Hopefully our band and student section can start practicing ‘who wears short shorts’ for homecoming.

We have to find a game picture of the coach and his pants! Can’t possibly be as short as the ones our coaches wore in the early 80’s!

he mentioned in the press conference that Faulk got in the game; I had no idea when. Good insight!

it wasn't AS full as Dixie, but it was pretty full. the band section was 1/2 full, but the rest of the east side was full. west side was full. berms had quite a few people, not as many as the Dixie mob, but much more than normal.

I’m watching the game now. Marsh does a decent job on play by play, although there are a number of misidentified players (we do throw to a bunch of guys, but….). Dunning wasn’t good, but I think that was a one-off. Scott Barry is pretty solid. Informative, usually doesn’t talk over the play by play. Doug Kelly is a bit droll and doesn’t add much insight. In Marsh’s defense, hard to get in synch when you have a new guy weekly. He’s certainly as good or better than most of the Big Sky guys I hear.

Tough crowd - ‘that kind of day for the Bears, missing his spot….’

I would really like to see TT fake the swing to Gilliam (Idaho swarmed that) pull back and let it rip down the field, or hit someone in the area of the converging LB/safety. He’s looking more comfortable throwing.

Greg Wong does play by play , Doug Kelly is on color. Doug does color on away TV games.

it was a little comical when, after the camera zoomed in on them celebrating, the PAT team was lining up and they said ‘looks like they marked it out at the 3 yard line’

I think you can listen in the phone app and Bluetooth it to your echo. I do that often with Sirius on my phone.

I used to listen on TuneIn app. I haven’t tried this season but their normal broadcasts are there.

he’s doing the radio calls now.

gotcha. I didn’t mean that as a Tucker v Coombs, just an observation about possible mindset based on stats (which can always be interpreted in many ways).

one of the knocks on Tucker was the inability to get off the field on 3rd downs. Saturday Idaho we 5-15 on third downs which is a pretty decent defensive result. Made them punt 7 times despite the big yardage. I think we’re relying a bit on Whelan pinning teams back, and not giving up the long plays (well, except the first long run!).

They scored 40 seconds into game, 13 more the other 59:20. Even the dreaded TOP wasn’t as lopsided as you would expect based on yards.

That being said, I hate the lone, deep safety. Seems like we’re playing a man short

they replaced Swanson with somebody that worked the Sac Kings games and that guy was good. I thought I heard this guy was from the Kings also but it’s been a big drop off.

Hastings wasn’t overly sharp, but we dropped a couple passes that would have been nice gains. I liked the pass game plan better than the recent games with Hunter. More quick hitters to WRs that gave them a chance to run. The INT could have been a big play but it floated a bit - hard pass rolling left. That could have led to a late half score; follow that up with a nice opening second half drive and…..

But not to be. I thought Hastings looked poised. A little more mobile than i expected

Really positive note from last night - ran into Bib Biggs last night looking healthy and as cheery as usual!

What I heard was HR was cleared to play but they wanted to be overly cautious and give him another week. I respect that kind of judgment when you’re talking about a head injury.

We made enough little mistakes to stop any momentum. Unsportsmanlike after TD, drive starts at 40 instead of 25. Offensive PI to go to 1st and 25 after a promising drive start. Procedure after on a 2nd and 2 on a promising drive leading to punt. Dropped pass on wide open crossing pattern. Seemed like that was story of 3rd quarter (unsportsmanlike was early)

They had a good game plan and a couple weeks to focus on us. There were times they stacked 10 guys in the box when we had TT and Larison. They swarmed on UG on the little swings. Running QB, passing QB, etc.


On that replay on the sideline pass, was that a catch? I’m stadium it sure looked like he landed on elbows out of bounds. Could have been a big play. We’ll, unless you go for a FG down 7 with 4:00 to go

i was listening to radio on drive to hotel and Doug Kelly was incredulous on their FG attempt with 4 to go. They were rolling offensively and STILL would need a TD to win. Lucky there.

I don’t like our defensive approach. We play free safety 25 yards deep, with man to man almost every play. FS never is involved in the play since nobody throws deep middle (can’t help on deep sideline). We give up so many short passes underneath and on the edges. They had 3-4 short crosses that turned into 20-25 yard plays. I don’t see any other team with that approach.

Crowd was a bit smaller than week one but pretty full. Once the students settled that side was nearly full, and west side was full. Berms were solid. Might be biggest crowd I’ve seen at the END of a game especially the students. They were loud.

We gotta get a new PA guy. Monotone, and barely audible. Show some excitement for a first down or a stop!!