Jacks Join Conference Elite!!!

[JimmyJack]

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I thought the gang over at Panthernation was a pretty good bunch. LakesBison appeared over there and the UNI fans swatted him away.

[JackFan96]

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I thought the gang over at Panthernation was a pretty good bunch. LakesBison appeared over there and the UNI fans swatted him away.

Yeah, his comments there were the thing that REALLY got me. Yapping on our fan board the week we play them is one thing. Obviously, he (she??? ha!) is an idiot. But to go to the fan boards of the other teams we play just to run us down is pretty pathetic. And not just run us down, but make some of the stupidest comments imaginable...well, he just needs to get a life.

[bigticket1]

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Yeah, his comments there were the thing that REALLY got me. Yapping on our fan board the week we play them is one thing. Obviously, he (she??? ha!) is an idiot. But to go to the fan boards of the other teams we play just to run us down is pretty pathetic. And not just run us down, but make some of the stupidest comments imaginable...well, he just needs to get a life.

Hopefully Lakes isn't in Vegas trying to use his prognosticating skills - he picked UNI over our fat,slow team 37 - 3.

[Nidaros]

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Hopefully Lakes isn't in Vegas trying to use his prognosticating skills - he picked UNI over our fat,slow team 37 - 3.

To bad Lakesbison did not bet the farm and his LAKE CABIN. I would not mind having a lake home at Detriot Lakes.

[JayJ79]

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Congrats to the Jacks. Y'all played a great game.
(I still attribute the outcome of the game to UNI's playing poorly, but SDSU played well and was able to take full advantage of UNI's mistakes. And if you want to take offense to my stance on that, that's your perogative)

Anyhow, you guys have a really good team. The game against SIU in a couple weeks will be quite a game.

Also, SDSU does a good job of creating a fun gameday atmosphere, from what I saw. Facilities could use some improvements in some aspects (which is understandable for a program just moving up to D-I, but some of those improvements are underway already, and from what I hear, more are in store down the road), but you do a good job with what you have so far.

[jackdaniel]

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OK...since it's the day after, & everyone feels the need to kind of like "go to confession" so to speak, i'll admit UNI did play poorly, but that's not our fault,& we did play very well,as usual j/k

[JimmyJack]

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Congrats to the Jacks. Y'all played a great game.
(I still attribute the outcome of the game to UNI's playing poorly, but SDSU played well and was able to take full advantage of UNI's mistakes. And if you want to take offense to my stance on that, that's your perogative)

What a patronizing "compliment". We beat UNI in every possible statistical category. We left 10 points on the field ourselves. At no point did SDSU look overmatched by UNI's vaunted athletes. Our underpaid and undermanned coaching staff had a better game plan and made better adjustments at halftime.

But, OK, you guys beat yourselves.

[1stRowFANatic]

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Yeah, and we helped them out several times by flat out dropping interceptions. I know UNI will say that is the mistakes they are talking about (bad pass), but when the QB is being rushed to make the throw or hit as throwing it, it wasn't an unforced error. UNI got beat by a team that is better than it; plain and simple. That may not be the case next year, but it was on Saturday.

[RowdyRabbit]

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What a patronizing "compliment". We beat UNI in every possible statistical category. We left 10 points on the field ourselves. At no point did SDSU look overmatched by UNI's vaunted athletes. Our underpaid and undermanned coaching staff had a better game plan and made better adjustments at halftime.

But, OK, you guys beat yourselves.

10 points? That's being a little conservative don't you think? I was thinking 18 points.

Oh, and you're fighting a losing battle JJ.

[Jacks99]

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Sounds like what you hear when the Jacks Women B-ball team beats BCS schools "we beat ourselves"... I think this is the sign that the F-Ball team has indeed reached the conference Elite status.

[zooropa]

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I still attribute the outcome of the game to UNI's playing poorly

I think there's a difference between saying, "UNI played poorly" and "UNI beat themselves."

If UNI played as well as SDSU, who knows what the outcome would have been?

But then again, how often does that happen?

How often, in a matchup like this, does it come down to who executes better? To which players handle their assignments better?

UNI handled SDSU pretty easily last year, and regardless of what efforts Farley took to instill a measure of respect for SDSU in the team, I don't think it was there.

Not to say UNI players were trash talking, etc., but that they didn't have the proper attitude toward the Jacks and this environment, coming into the game. In short, I don't think UNI took the game seriously enough---apart from the D-line which IMO, did a fantastic job.

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Had the Panthers taken the Jacks as seriously as the Jacks took the Panthers.....

[zooropa]

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This is the exact kind of stuff I am talking about, this is the lack of respect I am getting tired of. SDSU played well, but UNI would of won with they didn't play poorly. Our defense is the real deal, our offense can move the ball and put points on the board on the No. 2 defense in the country. Just getting tired of comments like this.

With the right attitude, I'd say the Jacks and Panthers are pretty evenly matched.... with the right attitude.

The outcome is a tossup and the Jacks don't end the game with over a hundred more yards on only 2 more plays and a thin 19 second advantage in TOP.

That game was basically saved from being an outright embarrassment by the Panther's D-line, especially in short yardage situations. And I think Panther fans have a right to be irked about that. They are not so much worse than the Jacks that they should expect to lose by 20 points or more---or that they should be saved from a blowout by a single unit on their team. Panthers D-line was the only unit on the team that came ready to play, and I think Panther fans have every right to be upset about that.

As long as they don't go trashing what SDSU accomplished, saying things like, "we beat ourselves", etc.

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I think Jacks fans could be a little too sensitive on the issue of respect.

Folks, the football program's got it now---they earned it yesterday; by doing just what they've been doing all year long. By doing what they've been doing as long as Stig's been there. Cryin' out loud you could set a watch by the way Stig runs his team.

[1stRowFANatic]

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I wish I could remember what coach said this, and I am sure that I don't have the quote exactly right, but it went something like this:

"I know we are the primary reason other teams always have a bad game against us; if they don't, so what."

[Prairiehaas]

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Football is a scored sport not a judged sport like gymnastics. What a team looks like on paper doesn't count, only what is on the scorboard. If UNI lost because they didn't play well and SDSU won because they did play well, doesn't that make SDSU the better team that game?

If this was FBS UNI may have an argument. This is FCS where the ranking goes by the final score. The final is SDSU 24-UNI 14. SDSU was the better team on the field from the measure that counts.

[JimmyJack]

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This is the exact kind of stuff I am talking about, this is the lack of respect I am getting tired of. SDSU played well, but UNI would of won with they didn't play poorly. Our defense is the real deal, our offense can move the ball and put points on the board on the No. 2 defense in the country. Just getting tired of comments like this.

Well said, fever. That's it exactly the point. The implication of either the "played poorly" or "beat ourselves" statements is that UNI is a better team and we're lucky to win.