Panthers will win title next year!!!

[goseahawks]

You heard it here....UNI will return to chattanooga next year and will come home with diamond rings on their fingers!!!

[JayJ79]

do they give out diamond rings to the team for winning the I-AA championship?

[CF Panther]

You heard it HERE first, UNI will win the 'Ship in '07 behind Payton Award winning Eric Sanders! '06 will not be our championship year IMHO.

[Mountain Panther]

You heard it HERE first, UNI will win the 'Ship in '07 behind Payton Award winning Eric Sanders! '06 will not be our championship year IMHO.

Not if Sanders leaves after his junior year for the draft......

[Panthers to the Bone]

Isn't there a stat that shows that the team that loses in the national championship game, comes back to win the NC the following year (about 50% of the time since I'm not sure when)?

[GoCats05]

Yes, I heard the same thing. Several of the champions were previous runner-ups. Provides great motivation for the coming season, especially with Sanders back!

[UNI MadCat]

Isn't there a stat that shows that the team that loses in the national championship game, comes back to win the NC the following year (about 50% of the time since I'm not sure when)?

Hmmm... I'm not sure if I'm quite following but I'll try to throw some facts out there...

If a school finishes as a runner up in the NC game, 26% of the time they come back and win it the next year.

If a school finishes as a runner up in the NC game, 80% of time they have won the NC IF they make it back to the game (only EKU has ever lost back-to-back NC games).

HOWEVER, 60% of the time at least one of the two participants from the previous year play in that year's NC game... maybe that's the stat you have heard???

Its happened six times that a team won the title in the year after they lost it. But in two of those times they also had won the title the year before they lost it (only to win again the following year), essentially forming a mini-dynasty (or major looking at GSU in the 80s and YSU in the 90s).

Really, in looking at the tradition it just proves what we already know... I-AA football championship game "tradition" is defined by GSU, YSU & Montana and EKU back in the beginning (you could throw Marshall in there too, but since they've left, I left them out).

[MGLD Panther]

Hmmm... I'm not sure if I'm quite following but I'll try to throw some facts out there...

If a school finishes as a runner up in the NC game, 26% of the time they come back and win it the next year.

If a school finishes as a runner up in the NC game, 80% of time they have won the NC IF they make it back to the game (only EKU has ever lost back-to-back NC games).

HOWEVER, 60% of the time at least one of the two participants from the previous year play in that year's NC game... maybe that's the stat you have heard???

Its happened six times that a team won the title in the year after they lost it. But in two of those times they also had won the title the year before they lost it (only to win again the following year), essentially forming a mini-dynasty (or major looking at GSU in the 80s and YSU in the 90s).

Really, in looking at the tradition it just proves what we already know... I-AA football championship game "tradition" is defined by GSU, YSU & Montana and EKU back in the beginning (you could throw Marshall in there too, but since they've left, I left them out).

You wouldn't happen to be a math major would you?

[UNI MadCat]

You wouldn't happen to be a math major would you?

No, just really bored at work!! And I think I stayed at a Holiday Day Inn Express last night!!

[beamout2000]

Well I think it would be cool if you guys met up with us again in the semi's, of course with a different outcome this time from my perspective. We have had a great recruiting and transfer season since the playoffs so I think we are reloading instead of rebuilding after loosing so many seniors, so who knows. Here is something out of this morning's Austin paper about the off-season for Texas State that might interest you.
http://www.statesman.com/sports/cont...0texstate.html

[Mountain Panther]

Well I think it would be cool if you guys met up with us again in the semi's, of course with a different outcome this time from my perspective. We have had a great recruiting and transfer season since the playoffs so I think we are reloading instead of rebuilding after loosing so many seniors, so who knows. Here is something out of this morning's Austin paper about the off-season for Texas State that might interest you.
http://www.statesman.com/sports/cont...0texstate.html

Good to see Neeley getting so much PT in the Hula Bowl. Where the heck was Erik Meyer of EWU?

[PantherHawk]

Damn Texas State could be awesome next year with all those D1 transfers. Those Wideouts are pretty good, and i am sure their QB can throw it around if comes from Purdue. anyword on uni getting any transfers in?

[beamout2000]

The best Texas State QB may not be the transfer from Purdue, he may be the guy some of you saw with the clipboard on the sidelines at our game, Brad George, who redshirted. I don't think he is as fast as Barrick but he is huge and has a cannon for an arm. Side by side he makes Barrick look small and if you watch him in drills the arm strength is amazing. It's going to be quite a quarterback derby at spring practice. Like I say I hope we do get to see each other again in 2006, it would be a lot of fun again.

[Chitown Panther]

How about the kid who played QB in HS, but was playing WR as a Soph (Chase Wasson)? Didn't the announcers say his 5A team won the State Title????

[beamout2000]

Chase did lead his high school to the 4-a state championship but it appears he will be playing wide receiver next year although he may take some snaps in the spring and on gadget plays.