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Well not a good day for the Panthers at all, as I was afraid of the offense wasnt doing good and we dont have a deffense that is good enough to win games. just seemed like the team fell apart once Sanders got hurt. A very fustrateing day to say the least , we came back at the end there but to little to late.
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Just have to bounce back.
Gonna be tough....but can be done.
I understand the idea of trying to RS Hill....but if he was in fact going to be the guy IF Sanders got hurt.....I really think he should have been playing against Drake, Duluth....etc....Last edited by Chitown Panther; 10-08-2005, 06:51 PM."We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."
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This one cuts deep. We are up against it now.Comment
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UNI needs to put this loss behind them we have more tough games ahead, specifically: at Illinois State, at Western Kentucky and the game at home agaisnt those Salukis of Southern Illinois. Hopefully Sanders will get healthy for those upcoming games, I don't think Inidana State should be too much of a problem but should never overlook anyone in this conference.GO PANTHERS!Comment
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the rest of the year will be tough YSU destroyed Indiana St. today, Ill St. and WKU tied at half, This one really hurt bad, we will have to make some improvements and fast cause they dont get any easier from here out !Feel the Power of Purple !!!!!!Comment
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We have to win out at home and can only lose at either Ill State or WKU.
We will get into the playoffs at 8-3 this year....but will have to go on the road for the first game.
Lots of stuff can happen yet around I-AA to go in our favor.
Everyone knows the loss is basically becuz Sanders got hurt. But the one good thing about the loss is that Hill is now the back-up to Sanders. Hill was probably treated as the back-up in practice, but he really thought he wouldn't play this year. This week.....should get Hill really up to speed.
He seems to be a clone of Sanders just without the experience.
Lets just hope this learning curve is fast.
GO PANTHERS!!!!"We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."
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only heard 2nd half
so not sure what to think. 3 things I do know:
1) no Sanders means we will have a few more 3 and outs in these upcoming games.
2) our defense will get tired if they are on the field too much
3)we better get our running game into high gear and quick
without Sanders any coach worth his salt will try and make us throw the ball make us beat them passing. They will load the box or do whatever they can to stop the run try to make us pass the ball. than creative blitz's to try and confuse Hill. lets face it Hill is going to be ok he is a talent. Sanders was playimg damn near flawless football at the QB position. Hell would be hard to replace that with anyone. I also agree if Hill was a possibility not to shirt he should have played some early on this year.
Defense will have to stop missing tackles and play lots better than they have been all year they did ok 2nd half but that late td was a killer missed tackles kept drive alive a few times and I feel that we have 2 bad things going on d coach needs to address we start slow and we tire late in games. Now i know coach will not sub a linebacker one of his stars but the question I have is a tired star better than a fresh 2 missed tackles can be attested to being tired also. I also I know we have very little depth at OLB and he today had a rotation of carter and i believe garrett now i say again slide heideman over to olb for a series or two and use one of the inside guys to backup heideman this allows an upgrade to the olb position heideman is also a good blitzer so in a passing situation this is def a win win and if a team tries to exploit the middle hell you have parsons and varner to clean up they have been doing alot of that this year already. just a thought but d has to be big from here on out the days of us outscoring guys or getting into shootouts just sprained their ankle.
Heres hoping sanders is not too bad off and is back real soonComment
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I see there was a few other upsets including the #1 team in 1AA getting beat, WKU won in overtime so it appears Ill St. has a good team this year. I agree we have to win out at home and and can afford at the most 1 loss period the rest of the year, I hope the sprain is not bad and Eric can be back soon or Hill has a good week to get some stuff down at least we are at home this comming weekend ! I agree Bigcat we need to try a few things on D during the week, they did do better in second half but like you said that late TD was a killer and it comes down to haveing a D that can help win games.Feel the Power of Purple !!!!!!Comment
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I'm obviously glad we got the win, but not proud in the way it happened. Our defense is terrible and our play-calling is worse. It goes without saying that I don't think there's any way the Bears win that game if Sanders doesn't get injured.
And on that note, I hope the kid is OK. I hate to see that happen to someone and at the game his expressions on the sideline after he got hurt showed me how badly he wanted to get back in there. He looked like a player to me, even though I only saw two series from him.
Speaking of QB's, your backups look so tiny out there. How big are they? Neither one looked impressive so hopefully Sanders gets healthy soon.
Anyway, good luck the rest of the season.Comment
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Thanks for the nice comments Deep to bad all fans from other teams dont show the same class, we made plenty of mistakes ourselves and MSU made the plays when they needed them, MSU has a good team.Feel the Power of Purple !!!!!!Comment
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Congrats Deep Throat. UNI has tremendous respect for MSU......eventhough we don't have anything positive to say about Coach Ball.
I think you need to give your Defense alot more credit. They held SIU and UNI in the 20s essentially. Also, Ball saw some way to limit our deep throws to Goodwin and Hunter. THAT HAS BEEN A HUGE PART OF OUR OFFENSE. We need to learn how to win without that.
Right now UNI has to score 30+ to win.
As everyone knows.....any team in the Gateway is a very capable team........"We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."
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One positive to take out of this game is that our team managed to stay in the game after the devastaion of losing their best player. I think this will go a long way to helping our team find other ways to win other than Sanders. Hopefully we can string some wins together and have Sanders back in time for ILST/WKU/SIU. By that time our team will rediscover their winning ways.Comment
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What's the status of Stensrud and Sanders? I heard that Reed is willing to help with the treatment of Sanders!
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Aaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh h!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was hoping we would get the score before the half...........it would have been huge. We scored twice in the third period and I thought we were still in good shape..........the "D" just has to learn to suck it up and make a stop when we need it! Now the pressure is on!Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.
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You probably won't want to hear this, but you got jobbed by the refs at the end of the half. I was standing in disbelief as the refs stood over the ball for 3 seconds and then declared the half over. It cost you 3 points, no doubt. I know it's procedure for them spotting the ball, but that was unbelievable how long it took and a lucky break for us.Originally posted by oldcatComment
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