Week 6 of UNI FB playoffs vs EIU

[Gocats15]

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I'll add another positive ... the defense forced EIU into many third-and-longs. EIU was frequently on their heels, starting deep (again, great KO coverage). That sets up a very good group of D-backs to make big plays, which they have done all season.

Good crowd noise on EIU third downs, esp. with the size of the crowd.

Also, any word on Malloy?

Based on some things I saw on twitter, I'm assuming Malloy is done for the year. If you follow Jim Nelson or OPR, they retweeted a lot of players tweeting about praying for Malloy and wishing him a speedy recovery.

[unipanther2154]

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In perspective, those are called, "oops, my bads," with how dominating the win was.

Do people just look for things to complain about because Farley is having success?

It's pretty clear that you and 100 have the same complete lack of knowledge of anything sports. Regardless of a win by 100 or loss by 100 you can always find things to look to improve on. Once you think you're at the top with nothing to improve on then you'll quickly realize you're no longer as good as you thought you were. If you actually watched the game instead of looking at a box score you would see the areas that we must clean up if we want to continue to win as the competition gets tougher. What you fail to understand is that as we go forward those same mistakes that you think don't mean anything because we won by soooooo much will cost us a game if not taken care of. You're actually annoying to most posters because it's such a basic thing to understand that somehow, you just can't wrap your head around.

[Gocats15]

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In perspective, those are called, "oops, my bads," with how dominating the win was.

Do people just look for things to complain about because Farley is having success?

No, people look for legitimate issues with our team that will affect us going forward. EIU was probably one of the final teams to make the playoffs. They are towards the bottom of the field, and IMO are a huge drop off below the top 10-15 or so. In the first quarter, we played terrible, it's just that EIU committed costly mistakes and couldn't take advantage. We won't be able to rely on better teams throwing easy picks, committing penalties, etc to ruin drives when they start at midfield.

Remember the SFA playoff game last year? We destroyed them, yet many people who view more than the scoreboard had concerns. We had no consistent passing game. Carnes was hurt and couldn't run, allowing defenses to key on Johnson. SFA was just completely overmatched, similar to EIU, so they couldn't take advantage of our problems. Then we played Illinois State and got destroyed since they had the talent to take advantage of our problems. People are just hoping we fix these things before we play a better team.

[ban basketball]

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Consistent tackling and play execution for ALL 4 qtrs. Not muffing punts and making mistakes that give our opponents perfect opportunities to put points on the board.

What in the world does a perfect game have to do with any of this? Where has anyone said that we need to play perfectly? Not every team in the playoffs will rollover after 1 qtr of play. A team with a more efficient O would have put up 2-3 more tds last night.

Go ahead and watch last nights game and then come back and tell me that our performance would still equal a 400+ yd and 50+ pt performance against NDSU. Come back and tell me that last nights performance would equal even a win against them. I don't think it would. Lots to clean up if we want to bring home a trophy.

For someone who supposedly played football I would have thought that you'd understand that many "oops, my bad" moments shouldn't cut it for a football staff/team that has prided itself on being one of the top teams in the nation and wants to win a championship

A perfect game has EVERYTHING to do with this, as people on here are crying about a bleeping 53-17 dominant victory, for God's sake! What more do people expect in a victory like that?! Now you see what I'm talking about?

The win last night wasn't against NDSU though, and nor should it be compared. That day will come, and the team will prepare appropriately for THEM. Last night, they played against Eastern Illinois, and won 53-17 with a few apparent hiccups. Do you expect perfection every game?

"For someone who supposedly played football I would have thought that you'd understand that many "oops, my bad" moments shouldn't cut it for a football staff/team that has prided itself on being one of the top teams in the nation and wants to win a championship"

Did those moments greatly hamper our effort last night? 53-17 wasn't a great win? How do you know that they won't be ironed out, if they, in fact, are problems?

I'll tell you this much: since the beginning of the season I've read NOTHING BUT complaints on here about UNI football and our crappy coaches running the program into the ground. All of these emergencies were going to happen, the team wasn't going to win another game, we'd be the laughing stock of college football, and, guess what? NONE OF IT HAS HAPPENED. See why I can't take you negative neybombs of negativity, or whatever comedian Rush Limbaugh calls it, seriously? Everything is doom and gloom, yet the season has been very positive.

[ban basketball]

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It's pretty clear that you and 100 have the same complete lack of knowledge of anything sports. Regardless of a win by 100 or loss by 100 you can always find things to look to improve on. Once you think you're at the top with nothing to improve on then you'll quickly realize you're no longer as good as you thought you were. If you actually watched the game instead of looking at a box score you would see the areas that we must clean up if we want to continue to win as the competition gets tougher. What you fail to understand is that as we go forward those same mistakes that you think don't mean anything because we won by soooooo much will cost us a game if not taken care of. You're actually annoying to most posters because it's such a basic thing to understand that somehow, you just can't wrap your head around.

So, it was a bad win then? I didn't see one positive word in this nonsense.

[ban basketball]

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No, people look for legitimate issues with our team that will affect us going forward. EIU was probably one of the final teams to make the playoffs. They are towards the bottom of the field, and IMO are a huge drop off below the top 10-15 or so. In the first quarter, we played terrible, it's just that EIU committed costly mistakes and couldn't take advantage. We won't be able to rely on better teams throwing easy picks, committing penalties, etc to ruin drives when they start at midfield.

Remember the SFA playoff game last year? We destroyed them, yet many people who view more than the scoreboard had concerns. We had no consistent passing game. Carnes was hurt and couldn't run, allowing defenses to key on Johnson. SFA was just completely overmatched, similar to EIU, so they couldn't take advantage of our problems. Then we played Illinois State and got destroyed since they had the talent to take advantage of our problems. People are just hoping we fix these things before we play a better team.

Emergency, after emergency, after emergency all season long, and, guess what? We're in the second round of the playoffs, with a several game winning streak, and beat a playoff team 53-17.

Yes, I'm just plain wacky, ain't I folks?

[unipanther2154]

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So, it was a bad win then? I didn't see one positive word in this nonsense.

No positive words because that post was about your lack of knowledge and understanding that adjustments always need to be made.

[Khan4Cats]

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I'm thrilled we won.

I'm pissed that this program has to go on the road in the playoffs to a team that hasn't even been in the play-offs since 2000.

Some people want to call that 'success'.

[ban basketball]

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No positive words because that post was about your lack of knowledge and understanding that adjustments always need to be made.

Yes, and they are made game by game, against different teams. To sit and cry about how future opponents means nothing as the team was preparing for the opponent in front of them, and when the big, bad opponent comes that was supposed to beat us weeks ago, the team will prepare for it. You don't prepare the same for every team, for God's sake.

How do I know that? From years of playing sports, playing football in college, and a couple of years of coaching them. You?

[TravelingPanther]

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What would have been the perfect game, if such a thing is even possible?

The perfect game is to execute in all manners, regardless of the score.

We could execute and still lose and I wouldn't have any complaints.

[ronfitch]

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I'll agree with this, although this didn't happen until closer to the 2nd half. The game started out with the D not tackling well and giving up big chunks of yards. The commentators were routinely remarking on how impressive EIU was, regularly converting 3 and short while their D was having great success at forcing UNI into 3rd and long. Based on the first 15-20 mins of the game it looked like we were in for a very close and frustrating game

Yeah, you're right on that, it took a while for the defense to settle in. The long pass play on 3rd and 11 was huge, but the EIU QB also created a lot of time and coverage finally gave out. Some guys failing to wrap on tackles early on.

[TravelingPanther]

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53-17, and over 400 yards of total offense?! What could have been better?

We could not struggle out of the gate with a week opponent. We could not give up huge plays on defense. We could not mismanage the clock at the end of the first half.

There are a few things.

[ban basketball]

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We could not struggle out of the gate with a week opponent. We could not give up huge plays on defense. We could not mismanage the clock at the end of the first half.

There are a few things.

So, more bad than good in a 53-17 win, then? If not, then where are your positive statements? I haven't read one.

[TravelingPanther]

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I'll tell you this much: since the beginning of the season I've read NOTHING BUT complaints on here about UNI football and our crappy coaches running the program into the ground. All of these emergencies were going to happen, the team wasn't going to win another game, we'd be the laughing stock of college football, and, guess what? NONE OF IT HAS HAPPENED. See why I can't take you negative neybombs of negativity, or whatever comedian Rush Limbaugh calls it, seriously? Everything is doom and gloom, yet the season has been very positive.

Can you share one of those posts with us? No one EVER said we weren't going to win another game. No one said we'd be the laughing stock of college football.

You realize that whining about "negativity" doesn't make you positive, right?

[ban basketball]

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Can you share one of those posts with us? No one EVER said we weren't going to win another game. No one said we'd be the laughing stock of college football.

You realize that whining about "negativity" doesn't make you positive, right?

As I said before, ridiculous, exaggerated fixes, such as firing coaches over two losses and placing all of the woes on coaches, require ridiculous, exaggerated replies to them.

However, if there wasn't some truth to the constant, incessant criticism of UNI football, why have I been arguing for pages and pages with you folks, ultimately leading to a ban for liking UNI too much?

Should I be positive about everyone complaining when we win 53-17 in a playoff game?