #4 best team in the Big Ten and ranked #21 in the country. They are not mediocre.

Stanzi is erratic and medicore. But other than that they deserve their ranking.

[TH1974]

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Iowa is not a mediocre Big Ten team. They are the #3 or #4 best team in the Big Ten and ranked #21 in the country. They are not mediocre.

Stanzi is erratic and medicore. But other than that they deserve their ranking.

We'll see.

[Blue42]

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Iowa is not a mediocre Big Ten team. They are the #3 or #4 best team in the Big Ten and ranked #21 in the country. They are not mediocre.

Stanzi is erratic and medicore. But other than that they deserve their ranking.

Good to know UNI could finish 3 or 4 in the Big Ten. I always wondered where we'd fall.

Imagine if we got to play half our games at home.

[Kyle]

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Iowa is not a mediocre Big Ten team. They are the #3 or #4 best team in the Big Ten and ranked #21 in the country. They are not mediocre.

Stanzi is erratic and medicore. But other than that they deserve their ranking.

Iowa is not a mediocre big ten team, but the big ten is a mediocre conference, as was proved again yesterday.

I think Iowa still finishes 3rd or better the in big 10, goes to a good bowl, and gets embarrassed by a far superior ACC, SEC, or Big-12 team.

[Blue42]

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Iowa is to the Big Ten what Western Illinois is to the MVFC.

They're reasonably competitive week to week and year to year.

They'll win most the games they're supposed to win and once in a while they'll beat a better team.

But rarely are they capable of competing for the conference championship, and they aren't a real threat to do something in post season play to be considered among the elite in their division.

[UNI Fight]

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To all of the UNI grads wearing black & gold & who do not drive to the Dome on Saturdays. You are all pathetic.....today was for you.

200% agree with that one.

Penalties may have cost us that game, MAN! I find it hard to believe we committed 10 penalties while Iowa only committed 2? That's home field advantage but come on! We did shoot ourselves in the foot a couple times with holding calls but it's just statistically unlikely with the kind of pressure our D line was putting on Stanzi that Iowa was clean as a whistle in that regard.

Yes, there are no moral victories, I heard a 50-something year old Panther fan wearing a "BEAT IOWA" shirt say it best to an upstanding Iowa student who yelled "suck my ___ panther fans, you can't beat Iowa", he simply responded "We sure didn't come to lose". Simply put, the wrong team won that game, and I think most realistic Iowa fans know that, I heard many say it on the way out of the stadium. But moving on we looked good! Besides the penalties and the punting game we can make some improvements and get Carlos Anderson the starting RB job and get to Chattanooga this year!!!

[Newsbreaker]

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Iowa is to the Big Ten what Western Illinois is to the MVFC.

They're reasonably competitive week to week and year to year.

They'll win most the games they're supposed to win and once in a while they'll beat a better team.

But rarely are they capable of competing for the conference championship, and they aren't a real threat to do something in post season play to be considered among the elite in their division.

This is nonsense. Iowa has won two conference titles in the last seven seasons. WIU could only dream of doing that.

[morrism0]

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Great game by the panthers but I still can't help thinking what if...

As far as the iowa fans go...it seems to me the ones that actually attended school there and are above the age of 25 are respectful to UNI and understand they just about lost and feel like the better team on that day did lose. I also know several Iowa fans (who did not attend Iowa and have probably never set foot on the campus other than to go to a game and a lot of them coincidently attended UNI) that think that they basically let UNI hang around and give UNI no credit whatsoever. There is little arguing with them as they feel we should have been happy to play on the same field with them.

[JayJ79]

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This is nonsense. Iowa has won two conference titles in the last seven seasons. WIU could only dream of doing that.

I dunno, the Leathernecks have one conference title in the last seven seasons and another year they were just a game out of a share of the title. And they do have four titles in the last 12 seasons.

Of course, IMO, it's a significant difference between playing in the MVFC where each team plays every other team in the conference, and the Big "Ten" where it isn't round-robin.

[Blue42]

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I dunno, the Leathernecks have one conference title in the last seven seasons and another year they were just a game out of a share of the title. And they do have four titles in the last 12 seasons.

Hmmmm...........eerily similar.

[Newsbreaker]

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Hmmmm...........eerily similar.

No, not really. Since the turn of the decade, Iowa has 2 titles to Western Illinois' one. Iowa has played in the post-season six times, WIU once. Iowa has finished the season ranked 4 times. WIU...once? Twice maybe.

Iowa matters on a national stage. WIU, aside from an odd year here-and-there, does not.

This exchange highlights something that is applicable elsewhere. The only "problem" people I was ever around yesterday was a group of three UNI fans. Perhaps the "problems" some of us have with Iowa fans isn't so much an indication of that fan base, but rather individuals reacting to UNI fans who have a boulder sized chip on their shoulder and search like hungry dogs for any scrap of possible disrespect.

[06panther10]

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News, I think you are off base with the WIU comparison. For the most part, I think it is a pretty fair comparison. And comparing Iowa's "6" postseason appearances to WIU's "1", is completely unfair. Iowa needs SIX wins to get into postseason and WIU needs to win the conference or win 8 or 9 games. HUGE difference. For expample, WIU won 6 or 7 games last year, and that amounted to a nothing season for them. Yet Iowa had a similar season last year, and it amounted to a bowl win. It seems like in the MVFC its UNI and SIU (mostly UNI, and then sprinkle in some others like WIU. I think the big ten is OSU and Mich and sprinkle in Iowa. Very similar IMO.

Someone should compare winning percentages in the last ten years or so between the two schools.

[MediaPanther]

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Iowa is not a mediocre big ten team, but the big ten is a mediocre conference, as was proved again yesterday.

I think Iowa still finishes 3rd or better the in big 10, goes to a good bowl, and gets embarrassed by a far superior ACC, SEC, or Big-12 team.

Now if you pay attention to recent history Iowa will win their bowl game because they'll be playing their best football at the end of the year and the team they're playing will look like complete garbage......South Carolina last year for example. That doesn't mean the Big 10 is any better, it just means Iowa plays their best games during bowl season and their opponents usually don't.