***Game 13 (Playoff Edition): San Diego @UNI***

[TravelingPanther]

I don't want to argue what I don't know. There are a lot of knowledgeable Panther fans here.

I will leave this food for thought though: if he is not involved in individual play-calling why did we use back-to-back timeouts in the third quarter on third and fourth down. Our time out use to me is one of the biggest indicators that there is some dispute on play calling. We always seem to use timeouts in odd positions and the best explanation would be that there is not agreement on the play call.

[Mudrafan]

I was right along the sidelines for yesterday's game and didn't see him get involved in the playcalling one bit. That's not to say that he isn't involved in the week to week of it... but during the game yesterday, and in several other times in years past when I have been up close to it, he didn't do nearly as much as what is assumed.

He wears a headset...correct? And to me it’s irrelevant either way because he needs to be managing the game either way

[Blue42]

For those interested in the attendance numbers, UNIs attendance was 3rd highest of the 8 FCS playoff games played yesterday.

Behind Nicholls who drew 7k and SE LA who drew 4,100.

3 of the games were below 3k.

2 were below 2k.

[havok58]

For those interested in the attendance numbers, UNIs attendance was 3rd highest of the 8 FCS playoff games played yesterday.

Behind Nicholls who drew 7k and SE LA who drew 4,100.

3 of the games were below 3k.

2 were below 2k.

Wow. Those are some incredibly pathetic numbers. I read last year the second round and quarterfinals attendance numbers dropped from the first round. I hope that trend isn’t true this year.

[Trapped in California]

Anybody see the video of the end of the Villanova vs SE LA playoff game last night.

Nova lost in a shootout and got jobbed on maybe the worst offensive PI call I've ever seen with a couple minutes left in the game.

WR made an incredible one handed catch on a long ball and the ref said he pushed off but video says otherwise. Ref with best view said TD and another guy came in and called it.

Catch the video. It's crazy. Their coach lost his mind after the game and it's hard to blame him.

That was a weak call. Really weak.

[Blue42]

Wow. Those are some incredibly pathetic numbers. I read last year the second round and quarterfinals attendance numbers dropped from the first round. I hope that trend isn’t true this year.

NDSU, Montana, Montana State and JMU will bring the numbers up in the 2nd round. But those schools are anomolies relative to the typical FCS teams due to geography, etc.

Will be interesting to see what Sac State draws in their first playoff game...and also what Central Arkansas and Weber each draw.

SDSU will be light given their late season swoon and cold weather.

By the way...I think that Weber v Kennesaw game will be a really interesting one on Sat. Kennesaw runs a wild looking variation of the triple option. See how Weber handles it.

[Trapped in California]

Historically Sac St attendence has amounted to people parking in the stadium lot to get to the nearby shopping & restaurants. Maybe things have changed...

['70 Grad]

[QUOTE=havok58;n694512]

Wow. Those are some incredibly pathetic numbers. .


Explains the 400 mile bus "rule." $ Doesn't explain lack of visitor attendance.

[SoccerDobber]

I was right along the sidelines for yesterday's game and didn't see him get involved in the playcalling one bit. That's not to say that he isn't involved in the week to week of it... but during the game yesterday, and in several other times in years past when I have been up close to it, he didn't do nearly as much as what is assumed.

I wasn't there but watched on tv. There was once where the camera caught the OC looking over to Farley on 3rd down and Farley mouthed something to him and then he flipped his paper over and called a play. Believe it was 4th quarter when we threw that half harded slant to Lane on 3rd down.

Anyone else catch that?

[vbfan19]

in today's weekly press conference, Farley said that teams are allowed to dress 64 players for these playoff games, and this past week was the first playoff game in his coaching career where he didn't dress the full amount of players because we didn't have that many healthy players.
yikes.

[Blue42]

in today's weekly press conference, Farley said that teams are allowed to dress 64 players for these playoff games, and this past week was the first playoff game in his coaching career where he didn't dress the full amount of players because we didn't have that many healthy players.
yikes.

So I counted and there are 98 guys on the roster...excluding the 4 guys listed at the end who have had career ending injuries.

That would mean 35 or more guys are out with injury.

That's 36%+ of the roster.

[achrist70]

I wasn't there but watched on tv. There was once where the camera caught the OC looking over to Farley on 3rd down and Farley mouthed something to him and then he flipped his paper over and called a play. Believe it was 4th quarter when we threw that half harded slant to Lane on 3rd down.

Anyone else catch that?

I was sitting in the front row, and he said to him do you want me to run the ball?

[vbfan19]

So I counted and there are 98 guys on the roster...excluding the 4 guys listed at the end who have had career ending injuries.

That would mean 35 or more guys are out with injury.

That's 36%+ of the roster.

just passing along what he said. the presser can be watched on the unipanthers website

[SoccerDobber]

I was sitting in the front row, and he said to him do you want me to run the ball?

Thank you for the insight. I wondered what was said. I was actually surprised we threw it.

[UNIdad]

I was sitting in the front row, and he said to him do you want me to run the ball?

Apparently Farley needs that flesh-colored mouth-veil that Mike Leach talks about!

https://www.12up.com/posts/video-mike-leach-bizarrely-suggests-coaches-use-football-veils-to-prevent-lip-reading-01dqraxetva5