Game 7- at the Jacks

[BCPanther]

Why wasn’t Flater playing much earlier ?

still working back from last seasons surgery ?

Yep. That surgery is typically a 6 month recovery that he tried to do in 4. He's going to have another procedure to clean it out after the season.

[JCPanthers]

Yes, Justin has done an outstanding job at SDSU. During the halftime ESPN3 interview with Brad Wells, he also mentioned that Brookings' First Bank and Trust gave $20 million to their athletics facilities renovations! Do we have a Cedar Valley financial institution that would make that kind of contribution to our program? I doubt it very much.

The change in culture to the tailgating atmosphere had little to do with fundraising. Their “tailgate” area when Justin arrived was a small area that you had to RSVP prior and sign a contract that you would abide by their rules. That area also had about as many police officers patrolling the area as tailgaters.

Now their upgrade in facilities was definitely a direct result of fundraising. And having a $2 billion+ Bank like First Bank & Trust based in Brookings does not hurt. So to answer your question, no we do not have any financial institution that is probably capable to making that type of donation…due to no institution coming close to that size that is based in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area…with maybe Veridian being the only one?

[BCPanther]

The change in culture to the tailgating atmosphere had little to do with fundraising. Their “tailgate” area when Justin arrived was a small area that you had to RSVP prior and sign a contract that you would abide by their rules. That area also had about as many police officers patrolling the area as tailgaters.

Now their upgrade in facilities was definitely a direct result of fundraising. And having a $2 billion+ Bank like First Bank & Trust based in Brookings does not hurt. So to answer your question, no we do not have any financial institution that is probably capable to making that type of donation…due to no institution coming close to that size that is based in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area…with maybe Veridian being the only one?

Veridian for sure and LSB has assets at $1.5 billion so they'd be able as well.

[Panther'73]

Panther ‘73, how’d you post … nothing?

It will let me quote you, but then displays nothing from your post.

I think I used emojis not accepted by PN

[ronfitch]

Veridian for sure and LSB has assets at $1.5 billion so they'd be able as well.

More than $5 billion in assets, according to their online annual report:

https://www.veridiancu.org/webres/file/annual-reports/2020AnnualReport.pdf

[PantherAlum09]

I didn't catch as much of this game as I wanted but there is so much talent on this team if they can put it together. Weston is an absolute game changer at WR. His speed/size combo is well beyond the FCS level if he can stay healthy. He does have some concentration issues with drops from time to time but the amount of times he is wide open beyond the defense is incredible.

Matthew Cook... Holy cow... I was so nervous for the kick to put them up 26-17 but he nailed it and then some. That could have changed the game if he missed.

I agree with others' sentiments regarding the lack of aggression in the 4th quarter. The basic vanilla run-run-pass allowed SDSU to stay way closer than they should've. Just once, it would be nice to run away with one.

Huge win! Let's keep those coming!

[clenz]

The late game base offense is frustrating

as someone that was there I can tell you that the SDSU offense truly wasn’t a threat to overcome the halftime deficit, especially as the game wore on. You could feel it. Heck, you could see it. I watched their players literally quit during the the game. You could see their spirits break after that first quarter.

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

i didn't watch the full game until Sunday Morning...but what i saw saturday...and when i saw it all sunday...that game wasn't as close as the score. With us taking away the run game they just were not really a threat.

i do agree...sometimes i'd like to see us put our foot on a teams throat a little so to speak but Farley is old school...i've got an elite D...i'm going to keep the clock running and lean on them when i don't think they can move the ball on us.

[Blue42]

Watched the game on replay.

Jacks couldn't catch a pass. They left some plays out there.

We were more physical on both sides of the ball.

Good to see Dearman come in and play a good game at Safety. Not an easy spot to step into.

Keep getting Vance McShane the ball. Good things happen.

[ronfitch]

Watched the game on replay.

Jacks couldn't catch a pass. They left some plays out there.

We were more physical on both sides of the ball.

Good to see Dearman come in and play a good game at Safety. Not an easy spot to step into.

Keep getting Vance McShane the ball. Good things happen.

Pros:
Matthew Cook;

Time of Possession was in UNI's favor by nearly 10 minutes - that is good for everybody;

Passing completions averaged 11 yards per ATTEMPT and more than 21 yards per COMPLETION - Day made at least two underthrows that were caught and at least one uncaught overthrow (one to Westin might have been a 97-yarder) that would have bumped these up even more (UNI is now averaging more than 8 yards per attempt for the season);

Penalties were down to 3 for 38 yards;

Murphy dropped 3 of 5 punts inside the 20

Still gotta work on:
Third-down conversions - 4 of 15 (following 2 of 10 against SD, 3 of 13 against NDSU and 0-8 against YSU);

Even with UNI's defense strong and a big lead (by recent standards), I still was frustrated with the play calling in the second half and, frankly, did not rule out letting them back in it until it was under 30 seconds left in the game.