Week 2 - at Wyoming - 9/6/2025

[Blue42]

Anyone else getting choppiness on the live stream on MW channel?

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

streaming on Mountain West Network

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

yes...the live stream is brutal so far

[sivert]

Congrats on your terrible production, Wyoming

[in_the_stands]

Anyone else getting choppiness on the live stream on MW channel?

Yup, and static in the audio.

[Blue42]

Broadcast has cleaned up.

So have the Panthers. Great drive. 7-7.

[BCPanther]

Defensive speed is a pretty glaring issue

[PantherAlum09]

Rough finish to the half but that TD drive looked easy. Let’s get another out of the half.

[panther-state]

Didn't expect a win but I did expect us to look better than this. Not used to seeing us get abused so badly on both lines.

[pnthr53]

We have been getting beaten up on the line on both sides of the ball for the last few years. Butler beat up our d line for over 300 yards. You can only scheme for so long until physicality gets the best of you. Gotta get bigger and faster or this is what it will be. Hard thing to do in this era of college football. Love the Panthers but it will be a long haul before this gets turned around.

[kochrab]

Boy oh boy. I really wish this game could've gone differently. First and foremost. Hats off to the alumni association for putting together an awesome tailgate event before this game. There was a good number of UNI folks in attendance at this game. My boys had a blast attending their first UNI football game too, even if it was a loss.

A few thoughts I have after getting home.

• This game really felt so close for a while, and just a few plays going differently in the 1st half and the start of the 2nd would've impacted this a lot IMO.
• That blind side tackle that led to a fumble was crazy in person.
• I don't think I saw any wildcat formations against Butler, but we used it a lot today. Interesting thing to see.
• Also of note, we had some really funky formations. I guess that's a Stepsis thing? I like the change though.
• Scheck didn't have a super great game today. Those two interceptions were really unnecessary—especially the one after the fumble. Learn and move on to next weekend.
• How we had the ball for 30 minutes, slightly more than Wyoming, with 200 less yards of offense, is crazy work on our part. Not sure how we managed that one.

Last thought and then I'm done yapping. Didn't realize how small Laramie, Wyoming, is. Never been there before. Wyoming is basically the same size of school as UNI, but it's crazy to see what the whole state funding your program can do I suppose.

Anyway, onward to next weekend. Should have a good matchup against EWU. Go Panthers!

[7YrsOfCollegeDownTheDrain]

I agree with kochrab - the team played better than the final score. Especially when you look at the defensive stats like TFL and Sacks. We did send extra guys a lot more yesterday vs playing base d all game vs butler more or less.

Sloppy special teams play. missed FG, several formation penalties on punts, blocked punt cost us some points.

Couple of bad picks by Sheck and couldn't really run between the tackles today.

I have to assume playing at 7200 ft had some impact as well in the second half but i'm not as doom and gloom as some.

Looking forward to next week vs EWU.

[PantherAlum09]

I agree with most of these points. I thought Schecklman had a really rough game outside of the one TD drive. Beyond the interceptions he was just really inaccurate yesterday.

Size and speed on defense are an obvious issue, and that's a problem that isn't really solvable until we get better transfers and recruits.

I really don't like this three qb rotation thing we tried yesterday. If you are going to do it the qb needs to be in for more than one play and it can't be obvious that it's always going to be a run. I really hated it overall.

Punting seemed slow and poorly blocked which is an awful combination. Gotta get that cleaned up.

I'm hoping that all these guys that came up with injuries aren't serious and we can be healthy for Eastern Washington.