TSN Q&A with UNH's David Ball

[JayJ79]

The Sports Network (Matt Dougherty et. al) did a Q&A with New Hampshire wide receiver David Ball. here's what he had to say about the UNI game.

TSN: UNH had a great season in 2005, but left with a bad taste in your mouths in the playoff loss to Northern Iowa. Does that provide any extra incentive heading into the 2006 campaign?

Ball: Oh it definitely does, we can’t stop thinking about. I still cringe when we see Northern Iowa. I was watching the NCAA basketball tournament and just seeing them get in, seeing the logo and seeing the purple and gold still makes me cringe. I ended up watching the I-AA playoffs a little while later, and I know we played well up and down against those guys and it was just a matter of turnovers. We had about 620 total yards, and it was our best production on total offense of the season. To come out with an L, it really hurts. But if you have eight turnovers, you aren’t going to win a playoff game against the top eight teams. We’re working on that in the offseason and hoping to make the next step.

(here's to hoping that we can put them in their place again this fall )

[Newsbreaker]

Memo to UNH:

Play someone, anyone, of any merit during the year, and you won't get dropped on your home field in the playoffs.

[Mountain Panther]

I hope UNH has at least one other decent receiver because Ball will be double-teamed all year.

[ralph]

Memo to UNH:
Play someone, anyone, of any merit during the year, and you won't get dropped on your home field in the playoffs.

Wow! How quickly you forget UNI's loss to an A-10 opponent in the playoffs. UC Davis, Towson, Dartmouth, Villanova, William and Mary, Rhode Island, Northeastern, Massachusetts, Hofstra, Maine, Colgate were all UNH wins (five opponents ranked during the season). UNI beat UNH by three points.

[SteinPizza]

I don't blame this kid for being pi$$ed. If the role's were reversed we'd be upset too. He's a tough player, and based on what I saw in the two UNH playoff games I watched, he'll be playing on Sunday after college. That having been said, if we play them again, someone should tell Dre Dokes that D Ball didn't have kind words for him after beating him for a TD late in the game. He said something like, "all american corner??? "F" that!" ESPN captured it perfectly, including the un-edited "F" bomb. I was so happy to see us beat them after hearing that.