South Dakota State

[UNI MadCat]

I mean this with most sincerity possible.

Go **** yourself and never ever ****ing come back your worthless, insignificant, miserable troll.

Ben Jacobson ****ed his girlfriend and makes more money than he does or something at some point and he's so insanely jealous that every time he can take an anonymous shot at him he does. It's sad, sad little man syndrome.

Dude. Chill out.

I get why you don’t like the guy but tell me where he was wrong in his post. It was asinine to throw a guy out there that didn’t know what he was doing.

[BrockLesnar]

Overall, great effort, today. We just can't seem to convert on third down. Two to one on turnovers never helps. They played really hard and I feel bad for them. Why can't we have good things?

[vbfan19]

Two to one on turnovers never helps.

the first turnover wasn't that bad. If that pass had fallen incomplete instead of getting picked, we would have punted. possibly pinned them deep, but a good chance of them getting it at the 20 (or busting a return, which they seemed to be doing on all our punts). Instead, they got it on the 35, and ended up punting it back to us and we drove down and scored (unless I'm misremembering that series)

[BrockLesnar]

the first turnover wasn't that bad. If that pass had fallen incomplete instead of getting picked, we would have punted. possibly pinned them deep, but a good chance of them getting it at the 20 (or busting a return, which they seemed to be doing on all our punts). Instead, they got it on the 35, and ended up punting it back to us and we drove down and scored (unless I'm misremembering that series)

Of course, our penalties almost always push us over the cliff too.

[QCPanther05]

What was game day atmosphere like? I am wondering if David’s ticket deal worked to get people in the door.

I only watched the first half because I had to go out to dinner, but I was very pleased with what I saw. The box score shows that we hung with them toe to toe all game. Then it looks like we crapped the bed with two minutes to go. Whatever, proud of the guys for hanging in there. They looked good.

This is probably UNI football for the foreseeable future, as long as Farley is here. Name a coach who has coached somewhere for 20 years and has gotten *better* with time. The program will just never grow while he is coaching and we need to accept that. It is what it is. We just have to sit there and wait until he retires for our program to have any sort of spark. We will just have to wait him out for five or ten years to actually start growing the program. We will be re-building from WIU levels by then.

[BrockLesnar]

What was game day atmosphere like? I am wondering if David’s ticket deal worked to get people in the door.

I only watched the first half because I had to go out to dinner, but I was very pleased with what I saw. The box score shows that we hung with them toe to toe all game. Then it looks like we crapped the bed with two minutes to go. Whatever, proud of the guys for hanging in there. They looked good.

This is probably UNI football for the foreseeable future, as long as Farley is here. Name a coach who has coached somewhere for 20 years and has gotten *better* with time. The program will just never grow while he is coaching and we need to accept that. It is what it is. We just have to sit there and wait until he retires for our program to have any sort of spark. We will just have to wait him out for five or ten years to actually start growing the program. We will be re-building from WIU levels by then.

The problem is we don't have the funds for better and firing him would most likely result in less for the replacement with poor results.

[pnthr53]

The dome gnome showed up tonight with a gift miss out of sdsu but our own stupidity cost us a chance to win in overtime….

[PantherAlum09]

I’m kind of surprised how many people on this site were ok with the loss and just kind of expected it. I honestly didn’t with the way we have been playing lately. I expected it to be close, but I also thought we had a great shot at winning. Nothing from what I saw yesterday changed my mind about that. We were our own worst enemy. To me, the biggest killers were the tipped pass interceptions, and Caleb Sanders just annihilating our interior o-line on third down plays. He’s a stud. I was very impressed with his ability to get pressure up the middle.

The other big one was our 3rd down defense. It was better in the second half, but we had some missed opportunities to get off the field. With all of these issues we still had a chance to win it at the end, but just couldn’t put a drive together. We are every bit as dangerous as SDSU. We may not have shown it at the beginning of the year but this team is very different and deserves to be considered for the playoffs. Go beat the Yotes in a couple weeks

[BCPanther]

We played great.

Holding them to 31 points is a really nice effort with what they can do offensively. The second tipped interception is probably what swung it in the end. Heartbreaking.

Shout out to Carter Hewitt and Canon Butler for stepping up and playing their tails off while being thrown into the fire as the guys that had to deal with the bulk of that offensive line all night.

As of right now, there definitely aren't 24 teams better than us, there aren't 12 teams better than us and I'm not sure there are 6 teams better than us but the system is the system. Go put up some video game numbers in a couple weeks and make them take a real look.

Go Panthers. Always.

[Newsbreaker]

This team is REALLY close to be very good. Scheduling hurt, and the team misses in the margins.

That FG flag is some weak sauce, but the game was lost elsewhere.

I don’t mean to be kind of a jerk about it, and I generally liked the way we played yesterday, but that’s the weakest number 1 FCS has seen in a VERY long time.

[JackJD]

...Name a coach who has coached somewhere for 20 years and has gotten *better* with time....

SDSU’s Stig. But I think SDSU didn’t support Stig in the past with assistants, assistants’ pay, facilities etc. When SDSU and NDSU moved up to Div 1, SDSU refocused on what it took to compete.

Right now, UNI is a top FCS team that deserves recognition for its turnaround this season. Don’t the coaches get credit for that?

Posters on SDSU’s fan forum are saying the game was probably our Sophomore QB’s worst game this season. I think UNI defense gets a lot of credit for that although the two intentional grounding penalties and a few other hiccups probably belong in the unforced errors category.

Good luck in your final regular season games. That’s a playoff caliber team.

[FOTY]

It was a fantastic game and the best environment in the dome in years. And, it appeared from our vantage point, that for the most part, the crowd stayed around. Oh, and not only were multiple confessions open, but the dome was a touch cleaner than it had been all season.

I hate that call at the end, and I know we’ve been called for it in the past. Makes me giggle every time… leaping. W. T. F. It’s the rule and was the correct call (although there were other penalties on the same play which were looked past).

It sucks, but not what lost us the game. IMO we had way too many dropped passes. Like way more than the past couple games. By our count alone, McShane had 4 himself. We catch half those drops, we win.

Yesterday was fun. It was like going back in time and watching UNI of a decade or so ago. It’s amazing how much fun a good offense, a good defense (great in the second half), and a good crowd can be.

[CincyPanther88]

Yesterday was fun. It was like going back in time and watching UNI of a decade or so ago. It’s amazing how much fun a good offense, a good defense (great in the second half), and a good crowd can be.

Well put. It wasn't a sellout - even with the $10 tickets - but it was a really good crowd especially late in the 4th quarter. The offense had some mistakes but overall they played great. The defense played as well as they could. They were missing two starters on the line and it showed. But this in no way resembles the defense we've had here for years. The punt team - hoo boy.

Day has a chance to be the best QB in UNI history. I just worry he'll get poached by an FBS team. He's got the goods to play on Sunday. I think fans have got bored with the program. We are no longer the big dog in the conference. The past several years have not been exciting to watch on the field. The athletic department views the program as an afterthought. If they don't believe in the program, why should the fans?

[ronfitch]

Any word on Flater today? After he went out with the injury, the camera followed him as we walked to through the players to the back of the bench and he looked pretty mad. I don’t recall seeing him back on the field.

The defense really gelled in the second half. Really gelled. It was incredible. Hewitt, Butler, Krebs really stepped up to play when two starters missed the game. But still too many yards allowed after contact, a theme all season.

The offense is what the offense has been all season - a legit threat when it opens up and does not make mistakes. Day’s mobility saved more than a few plays, but so much fun to watch this offense - going into this game, UNI had five receivers averaging more than 15 ypc (McShane, Schnee, Wolf, Morency and Allen). In Hudson, Allen and Prior, the TE is again a receiving threat.

The penalty on the FG was a legit call. That did not lose the game, just one of many little things that added up - they needed mistake-free ball all game in all phases and still held with them until nearly the end.

[Born-a-Panther]

I woke up this morning thankful again to be a Panther. When that Dome is rocking, there's no place like it. That felt like Panther football from the good old days. Farley's still the right guy and has the right OC now. Just needs the support financially to be able to pay and keep his assistants among other things. I don't want this to be over, this team is too fun to watch. Ever Loyal... always always always.