worst defensive performance ever.....

[unifan]

The defense didn't play that great, but this was just one game, and North Dakota was a pretty good team. It really sucked to watch that kind of performance, but UNI's gonna come back strong in the next couple weeks with some big wins. It's just going into the 3rd week of the season, so there's a lot of football left to be played. UNI will come out on top.

[heartofpurple]

it will be interesting to see how the season goes
last season was last season

[Panthers#1]

What the hell is up with our offensive play calling? I mean when you run the same play 10 times in a row and you only gain 5 yards, you would think that one of the coaches would say, "Hey maybe we should think about passing the ball." I think Bill Salmon (our O-coordinator) needs to open up the playbook a little and actually use our superstar quarterback. If he doesn't, every team we play will be able to predict what our offense is going to do.

As for our defense there is only one word to describe it: SUCK! I will describe what we need to do for next weeks game in two words: NOT SUCK! Hopefully our defensive players and coaches will pull their heads out of their butts before next weeks game. If we don't, the season is over.

[northwest iowa panther]

northwest iowa panther

As a famous coach once said "You're never as good as you look on your good days (Drake) and you're never as bad as you look on your bad days (UND)."

Great athletes easily make good plays on defense when they don't have to think--just react. We had a lot of presnap confusion and that's not good. That is a coaching problem and is correctable. These guys are going to be fun to watch when they can just react.

Don't blame the "O" line for all of the problems in the first half with pass protection. With moving fronts and stunting linebackers, reads and adjustments to "slide" and "pick" extra rushers have to be made by linemen and running backs alike. It looked like the first half our running backs missed a number of blocks and the second half they did much better. Also our receivers did not do a particular good job of moving when Sanders broke contain.

"You're never as good as you look on you goo . . . . . . . . . . "

All those things that are negative are correctable and I'm sure they will be. Many were corrected first to second half. Our biggest mistake was playing Drake.

[TravelingPanther]

NO freakin way...not even close. Sounds like a comment from a hawkeye fan.

We would have a chance against Ohio St or USC?

The #1 team in I-AA would get blown out by the #1 team in I-A. The #1 team in D-II would have a chance in a game against the #1 team in I-AA. If you don't believe me check the stats. At least 2 or 3 I-AA national champions have lost to Division II teams in the same season they won their championship.

[Cap'n Cat]

Take it easy, everyone! It's just a game. It's just business.

Let's move on!


The goals now are to win the conference and get in the playoffs.

There will be UNI football tomorrow and forever and we'll have bad games and bad seasons from time to time. Keep it together........


"Hey, boys - modesty in victory, graciousness in defeat."

[UNI MadCat]

Not true. This has happened to many teams that actually made it to the I-AA championship game. Go to anygivensaturday.com to view the thread discussing the topic.

North Dakota is good. Division doesn't matter. Look at all the I-AA wins over I-A. D-II is much closed to I-AA than I-AA is to I-A.

Could you post the link?? I'm curious as to these "stats".

I guess my thought is that the D-II/I-AA gap vs. the I-AA/I-A gap is not 'much closer' as you say, but "somewhat" closer instead. My guess is that the top-level I-As are a lot better than I-AAs, but on the whole, who knows? Don't we generally accept that UNI could beat anyone in the lower third of I-A and could be competitive with all of the middle-third?? I-AA offers 20 less schollies than I-A. Whereas, D-II offers like 30 or 35 less than I-AA, which is why I question the "much close(r)" statement.

[NorthernIowaBacker]

We would have a chance against Ohio St or USC?

The #1 team in I-AA would get blown out by the #1 team in I-A. The #1 team in D-II would have a chance in a game against the #1 team in I-AA. If you don't believe me check the stats. At least 2 or 3 I-AA national champions have lost to Division II teams in the same season they won their championship.

You are making way too much of a general statement, and it makes no sense. Pretty easy to say "well the worst NFL team would be blown away by the best NFL team." You cant use the teams you mentioned in I-A. First you used much too broad of a generalization...then you pinpointed to a few teams that are in a league of their own. Do you research.

[NorthernIowaBacker]

Could you post the link?? I'm curious as to these "stats".

I-AA offers 20 less schollies than I-A. Whereas, D-II offers like 30 or 35 less than I-AA, which is why I question the "much close(r)" statement.

This is very good logic.

[TravelingPanther]

Could you post the link?? I'm curious as to these "stats".

I guess my thought is that the D-II/I-AA gap vs. the I-AA/I-A gap is not 'much closer' as you say, but "somewhat" closer instead. My guess is that the top-level I-As are a lot better than I-AAs, but on the whole, who knows? Don't we generally accept that UNI could beat anyone in the lower third of I-A and could be competitive with all of the middle-third?? I-AA offers 20 less schollies than I-A. Whereas, D-II offers like 30 or 35 less than I-AA, which is why I question the "much close(r)" statement.

You are making way too much of a general statement, and it makes no sense. Pretty easy to say "well the worst NFL team would be blown away by the best NFL team." You cant use the teams you mentioned in I-A. First you used much too broad of a generalization...then you pinpointed to a few teams that are in a league of their own. Do you research.

I guess I don't have the time to do the research on this. It was a thread on AGS within the last week or so. I don't really care to argue, especially with panther fans, and especially on a message board. Fact is, UND was a great team. Who cares what division they play. They played good football, we didn't play anywhere near as well. move on, next game please.

[Cap'n Cat]

Fact is, UND was a great team. Who cares what division they play. They played good football, we didn't play anywhere near as well. move on, next game please.

Agreed.