NDSU did us a favor tonight IMO
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They did us a favor by showing us that K-State isn't very good this year. Another "W' for the schedule--woo hoo!
Some of the geniuses on here. We'll trash them next year, whoever they beat this season.
Some of the geniuses on here. We'll trash them next year, whoever they beat this season.
I think you are not very smart. First, a lot of these games are scheduled 5-10 years in advance...before they are good. Second, the reason schools like Texas and Florida, etc don't schedule at those schools is they are made of money and buy the game as a home only. We aren't a luxury team and Pollard counts every bean, so we will continue to schedule home and aways and home, home, aways for the foreseeable future.
It is going to look that much worse when we lose to them. The toughness of our schedule is going down the toilet as well.
(yes this is overly pessimistic on game day)
(yes this is overly pessimistic on game day)
I would think with the way we ended the season last year, against West Virginia and Tulsa, the team would be almost frantic to make amends, starting with the first game of the season!
I realize the KST loss should be a wake up call, but its hard for me to imagine any more motivation to play a FB game then a packed Jack, under the lights, opening night of a new season after all the work you've put in from spring ball, summer workouts, to fall camp. How can you not be jacked to play?!!!! How can you not get up no matter who you are playing?!!!
I guess that if we are going to move forward "anywhere anytime" is ok. If you are fearful of the road, the team, the weather, the cheerleaders, the popcorn man then your approach is understandable.
Every year in these first few weeks, an FCS team beats an FBS team. If last night's Kstate game was any kind of a wake up call, you haven't been paying attention to college football the last decade. Hell, in 2 days of games this year, its already happened to Kstate and UCONN. If it took last nights kstate game to get our heads on straight, CPR and Co haven't been doing their job. Besides, any ISU Fan should already know better than to take UNI(or anyone) lightly. It wasn't that long ago they beat us.
Exactly! It'd be too late now if ISU was overlooking UNI. The FCS isn't so far below us that you can just flip a switch come game day and win every time.
Honestly, no one gives 2 ***** about strength of schedule unless you are in the national title race. 6+ wins are 6+ wins, regardless of who its against.
I couldn't disagree more. How are you suppose to judge the strength of a team if you don't care about who they are playing? And perception does have a role in college football.
The KSU game has nothing to do with the ISU game. Yes, we are playing a lower division team also, but NDSU was a lot better than UNI last year, and will be better this year. In addition, and I posted this elsewhere, KSU and Snyder like to bring in lots of JC guys and build a team. Generally they are not very good at the beginning of the year because of all the new guys that are starters. Think about ISU playing a redshirt freshman. They may not be as talented as the KSU JC guys, but they will most likely know what to do in the schemes. KSU has almost lost several of these games in the past few years. This year they lost a lot of guys and were not quite able to pull this game out against a team that was expected not near as good as they turned out to be. Iowa will face the same thing today with N. IL. Unfortunately, KSU will probably have things figured out by the ISU game.
And because Jamie Pollard knew that we would be selling out games and fan interest would be at an all time high when we played these games.
I bet the K-State Mask wishes he had a time machine.....
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