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

[vbfan19]

It's common in the FCS playoffs to understate your attendance.

or do they overstate the regular season attendance?

We'll you don't really know what the bid was or what the real gate was but be as negative as possible.

just going off the official stats and doing the math.
You're right, I don't know what the bid was (I doubt you do either), although I saw something somewhere saying that the North Dakota bid was around $80K (but obviously not enough to get them a home game compared to Nicholls State's bid)

[Blue42]

or do they overstate the regular season attendance?


just going off the official stats and doing the math.
You're right, I don't know what the bid was (I doubt you do either), although I saw something somewhere saying that the North Dakota bid was around $80K (but obviously not enough to get them a home game compared to Nicholls State's bid)

They wouldn't have to beat North Dakotas bid.

They'd only have to beat the San Diego bid...which was either the minimum or no bid at all.

I don't know what it was either...but unless you have real facts leave the misery conjecture in the can.

[DownGoesKansas]

Attendance number seems reasonable, pathetic but probably accurate.

That was also probably the worst UNI offensive performance I have ever witnessed live.

[vbfan19]

They wouldn't have to beat North Dakotas bid.

They'd only have to beat the San Diego bid...which was either the minimum or no bid at all.

I don't know what it was either...but unless you have real facts leave the misery conjecture in the can

Bid amounts are submitted prior to knowing who you are going to face. So it isn't like UNI could just try to outbid San Diego. So I suppose it is possible that the bid that UNI submitted was under that amount, but I wouldn't put money on it.

[Blue42]

A few comments from tonight...

Good and bad.

1. Our defense was fantastic. Just awesome all night.

2. Farley's use of TO's was bizarre. Had 3 to use late 1st half with USD driving and his D tired and didn't use one. Then burns 3 in the 3rd qtr of a close game. One on 3rd and 10 but apparently didn't decide at that time if he'd punt of try FG if had an incompletion so burned another. That's not impressive coaching. Gotta do two things at once.

3. The officiating was also bizarre. USD was holding constantly and should have had 8-10 flags at least. I believe they had one. Our DL were going to the refs to plead their case repeatedly. I've rarely seen that. Really a bad job. The white hat could not have been worse.

4. Looks like we perhaps lost Kolarevic, Weston and Trevon Alexander tonight with injuries. The real downside of having to play one extra game.

5. McShane did play some tonight but never got targeted with a throw.

6. We need Briley Moore back in the worst way. No idea if he's gonna go next week but that would be big.

7. Suni Lane continues to develop as a WR and made some big catches tonight.

Let's go get the Jacks.

[DownGoesKansas]

A few comments from tonight...

Good and bad.

1. Our defense was fantastic. Just awesome all night.

2. Farley's use of TO's was bizarre. Had 3 to use late 1st half with USD driving and his D tired and didn't use one. Then burns 3 in the 3rd qtr of a close game. One on 3rd and 10 but apparently didn't decide at that time if he'd punt of try FG if had an incompletion so burned another. That's not impressive coaching. Gotta do two things at once.

3. The officiating was also bizarre. USD was holding constantly and should have had 8-10 flags at least. I believe they had one. Our DL were going to the refs to plead their case repeatedly. I've rarely seen that. Really a bad job. The white hat could not have been worse.

4. Looks like we perhaps lost Kolarevic, Weston and Trevon Alexander tonight with injuries. The real downside of having to play one extra game.

5. McShane did play some tonight but never got targeted with a throw.

6. We need Briley Moore back in the worst way. No idea if he's gonna go next week but that would be big.

7. Suni Lane continues to develop as a WR and made some big catches tonight.

Let's go get the Jacks.

Weston shouldn't have been playing. He obviously wasn't healthy after getting "hurt" after basically every catch. Then getting hurt for real.

[Mudrafan]

So the team and coaching staff is pouting and playing like crap to show everyone that they didn’t desreve a seed?

No. The team isn’t as good and as well coached and as exciting as it used to be. Although I’m quite sure I’m expecting too much and having a shade of revisionism. A lot of this is simply the natural order of an older coach not wanting to let go. In the end, it’s up to the administration to make that call. And folks, we are spoiled, let’s face it. We do have high expectations and should. It’s an extremely complicated issue at the fcs level and in UNI’s situation. No easy answers.

[ronfitch]

3743 according to the box score.

Rima said the same number in the postgame show. My understanding is that for the playoff games, it is actual turnstyle count rather than tickets sold.

Smallest playoff crowd in the Dome.

Next is YSU in '87 (also Thanksgiving weekend at 3,887), then '18 and '17 Thanksgiving weekends with 4,082 and 4,095, respectively.

[vbfan19]

My understanding is that for the playoff games, it is actual turnstyle count rather than tickets sold.

how many people are really gonna buy tickets and not go?
it isn't like the regular season where there are season tickets and the like.

[vbfan19]

3. The officiating was also bizarre. USD was holding constantly and should have had 8-10 flags at least. I believe they had one. Our DL were going to the refs to plead their case repeatedly. I've rarely seen that. Really a bad job. The white hat could not have been worse.

I believe it was a SoCon crew

[ronfitch]

how many people are really gonna buy tickets and not go?
it isn't like the regular season where there are season tickets and the like.

Maybe a handful.

[TravelingPanther]

A few comments from tonight...

Good and bad.

1. Our defense was fantastic. Just awesome all night.

2. Farley's use of TO's was bizarre. Had 3 to use late 1st half with USD driving and his D tired and didn't use one. Then burns 3 in the 3rd qtr of a close game. One on 3rd and 10 but apparently didn't decide at that time if he'd punt of try FG if had an incompletion so burned another. That's not impressive coaching. Gotta do two things at once.

3. The officiating was also bizarre. USD was holding constantly and should have had 8-10 flags at least. I believe they had one. Our DL were going to the refs to plead their case repeatedly. I've rarely seen that. Really a bad job. The white hat could not have been worse.

4. Looks like we perhaps lost Kolarevic, Weston and Trevon Alexander tonight with injuries. The real downside of having to play one extra game.

5. McShane did play some tonight but never got targeted with a throw.

6. We need Briley Moore back in the worst way. No idea if he's gonna go next week but that would be big.

7. Suni Lane continues to develop as a WR and made some big catches tonight.

Let's go get the Jacks.

There were no holds called on them tonight. The flag that was thrown on their offensive line was a crack-back block in the 4th quarter.

[DownGoesKansas]

There were no holds called on them tonight. The flag that was thrown on their offensive line was a crack-back block in the 4th quarter.

Yep, with a blatant hold that was missed.

[95UNIGRAD]

Attendance number seems reasonable, pathetic but probably accurate.

That was also probably the worst UNI offensive performance I have ever witnessed live.

You must not have seen the performance against Lehigh in the playoffs in the dome a few years back, then.

[achrist70]

I’ve had something that has been bothering me, watching a lot of football I’ve noticed that the teams that run the ball very well almost always have wife splits, we always have very narrow splits with allows the d line to squeeze together, seems to me to be a problem for us.