Week 10 Live Thread

[IUPNation]

There is no quit in you and that’s why we all appreciate that! It’s the REAL IUP way!

Yep…wear em down!!

[IUPalum]

He was trying to run FightingScot off the board.

I mean we all know I’ll fight for hours, days, weeks, months and years on end. :-)

There is no quit in you and that’s why we all appreciate that! It’s the REAL IUP way!

[Ram Tough]

Highly unlikely.

Talk about a two word ball-shriveling response!

[IUPNation]

AWESOME!!! That guy is out of control. You can't run the IUPNation off the board!

He was trying to run FightingScot off the board.

I mean we all know I’ll fight for hours, days, weeks, months and years on end. :-)

[IUPalum]

Highly unlikely.

AWESOME!!! That guy is out of control. You can't run the IUPNation off the board!

[IUPNation]

Highly unlikely.

LMAO!!

I was so waiting for this response.

Pull the plug on him Brandon!!

[Brandon]

IM NOT SCARED OF YOU!! IM ABOUT TO RUN YOU OFF THIS BOARD!

Highly unlikely.

[IUPNation]

I think you mean mid-70's.

I did.

Beating IUP in 1981 wasn’t a big deal. IUP really didn’t take off until
1985.

[iupgroundhog]

IUP had a decade of malaise in foosball ftom the mid 80’s until Big Guy came to campus and hired Chaump.

I think you mean mid-70's.

[IUPNation]

I remember that game as being a little more competitive than that as it was 6-6 at halftime. North Dakota State was the better team, but I felt their-bend=don't break defense was what really won the game for them as much as the option offense. Ship moved the ball well between the 20s, but as they approached the red zone, ND State tightened up and effectively blanketed Ship receivers, resulting in coverage sacks and incompletions.The Bison had good size for those days — a couple of tackles at 290 pounds or so and some rangy DBs who were well over 6 feet tall. A 290-pound tackle doesn't seem like anything special these days, but in 1981, a couple of years before the "Refrigerator" Perry era that marked the onset of athletic 300-pounders it seemed huge. ND State was not a particularly speedy team, but they definitely wore down Ship in the second half. Some D2 teams now have lines heavier on average than the NFL teams of that era.

You can go at it from a couple of different ways, but I thought that holding a Ship offense that had averaged about 29 points a game and had just hung up 40 on a talented Virginia Union team the week before was a key to the Bison victory. Funny to look back on that year and think of Ship in the PSAC West, sweeping their way through IUP, Cal, and Slippery Rock that season. What is really unbelievable in light of today's circumstances is that Lock Haven was also in the PSAC West then and that a Ship team unbeaten in the regular season only beat them 24-20. How things have changed.

IUP had a decade of malaise in foosball ftom the mid 70’s until Big Guy came to campus and hired Chaump.

[Matt Burglund]

Well, they're wrong. IUP beat Shepherd in the 2012 playoffs, 27-17.

True.

Shepherd won in 1998 (9-6), 2007 (41-34), 2015 (17-13), 2019 (31-27) and 2021 (37-21).
IUP won in 2012 (as you said, 27-17).

[ctrabs74]

Geez. Forgive me, oh mighty one.

I wasn't sure which team you were talking about in your previous post which I replied to, but it certainly couldn't have been Cal for as bad as they've been this season (compared to past seasons).

[Ram Tough]

According to IUP's page it 5-0

https://iupathletics.com/sports/foot...-university/14

Well, they're wrong. IUP beat Shepherd in the 2012 playoffs, 27-17.

[Fightingscot82]

Not a goose egg, but it's 5-1 currently.

According to IUP's page it 5-0

https://iupathletics.com/sports/foot...-university/14

[Ship69]

I got some heavy perspective when North Dakota State came into Ship for the D-II quarterfinals in 1981. I'd never before seen a triple option where the QB would be five yards past scrimmage before pitching to the trail back. It was devastating.

The final was 18-6 NDSU, but that was only a testament to the grittiness of that Shippensburg team. These were two teams on completely different levels.

The next time I saw the triple option run like that was when Bo Orlando quarterbacked Berwick to the mythical national HS title. Bo fashioned a nice little NFL career on defense, but he could have been a superb college option QB, too.

I remember that game as being a little more competitive than that as it was 6-6 at halftime. North Dakota State was the better team, but I felt their-bend=don't break defense was what really won the game for them as much as the option offense. Ship moved the ball well between the 20s, but as they approached the red zone, ND State tightened up and effectively blanketed Ship receivers, resulting in coverage sacks and incompletions.The Bison had good size for those days — a couple of tackles at 290 pounds or so and some rangy DBs who were well over 6 feet tall. A 290-pound tackle doesn't seem like anything special these days, but in 1981, a couple of years before the "Refrigerator" Perry era that marked the onset of athletic 300-pounders it seemed huge. ND State was not a particularly speedy team, but they definitely wore down Ship in the second half. Some D2 teams now have lines heavier on average than the NFL teams of that era.

You can go at it from a couple of different ways, but I thought that holding a Ship offense that had averaged about 29 points a game and had just hung up 40 on a talented Virginia Union team the week before was a key to the Bison victory. Funny to look back on that year and think of Ship in the PSAC West, sweeping their way through IUP, Cal, and Slippery Rock that season. What is really unbelievable in light of today's circumstances is that Lock Haven was also in the PSAC West then and that a Ship team unbeaten in the regular season only beat them 24-20. How things have changed.