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[SoDakJack]

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The playoff bracket is set. With the regular season behind us, what is everyone's expectations for this team as the #5 seed? What results will give you the "we lost, but I feel good" feeling? What results will give you the "I'm so tired of this happening" feeling?

I would like to say that it is "Frisco or Bust" for me, but I just can't put that kind of expectation on this team now that I have watched them for the entire season. I think that a trip to the Semis would be a definite positive end to the season.

What cannot happen is for this team to come out flat after the bye week. If they come out flat after the bye week, which has been norm, I would be very disappointed. It happened last year in the playoffs, thank god Villanova couldn't do anything, and it happened this year against Youngstown.

We finally got our wish and avoid NDSU in our second game and we need to take advantage of it.

[Mr_Tibbs]

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Also for fun (this is all for not if we trip over our ****s in Verm), I thought I'd post about some of the venues and towns we'd be playing in for the top 8 teams and stadiums for anyone that might be looking to make a road trip.

1. JMU - Bridgeforth stadium holds about 25,000 and is widely regarded as one of the best atmospheres in FCS and the best on the East Coast. Harrisonburg is around 60,000 population and is at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, about an hour out of DC.

2. Jacksonville State - Burgess - Snow stadium holds about 24,000 and has quite the atmosphere from what I've been told. Not an easy place to play, and Jacksonville Alabama in the northeast corner of the state isn't easy to get to either. Town is only about 10,000 people.

3. UCA - Conway Arkansas is home to the alternating purple-gray field of Estes stadium and it's 9000 seats. They were a recent D2 move up and have a pretty decent following for their size. Conway is just northwest of Little Rock and has a population of 60,000.

4. NDSU - No comment

5. SHSU - Huntsville, Texas is about an hour and half north of Houston, and just a little east of College Station. Population is 40,000, and it's on the edge of the Piney Woods country of east Texas. A game down there is likely to be warm, even in December. The Bearkats play in Bowers stadium and it's 12,500+ seats.

6. Elon - Rhodes stadium holds about 11,500, and is located in Elon, North Carolina, population 10,000. It's located halfway between the "Triangle" of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill and the "Triad" of Greensboro-Winston Salem- High point in an otherwise unnoteworty part of the state.

7. SDSU- No comment

8. Wofford - The terriers play in front of 13,000 strong in Gibbs stadium. They are located in Spartanburg, SC in the upstate region of South Carolina, near the Appalachians and in the heart of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson MSA, population 1.3 million


I don't want to put any carts before any horses, but this should serve as an idea of some places we may have to play in the post season.

Bumping this for travel info for some of the teams in our bracket. Again, no premature carts and horses, but these will be the likely two locations the jacks will have to travel to should they beat UNI. It is possible that upsets could occur in another sector of the bracket, making it a slight possibility that Jacks could host the quarterfinals too. UNH is the best shot to beat UCA before we would potentially play them. On the other sector, WIU/Weber, SUU, and Stony Brook will all have a shot at JMU before we would potentially see them in the semis. If JMU goes down and we beat UCA/UNH, we would host a semi final as the next highest seeded team in our bracket. Not expecting it to happen, but just an FYI on all the travel scenarios.

[Mr_Tibbs]

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Obviously, this team has boat loads of potential, and it finally started realizing that potential in the last month. At the beginning of the season, I would have said anything less than a semi final appearance would be disappointing. At one point in the season, there were doubts we would even be able to get to 7-4 and make it in. In the last month, we've been trending up in a big way. So considering all that, I will not be pissed if we make it to the quarterfinals and have a competitive loss. I'll be disappointed because we have the talent to make it farther, and I want to play at JMU. But that's about where I end up "net neurtral". Realisitically, (taking nothing away from UCA, who looks to be a great team), the winner of the UNI/SDSU game has a very good shot at taking on JMU in the semis. If we make it to the semis, anything can happen. Also, purely from an exposure standpoint, both semi finals are on national television. Provided we don't lay an egg, being on national TV deep in the playoffs will pay dividends in our prestige/recruting.
So, I won't be pissed if we lose a close game in the quarters. But anything less than that, and I think that'll be cause to be severely disappointed based on how this team came together and overcame adversity late in the season. This trend we're on should really play itself out in a match up with JMU in Harrisonburg on December 16th. After that, it's up to God and Stig.

[JimmieTuba]

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The playoff bracket is set. With the regular season behind us, what is everyone's expectations for this team as the #5 seed? What results will give you the "we lost, but I feel good" feeling? What results will give you the "I'm so tired of this happening" feeling?

I generally don't feel good after a lost. However, if you mean think positive about the season, the team needs to go farther than they did before. Two post season wins for a 'successful' post season.

[CappinHard]

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Honestly, I'd be happy making it to the final 4 against JMU and playing them tough.

I agree with this, I would say this is the expectation. Anything less would be a disappointment. Anything more would be icing.

[thumper_76]

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IF that happens I'll have both feelings, Is that allowable?

Yes


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[slosho]

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Honestly, I'd be happy making it to the final 4 against JMU and playing them tough.

IF that happens I'll have both feelings, Is that allowable?

[RabbitObsessed]

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Honestly, I'd be happy making it to the final 4 against JMU and playing them tough.

[filbert]

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The playoff bracket is set. With the regular season behind us, what is everyone's expectations for this team as the #5 seed? What results will give you the "we lost, but I feel good" feeling? What results will give you the "I'm so tired of this happening" feeling?

Pre-season expectations for this team were a trip to Frisco.

Seems to me that still stands. Aim high.

[TK22867]

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The playoff bracket is set. With the regular season behind us, what is everyone's expectations for this team as the #5 seed? What results will give you the "we lost, but I feel good" feeling? What results will give you the "I'm so tired of this happening" feeling?

[Gojacks2487]

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With 5 valley teams in the playoffs it would be hard to avoid all of them, so I am ok with the draw. I like the chance for redemption against UNI or facing a new opponent in Monmouth. I Ether way they have to beat us on our home turf.

[JackAttack44]

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I agree with the many that say this was a bad draw. However, we didn’t get shipped to Fargo (assuming we take care of business in the 2nd round). We need to focus on who we play and make a run. Semantics here....I think we should stop saying deep playoff run and start saying championship run. That has to be the mentality. Just my 2 cents.

[goon]

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I for one could not be happier with the playoff bracket this year. I do agree that SDSU got the worst draw with getting a almost certain rematch with UNI. Finally NDSU did not get this...as in UNI, SDSU, hard semifinal...

Feel like we got a much worse draw then last year. Usd got lucky. They should have had to go to Fargo for once.

[TransAmBison]

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I for one could not be happier with the playoff bracket this year. I do agree that SDSU got the worst draw with getting a almost certain rematch with UNI. Finally NDSU did not get this...as in UNI, SDSU, hard semifinal...

[RowdyRabbit]

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Went up to the ticket office a while ago and got our tickets. My wife just reminded me my work Christmas party is December 2nd in Sioux Falls guess I'll be missing dinner