The camera work was terrible and this is not unique to Sac State. ESPN+ has minimum requirements 6 positions with 1080i broadcast cameras at 60fps but ultimately the school hires the production. You’d need 150-300fps capable cameras to have good replays and probably 10 positions. Sidelines inside the 20 have poor angles and the track puts the cameras extra far away. The refs got this one wrong for sure, though the cameras they had to work with may have been inconclusive. I don’t know if suspending them solves much. Refs at even at the NFL level are not paid all that well. For Big Sky I think they make $500-$900 per game, so these are guys who are either retired or have a day job and probably took Friday off work to travel. Given that the conference all but acknowledged that the outcome of the game is incorrect, perhaps the committee will think of it as something less than a full win. The comments among some of the Sac faithful defending the outcome as just, well we can see who hasn’t reached the Maslow’s self actualization stage.

Just putting this out there, that the football gods are still holding our deposit from 2009 with the Chris Carter catch that was ruled not a catch. If this is fact the last Causeway, perhaps it is time for them to return our deposit, with interest.

man, it seems like not so long ago that big time college bribery was boosters renting a Hummer and some exotic dancers for a recruiting weekend, and it had to be done on the double-secret.

Same party trick as last year, Julius Davis underutilized in 1st half and comes out ready to party 2nd half.

Showdown is set for next week. Sac barely escapes with a win. Barely.

So watching the Sac game is weird. The primary camera position is on the visitor side but when the ref makes a call they switch to a camera on the home side. So the hand signals appear opposite of our vantage point.

It was announced that Disney and YouTube TV have come to terms, so ESPN2 should be back available by tomorrow on that platform. The relevant part of the settlement is that sometime in 2026, YouTube TV will begin including ESPN+ access.

idk if the NCAA cares enough about FCS to have strong favorites. But certainly with Big Sky it is true. Pretty sure Bobby Houck sent the commissioner some Griz-branded kneepads and hairties.

Good stuff!
I wonder if there’s time to get “stingers down” cowboy hats to troll Marion.

Sac wouldn’t need lights for their imaginary Cal Expo stadium because a 7pm Pacific kickoff is bad for tv audiences in Eastern time.

in any sport there is the tendency to use your best players most and this year we really haven’t been blowing people out early so you can argue they are needed for 60 minutes. But I wonder if there is growing pressure to pad stats of guys who have a chance at the next level to either help them achieve that directly or entice them not to leave for a greener pastures when those play calls or personnel choices are not really relevant to winning the game. Thinking of the Rex tush push and last year keeping Lan in during lots of garbage time.

I think a comment made during the broadcast was that his high completion rate and high sac rate are related because he doesn’t throw the ball away. Perhaps the gift and curse of a mobile quarterback, figuring out when you can and can’t make something out of nothing.

With this counts but doesn’t count gotcha, you might say it was 3/5 of a game.

The player of the game, selected by Idaho announcers and sponsored by Toyota of Spokane… Gbatu. Unusual to pick someone from the away team.

Cannot give away emotional victories to a team fighting for life. When you have the boot on the throat, you have to push down. All the way.

this is the plywood sign that was posted at the site 2004-ish. So at one point it was 16,000 base, expandable to 30,000 and was value engineered back to 10k. It was just built at an inopportune moment. National shortages of building supplies driven by Hurricane Katrina, unfavorable economic conditions, local labor shortage. And probably contributing was the low bid general contractor selected had zero experience with stadiums. They were a strip mall and apartment firm.

I knew that lady didn’t know crap about building when she started talking about disking… that is what farmers do to spent tomato fields. A developer would have probably said “site work”.

I’ll take an overpriced consultant payment if they’re offering lol.

good for him. I’m no position expert but felt like we may have underutilized him in his time with us.

Hulu Live TV is an option. You can also subscribe to “ESPN Unlimited” which includes the broadcast ESPN channels in addition to the streaming-only content (currently in a promo bundle with Disney+ for $29). Or Sling TV has a $5 “day pass” that includes ESPN.

In this case, I don’t know that it is clear which company is the bigger villain. Both sides are flexing.