Next Up: Southern Illinois Salukis

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Next Up: Southern Illinois Salukis

Houndawg-

SIU played very well and deserved to win the game. That said, I think you could do well by emulating most of the other Saluki posters on here and accept the win gracefully, with class, and then move on. Each team's home board will have those who want to break down specific points and think their own team got slighted.

I hope we see SIU again this year, hopefully not until Chatty.

[houndawg]

Re: Next Up: Southern Illinois Salukis

Houndawg-

SIU played very well and deserved to win the game. That said, I think you could do well by emulating most of the other Saluki posters on here and accept the win gracefully, with class, and then move on. Each team's home board will have those who want to break down specific points and think their own team got slighted.

I hope we see SIU again this year, hopefully not until Chatty.

Oh come on, we enjoy Cap'n Cat.

I'll leave you to your post mortem, remember all I said was that we had something to do with the win too, unlike your boys who prefer to damn by faint praise and diminsh the result with the old "they didn't beat us, we beat ourselves" whine. I think if we meet again it will be in C'dale in the second round, no way the tournament puts teams from the same league, except the CAA, in position to meet in the final.

[JayJ79]

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You're off your meds. Explain to me how you convince yourself that you won the line of scrimmage when you:

a) gave up more yards rushing than your opponent

b) converted 2/10 3rd downs and 1/3 4th downs while allowing your opponent to convert 6/15 3rd downs and 1/1 fourth downs

Your flimsy case put forth to support your fantasy of dominating the line of scrimmage is REJECTED. You may re-submit in thirty days for final disapproval.

Neither team dominated the line of scrimmage.

SIU had a whopping 15 more rushing yards than UNI. *yawn*
And the only real difference was that your QB had a play where he picked up 17 yards on a scramble, which wasn't really due to any sort of "line domination" (in fact, if I remember correctly, our d. had broken through and flushed him out of the pocket, he was just able to break contain and get to the outside).

SIU played a good game, but nothing spectacular, IMO. But they didn't make any really stupid mistakes, and were able to capitalize on the stupid mistakes that UNI made.
UNI had a subpar performace and made too many major mistakes.

Of course, in the end, it doesn't really matter HOW it's won really, just that it's a win. And that win is SIU's.

[EVSPanther]

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SIU and their coaching staff flat out outperformed UNI's. This is why UNI lost and SIU won. Sure, you can play the tick for tack stats game, but I don't think houndawg is off base. Bottom line, UNI lost and we need to take the bad's from this game and learn from them. Hopefully that happens and we can meet up with SIU in the playoffs.

[Kyle]

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Excuse me, LakesBison, but it isn't my fault that you finally get a worthy opponent and crap your pants on your Homecoming. All I thought we did was go into one of the toughest arenas in our division and beat one of the top teams in our division, and you go all NDSU on me. Instead of me typing all this ad nauseam I'll just refer you to the responses of UNI fans towards the NDSU fans claims that actually NDSU beat the stuffing out of UNI on both sides of the line.
Now I see why the Cap'n does it.

Don't forget whose message board you are on. Lakebison was spouting excuses on PN. Until UNI fans flock to SIU's board in droves complaining about the loss, the comparison isn't valid.

Good game. I hope UNI plays SIU again this season. Preferably in Chatty.

[jegbomb52]

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Excuse me, LakesBison, but it isn't my fault that you finally get a worthy opponent and crap your pants on your Homecoming. All I thought we did was go into one of the toughest arenas in our division and beat one of the top teams in our division, and you go all NDSU on me. Instead of me typing all this ad nauseam I'll just refer you to the responses of UNI fans towards the NDSU fans claims that actually NDSU beat the stuffing out of UNI on both sides of the line.
Now I see why the Cap'n does it.

So which is it? Did you come in and beat us, or did we crap our pants? You can't have it both ways. You are getting all over Panther Fans because we are saying "we blew it" "SIU didn't win" "we lost." But then you come here and post that we crapped our pants. Pick one, stick with it. You guys are a good football team. I can assure you, you saw the worst this panther team looked all year. We did crap ourselves. You said it your self. Stop trying to make it sound like you smacked us around.

PS. Please note, I have not made one comment about how we "dominated" the line of scrimmage. I don't believe either team "dominated" any area of the field with the exception of the SIU D-Coordinator owning our O-Coordinator and our Quarterback dominating himself because it was a big game and thats what he does.

[06panther10]

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SIU and their coaching staff flat out outperformed UNI's. This is why UNI lost and SIU won. Sure, you can play the tick for tack stats game, but I don't think houndawg is off base. Bottom line, UNI lost and we need to take the bad's from this game and learn from them. Hopefully that happens and we can meet up with SIU in the playoffs.

Wrong. The plays that were drawn up worked, they just weren't executed. (only call I would put on the coaches was the option pass by DP. Bad call IMO.) Our recievers were open all day long, and our running game worked all day long. And the D only gave up one true TD on defense.

This loss is on the players.

[houndawg]

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So which is it? Did you come in and beat us, or did we crap our pants? You can't have it both ways. You are getting all over Panther Fans because we are saying "we blew it" "SIU didn't win" "we lost." But then you come here and post that we crapped our pants. Pick one, stick with it. You guys are a good football team. I can assure you, you saw the worst this panther team looked all year. We did crap ourselves. You said it your self. Stop trying to make it sound like you smacked us around.

PS. Please note, I have not made one comment about how we "dominated" the line of scrimmage. I don't believe either team "dominated" any area of the field with the exception of the SIU D-Coordinator owning our O-Coordinator and our Quarterback dominating himself because it was a big game and thats what he does.

The fellow I was responding to was the one saying that there was a big difference between the teams, not me. In that case (which I don't agree with, we have at least as much talent as you do, imo) you crapped out. I never aid SIU's line dominated, I pointed out a few facts and stats that suggest UNI didn't dominate, as he was suggesting.

[MnPantherFan]

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Wrong. The plays that were drawn up worked, they just weren't executed. (only call I would put on the coaches was the option pass by DP. Bad call IMO.) Our recievers were open all day long, and our running game worked all day long. And the D only gave up one true TD on defense.

This loss is on the players.

Yet we passed in critical situations even though the coaches knew Pat was having an off day.

I side with EVSpanther on this one. Plenty of blame to spread around but the option pass was just one example. Using a timeout and then punting, going long on 4th and short, earlier going for it on 4th with plenty of time left, etc? It seemed the opposing coaches were one step ahead the whole game. The players have to do their part but the coaches have to put them in situations where they can succeed.

[houndawg]

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Yet we passed in critical situations even though the coaches knew Pat was having an off day.

I side with EVSpanther on this one. Plenty of blame to spread around but the option pass was just one example. Using a timeout and then punting, going long on 4th and short, earlier going for it on 4th with plenty of time left, etc? It seemed the opposing coaches were one step ahead the whole game. The players have to do their part but the coaches have to put them in situations where they can succeed.

Our coaches had an edge this time, but they made a couple of head scratchers too. Like not continuing to run the ball at the end of the game; instead we throw, stop the clock, and give the ball back at midfield with 2:00 minutes left. If UNI had recovered the on side kick we'd all be asking why Lennon chose to throw the ball with 5:00 left and a 14 point lead and a Payton Award candidate who already had over 100 yards for a running game that was working just fine.