Panthers v. Sycamores

[merkpanthers]

I have seen nothing from either Whitney Lewis or Terrell Allen that has made me impressed with them since the Drake game. When Corey Lewis comes back, Whitney Lewis should be benched because he has fumbled so many times and yesterday he was the basically the 4th leading rusher on the team as the 1st string RB. Are you kidding me?!?!?! D. Williams, Bradley and Sanders (1 yard short) were all ahead of Lewis running the ball. Allen was the 4th leading receiver for the game. Granted we didn't pass the ball much, but Allen hasn't done much except for the KO return for a TD against Drake. Both of these transfers have put the ball on the ground way too many times...PERIOD. We will have to cut down on our turnovers and penalties if we are going to have a chance to beat YSU next week. Let's go get 'em Panthers!!!!

[DrewDog]

Doug Newhoff with the Courier had a great line this morning in his article about the game: "A Memorial Stadium crowd generously announced at 2,376, but more likely numbering around 800 saw UNI set the tone in the opening quarter".

Take the band away there was probably only 500 fans there. I counted that there were close to 100 UNI fans on the visitor side of the stands.

[Born-a-Panther]

For those of you who didn't get to see it... I've added a picture to the Media gallery of what the crowd looked like at Indiana State. Keep in mind, there's only one side of bleachers, so what you see in the picture is the total crowd count. (Plus the UNI fans off to the side that aren't in the picture).

http://media.panthernation.com/albums/2006+Football/311.aspx

[AmesPanther]

Wow. I'd say high school games do get more attendance.

[Marc Wigim]

That's kind of sad.

[Born-a-Panther]

That's kind of sad.

Yea it really is. I met the guy yesterday that is in charge of the fundraising for the Sycamores. I do not envy him at all.

[DrewDog]

In today's Indy Star there was story that the dean of ISU's College of Business has resigned because of the "current climate" of the university and its direction. Sounds like the institution has some real issues.

[Marc Wigim]

Does anyone have any idea what's going on there? I always thought that Indiana State was a prouder institution than that. For example, there's a guy on Valleytalk right now who, every chance he gets, says "We suck. We need to dump football." (to paraphrase.) Shouldn't that be : "We suck. We need to get BETTER?"

I don't understand that mentality. You make your weak programs BETTER, you don't cut them.

[unigriff]

Its simple: WINNING = HIGHER ATTENDANCE

WINNING A LOT = SELL OUTS

[dragon]

I think it would also be hard to recruit. Who wants to play in front of a 30 people for home games?

[UNIPNTHR]

It's kind of a catch 22 for a program of that stature. Can't recruit because there's no winning tradition or fanbase. But how do you start a winning tradition and grow a fan base unless you can recruit better players?? Tough spot to be in.

Also to the comment on make football better rather than cut it. I agree they should try to improve. But if it's as bad as it looks, and they lose a bunch of money every year on all of those scholarships, equipment and stadium upkeep, maybe they'd be better off allocating those dollars to a more successful program.

[Matt Trump]

If Southern Illinois could do it, than Indiana State can do it.

[B.True]

having lived in Indiana for a little while now, i think one of the major problems in recruiting is that no one knows about I-AA scholarship football. now, there is butler and valparaiso that are I-AA non-scholarship in the state and it seems like everyone thinks ISU, BU and VU are on the same playing field, when if ISU played those two teams, they'd win hands down ... this state really doesn't care about I-AA. they've got ND, Purdue, IU ...then no matter where you live in the state you have at least 2 NFL teams within a 2-3 hour drive with the Colts, Bears, Lions, Bengals, Rams (heck even the Titans are about a 3 hour drive from the southern part of Indiana if the cops don't pick you up going 90 through Kentucky) ... ... to me, with the D1's, NFL and high school ball, it seems like enough football for people in this state

also, if you lose all the time and are in a town of just 40,000 people, thats just a bad combination when there are 12 college football games on TV every weekend ....

they could turn it around...maybe lou west is the guy just like jerry kill was the guy in carbondale...

[Panthers to the Bone]

I thought that Parsons had two INT's. The stats only say he had one. Did I hear Rima and Petey wrong?

[Born-a-Panther]

I thought that Parsons had two INT's. The stats only say he had one. Did I hear Rima and Petey wrong?

You didn't hear wrong. They're ruling it as a fumble recovery I believe -- they're sayin the Ind. St. guy caught it, had complete control, and then lost it. To most of us it looked more like an incomplete pass that basically bounced off the Ind. St. guy and Parsons picked off.