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  • #1

    What if?

    Players and Coaches can't think like this; but, fans can. What if we don't give away our two FCS losses? We are so close to being a one loss team and a top 5 ranking. I think this bodes well for the remainder of the regular season and our successful run into/in the playoffs.

    Go PANTHERS, baby!!!!
    Some people feel the rain..........others just get wet.
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    Re: What if?

    Originally posted by bobsboy84 View Post
    Players and Coaches can't think like this; but, fans can. What if we don't give away our two FCS losses? We are so close to being a one loss team and a top 5 ranking. I think this bodes well for the remainder of the regular season and our successful run into/in the playoffs.

    Go PANTHERS, baby!!!!
    I agree we look primed for a run. But our defensive secondary needs to cover better.

    That said I think we need to win out to get in. But I also think we will win out.

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    • #3
      Re: What if?

      The same basic thing can be said for pretty much every FCS team.

      It's nice to play that game, but we are probably just as many plays away from being a 2 win team.

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      • #4
        Re: What if?

        Originally posted by williebat View Post
        I agree we look primed for a run. But our defensive secondary needs to cover better.
        The same thing could have been said for the past several years. Not that you are mistaken but it seems we have trouble against teams who can throw the ball.
        "And immediately, (P'Allen Stinnett's) Facebook status was spouting vulgarities towards the university."

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        • #5
          Re: What if?

          Originally posted by UNI83 View Post
          The same basic thing can be said for pretty much every FCS team.

          It's nice to play that game, but we are probably just as many plays away from being a 2 win team.
          I think you would struggle to find teams that literally gave games away in the fashion that we did this year.
          UNI FIGHT

          Originally posted by 9YRPLAN
          iowa sucks, fran sucks, their schedule sucks, iowa fans suck

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          • #6
            Re: What if?

            Originally posted by CincyPanther88 View Post
            The same thing could have been said for the past several years. Not that you are mistaken but it seems we have trouble against teams who can throw the ball.
            Folks, that's the style we are going to play here. We are going to give up the dink and dump passes and keep everything underneath. Don't expect anything different while Farley is calling the shots.
            If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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            • #7
              Re: What if?

              Originally posted by UNIAlum95 View Post
              Folks, that's the style we are going to play here. We are going to give up the dink and dump passes and keep everything underneath. Don't expect anything different while Farley is calling the shots.
              except we're not keeping everything underneath....
              as evidenced by some of the big plays we've given up.

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              • #8
                Re: What if?

                Originally posted by JayJ79 View Post
                except we're not keeping everything underneath....
                as evidenced by some of the big plays we've given up.
                Really, so you mean they don't do it perfectly?
                If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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                • #9
                  Re: What if?

                  Originally posted by 06panther10 View Post
                  I think you would struggle to find teams that literally gave games away in the fashion that we did this year.
                  I don't disagree.

                  However, I'm sure if I looked at box scores I could find probably 80 teams, maybe more, in the FCS that are a matter of a couple plays away from being undefeated/one loss teams....and the same number who are one loss teams being a couple plays away from 4 loss teams.


                  The difference between 8-3 and 3-8 is often less than 15 plays that could have gone either way.

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                  • #10
                    Re: What if?

                    Originally posted by UNI83 View Post
                    I don't disagree.

                    However, I'm sure if I looked at box scores I could find probably 80 teams, maybe more, in the FCS that are a matter of a couple plays away from being undefeated/one loss teams....and the same number who are one loss teams being a couple plays away from 4 loss teams.


                    The difference between 8-3 and 3-8 is often less than 15 plays that could have gone either way.
                    I remember Farley explaining after his 5-6 season (2002) that we were only a few plays away from being in the playoffs.
                    Last edited by bobsboy84; 11-01-2010, 12:41 PM.
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                    • #11
                      Re: What if?

                      Originally posted by williebat View Post
                      I agree we look primed for a run. But our defensive secondary needs to cover better.
                      Haven't the big pass plays been given up by the same DB? I've been pretty happy with our secondary in general.
                      Selling a lot of old UNI stuff here: http://www.panthernation.com/showthread.php?t=65762

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                      • #12
                        Re: What if?

                        Originally posted by TravelingPanther View Post
                        Haven't the big pass plays been given up by the same DB? I've been pretty happy with our secondary in general.
                        If it is the same DB getting beat, is there a replacement ready to step in? If not, history has a way of repeating itself and the opposing coaches are wise to this fact if we as fans are. I don't mind the defense that Farley places as far as allowing the underneath stuff because I would much rather stuff the run; but to be successful down the stretch and into the playoffs we need to prevent the long pass plays.

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                        • #13
                          Re: What if?

                          Originally posted by panther1 View Post
                          If it is the same DB getting beat, is there a replacement ready to step in? If not, history has a way of repeating itself and the opposing coaches are wise to this fact if we as fans are. I don't mind the defense that Farley places as far as allowing the underneath stuff because I would much rather stuff the run; but to be successful down the stretch and into the playoffs we need to prevent the long pass plays.
                          He has been replaced for the last couple games, he was brought back in for YSU, got beat, got pulled again, and we didn't have any other issues with it.
                          Selling a lot of old UNI stuff here: http://www.panthernation.com/showthread.php?t=65762

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                          • #14
                            Re: What if?

                            Speaking of What IF's....What IF we kicked FGs at 80% and what IF we didn't give up Flee Flicker TDs....then 2008 and 2009 WOULD have been really fun...
                            "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."

                            dti

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                            • #15
                              Re: What if?

                              Originally posted by Chitown Panther View Post
                              Speaking of What IF's....What IF we kicked FGs at 80% and what IF we didn't give up Flee Flicker TDs....then 2008 and 2009 WOULD have been really fun...
                              Yesterday, there was so many things
                              I was never told
                              Now that I'm startin' to learn
                              I feel I'm growing old

                              'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Old pictures that I'll always see
                              Time just fades the pages
                              In my book of memories
                              Prayers in my pocket
                              And no hand in destiny
                              I'll keep on movin' along
                              With no time to plant my feet

                              'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Old pictures that I'll always see
                              Some things could be better
                              If we'd all just let them be

                              Yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Got nothin' for me

                              Yesterday, there was so many things
                              I was never shown
                              Suddenly this time I found
                              I'm on the streets and I'm all alone

                              Yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Old pictures that I'll always see
                              I ain't got time to reminisce old novelties

                              Yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Yesterday's got nothin' for me
                              Yesterday

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