SIU's New Stadium

[JayJ79]

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News is right.

That is the last image that the SIU players see before they take the field. That poster could have gone anyplace else. The fact that they placed it there does have some significance. They know that to win this league, our league, you have to beat UNI. Because that is how it always has been.

There has only been two instances in the history of the conference where a team has won the league title (or at least, the auto-bid) without having beaten UNI:
2006 Youngstown State
1998 Western Illinois

So yes, to win the league, you pretty much have to beat UNI.

[TravelingPanther]

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first of all there are others around the stadium with just siu players on it. they wouldn't have wasted the $$$$ if they were going to pull it down. i seriously think you guys are making way too much out of this

You're the one coming to our board to argue about it. Maybe you're making too much of it.

[Landmark]

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You're the one coming to our board to argue about it. Maybe you're making too much of it.

i'm not here to argue just providing perspective, i think i have been very respectful, hell have i made any jokes about your crappy dome springing a leak?

[TravelingPanther]

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i'm not here to argue just providing perspective, i think i have been very respectful, hell have i made any jokes about your crappy dome springing a leak?

Nope. Have I made any jokes about all the trailer parks between St Louis and Carbondale?

My saying about SIU is "The closer you get to SIU, the less teeth they have and the more they stare." May not be true in Carbondale, but definitely is true for all points directly to the north. I haven't spent anytime in Carbondale since I was a kid. We usually come for the game and leave.

[Landmark]

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oh come on no trailer jokes that has nothing to do with the stadium

[JayJ79]

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i'm not here to argue just providing perspective, i think i have been very respectful, hell have i made any jokes about your crappy dome springing a leak?

hey now, first people b#tch about dome teams not playing in "real weather", and then when we let some of that weather in, people complain about that.

I tell ya.....

[Landmark]

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not b!tching but isnt that the reason to have a crappy dome in the first place is to keep the weather out?

[UNIpanther99]

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not b!tching but isnt that the reason to have a crappy dome in the first place is to keep the weather out?

FYI- They are replacing the roof right now.

Some might say you have a dome to keep the noise in!

[Landmark]

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oh so thats where that truck load of bondo was going

[Panther-Sheik]

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FYI- They are replacing the roof right now.

Some might say you have a dome to keep the noise in!

Yeah, we're covering the entire thing with a giant pvc poster of three UNI guys pommeling a Saluki player.

[Newsbreaker]

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The more I think about this, I think it's okay. It gives UNI and SIU something in common.

When UNI's players enter the stadium, they can look over their shoulder and see all those conference championships.

When SIU enters their stadium, they can look at a UNI player and think about all those conference championships.

[Landmark]

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except when siu runs out they see the recent run of playoffs going f or our 8th straight hopefully you can make it this year and our recent conference titles..oh ya and that national championship thing you know for winning a national title something you haven't done yet



also the siu players have the same number of conference titles as the kitty kat players do

[TravelingPanther]

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except when siu runs out they see the recent run of playoffs going f or our 8th straight hopefully you can make it this year and our recent conference titles..oh ya and that national championship thing you know for winning a national title something you haven't done yet



also the siu players have the same number of conference titles as the kitty kat players do

Congrats on winning a NC 30 years ago.

[JayJ79]

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.oh ya and that national championship thing you know for winning a national title something you haven't done yet

of course, that happened before any of the current players were even born yet......

[Newsbreaker]

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except when siu runs out they see the recent run of playoffs going f or our 8th straight hopefully you can make it this year and our recent conference titles..oh ya and that national championship thing you know for winning a national title something you haven't done yet



also the siu players have the same number of conference titles as the kitty kat players do

SIU is an excellent academic institution.

See: the quoted sentence.