Game 9 - Illinois State Redbirds

[BCPanther]

I know Mark bleeds purple. I know he's a valuable piece of the University.

It just can't be as head football coach anymore.

The fact that he and David both got extensions is absolutely infuriating.

[pnthr53]

There is only one stat that counts…win the game or lose the game….we are no threat in the valley anymore and we will be lucky to even make a playoff…and if we do…there is no chance of a title…win a game maybe but at the end of the day…Harris and farley need to go. No sugarcoating here….uni has become irrelevant over the last 10 years and the valley knows it. We are bottom half dwellers…MSU will beat us by 3 scores…I want my panthers to win games but the writing has been on the wall…6 and 5 at best this year…thanks mark…mediocre at its finest

[Leatherhelmet]

Is there a legitimate argument for not using the final timeout at the end?

We blew 10 seconds with 42 seconds left. Then we just walked off on second down on our 39 yardline…when one or two passes puts us in field goal range. Inexcusable.

[run&blade]

Funny how the only time that we can read your nihilistic posts are the weeks that the UNI Players lose.

Why is that, ma'am?

Sadly, I think you might be the AD posting. Nobody else is so clueless.

['70 Grad]

ISU had 164 total yards… and won the game. The defense was outstanding. The feel bad for them.

Gave up 6 first downs. Championship effort.

[BCPanther]

Gave up 6 first downs. Championship effort.

And two of them were penalties and one was the fake punt.

Gave up three legitimate first downs and one pass on a really well thrown ball and lost.

Just a catastrophe on offense.

[pnthr53]

Guess we gotta live with it until Farley retires….but I see future defenses getting gradually worse because the offense is so bad and kids won’t want to play here

[TravelingPanther]

Guess we gotta live with it until Farley retires….but I see future defenses getting gradually worse because the offense is so bad and kids won’t want to play here

If that was going to happen it already would have. This has been going on over a decade now.

[01PantherFan]

There is only one stat that counts…win the game or lose the game….we are no threat in the valley anymore and we will be lucky to even make a playoff…and if we do…there is no chance of a title…win a game maybe but at the end of the day…Harris and farley need to go. No sugarcoating here….uni has become irrelevant over the last 10 years and the valley knows it. We are bottom half dwellers…MSU will beat us by 3 scores…I want my panthers to win games but the writing has been on the wall…6 and 5 at best this year…thanks mark…mediocre at its finest

I agree and thats what i am saying yes he has the most wins in the MVFC but thats because he has been there 21 years, if you do the math I bet its not great per year into 21 years, second as I have said look at the talent, guys going to the NFL ect yet we have never won a title in fact never played for it but once, next we have multiple coaches in their set skill spots yet the same outcome, how can NDSU change coaches several times and still be one of the best in FCS ? I am guessing cause their HC lets the people he hires do their job, all points to we have a HC that thinks he needs to be in every call and no matter the talent it interferes with it , I really like Mark he has been such a great thing for UNI but we need a change we have continued to slip in the MVFC year after year and it wont stop until we do have a change, until then we will be a middle of the pack just sliding into the playoffs in some years only to be knocked out with no real chance of getting to the title game, we have the best conference in the FCS so that makes every game even harder but unless we change things we will be a middle of the pack team

[run&blade]

Most wins in the MVFC conference and zero nation titles equals a crappy AD in my book everyday all day.

letting Farley burned down the entire football program and taking the athletic department with it isn’t exactly a great thing to celebrate.

if you are not in the national title game once every six years you better have some darn good reasons or there is the door. That should be how UNI operates.

[vbfan19]

if you are not in the national title game once every six years you better have some darn good reasons or there is the door. That should be how UNI operates.

so by your standard, every UNI coach ever has been a failure, as has 99% of all other coaches. (there are only a handful in the history of I-AA/FCS football that have met those standards)

[run&blade]

so by your standard, every UNI coach ever has been a failure, as has 99% of all other coaches. (there are only a handful in the history of I-AA/FCS football that have met those standards)

UNI has advantages in FCS football other schools would kill for. Let’s not pretend this is Indiana St, well not yet.

I really don’t care anymore, I am like the 11-12 thousand empty seats in UNI dome. It’s easy to forget about UNI football, nobody in the media cares about FCS football so the pain goes away at the flip of a switch. If you didn’t go out of the way to find scores/standings you would never know it existed.

uni has their work cut out for them. Attendance isn’t coming back until they win in a major way. No amount of marketing or promotion will fix that now. A decade of garbage tends to do that.

[BCPanther]

Yep. Our ****ty facilities, budget that doesn't allow for the full number of scholarships and 50 year old stadium that's had next to no updates are sure advantages...

[run&blade]

Yep. Our ****ty facilities, budget that doesn't allow for the full number of scholarships and 50 year old stadium that's had next to no updates are sure advantages...

And the last decade of nut shots has nothing to do with it? Much of the damage is self inflicted.

If the Valley is the SEC of FCS they need to act like LSU, Alabama, and Georgia and not Vanderbilt.

the arguing is pointless, instead of a large fan base for UNI football we are down to a few people *****ing in a closet. You could throw water balloons into the west side of the stands and nobody would even get wet it’s so empty.

[vbfan19]

Yep. Our ****ty facilities, budget that doesn't allow for the full number of scholarships and 50 year old stadium that's had next to no updates are sure advantages...

since when does UNI not have the full number of scholarships?