This week's game thread

[Spathicle]

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As a long time Cubs fan, I assure you there is always next year. Some day we will go all the way!

[unifan]

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The "fans" that are jumping ship are the ones that jump on only when UNI is undefeated or a one-loss team. You don't see them at the games when UNI is doing reasonably well. There was no reason for the Dome to not be sold out in previous years, let alone the game against Montana or even NDSU this year. We have a very lackluster, disinterested fanbase.

For the rest of us fans, we still support the Panthers, will still be there on Saturdays. We're just disappointed with the way this season has turned out, like previous years. And a lot of it has to do with coaching decisions. As fans, its OK to be vocal about those decisions.

And we're not the only fanbase being critical of our team. Read the Bison boards and what their fans are saying. Going into the UNI game, you'd think they have won just one game. Extremely critical of their coaches and the decisions the coaches have been making. A majority of them realistically thought that UNI would have and should have won that game.

But back to the topic at hand. Has anybody heard if Farley is sticking with Dunne Saturday. Or due to his "poor" performance will Farley go back to Bailey?

Per social media, Bailey did not make the trip out with the team.

[in_the_stands]

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We'll be wearing helmet decals for the two officers killed in Des Moines (one of which played FB at UNI):

[KL31NY]

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No Bailey or Dunne today... Dunne with a concussion last week

Per @OPRSportsGuy, Colton Howell starting

[pantherfansince92]

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Dunne not playing today after suffering a concussion last week, Colton Howell is the starter

[in_the_stands]

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Would seem our techniques for in-game concussion assessment need some development.

[Blue42]

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Aaron Bailey does not make the trip to Terre Haute.

Schulte the backup behind Howell.

Pulling Howell's red shirt to play today. He hasn't used one yet so could still use it in '17 or '18 I guess.

[BCPanther]

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Would seem our techniques for in-game concussion assessment need some development.

You can say this about every football program at every level. This isn't a UNI problem.

[06panther10]

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The main thing that we should take from all of this is that we have absolutely horrible local reporting.

One of our QBs has apparently quit the team, and the other one has been out with a concussion all week, and we don't find out about this literally until the team is warming up on the field on game day. LOL

Oh well, as long as we are in full dumpster fire mode, you might as well go all in.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I honestly don't mind that we don't know injuries. That's relatively private information and why do we need to let the other team know what's happening in advance?

Also, my concern heading into last week was we knew we had a rough O-Line and we know our injury history with NDSU...why not rest Dunne a little more (not sit out totally) against NDSU? It's not that guys have gotten nicked up against NDSU, it's that we have had career altering injuries (and arguably program altering injuries).

I know this sounds like second guessing, but it was my thought ahead of time too. Just not public...

[vbfan19]

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Also, my concern heading into last week was we knew we had a rough O-Line and we know our injury history with NDSU...why not rest Dunne a little more (not sit out totally) against NDSU? It's not that guys have gotten nicked up against NDSU, it's that we have had career altering injuries (and arguably program altering injuries).

I know this sounds like second guessing, but it was my thought ahead of time too. Just not public...

so we should have just conceded the game due to injury fears?
UNI was competitive in that game, and if they had pulled it off, they would have been right back into the playoff hunt.

[in_the_stands]

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You can say this about every football program at every level. This isn't a UNI problem.

No doubt true. Phil Parker's griping about the targeting rule, and admissions of his own concussions while playing make it sound like not all FB coaches are on board with today's focus on head injuries and their potential long term effects. For me locally, it was not uncommon to hear of HS FB players who didn't remember playing in the game afterward, was just chalked up to "getting their bell rung".

But Dunne was visibly stunned last week; to me it seems prudent to hold him out for a couple of plays and run some checks.

Re: Bailey not making the trip - if that was by his choice, I'd have a hard time keeping him on the team.

[Gocats15]

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The main thing that we should take from all of this is that we have absolutely horrible local reporting.

One of our QBs has apparently quit the team, and the other one has been out with a concussion all week, and we don't find out about this literally until the team is warming up on the field on game day. LOL

Oh well, as long as we are in full dumpster fire mode, you might as well go all in.

Why are all of you saying Bailey quit? Do any of you understand how college football travel rosters work? You can only travel a limited amount of players due to NCAA/conference rules. So we always only travel 3 or 4 QBs. Normally it was Bailey, Dunne, Demos, and Schulte. Because of injuries, we need to travel Howell and Ellsworth, along with Schulte, so there is only 1 spot for another QB. The coaches picked Dunne, likely because he has more experience than Bailey helping on the sidelines with calling in plays and other things. If we travelled Bailey, we would be taking away a spot from a special teamer or important healthy backup, which would make zero sense.

[UNIDebo]

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Don't get me wrong, I'm envious (and confused) by how Cyclone football continually draws what it does. There's a special brew of kool aid down there.

Difference between ISU and UNI in that regard is that ISU simply hasn't/doesn't have the talent to compete for titles, or anything better than bottom of the middle pack of the conference. UNI has the talent to win titles. It's much easier to be "forever optimistic" about a program you know isn't good because that isn't the expectation than it is about a program that has been one of the best programs in the nation for 3 decades and continues to **** the bed and take a chain saw to it's own knees every year.

I wouldn't be envious of ISU. They come in droves to support that product and guess what? change isn't going to just happen. When you become complacent you'll get what you get. Sure state could have a good year here and there (for them 7-6) but they will suck that for a much longer period because they accept it.

When people ask/demand for change it causes a lot of tension. Most people don't like change as we're creatures of habit but this recurring product known as UNI football needs to. I don't want that complacent attitude for UNI.

[in_the_stands]

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Re Gocats15's post: Agree with your scenario, I would just like to know for my own curiosity if that was the case, or if Bailey refused to make the trip.