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Post by golfingyote on Oct 25, 2016 9:11:35 GMT -6
Agree on that UND game. That win paired with wins the next 2 weeks would have locked us into the playoffs. Now if we go W-W-L-L we may be looking at a coin flip on whether we get in.
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Post by Yotes on Oct 25, 2016 10:38:54 GMT -6
That UND loss hit our playoff chances hard but we can't say for sure yet that it's keeping us out. Maybe we win 3/4 to end the year comfortably in the field, maybe we lose our magic and win 1/4 to end the year well off the bubble. Can't say for sure what impact it had. I'm not too bothered about it because we have won 4/5 games decided by 3 points and you really can't expect to win every single tight game.
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Post by Yote 53 on Oct 26, 2016 8:27:36 GMT -6
Cuz just posted an article in the Articles thread about our QB's. It was pretty much consensus around the Dome Saturday that we were very lucky to have such depth at QB. Streveler is a highlight real waiting to happen. Everybody was more than comfortable and confident in Saeger's ability to run the offense. Simmons has turned out to be a dynamite young talent. The Yotes can win any game on the schedule with either one of these 3 guys under center. How many teams can actually say that?
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Post by goyotes24 on Oct 26, 2016 9:34:14 GMT -6
Cuz just posted an article in the Articles thread about our QB's. It was pretty much consensus around the Dome Saturday that we were very lucky to have such depth at QB. Streveler is a highlight real waiting to happen. Everybody was more than comfortable and confident in Saeger's ability to run the offense. Simmons has turned out to be a dynamite young talent. The Yotes can win any game on the schedule with either one of these 3 guys under center. How many teams can actually say that? It is certainly a great problem to have |
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Post by Cousin Eddie on Oct 26, 2016 10:12:00 GMT -6
Also, how great is it that we get to force WIU to prepare to face 3 different QBs? If we are being honest, the offense we seem to run when Simmons/Saeger are in the game is definitely different from the offense we run with Streveler. Hopefully this takes their defense off its game trying to prepare for both this week.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Oct 26, 2016 12:45:54 GMT -6
Suddenly the Coyotes are deep at quarterback. Nothing against the players at all but I give coach Nielson and the offensive coaching staff a ton of credit for that.
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Post by gopheryote on Oct 26, 2016 13:54:39 GMT -6
Whoops - put my question on the wrong thread. Does anyone know if Streveler is practicing/available?
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Post by bt71 on Oct 26, 2016 15:03:42 GMT -6
Whoops - put my question on the wrong thread. Does anyone know if Streveler is practicing/available? Saw a tweet that Coach said in an interview Streveler was practicing and will start on Saturday but we'll have to see. He never seems to want to tip his hand this early in the week. We could see Chris for a series and Simmons the rest of the game. |
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Post by Coyote Fan on Oct 26, 2016 17:07:28 GMT -6
The way Streveler was playing earlier in the year with all his mistakes I may have leaned towards starting Simmons over him anyway. With his improvement in taking care of the football I think Chris is still the man because of his trend of minimizing risky plays.
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Post by fightsd on Oct 27, 2016 6:05:45 GMT -6
Getting close to gameday! Looking forward to another Coyote victory. Same prediction as the last 3 weeks. If we win the turnover battle, we'll be in a position to win the game. Would like to see the offense stay on the gas pedal a little more in quarters 2 and 3 though. Seems like we become anemic during the middle part of the game.
Also, we have 2 days from kickoff and this game has still not been mentioned on the WIU boards. You'd think this one would be just as important to them. If either team wants a shot, this is a must win.
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Post by WIU on Oct 27, 2016 6:50:39 GMT -6
WIU is in trouble with all the injuries pilling up. McShane has bad wheel, Brett Taylor out concussion, Zobrist bad knee, and we can't seem to get over loosing Bob Nielson.
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Post by yotebewithyou on Oct 27, 2016 9:09:45 GMT -6
Not sure this is the right thread for this but i can't remember if it was this thread or the ISUr thread but I'm just going to throw this out there as a possible reason the students haven't come around this year.
We had 1 home game in the first month of the season. Now for non-freshman it might not be a huge deal but when you're an incoming freshman and trying to meet people, football games are a great place to go. That's the way it was when I was a student. When I was a freshman there was a home game the first week of school and EVERYONE wanted to be there. But when your first home game is 3 weeks after classes start the majority of freshman have already found their crew and a football game isn't really a place you unless your friends are going. If you can build excitement with that early home game it could have a good trend the rest of the way.
Contrast that with a place like NDSU, who had 3/4 at home to start the season.
Call me crazy but I think there's a connection.
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Post by Yote 53 on Oct 27, 2016 9:32:07 GMT -6
Yeah. I pointed that out weeks ago, that the very few home games in September schedule was going to hurt turnout and fans buying into the program. With one of the first games always being an FBS on the road, and the other OOC games being 1 home, 1 away against FCS, September isn't always going to be filled with home dates. The best years are the ones where there is no September bye week and our first conference game is at home.
This year we had a bye week in September AND started the conference schedule on the road. We did play at home in Week 2 in an exciting game against Weber State but when you have to wait an entire month between home dates at the start of the season it is hard to maintain fan, and student, momentum.
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Post by golfingyote on Oct 27, 2016 9:39:51 GMT -6
I think your take is just as good as any out there.
Student participation is not just a one year thing. Its a culture thats been happening since the transition to D1. I was a freshmen the last year we were in D2. I remember the participation being much different than the transition years and even now.
I am on the front where I think it starts with the permanent seating side. I have been to too many games where our fans on the permanent seating side have flat out sucked. I stayed for the hole games more often than not when I was a student, but I can also tell you I left some games at half time and walked to pros because the dome environment sucked and being at the bar or someones house was a lot more fun for a 19-22 year old.
If only our fans treated all conference games with half the excitement they treated the SDSU/NDSU games, we'd have something.
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Post by goyotes24 on Oct 27, 2016 10:47:15 GMT -6
I was a freshman the first year SDSU/NDSU went Division I. We really started winning that year (Meierkort's first year) and the Dome appeared to always be packed. I worked at 106.3 at the time (when Kevin Culhane was the voice) and he really emphasized the "Dome-Field" advantage for us, and he was right. The Dome was loud in the mid-200's when we 1) were winning games, and 2) had, what seemed to be, around 6 or 7 home games per year (because our non-conference games were against NAIA schools who came here to get roasted, instead). Then again, those were the years we had Logan, Beschorner, Desmond Allison, etc. which made for some exciting teams (even though we got screwed out of they playoffs one of those years).
So I think the idea with having so much time in between is a valid argument, coupled with the fact that we are still finding our place in a "newer" competitive environment, and we have sort of lacked those 'exciting' players fans like to come watch. I do think it could change as the program improves (as we have seen this season).
Barring the second and third quarter slumps the offense appears to get itself into, this is a fun team to watch when running on all cylinders. We are seeing new playmakers who could certainly leave their mark on the program.
Next month will be the ten year anniversary since USD announced its intentions to jump to Division I, and we are still seeing some growing pains, but those pains appear to becoming less painful and shorter in length than before.
When we start seeing students forego Hobo Days so they could instead attend a game against a school with which we have no rivalry, then that is the point when we can truly say the school has made this a great event.
Until then, I can't wait for Saturday, and I hope the Yotes offense keeps it going all four quarters.
TL;DR: Students will eventually choose USD games over other events/activities, program as a whole improving. Go Yotes.
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