Youngstown State @ UNI

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yeah, Lanpher played well enough, lead a couple of huge drives, but it will be nice to have Rennie back.

the Running game needs to fiigure something out. It will help to have a healthy Carlos, hopefully soon.

[JayJ79]

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a healthy Rennie might have helped, but Rennie is not healthy, and even Rennie at last week's health level probably wouldn't have benefitted UNI much. There was zero ground game going.

[FlyYtown]

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Congrats on the win... I don't know what to say anymore. Every damn year we find a way to lose this game, or in reality, you guys find a way to win.

Really really wanted this one!

[JayJ79]

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was kind of hoping they'd give it to Boothby on those goalline plays. haha

[06panther10]

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Wow, we are lucky to win.

Our running game (if you can even call it that) is awful. Just non-existant. And its all on the O line. I have never seen any UNI team, at any time, struggle to run the ball like we have in the last 2-weeks.

Lanpher played amazing. By far outplayed any realistic expectation that you could have for a freshman backup. With no running game whatsoever, he was still able to make some good throws and find some open recievers.

[Cap'n Cat]

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Easy, people. Every game is different. Some days you have the running game, some days you don't. A win is a win, move on to next week.

[havok58]

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With the way the line has been playing recently, having Rennie in there may have been worse. His scrambling ability may have led to more sacks, whereas Lanpher stayed in the pocket to find a receiver.

Johnson needs to stop dancing around and just put his shoulders down and run the ball. I also thought it would be great to give Boothby the ball down there. He was bowling them over.

[06panther10]

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Worst game i've every watched, just greatful we held on 4 the win, our offensive play calling will never win us a Championship. Mite not even get out of the first round.

Huh? How exactly would you call the game differently? You think the coaching staff was calling plays designed for the RBs to get blown up in the backfield?

[run&blade]

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Either the offensive line sucks or they are putting 8 guys in the box to stop the run and uni cant make them pay by passing.x

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not as much the play calling this game, this falls on the offensive line mostly, IMO. I did think we spent too much time in the 3rd trying to establish the run when it was pretty clear it wasn't happening. Other than that I can't really complain.

[Chitown Panther]

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Emotionally YSU is not our rival. However they should be our rival with how close these games are....

I'm not in panic mode, but today was really frustrating to watch.

On the bright side I think YSU would beat SDSU if they had a second chance, throw on losses at MSU and Indie State by 3 and they are a scary young team.

[Chitown Panther]

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Either the offensive line sucks or they are putting 8 guys in the box to stop the run and uni cant make them pay by passing.x

I think its both.

We were lucky with Sanders and to a certain extend PG to audible in situations. Rennie is not an audible guy, he just improvises....Lanpher/Sawyer will be audible guys, but Lanpher can't do it today. Something that I think Lanpher got away with today was the jump ball...that won't work every week. However, when he is in doubt....he throws it deep and I like that for some reason...

[UNIPNTHR]

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Either the offensive line sucks or they are putting 8 guys in the box to stop the run and uni cant make them pay by passing.x

For what it's worth, during Rima's pregame Farley mentioned that the O-Line coach had surgery this week and wasn't around much during practice.

Happy to get a W. Hopefully we have a good week of practice and get after Southern Utah.

[JayJ79]

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Emotionally YSU is not our rival. However they should be our rival with how close these games are.....

Wish I could remember the exact quote, when Rima was talking to Farley (either on the thursday coaches show, or the pregame talk with Farley which is recorded right after the call-in show), Rima had said something to coach about how YSU was treating this as a rivalry game. Farley responded with something along the lines of "EVERYONE [in conference] treats their game against us as a rivalry game, which is why I don't think we have any rivals, we just concentrate on whatever the next game is"

[JayJ79]

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stats list attendance around 11500.
east side looked quite empty, especially after halftime.

thought it was a fairly quiet crowd too.

little brother syndrome due to iowa and isu being at home?
hangover after a loss?
or just fading fan support?