Bye Week Game Thread....

[DomeIsHome]

Happy Bye week everyone! I figured there'd be some talk about other games this week, so I thought I'd open a new thread for it.

I'll be out of the house most of the day but feel free to run rampant in here

Other MVFC games:
Illinois State (2-0) at Missouri State (1-2)

Robert Morris (2-1) at NDSU (2-0)

Western Illinois (2-0) vs Coastal Carolina (1-1)

Southern Illinois (2-0) vs Memphis (2-0)

[sevelev711]

Didn't lose this week, woo!

[BCPanther]

Bad news guys, Bye runs the option. They're going to throw for 450...

[TravelingPanther]

Our offense still couldn't finish in the end zone today.

[UNIdad]

No injuries to report from the game.

[panther-state]

Western beat the snot out of Coastal. Have they fallen that far so quickly?

[DomeIsHome]

Or is Western that good?

[sevelev711]

Or is Western that good?

Yes to both, is my guess.

[Blue42]

Little known fact...Dalton Demos...who was with UNI the last 2 seasons as a QB and WR...is the #2 QB for Coastal Carolina.

Went 0-2 with a pick yesterday.

[TravelingPanther]

Little known fact...Dalton Demos...who was with UNI the last 2 seasons as a QB and WR...is the #2 QB for Coastal Carolina.

Went 0-2 with a pick yesterday.

He started school there. I hadn't heard he went back. Grad transfer?

[ronfitch]

He started school there. I hadn't heard he went back. Grad transfer?

Yes, graduated from UNI in December.

http://www.goccusports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/dalton_demos_804626.html

[clenz]

I don't know how he has any eligibility left

2012 - Voluntary redshirt. Per his bio he was scout team POW going into 2 different game - one of which was ODU. IIRC CCU/ODU was a playoff game in 2012. ODU was something like 10-1 going into that game. I'm 99% sure they were the 4 seed that year. CCU got pretty well boat raced by them in the second weekend of the playoffs

2013: He played in 13 games

2014: He was at a JUCO

2015: He was at UNI and played in 4 games - which is more than the 1/3rd rule the NCAA uses for medical waivers

2016: Missed full season and could have been a medical waiver

2017: At CCU again.

That's 6 years.

He took a voluntary redshirt - which is like ground #1 for not getting a medical.

That means he, and CCU claimed, he missed 2012 with an injury and then 2016 with an injury. Again, it appears he took a voluntary RS as a fresman in 2012. If he was scout team POW going into a December playoff game he certainly shouldn't qualify for a 6th year as the only other year he missed that could be counted is last year. 2015 he played in 4 of 11. That's 36.36% of the season. That doesn't qualify for the medical stipulation. Even more confusing is the medial rule is 30% of the season and no games in the second half of the season. If he was injured in 2012 how does the second half rule not apply to practice like that as well? It's clear he could have played. He was scout team POW in December.

I'm guessing CCU found someway to "backlog" injury from his time in 2012. They then, magically, had injury records from that season that included him and presented those to the NCAA as part of his waiver request. The NCAA, not giving a damn, about low G5 or lower said "Yeah, whatever, don't care. Go a head and play"


My guess is CCU did this because he is like their 10th QB in the last 2 years. They had 8 guys throw multiple passes last year. To the point they were playing WRs and RBs at QB full time due to injuries. They've played 3 in 3 games this year. The entire reason he's back out there is they need bodies and found a way to circumvent the medial waiver, somehow.

Want to know how bad the NCAA is at ruling on these things? Grant Gibbs got one and in no world should he have. Drew Ott was denied. The Big 10 approved Ott's, the NCAA denied it. Not only that, it took 7 months for the NCAA to rule on it - causing him to miss all of the NFL draft workouts.

[clenz]

My concern for this program, right now, is our run game.

Mike Simmonds was brought in to bring this bad ass, take no prisoner, style of play. Where is that? Our line is still playing soft. I don't know if it's scheme. I don't know if it's talent. I don't know if it's attitude. I don't know what it is, but it needs to change.

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

Clenz - I couldn't agree more. Physically the line looks the part. Not sure if it's a matter or meshing and finding the right mix of guys with the right attitude or what. But if that piece comes together I think we could see really good things from this team. But that's a big IF...so we'll see what we get coming out of the bye week.

I'm also curious about Rima and Weymiller and what their status is coming out of the bye with neither having played since the first quarter of Cal Poly.

I'm certain we won't know of any real changes in the two deep or who's available until 6 on Saturday unless someone has some inside knowledge.

[Blue42]

Curious on what lineup changes we'll see this week.

Wouldn't be surprised to see a RS or two come off Saturday.