Talking about Playoffs? What are the odds.

[FOTY]

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You think Thanksgiving weekend attendence sucked before... now we've got competition coming from Iowa City. 10,000 to a play-in game is a dream.

[vbfan19]

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You think Thanksgiving weekend attendence sucked before... now we've got competition coming from Iowa City. 10,000 to a play-in game is a dream.

are the games played during wild-card weekend in the NFL considered "play-in games"?

[panther1]

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are the games played during wild-card weekend in the NFL considered "play-in games"?

Essentially, yes. When two teams play for the opportunity to advance to play a team with a bye, it is a reasonable argument that it was a play-in game.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Maybe I'm dreaming and too optimistic, but I think there will be a lot of publicity "if" we win out if for no other reason than that means we beat NDSU. The bandwagon has a lot of magnetism or repulsion depending on what is happening. I'll choose to believe that many of those that jumped off (students and oldies alike) will come back with 5 in a row and a win over a team that hasn't lost in almost 3 years.
2005 no one had any idea that the team could / would make a run. There was no hype and no real excitement until the playoff run happened.
Like I said, maybe dreaming and putting too much faith in the Panther fanbase, but either way I'd sure like to find out.

[Purrrrrfect]

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Maybe I'm dreaming and too optimistic, but I think there will be a lot of publicity "if" we win out if for no other reason than that means we beat NDSU. The bandwagon has a lot of magnetism or repulsion depending on what is happening. I'll choose to believe that many of those that jumped off (students and oldies alike) will come back with 5 in a row and a win over a team that hasn't lost in almost 3 years.
2005 no one had any idea that the team could / would make a run. There was no hype and no real excitement until the playoff run happened.
Like I said, maybe dreaming and putting too much faith in the Panther fanbase, but either way I'd sure like to find out.

Agreed and feel the same way. If it happens, the game victory would make national news as well for the simple fact NDSU lost finally not that we won. Game being on comcast means plenty of highlights on sportscenter too.

[Purrrrrfect]

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Someone needs to start telling the students to show up for this game! Achrist...get on it! You still have connections

[achrist70]

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They show up they just don't stay past halftime, this is a problem for adults to, Saturday with a game tied at 7 I would say 3,000 people left at halftime and didn't return, yet the dome was pretty loud in the 2nd half, just imagine how loud it could be full.

[BCPanther]

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The problem is that even if we get in and win on Thanksgiving weekend, we'll get a nice trip to Fargo the next weekend...

[Geno4UNI]

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There is also a chance we would be on the other side of the bracket from NDSU and the only way we face them again would be in Frisco. Not every team has to go to Fargo.

[Panther-Sheik]

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They show up they just don't stay past halftime, this is a problem for adults to, Saturday with a game tied at 7 I would say 3,000 people left at halftime and didn't return, yet the dome was pretty loud in the 2nd half, just imagine how loud it could be full.

Late in the game Saturday when everyone still there was standing and cheering I heard a guy behind me say that he'd never ever heard the Dome so loud since he had been coming to games the last 3 or 4 years. A pretty sad statement that with about 6,000 people left in attendance and about 15% of the students remaining the Dome was impressing him with how loud it got.
I realized, though, that the 6,000 cheering fans was still more people being loud than even when we have 14,000 in attendance. On a typical 3rd down play, I'd say about 2,000 - 3,000 people actively yell / cheer (not counting students). Most choose to just observe during kickoffs or other early game situations.
Bar none, the loudest I've ever heard the Dome was the beginning of the Delaware game in '07. But the other loudest games had nothing to do with overall crowd size and everything to do with the rabidness of those in attendance ('05 E. Wash game for example). Simply getting a sell-out or large crowd does not necessarily equal a loud home field advantage. Fans need to create the advantage.

[achrist70]

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I completely agree, the crowd was great on Saturday the ones who stayed in the 2nd half really got into it, I wish I knew the answer on how to get 17,312 people to be that vocal.

[BCPanther]

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There is also a chance we would be on the other side of the bracket from NDSU and the only way we face them again would be in Frisco. Not every team has to go to Fargo.

History and Geography disagree...

I'm not trying to be negative, but the chances of getting invited to start with aren't great....

[BCPanther]

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Late in the game Saturday when everyone still there was standing and cheering I heard a guy behind me say that he'd never ever heard the Dome so loud since he had been coming to games the last 3 or 4 years. A pretty sad statement that with about 6,000 people left in attendance and about 15% of the students remaining the Dome was impressing him with how loud it got.
I realized, though, that the 6,000 cheering fans was still more people being loud than even when we have 14,000 in attendance. On a typical 3rd down play, I'd say about 2,000 - 3,000 people actively yell / cheer (not counting students). Most choose to just observe during kickoffs or other early game situations.
Bar none, the loudest I've ever heard the Dome was the beginning of the Delaware game in '07. But the other loudest games had nothing to do with overall crowd size and everything to do with the rabidness of those in attendance ('05 E. Wash game for example). Simply getting a sell-out or large crowd does not necessarily equal a loud home field advantage. Fans need to create the advantage.

Should be it's own thread, but there are 4 times where I remember that Dome being ear-splittingly loud...

1--Delaware 2007--Loudest--I think they had 3 or 4 false starts on their first two possessions and Flacco couldn't call plays.

2--SIU 2005-- The last possession after the pass to Goodwin was insane.

3--Idaho 1992-- #1 vs #2. Crazy loud and that was before the metal roof.

4--'The Catch'-- It wasn't really loud for the whole game, but in that instant it was intense...

[TravelingPanther]

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Wasn't Delaware 2007 a smaller crowd because of the weather?

[achrist70]

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Even with a blizzard/ice storm the Delaware crowd was still 15,800

The 2008 New Hampshire game was also very loud even though there was only 10,000 in the dome