***Game Thread Iowa, Week 2***

[vbfan19]

I think all the D1 Iowa schools should play each other as much as possible. Keep that FBS money in the state for the smaller schools.

The only D1 Iowa school that will ever play Drake in football is UNI. wins over non-scholly teams don't count toward bowl eligibility

[havok58]

Good PI call, but the announcers said bad call, that’s good defense? Granted I have some slightly purple tinted shades on but it looked Gervase grabbed Moore’s arm a bit.

[havok58]

Question - where is Marcus Weymiller?

no idea. He was there opening drive and then he disappeared. Did I miss him getting hurt?

[strike00]

Good pitch and catch.

[havok58]

Yay! Avoided the shutout

[Blue42]

Can we get 5 more guys like Briley Moore.

He plays with some serious attitude. Love to watch him play. Comes with bad intent.

[95UNIGRAD]

Does moines will never drive by tailgate heaven in Ames to drive to Cedar Falls.

#1 is win a lot. Uni draws well when they are winning and highly ranked. The last decade uni seems to be done before the first home game. At the very least the buzz is gone.

#2 do what ever you can to embrace tailgating even more. Not even sure what that would be but try and make it even better. Perhaps the Iowa Craft Beer bus

#3 sell beer inside the dome and price it cheap.

Seriously, a new head coach is needed. My group has started tailgating at ISU on some off weeks. I don’t care about ISU but the tailgating is fun and frankly, tired of getting my hopes up.

Number one is completely accurate. Every year we schedule tough FCS teams and an FBS team on the road and usually don't end up at home until the end of September. How does this happen every single year? By the time we finally play a home game, we're 0-2 or 0-3, and any buzz there would be about the team is completely gone. People are savvy enough now that they know the only games that really count for the Panthers are their October/November run that hopefully gets them to seven/eight wins and a playoff berth.

My apathy for this team right now is about as high as it's ever been. I've donated in the past, I have bought season tickets in the past, but my interest level just isn't there anymore. It's like watching a rerun of the same show over and over again, but it's not something good, it's something that's boring or too predictable to watch. I don't even get upset when we lose anymore, and I guess that's a bad sign.

Something needs to change.

[Blue42]

Well....if nothing else...Eli's got his b*lls back.
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Great catch by Nissen.

[achrist70]

This team has played with no attitude, especially the defense. UNI football from 2005-2008 walked on the field every game and mentally expected to dominate, we haven’t had that consistently since.

[havok58]

A Weymiller sighting with 3 minutes left! What happened to him in between? Just not physical enough to play against Iowa? I think he’s a playmaker, just curious to the coaching mindset if they sat him and he wasn’t hurt.

[pantherfan73]

A Weymiller sighting with 3 minutes left! What happened to him in between? Just not physical enough to play against Iowa? I think he’s a playmaker, just curious to the coaching mindset if they sat him and he wasn’t hurt.

I agree that I thought he was a playmaker. From what I saw last year and what I read and heard from media reports I figured he would be playing. Injury in Montana maybe?

[Blue42]

A Weymiller sighting with 3 minutes left! What happened to him in between? Just not physical enough to play against Iowa? I think he’s a playmaker, just curious to the coaching mindset if they sat him and he wasn’t hurt.

Weymiller's got turf toe. Take it easy.

[vbfan19]

It isn't fair to judge an FCS season by a loss to a Big Ten program.
But it isn't like this team has shown anything elsewhere either.

[SteinPizza]

i think Eli looks fine. Receivers can’t catch and the Oline can’t handle the the Iowa Dline.

Eli in the 2nd half is the bright spot in this game. No offense to Howell, but the offense has way more potential with Eli. However, UNI’s receivers are weaker as a group this year than I thought, at least so far. We can’t afford the drops we’ve seen so far this season. Loosing Weston hurts more than I thought it would. Briley Moore, however, is setting himself up for a really nice year.

[sevelev711]

My thing is that we don't need to schedule hard. Like, sure, schedule the game against an FBS school, get that fat 500k from Iowa/ISU. But then play the schmuck teams. Because yes, it's a lot easier to sell a crowd on a 2-1 team than a 0-2 team. Doesn't matter who they played to get there, the MVFC is strong enough that a positive record will be good enough to get into the playoffs.

I saw someone suggest this, don't remember who, but their idea was to hardly leave the state of Iowa. Play at Iowa/ISU, host/go to Drake, have a low tier FCS/D=II buy game at home. That'd be great. It's neat to have the quality home and homes, but it's not like that many more people would show up for Cal Poly/Eastern Washington than they would for Upper Iowa.