Staff issues

[Panther93]

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......or how about a 6-0 run where we destroy everyone, things break just right with other at-large candidates, that team to the North (that won't be named) gets upset in the second round, no other team emerges as a dominate opponent, our defence gets healthy, our freshman QB has an entire season under his belt and we win it this year.

Not a bad idea. We had 7 must win games just to get to the title game in 2005. No reason we can't make it 9 or 10 and make it to Frisco.

[JayJ79]

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I like how you think.

Two weeks to heal, learn and prep. I think we are about the enter the Hyde part of a Jeckyll-and-Hyde season (Jeckyll referring to game outcome, certainly not effort).

the season is about to descend into depravity and evil?

[BCPanther]

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You people thinking we'll get in if we win out must believe that every OVC and MEAC team will finish with less than 7. Also, now that they have legitimized the Pioneer with an autobid better hope somebody doesn't go 10-1.

[Trapped in California]

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I don't care if the OVC second place team goes to Alabama and pitches a shutout - when will the committee learn that the conference is made up of paper tigers.

[BCPanther]

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I don't disagree Trapped, but that's the reality.

[JayJ79]

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I don't disagree Trapped, but that's the reality.

no, it's speculation. just as much as anything else. no one knows for sure what the selection committee will do, or what the situation will be come mid-November.

And the Pioneer doesn't get an autobid until next season.

[ronfitch]

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the season is about to descend into depravity and evil?

If that is what it takes, sure (I really need to read what I write before posting).

[MnPantherFan]

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Even if UNI can win out, what has to break right with other at-large candidates to get UNI into the playoffs? I just don't see it happening this year.

I'm just saying too many variables still to make a definitive statement. Things like the top teams in conferences dominating and not spliting games with boarderline playoff teams. I might be off-base here but I still think the committee could take into consideration that we arranged an all D-1 schedule until events outside our control happened.

[95UNIGRAD]

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If we're 7-4, that means 6 wins in a row to finish the year, no control over a scheduling issue, and all 4 losses to BCS teams from a huge conference or top ranked FCS teams. No way in hell we don't get a spot out of 20 in that scenario.

[DomeIsHome]

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You people thinking we'll get in if we win out must believe that every OVC and MEAC team will finish with less than 7. Also, now that they have legitimized the Pioneer with an autobid better hope somebody doesn't go 10-1.

I tend to agree with this.

[arealcat]

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Same story different year. We are always talented. The offense has to put up a lot of points because the defense never seems to be able to stop anybody when it counts. We are horrendous at time management and the obvious things I and others see in my group, which include former players and coaches, do not seem obvious for our coaching staff to pick up on.

[BigTimeUNIFan1]

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Staff issues won't be a question when my cousin Marcus Horne arrives on campus next semester. He's enrolling at Northern Iowa from Michigan State, 4 years of eligibility left! Here's the kids high school highlight links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkY4VLYc9U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqu7BsyyTc. We offered him out of high school last year before he committed to the Spartans. The situation there ended up not panning out. I think it's a great fit, with him and David Johnson in the backfield next fall. Go Panthers!

[Moose39]

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