Up Next: Wofford (Playoff edition)

[Chitown Panther]

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I also forgot to post, James Conley played some serious defense yesterday!!!!

Also LJ Fort gave everything he had. He was sooo gas'ed, but kept making tackles. There was one play where their QB actually helped him up.

I could also see the dome heat get to wofford, was not ready to play an 80 degree game in Dec. Their QB was pretty worn out too.

[clenz]

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I have to say, it was interesting seeing every break go our way instead of bad breaks against Del, Rich, Iowa, ISU, etc...

For all the Wofford fans saying they dominated the game....just listing total yardage...is a little mis-leading:

You can net the difference on penalty yards, 1 pass play where rennie over throws a wide open DJ (would have been a TD), and their last drive when we were up 14 points and our staff was content letting them go on a 6 min scoring drive that wins UNI the game. You do this and yardage is even.

All being said, Wofford is a very good team. Would hate to pay those guys on a muddy field.

Times in the past a couple years UNI has outgained the oppoenent and still lost

IASU 2011
SFA 2010
IASU 2010
SIU 2010
Iowa 2009
SIU 2009
IlSU 2009
SIU 2008
UD 2007
SIU 2006



Those games we out gained the opponent by an average of 70-80 yards per game....and lost all of them. UNI has lost more games while out gaining the opponent then when they outgain us

[06panther10]

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If there is one thing you can say about this team, is that they continue to find different ways to win games. They have win ugly several times this year. Doesn't matter how its done in the end, as long as you come up with the W, and we have done that a lot this season.

The triple option was incredibly tough to defend, but as we have done so many times this year, we kept the point total in check. We only gave up 3 scoring drives, and the last one as others have pointed out, we were pretty content with them running 5-7 min off the clock as we were up two scores.

[mwatje]

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The crowd was definitely larger than 6,000 but it certainly wasn't impressive. I would gauge it at around 10,000. Two way problem here: fans should have supported it better and UNI should have promoted better. We needed "Road to Championship" billboards in CF, Waterloo, Waverly, and Cedar Rapids; and a non stop media blitz on TV and Radio. The most coverage I saw anywhere was by Rima- nothing extraordinary in other media outlets to let the casual fan know this was a big deal.

Hopefully UNI and the fans will get another shot to fill the dome properly after we take down Montana!!!

[UNIGrainer]

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The crowd was definitely larger than 6,000 but it certainly wasn't impressive. I would gauge it at around 10,000. Two way problem here: fans should have supported it better and UNI should have promoted better. We needed "Road to Championship" billboards in CF, Waterloo, Waverly, and Cedar Rapids; and a non stop media blitz on TV and Radio. The most coverage I saw anywhere was by Rima- nothing extraordinary in other media outlets to let the casual fan know this was a big deal.

Hopefully UNI and the fans will get another shot to fill the dome properly after we take down Montana!!!

Where is the money for these billboards and commercial spots going to come from?

[LordGriz]

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Panthers Win!!

Game was in question until Wuff-Wuff #2 handed the game over..... sad.

[Chitown Panther]

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Game was in question until Wuff-Wuff #2 handed the game over..... sad.

Call it what you will but they only had 14 points with 2:01 left in the game....weird

Most we have given up all year is 27 and we fumbled in the endzone against NDSU giving them a defensive TD (not fun!).

[Newsbreaker]

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Honestly, the more I think about the more I think game time was a huge mistake yesterday. It was an opponent nobody has every heard of, and a 4pm start is a big issue when there are so many evening holiday parties and the like. I know a lot of people who had work parties last evening - a 4pm kick is impossible if you have someplace to be in the evening.

Just a two hour difference might have changed things.

[JayJ79]

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While the UNI football fanbase (as a whole) is in the top half of the FCS,
we have a long way to go to compete with the top echelon of FCS fanbases.

[JCPanthers]

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Did anyone know what happened when we lined up for the last field goal and Wofford was flagged for illegal substitution?? Wasn't it 4th and 4 & should have resulted in a 1st down?? The only thing I can think of is that it was actually 4th and 6 and the scoreboard was wrong.

[JayJ79]

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Did anyone know what happened when we lined up for the last field goal and Wofford was flagged for illegal substitution?? Wasn't it 4th and 4 & should have resulted in a 1st down?? The only thing I can think of is that it was actually 4th and 6 and the scoreboard was wrong.

yes, the scoreboard was incorrect in that instance. Gauging the distance part of down-and-distance from the press box isn't an exact science.

[Newsbreaker]

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Did anyone know what happened when we lined up for the last field goal and Wofford was flagged for illegal substitution?? Wasn't it 4th and 4 & should have resulted in a 1st down?? The only thing I can think of is that it was actually 4th and 6 and the scoreboard was wrong.

Great questions. And why didn't they measure? I thought you could force them to bring out the chains.

There was one coach on the UNI sideline going ape.

[06panther10]

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While we are talking about that FG attempt, I thought that was a bad call to kick a FG there. We essentially needed to either make a 47 yard FG, or gain 1 yard on 4th down to end the game. I think that going for it on 4th and an inch is easier to convert than a long FG.

Not that it matters now. But I would have went for it on 4th to get those 2 inches.

[JCPanthers]

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While we are talking about that FG attempt, I thought that was a bad call to kick a FG there. We essentially needed to either make a 47 yard FG, or gain 1 yard on 4th down to end the game. I think that going for it on 4th and an inch is easier to convert than a long FG.

Not that it matters now. But I would have went for it on 4th to get those 2 inches.

I agree...lining up for a fg was a risk. Not sure what happened but Tyler barely got it to the endzone. Instead of going for it, I would have maybe punted and made their offense go 80+ yards.

[06panther10]

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Punting wouldn't have been a bad decision either. I think that kicking the FG was the worst of the three decisions, with the highest risk for something bad happening.

Its also worth noting that we were lined up to kick the FG even before the penalty that moved us up. Would have been a 52 yarder or so. Dumb, IMO...

I'm sure Wofford's ineptitude passing the ball played into the decision a bit, but still...