...for the most part. As long as UT beats NIU & Akron - and NIU beats WMU on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving - UT will be going to the MACC. How many of you thought this would be possible after the Ball St. game???

I'll admit not I. But northern does look very good. Gonna take the best game the Rockets have played this season to get the W. Hope we can get a decent crowd. Great crowd there at Northern tonight and the weather wasn't any better than we had against Buffalo.

Yes, the Rockets must bring their A game. Both the players AND coaches. It can happen. I've got hope, you all should too!!

(11-13-2013 11:38 PM)inductchuck16 Wrote:  Yes, the Rockets must bring their A game. Both the players AND coaches. It can happen. I've got hope, you all should too!!

I've got more than hope...I've got confidence in our team.

The door is open...walk on in Rockets, what a great game is set up for next Weds.
All I can say is as I left the BSU game and heard chirp chirp, up theirs , destiny is back in our hands.
Goooooo Rockets.

(11-13-2013 11:40 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote:  

(11-13-2013 11:38 PM)inductchuck16 Wrote:  Yes, the Rockets must bring their A game. Both the players AND coaches. It can happen. I've got hope, you all should too!!

I've got more than hope...I've got confidence in our team.

Amen!!

(11-13-2013 11:38 PM)inductchuck16 Wrote:  Yes, the Rockets must bring their A game. Both the players AND coaches. It can happen. I've got hope, you all should too!!

Agree.

This will be the fourth straight year that for all intents and purposes the winner of this game will be going to the MACC game. Unfortunately at present NIU is 3-0.

With the Ball State loss, the Rockets have been given a second chance to achieve their season goals. The players certainly have the talent to prevail, and hopefully the coaching will also be up to the challenge.

(11-13-2013 11:27 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote:  ...for the most part. As long as UT beats NIU & Akron - and NIU beats WMU on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving - UT will be going to the MACC. How many of you thought this would be possible after the Ball St. game???

pretty much all of us.

look at the schedule and the only other possible loss looked like BGSU

And that was a F'ing nailbiter

I was a little deceived by this post... I thought Destiny was supposed to be a woman...

(11-14-2013 10:48 PM)KingBob Wrote:  I was a little deceived by this post... I thought Destiny was supposed to be a woman...

You beat me to it.

you could have simply stated that destiny is not a woman nor the beast, it quintessential being of the fabric in which our souls are made of... we stand upon the precipice of who we truly are, only to be enticed with one win that would make us, whom we truly want to be... part of a winning team!!!

(11-13-2013 11:27 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote:  ...for the most part. As long as UT beats NIU & Akron - and NIU beats WMU on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving - UT will be going to the MACC. How many of you thought this would be possible after the Ball St. game???

I did!

I knew after the first two games this team was very good. I never lost hope. Beating NIU is going to be a real challenge. Lynch is the real thing. I was encouraged by BSU's ability to run the ball. We should have similar success. I think we need to score a lot of points because NIU will get theirs.

I'm very concerned with the runningback situation. We may be more dinged up now than anytime in the season.

(11-15-2013 09:03 AM)tolfbfan Wrote:  I'm very concerned with the runningback situation. We may be more dinged up now than anytime in the season.

Terrible that we had to rely on Ricky Pringle against Buffalo. I mean, what is your sixth string walk-on back gonna be able to do against the top defense in the East?

The Rockets, even with the Ball State loss, had a large degree of control of their MAC West chances. Ball State could have taken control but their loss put the Rockets where they wanted to be from the get-go - in position to win the MAC. I was weary of Buffalo but the Rockets came out on fire and never trailed. HUGE win.

(11-15-2013 09:08 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 09:03 AM)tolfbfan Wrote:  I'm very concerned with the runningback situation. We may be more dinged up now than anytime in the season.

Terrible that we had to rely on Ricky Pringle against Buffalo. I mean, what is your sixth string walk-on back gonna be able to do against the top defense in the East?

Score touchdowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(11-15-2013 09:23 AM)NewMex RocketFan Wrote:  I was weary of Buffalo but the Rockets came out on fire and never trailed. HUGE win.

I was as well. that's why I hate those late starts.

(11-13-2013 11:27 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote:  ...for the most part. As long as UT beats NIU & Akron - and NIU beats WMU on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving - UT will be going to the MACC. How many of you thought this would be possible after the Ball St. game???

After Ball State, I knew it was still possible to win the MAC but I figured the chances were not better than about 1 out of 4 which made it improbable. Besides, to be the best, you have to beat the best and that means winning "big" games which they failed to do at Ball State. I figure the odds have now improved to 50/50 but being a "glass half empty" sort of fellow, I will believe it when I see it.

The Rockets certainly have the talent and the ability to win it all, but that will depend on playing more like they did in the first half of the Buffalo game and not like they did the second half. The last three NIU/Toledo games were "big" game with a MACC clearly on the table each game, yet UT lost all three. I figure that UT was clearly overmatched in only 1 of those 3 games. IMO the other two were lost by poor coaching (Beckman's insane clock mismanagement) and poor execution (interceptions), respectively.

In order to beat NIU, UT players must execute well on the field and the coaching staff must give the team the opportunity to win by calling a near perfect game.

In summary, winning a MACC certainly seems a lot more doable now than it did just a week ago; however, it is still far from a done deal. There is no doubt that this team has the tools to win but I am not completely confident that they (players and coaches) will do what is necessary to win. Although I am not from Missouri, based on past performance, they are going to have to actually get it done before I believe it.

(11-15-2013 09:08 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 09:03 AM)tolfbfan Wrote:  I'm very concerned with the runningback situation. We may be more dinged up now than anytime in the season.

Terrible that we had to rely on Ricky Pringle against Buffalo. I mean, what is your sixth string walk-on back gonna be able to do against the top defense in the East?

Once you pop you can't stop!