Indiana State @ Illinois State

[Redbirdgrad]

Battle of the ISU's...
Redbirds continue to defend Hancock 2.0 and pull away in the 2nd half.

Give me the Birds by 17.


Indiana State 14
Illinois State 31

[X-Factor]

Sounds about right. Is Underwood playing?

[Sycamore62]

Sounds about right. Is Underwood playing?

I assume they will make that a game time decision regardless

[Thumper 76]

I think ISU takes this one

[eiu1999]

Go team.

[Bisonator]

I think ISU takes this one

I see what you did there and I concur. ;)

[World]

I think ISU takes this one


Sorry, but don't agree

I think that ISU will win

[Thumper 76]

Sorry, but don't agree

I think that ISU will win

Erroneous, ISU will dominate in the trenches sir.

[Sycamore62]

Battle of the ISU's...
Redbirds continue to defend Hancock 2.0 and pull away in the 2nd half.

Give me the Birds by 17.


Indiana State 14
Illinois State 31


did you get that straight from 5dimes? lol they have us at +17

[Redbirdgrad]

Nice! Was it posted before or after my comment? I used to use that site quite a bit!

[Sycamore62]

Nice! Was it posted before or after my comment? I used to use that site quite a bit!

I looked after your post. I can (EDIT: CAN'T) imagine any news would have moved it up or down.

[eiu1999]

Sorry, but don't agree

I think that ISU will win

In your dreams, ISU easily.

[OSBF]

I. State University wins going away

[Sycamore62]

According to their website ISU is off this week. Next week they play U of Montana.

http://www.isubengals.com/schedule.aspx?path=football

[UNIFanSince1983]

I really think ISU will lose this game.

[ST_Lawson]

According to their website ISU is off this week. Next week they play U of Montana.

http://www.isubengals.com/schedule.aspx?path=football

I thought they were hosting Texas for Homecoming?
http://espn.go.com/college-football/game?gameId=400763446

[OSBF]

According to their website ISU is off this week. Next week they play U of Montana.

http://www.isubengals.com/schedule.aspx?path=football


liar liar pants on fire

@home vs. texas, for homecoming

http://www.cyclones.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=48393&SPID=4653

[Sycamore62]

Well 21-9 halftime lead for ISUb. Wind from north must be significant.
Espn score zone has score wrong. Gave 6 pts on a safety

[Bisonwinagn]

blue dominated the first half except for some bad field position early. We will see if red comes out on fire, but I'm not sure they can stop the passing game. I expect Roberson to get some big runs in the second half.

[dewey]

Well 21-9 halftime lead for ISUb. Wind from north must be significant.
Espn score zone has score wrong. Gave 6 pts on a safety

My Yahoo app says...
IndianaState 21
Illinois State 15

I don't doubt you guys watching the game just trying to figure out the WTF is going on.

Go Sycamores!

Dewey

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

21-9 at half.

[Sycamore62]

My Yahoo app says...
IndianaState 21
Illinois State 15

I don't doubt you guys watching the game just trying to figure out the WTF is going on.

Go Sycamores!

Dewey

Yes. Somehow they added 6 points in the 2nd qtr. Look at the scoring summary

[Sycamore62]

Sounds about right. Is Underwood playing?


Underwood looks like he is playing on situational downs

[Bisonator]

Go big trees!

[IBleedYellow]

Indiana State moving the football down the field easily?

[Sycamore62]

Indiana State moving the football down the field easily?

I got a tweet that the wind is significant. Helping/hurting both teams

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

Sycs FG

24-9

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

Coprich TD....nice run!

[Sycamore62]

Long run Coprich. 24-16

[dewey]

Long run Coprich. 24-16

Come on Sycamores!

Dewey

[Sycamore62]

We failed to take real advantage of the wind I'm the 3rd qtr. Only got 3. I'm not feeling good now

[centennial]

..

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

Ind State up 24-16 to start the 4th

[IBleedYellow]

Looks like ISUr came out with fire in the 4th.

[Sycamore62]

24-19 12:12 left

[TheKingpin28]

Nice INT

[Sycamore62]

27-24. Bad unoverturned 2pt conversion

[ISUMatt]

PHEW!! Never easy!


ISUMatt

[IBleedYellow]

Updates?

[ISUMatt]

27-24. Bad unoverturned 2pt conversion

Awful! Unfortunately for Blue, absolutely no angle of the ball to have it overturned


ISUMatt

[ISUMatt]

Updates?

REDBIRDS 27
SYCAMORES 24
Final


ISUMatt

[SENOREIDA]

Illinois State survived quite a nice scare!

[REALBird]

Illinois State survived quite a nice scare!
that happens when you play ranked teams week in/week out. As opposed to weak in/weak out!

who knows we'll likely be penalized via the MVFC bias voting.

[Sycamore62]

Awful! Unfortunately for Blue, absolutely no angle of the ball to have it overturned


ISUMattwhat they could have done is take a look at Coprich's torso and recognize that it isn't 6' long and know he couldn't reach from there

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We lost that game by only scoring 3 pts in the 3rd qtr

[REALBird]

what they could have done is take a look at Coprich's torso and recognize that it isn't 6' long and know he couldn't reach from there

- - - Updated - - -

We lost that game by only scoring 3 pts in the 3rd qtr


They do do call it a game of inches for a reason!
Trees OFF in the second half didn't match the aggressiveness of the first half.

[Sycamore62]

They do do call it a game of inches for a reason!
Trees OFF in the second half didn't match the aggressiveness of the first half.

We just had too many little mistakes.

[Redbird 13]

It's so damn hard to win games in this league every week. It wasn't pretty, but I'll take it.

Hell of an effort from the Sycamores, especially in the opening half.

[Redbirdgrad]

I was wrong about the score, but not about Indiana State. They have a real good team over there and have nothing to be ashamed of. Once Illinois State decided to dig in defensively, and they were able to turn the momentum of the game late in the 3rd, it was only a matter of time before they pulled it out.

Conditions were brutal for both teams. I think Indiana State played too tentative in the 2nd half, but not so much that it affected the outcome.

Good game Sycamores, was a fun one to watch!

[Sycamore62]

I was wrong about the score, but not about Indiana State. They have a real good team over there and have nothing to be ashamed of. Once Illinois State decided to dig in defensively, and they were able to turn the momentum of the game late in the 3rd, it was only a matter of time before they pulled it out.

Conditions were brutal for both teams. I think Indiana State played too tentative in the 2nd half, but not so much that it affected the outcome.

Good game Sycamores, was a fun one to watch!

Two drops on deep balls off the tips of Gary owens' fingers probably cost us in the 3rd qtr

[centennial]

Two drops on deep balls off the tips of Gary owens' fingers probably cost us in the 3rd qtr
This

[Redbirdgrad]

Yeah, but there were plenty of drops both ways. Lots of little errors that I don't usually see the Redbirds make, which made it a weird game. Take nothing away from the Sycamores, some of those errors were forced by Indiana State.

Yes, those drops hurt, but I can point to many 3rd down plays that were uncharacteristically not made by our team when we were unchecked as well. The 4 and out in the 1st quarter that setup the safety was brutal. Coprich had the endzone in front of him, but instead of diving in he decided to try and head in straight up and got blindsided pushing him back. Little things like that. Once we realized we couldn't take this game for granted, I think we picked up the play.

Lots of respect for your squad though, and a slippery field helps a passing team if the quarterback has a good grip... which he obviously did. Indiana State did everything but win this one, but championship level teams find ways to win these games... which the Birds did.

Next week, another top 25. That's life in the Valley...

[Sycamore62]

Yeah, but there were plenty of drops both ways. Lots of little errors that I don't usually see the Redbirds make, which made it a weird game. Take nothing away from the Sycamores, some of those errors were forced by Indiana State.

Yes, those drops hurt, but I can point to many 3rd down plays that were uncharacteristically not made by our team when we were unchecked as well. The 4 and out in the 1st quarter that setup the safety was brutal. Coprich had the endzone in front of him, but instead of diving in he decided to try and head in straight up and got blindsided pushing him back. Little things like that. Once we realized we couldn't take this game for granted, I think we picked up the play.

Lots of respect for your squad though, and a slippery field helps a passing team if the quarterback has a good grip... which he obviously did. Indiana State did everything but win this one, but championship level teams find ways to win these games... which the Birds did.

Next week, another top 25. That's life in the Valley...

I meant that in response to being too tentative. I think we took our shots and played our game but failed to execute. Those are catches we normally make.

I thought when they decided to get coprich moving down hill instead of allowing us to move to the ball while he was still in the backfield was when it was going to be over.

Plus our punting game looked like a piece of crap in a swimming pool. Thats our only good special team and we crapped all over it

[ISUMatt]

Sycamore Punter shouldn't be allowed to punt ever again...EVER!!!


ISUMatt

[Sycamore62]

Sycamore Punter shouldn't be allowed to punt ever again...EVER!!!


ISUMatt
Aside from a too occasional shank and one double clutch last year, he has historicall kicked the **** out of it. No clue what he was doing today. And the upback got blown up on the blocked punt

[REALBird]

I thought when the Sycamores only scored 3 points in the 3rd that was where momentum changed.
End of the 3rd, Warrum with two big catches and suddenly that blitz from anywhere Sycamore DEF wasnt as aggressive. On the Coprich TD you guys brought up a corner and the play went to the opposite side, once Coprich hit the second level TD.

After that you guys blitzed less and played more based DEf and Illinois State went strictly ground game. Two pass plays shouldn't have changed the aggressiveness of your DEF.

That and it seemed you guys abandoned the run except the wildcat and QB keeper.

[Sycamore62]

Yep. I thought if we could win the 3rd qtr we could win the game.