Northern Iowa 2012 Football Schedgy.....

[Cap'n Cat]

2012 UNI Football Schedule

Sept. 1 at Wisconsin
Sept. 8 Savannah State
Sept. 15 at Iowa
Sept. 22 at Youngstown State
Sept. 29 North Dakota State Family Weekend
Oct. 6 Open
Oct. 13 at Southern Illinois
Oct. 20 South Dakota State Homecoming
Oct. 27 Illinois State Hall of Fame
Nov. 3 at Western Illinois
Nov. 10 at South Dakota
Nov. 17 Missouri State Senior Day



Discuss.

[Cap'n Cat]

Thinking 9-4.

Losses to UW, UI and some piss-ant team we should beat, like Youngstown or Illinois State. Beat NDSU and everyone else. Win conf again, win first round on the road at Montana State, lose in the second round to SUNY-Binghamton at home.

[AZGrizFan]

Thinking 9-4.

Losses to UW, UI and some piss-ant team we should beat, like Youngstown or Illinois State. Beat NDSU and everyone else. Win conf again, win first round on the road at Montana State, lose in the second round to SUNY-Binghamton at home.

You're going to be 1-4 after NDSU.

[Cap'n Cat]

Thinking 9-4.

Losses to UW, UI and some piss-ant team we should beat, like Youngstown or Illinois State. Beat NDSU and everyone else. Win conf again, win first round on the road at Montana State, lose in the second round to SUNY-Binghamton at home.

You're going to be 1-4 after NDSU.

Your mom doesn't think so!

[Sly Fox]

Talk about your contrasts after 1st & 2nd weeks. Wow!

[guinzone]

Youngstown...
In September...
When it is warm...
Massive crowd...

The losing streak to the Panthers FINALLY ENDS!

[Cap'n Cat]

Youngstown...
In September...
When it is warm...
Massive crowd...

The losing streak to the Panthers FINALLY ENDS!

You do know, Zoney, I've been hearing that since 2001, right?

[clenz]

Youngstown...
In September...
When it is warm...
Massive crowd...

The losing streak to the Panthers FINALLY ENDS!

Massive crowd, or massive announced crowd

[Gil Dobie]

I can see 8-3 or 7-4 for the purple feline's.

[Darell1976]

Is UNI hard up for $$$ that they would schedule 2 FBS games? I hope someday UNI can come up to Grand Forks we enjoyed your UNI Dome in 06.

[89Hen]

Sept. 1 at Wisconsin
Sept. 15 at Iowa

Makes it quite tough to make the playoffs.

[danefan]

Thinking 9-4.

Losses to UW, UI and some piss-ant team we should beat, like Youngstown or Illinois State. Beat NDSU and everyone else. Win conf again, win first round on the road at Montana State, lose in the second round to SUNY-Binghamton at home.

I hope that SUNY school is us.........

[clenz]

Is UNI hard up for $$$ that they would schedule 2 FBS games? I hope someday UNI can come up to Grand Forks we enjoyed your UNI Dome in 06.

Hard up? Meh, depending who you talk too.

The problem is in the state of Iowa there are 3 state regent schools (Drake is a 4th D1 school but they are private so the funding doesn't matter to them). Unlike Wisconsin, Texas, North Carolina, California, New Yorketc... where you see similar set ups there is no Iowa University System, each school is completely separate from the next but is funding and controlled by the same Iowa Board of Regents.

The problem arrises when the BOR divies up state funds, the dispararity of who gets what is amazing. The order of the BOR is:
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Then, last spring*ish* the BOR told UNI that the athletic department had to be completely self suffiencient by 2015, and state funds will dwindle over that time to the UNI athletic department (UNI currently runs about 500k-1m in the red). Their reasoning? Iowa doesn't use state money to run their athletic program, and Iowa State won't need it either. You want to know what make UNI people and about that reasoning...Iowa gets something like 20million dollars a year from the B1G Network....Iowa State will be getting about 18million a year from the new B12 deal....You know how much being in the Missouri Valley/Missouri Valley Football Conferences gets UNI? Fucking zero. Of course it's easy to to get off of state funding when you've got that much coming in from revenue from day 1.


Long, 15-20 page thread on PantherNation (could be longer but people got sick of bitching) is that playing 2 FBS games every couple years will make up most of the difference and get UNI in the black as an athletic department, as it will mean men's basketball, football, and volleyball are all making money...I don't know if women's basketball is far off of making money as well.

[HI54UNI]

I hope we make at least 8-3 but it could easily be 7-4 and no playoffs.

[DJH]

I hope we make at least 8-3 but it could easily be 7-4 and no playoffs.

We will be in playoffs at 7-4, especially considering two of those losses will likely be Iowa and Wisc.

Next year will be hard to judge, I could see anywhere from 5-8 wins.

[DJH]

I hope we make at least 8-3 but it could easily be 7-4 and no playoffs.

We will be in playoffs at 7-4, especially considering two of those losses will likely be Iowa and Wisc. Its hard enough to find 20 quality teams as it is...

Next year will be hard to judge, I could see anywhere from 5-8 wins.

[Cap'n Cat]

Oy. It's tough for a UNI football alum to watch all that happening. I'm not seeing a good outcome in 7-10 years at UNI.

[houndawg]

Oy. It's tough for a UNI football alum to watch all that happening. I'm not seeing a good outcome in 7-10 years at UNI.

I'm not seeing a good outcome this year -

2 FBS losses
lose at YSU
NDSU probably lose
always choke in Carbondale

8-3 would be major over achieving and every bounce breaking your way
7-4 doable if injuries aren't heavy and your QB grows up fast
6-5 most likely outcome
5-6 could happen if you snooze
4-7 QB doesn't cut it and/or crucial injuries

The last couple of years UNI has been a team that started fast and faded toward the end, could get picked off by a sleeper in the last three weeks...

[guinzone]

Youngstown...
In September...
When it is warm...
Massive crowd...

The losing streak to the Panthers FINALLY ENDS!

Massive crowd, or massive announced crowd

Our announced crowds in September are usually dead on. The issues are in October and November when the weather gets shitty around here. I've posted pictures of the 18,500 from this past season against Illinois State:

[clenz]

Massive crowd, or massive announced crowd

Our announced crowds in September are usually dead on. The issues are in October and November when the weather gets shitty around here. I've posted pictures of the 18,500 from this past season against Illinois State:

Post pictures of the 18k or so announced at the UNI game in 10...or 09..or 08...or whatever year that was.

[JayJ79]

The last couple of years UNI has been a team that started fast and faded toward the end, could get picked off by a sleeper in the last three weeks...

I think part of that problem was due to the offense relying heavily on a few players whose bread and butter was speed, and perhaps taking advantage of less-disciplined defenses. Might look good at the beginning of the year, but as the seasons progressed, those players got banged up, which negated their speed advantage. And as the defenses gained experience, they gained more discipline (as an overall unit), and also were better able to scout and adjust.

Also, the offensive line seemed questionable at times. And many people questioned the playcalling.

Personally, I have no clue how the 2012 season will turn out for UNI.

[BTD30]

... IMO I think they'll go 7-4 and they have the potential to go 9-2. I mean, they play good defense every year and if you play good defense in our league, your gonna end up with a winning record.

[DuckDuckGriz]

I hope you're going to the Wisky game.

Madison has a Cap'n / D1B bender written all over it.

[guinzone]

This was from 2006 when we had 19k against you guys:


2008 and 2010 crowds were not good.

[Cap'n Cat]

This was from 2006 when we had 19k against you guys:


2008 and 2010 crowds were not good.

.....and still lost..........





Edit: Again. For the fifth time in a row......