Week 3 (9/14/2024) - at Illinois State

[rocki]

I realize "it is the rules", but one of the personal foul penalties on Western ticked me off. Yes, the guy hit the QB who was sliding, but it didn't appear the QB started his slide until he saw he was going to get hit. 

[sealhall74]

Time for 3 and out baby!!!!

[leatherneckcountry]

Winning teams don’t commit stupid penalties 

[vatusay]

Never going to win can’t stop other team from scoring. 

[sealhall74]

We gassed on both sides of ball.

[sealhall74]

A team with boxscore stats like ours today usually wins.  Defense steps up there game a bit rest of season, we should get 2 or 3 wins IMHO.

[leatherneckcountry]

As crazy as it sounds we could win 4 out of the next five in my opinion 

[wiu712]

Illinois State won the game 51-34

Western had 503 Total Yards:  317 yards Passing and 186 yards Rushing.

Illinois State had 390 Total Yards:  201 yards Passing and 189 yards Rushing.

Western had 30 First Downs.  Illinois State had 21 First Downs.

Western had 93 Total Plays.  Illinois State had 60 Total Plays.

Nathan Lamb was 24 of 33 for 269 yards.  1 Touchdown.  1 Interception.

 
 

[jtrinaldi]

Positive outcome but ISU kept us in the game in the first half with their penalties.  Anyone else watch this in espn+?
By far the worst viewing experience I’ve had. The down and distance was missing from the tv screen completely so it was hard to know what down it was during the game. The multiple hot mic incidents (leading into commercials) by the broadcasters were a plenty, kinda funny as I assumed these were college kids running the show but later learned they weren’t. 
 

[wiu712]

It certainly was a poor TV production.

The crowd noise was absent for most of the game.  

The main announcer was Kurt Pegler.  He has been a Sports Reporter at WMBD-TV (Peoria) since 1987.