Looking ahead to Western Illinois

[UNI Fight]

WIU plays Mizzou this Saturday

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Article from Mizzou's perspective:

"WIU enters the game with the top-ranked QB in the FCS, in Josh Hudson. He ranks #1 in the FCS in pass efficiency, with a passer rating of 199.01 through two games. Receiver Terriun Crump has been the beneficiary of most of Hudson’s work through the air, as Crump ranks 3rd nationally in the FCS in receiving yards, averaging 135.00 per game coming into Saturday’s contest.

The Leathernecks finished the 2010 season with an 8-5 record and ranked 17th in the final polls under Head Coach Mark Hendrickson."

I haven't personally seen WIU play but initially it sounds like our secondary will have a test on 9/24. This would be a great time for Boothby and the entire defensive front to get after a QB and help out the secondary...force some more turnovers! I did however just go to www.goleathernecks.com and this Josh Hudson fella has a gross blonde mustache.

First thing I saw in their statistics was that WIU has had the ball in the red zone 5 times and scored only 2 times in their first 2 games. When the opponent has the ball in the red zone WIU has allowed them to score every time 4/4 for a total of 20 points. Let's get in that red zone.

Their first 2 game:
@Sam Houston State WIU lost 20-6
Jacksonville WIU won 35-21

[Herdman]

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I think you will see WeIL running the ball more when they play UNI. They'll need to control the ball/TOP more if they want to stay in the game. If Jacksonville, a non-scholly program I think, can score 21 points and you can only muster 35 in return, a team with the weapons UNI has, has got to be a concern.

[TravelingPanther]

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WIU fans make it sound like the team drove off a cliff this off season. Not very encouraged, which is weird, because they normally seem to have over inflated opinions of their team.

[FMPanther]

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I hope we destroy them. I have made the last three trips to Macomb and last year was brutal.

I would like nothing less than 40-7.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I hope we destroy them. I have made the last three trips to Macomb and last year was brutal.

I would like nothing less than 40-7.

Agreed! Last year's game and then drive home sucked! I think the boys will be looking to exact a little revenge if I had to guess.

[achrist70]

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There QB does have one heck of a Molestache.

[Spathicle]

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Watch out with the stache bashing. We don't need the AMI coming in here with all sorts of lawsuits and junk.

[UNI Fight]

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I just hope he enjoys the stache while he can before Boothby rubs his face into the UNI dome turf so many times it burns off.

WIU starting QB Josh Hudson

[UNI Fight]

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I think you will see WeIL running the ball more when they play UNI. They'll need to control the ball/TOP more if they want to stay in the game. If Jacksonville, a non-scholly program I think, can score 21 points and you can only muster 35 in return, a team with the weapons UNI has, has got to be a concern.

I do get the sense, from paper, that their defense is lacking and they have a decent QB/WR tandem. Not sure what they have for RB's or O-Line but I'm thinking UNI has a huge target with a #2 ranking and being picked to win the conference...with all the Mike Scifres play last Sunday for the Chargers in place of injured Nate Kaeding... I just kept having flashbacks of 1999 when WIU came into the dome and he was their punter that'd never kicked a FG (correct me if I'm wrong) and he hit a 56-yarder to win the game for WIU. Cockiest punter I ever saw. He'd pin us inside the 10 and then look up into the crowd and make taunting gestures like raise the roof (lame). Haha it was kinda funny to see a punter do that.

[Neighbor]

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Is there anything to be gained (for UNI) from their game at Mizzou? Will a coach scout the game?

[clenz]

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Agreed! Last year's game and then drive home sucked! I think the boys will be looking to exact a little revenge if I had to guess.

It's even worse when your GPS decides to go full-****** and take you some back ass way home and the three hour drive turns into 4.5

[Panther789]

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It's even worse when your GPS decides to go full-****** and take you some back ass way home and the three hour drive turns into 4.5

So was UNI83 just a SpanishMoon-type thing?

[clenz]

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So was UNI83 just a SpanishMoon-type thing?

It started that way, I wanted to go back to this one sooner, but forgot the password and never tried to recover it. If anyone didn't know who it was they were about as smart as my GPS that night.

[Purrrrrfect]

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It started that way, I wanted to go back to this one sooner, but forgot the password and never tried to recover it. If anyone didn't know who it was they were about as smart as my GPS that night.

Hey try going from Dallas to Houston...a typical 3-3.5 hour drive..taking 6 hours with no traffic. Yea...stupid TX highways in bum-f Egypt!

[9YRPLAN]

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one week at a time, boyS!!!!!