Articles on Yesterday's SIU - UD Game

[RadMann]

Errors leave Salukis 1 game short of title shot (Chicago Tribune):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-siu09dec09,1,4230911.story

Delaware Reaches Title Game (New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/sports/football/09roundup.html?ref=football

Hens take the hard road to Chattanooga (Wilmington News Journal - Opinion):
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/SPORTS12/712090381/1033/SPORTS

UD-SIU quick hits (Wilmington News Journal):
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/SPORTS07/712090391/1002/SPORTS

Hens claw way back to title game (Wilmington News Journal):
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/SPORTS07/712090380/1002/SPORTS

Defensive stands allow Delaware to survive (Wilmington News Journal):
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/SPORTS07/712090389/1002/SPORTS

Hens advance to face Appalachian State for I-AA title (Wilmington News Journal):
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/NEWS/712090351/1006/NEWS

Blue Hens advance past mistake-prone Salukis (St. Loius Post Dispatch):
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/othersports/story/B3D2B184A7A0A789862573AC0016BBF8?OpenDocument

Special teams have interesting game during home defeat (The Southern):
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/12/08/sports/22508580.txt

Flacco shows off accuracy, arm in win (The Southern):
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/12/08/sports/22508587.txt

SIU's running game came to play in Saturday's loss (THe Southern):
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/12/08/sports/22509536.txt

Salukis fell just a few plays short (The Southern):
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/12/08/sports/22508004.txt

Blue Hens defeat SIU in NCAA semifinals (UD website):
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/dec/henswin120807.html

http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/white315fcs07semifinals1209.jpg

http://images.townnews.com/thesouthern.com/content/articles/2007/12/09/sports/22507377.jpg

[HENJOHN]

God, you read some of the articles and its like we were lucky to be in the game. Last I checked we did have 21 First downs and outgained them 402 yards to 297 (their season LOW). We also had a dropped ball on the 3 yd line late and another guy wide open at the 5 yd line with 2 minutes to go. It all boils down to turnovers. We had Zero and they had Two....can't do it in the big games.

[RadMann]

Agreed. Some in the media buy into the seeds and assume that team strengths can be accurately predicted by the seeding, but that does not take into account how a team has been playing recently and relative team strengths. I think most knowledgeable fans here saw this game as a likely very competitive game, but many in the media assumed the result was a huge upset, so they painted their stories that way.

[Houndawg]

God, you read some of the articles and its like we were lucky to be in the game. Last I checked we did have 21 First downs and outgained them 402 yards to 297 (their season LOW). We also had a dropped ball on the 3 yd line late and another guy wide open at the 5 yd line with 2 minutes to go. It all boils down to turnovers. We had Zero and they had Two....can't do it in the big games.

No ****. The media disses us all year when they even bother to acknowledge our existence, and then suddenly it's David and Goliath.xrolleyesx