To me, you bring the house if you're ISU. No way I go to a zone.
Edit - That's what happens when you blitz. It's 1 on 1.
Edit - That's what happens when you blitz. It's 1 on 1.
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Thats your defense after a TO?
Heartbreak city
You can't expect to win a title at any level when you are that bad in the kicking game.
Disagree before it happened. MSU wasnt seeing anything deep all 2nd half. Why change up?
TentakilRex
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Sorry to my ISU homies
Heartbreaking
Especially on 4th and 1 with plenty of time left
hooraybeer
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isu dominated ball control, seemed to be the better team… but loses. will be a lot of play calling regret until the end of time in blono
Agree. Even at the FCS level, your kicking game can't be that bad. That's worse than a mediocre to average HS team. The 45 minutes that I had the game on was my first ever viewing of ISU football. It's hard for me to believe they actually practiced it this year. Wow.
I am a 87 graduate of ISU. Great game. They left the guy wide open. I guess they thought they could get to him. Great game.
The Dowler kid from Mont St if he has eligibility played himself into a bigger program.
A crushing end to the season for two Illinois programs...
Illinois State loses the FCS title 35-34.
North Central (of Naperville) loses the Division 3 title 24-14.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that both programs made the Championship finals. And North Central has already won a few Division 3 titles recently and has become a true yearly National power. And we have already seen the Illini elevate their program to a great new level.
Not too bad... for a “Basketball State”!
Illinois State loses the FCS title 35-34.
North Central (of Naperville) loses the Division 3 title 24-14.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that both programs made the Championship finals. And North Central has already won a few Division 3 titles recently and has become a true yearly National power. And we have already seen the Illini elevate their program to a great new level.
Not too bad... for a “Basketball State”!
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
On a side note, has any state mastered the art of it's D1 college teams getting to a title game & coming up just short quite like Illinois. Illini hoops in 2005 lose by 5. Volleyball in 2011 was close to going up 2-0 in the final only to fall apart. And now ISU with 2 title game visits only to come up a point short each time.
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
At the end of regulation, ISU violated (IMO) one of the cardinal rules of football. If you possess the ball & are calling plays, you should be calling plays with the intent of scoring a touchdown. On that last 3 downs they ran 3 straight times. They had been chewing up Montana State with a mix of run/pass & were hitting the 10 yard pass seemingly at will.
It's almost like they just settled for the field goal. Of course it depends on the kicker's skill level, but I hate, hate, hate to put it in a kickers hands unless 1. I am out of time or 2. in range of a dead chipshot (Like Olano to end the bowl game).
It was very similar to the end of our bowl game where we went on 4th & 1 somewhere around the 20 to 25 yard line. Getting that allowed us to get another 15 yards & end up with a gimmie at the end instead of a 40 plus yard attempt.
As a general rule, a field goal should be sort of the "last resort". You take it if that's your best option but only after trying to get the TD. Unless you get to the chipshot where it's ok to kneel it out to burn clock.
It's almost like they just settled for the field goal. Of course it depends on the kicker's skill level, but I hate, hate, hate to put it in a kickers hands unless 1. I am out of time or 2. in range of a dead chipshot (Like Olano to end the bowl game).
It was very similar to the end of our bowl game where we went on 4th & 1 somewhere around the 20 to 25 yard line. Getting that allowed us to get another 15 yards & end up with a gimmie at the end instead of a 40 plus yard attempt.
As a general rule, a field goal should be sort of the "last resort". You take it if that's your best option but only after trying to get the TD. Unless you get to the chipshot where it's ok to kneel it out to burn clock.
In fairness, in our game the ball was on the 31 yard line against the wind and Olano said in pregame he needed to be inside the 25 going in that direction, so it was more a call out of necessity to go for it than necessarily being aggressive. But I take your point, I do feel like teams get it in their minds to go for a FG to tie it late and don't want to risk the interception or fumble in those situations, when a TD wins the game.
As I said in the game thread, it's maddening to me that we chose to go into the wind in the fourth quarter. (We did it all year, taking the wind in the first and third quarters, rather than in the second and fourth quarters, when we have that choice. That said, in a pro game a couple weeks ago, a team chose to go into the wind in overtime. Wtf?)
Curbelo Fanboy
BERTBALL IS LIFE
To me, I've always been of the mindset if you are calling plays you are calling them with the intention of scoring a TD until you get to the very end & have a dead chipshot fieldgoal lined up. I realize there are some scenarios (the end of our bowl game as an example) where it makes more sense to drain the clock & play for the field goal. But as a general rule you should always be looking to score a TD & not "settle" for the field goal (running the ball 3 straight times).
Of course, I can say that sitting on the couch at home. It's not my 6 or 7 or 8 figure salary on the line. So I get why coaches do what they do. Just as a general rule, if I'm gonna lose, I'd rather lose cause I was going for it versus being passive.
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