UNI vs. ISU

[UNI83]

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Wow was that frustrating. As frustrating as any loss I can remember. Maybe I have a mouth full of sour grapes, but I can't argue that ISU beat UNI.

110+ yards of penalties? Unacceptable.

UNI was better on both sides of the ball (though terrible on special teams, at least from the kicker position).

I thought Rennie was fine. Good decision making for the most part, and his numbers were hurt by a number of dropped balls. A couple of balls under thrown, but the kid can't do much about that. I thought he did well in the places he can control.

The defense was good. Granted, Jantz is a step removed from the Special Olympics. They're lucky he can move around a little, because that's all he can do. The D is one miracle throw/catch away from holding ISU to two scores and winning this game. And I'm still not sure he was in bounds.

I think if we play that game 10 times, UNI wins 7 or 8 of them. We are every bit as good as they are - and consistently. With a fraction of the money, a fraction of the support, and a fraction of the attention.

I'm glad ISU is headed for C-USA or the MWC. It's where they belong. I just hope we get one more crack at them before they get there.

Agree with all of this.

I watched the replay, and rewound it 15 times, on KCRG's broadcast....the only reason it was TD is because it was called a TD on the field and there was no evidence to over turn it. If it was called incomplete it would have stayed that way.

Without Jantz being able to move around some he would have left the field on a stretcher.

[Newsbreaker]

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I don't know enough about the intricacies of line play (nor were my seats good enough) to tell you whether UNI's D-Line was that good, or whether ISU's offensive line that porous. If the former, this defense will be extremely good. If the later, well screw the later. ISU sucks.

[Trapped in California]

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I don't know enough about the intricacies of line play (nor were my seats good enough) to tell you whether UNI's D-Line was that good, or whether ISU's offensive line that porous. If the former, this defense will be extremely good. If the later, well screw the later. ISU sucks.

ISU suspended its starting RG for the game, and also lost the use of Kelechi Osemele LT for a good part of the game to a leg injury. But getting to the QB on a 3 man rush? Think its a bit of both.

[UNI83]

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ISU suspended its starting RG for the game, and also lost the use of Kelechi Osemele LT for a good part of the game to a leg injury. But getting to the QB on a 3 man rush? Think its a bit of both.

ISU probably had on O-line similar to what teams like SDSU will throw out there this year....

[JayJ79]

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Just saw the highlight of the Sonie PI call at the end of the first half....TURRABLE call.

was in the opposite corner, so I couldn't totally tell, but there were a couple PI calls on UNI (could have both been on Sonie) where it looked like the DB had position, and the receiver came over the defenders back. yet they called defensive PI.

Plus, some of the false starts against UNI in the second half seemed to come out of nowhere. but hey, maybe one of the o-lineman batted an eyelash and I just couldn't see it from my vantagepoint. haha.

not sure what UNI did on the 2-3 occasions when the refs called MULTIPLE personal fouls against the Panthers on one play.

Also, the replay official was really buzzer-happy (calling for reviews).


not saying that the officiating cost us the game or anything. just making observations.

[EVSPanther]

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New Defensive Coordinator, same crap. In a close ball game late, rush three prevent defense. Seems to lose it for us almost every time.

I think the prevent should be scrapped in our defensive scheme unless there is desperation from the opposition with around 30 seconds to play. I think our defense is at its best when it is playing agressive and prevent seems to take us out of our defensive rhythm. That is my two cents anyway...that don't matter that is.

[UNI83]

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was in the opposite corner, so I couldn't totally tell, but there were a couple PI calls on UNI (could have both been on Sonie) where it looked like the DB had position, and the receiver came over the defenders back. yet they called defensive PI.

Plus, some of the false starts against UNI in the second half seemed to come out of nowhere. but hey, maybe one of the o-lineman batted an eyelash and I just couldn't see it from my vantagepoint. haha.

not sure what UNI did on the 2-3 occasions when the refs called MULTIPLE personal fouls against the Panthers on one play.

Also, the replay official was really buzzer-happy (calling for reviews).


not saying that the officiating cost us the game or anything. just making observations.

The false starts were legit....and that needs to be fixed.

The reest of the penalties seemed very 50/50 to me though.

[UNIGrainer]

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The only reason why ISU won is because UNI is their super bowl. If we wouldve taken the game as seriously as they do then it would have been a cakewalk. But clearly this was the only game of the season they care about (based on their celebration after the game).

[JayJ79]

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The only reason why ISU won is because UNI is their super bowl. If we wouldve taken the game as seriously as they do then it would have been a cakewalk. But clearly this was the only game of the season they care about (based on their celebration after the game).

nah, they just have to party it up while they can, since it may be their only victory this season.....

[jnutt]

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long ****ing day. spent in the rain then walking back to my car. waiting in Ames to miss traffic only to drive straight into a traffic jam on 35 due to Iowa Drivers (nuff said). But here are my thoughts for the game. Sleep for me now...

http://tinyurl.com/3kob57d

[Mudrafan]

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I would have settled for shelving our prevent offense.

[UNI Fight]

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Down the road, and especially next Saturday (I have to move on past this loss or it will frustrate me too much but my fantasy draft is tomorrow with 9-10 cyclone fans, I wont hear the end of it) we can't let team come from behind like that. It's the end of the game, defense is tired, I don't know what. But we have to protect leads, this game wasn't the season but we showed a lot of upside. I'm excited.

Stephen F. Austin played a D3 team and put up 82 points in their season-opener. They either played a much inferior team or have a very explosive offense, probably the first one.

I was very happy UNI did not turn the ball over once until the hook and latter desperation at the end. ISU turned it over 4 times, we just need to capitalize more when teams give us the ball back 4 times in the future.

[UNI Fight]

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I like the quotes from our players...the right attitude, move on, don't let this be like 2009 after the 17-16 loss at Iowa...10 more regular season games to go!

Rennie: "If we linger on this loss, all we're going to do is fail,"

Boothby: “I think this team can push it all the way. We should have won this game, but we have 10 more to really prove ourselves."

[Cyclone]

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ISU was down about 6-8 guys for most of the game. That had to have an effect of some measure.

Doesn't sound like anyone was hurt for UNI, which is good.

ISU was missing a lot of key players.
ISU lost 3 key players for disciplinary reasons, and suffered a 3 more injuries which depleted both lines severely.

Senior starters WR Darks, and RG Hicks had to sit. The back up NT as well was suspended.
The starting NT had knee surgery about a week ago and tried to play but couldn't. With his back-up suspended for the game, ISU used a very undersized DE at times in that position. Neal(265 lbs?) got dominated often when he was in there.

The LT who is considered one of the best in the conference injured his ankle early in the game.
Starting DE suffered a knee injury maybe in the 2nd qtr and may be out for the year.

UNI didn't just take advantage of the situation, but really dominated the game there. ISU was very fortunate to get out alive with a win there.

If I had to really pinpoint one major factor that hindered UNI the most...it seemed that field position most all game was in ISU's favor. UNI was getting stops early in the game but was backed-up on offense over and over. And it seems a couple of the Jantz INTs came when ISU was getting in field goal range...so the offense didn't necessarily get any easy points out of those.

A reversal of roles from last year in a lot of ways.

[Mudrafan]

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clown fans pushing excuses for their lifelong lack of a football team. Brilliant.