Congrats on the good memory.
In the box score for that game they have 14 mapped to Scott Nixon,. They do the same in the game notes for that game Eason doesn’t appear in the Cal Poly game notes. By the regular season game against Sac, Eason has #14, Nixon has 24.

He was one of those cases where he was hired as an interim head coach because he was on the staff and later made head coach based on how popular he was with the players.

I wonder what the $800/month for scholarships is supposed to cover. Just food? Can’t cover food and lodging.

One of his recommendations for saving Portland State football: Drop the money games. Play the mid level teams (G5).
That should also be a goal for Davis.

The most important thing is to have a method and apply it uniformly. If Cleeland, Eason and Guess are sophomores so is Kollock. If Jordan Fisher is a senior, so is Gologowski. Either get rid of the redshirt label or give it to everyone who qualifies.

(is the new term going to be "first year player"?)

I hope, but do not expect, that the roster comes up with a convention for describing players eligibility and stick to it. Something like fr, soph, jr, sr, 5th and list players high school graduation year like they did just a few years ago, They dropped that just before it became meaningful. HS graduation year used to be listed along with HS in the same field.

Eason’s roster bio says he didn’t make an appearance last year. Not that they keep reliable stats. Scott Nixon a 6’2” receiver wearing 24 was being used as a blocker in last half of season before being targeted in the later games.. I searched and couldn’t find any posts mentioning Eason playing.

I think there is a big unknown as to how effective the defense will be as a unit. Have to replace Psyk’s pass rush and fix the huge vulnerability the team had defending run plays. Defense has to improve by about ten points a game to match Montana State’s. The way they played starting with the Idaho State game may all be because of injuries, but the first game is an opportunity to make that case.

In early season games the number of veteran players familiar with the system is a big factor, and Davis clearly has that advantage. Davis players are not going to be overlooking anyone in the first game. The question is how new players and players in new roles perform and how well the coaches anticipate and how quickly they adapt to what the unfamiliar opponent does. Both the head coach and defensive coordinator are from Central Washington, so they probably will look like Central Washington.

I need glasses

PSU have somewhere around 42 new players, They have some transfers, not a huge number. A almost 4 star (89) redshirt freshman linebacker from Washington huskies, Jonathan Epperson, They have a transfer from Hawaii who passed for 1600 yards last year, 56% completions 4TD, but 16 interceptions. Appears to be a decent freshman class.
Central Washington scored 17 points in the first half against Montana last year.
Speaking of big jumps, Weber’s head coach is jumping up from high school. 3 of his sons are on the roster, as is a QB he had in high school who was Cal’s backup qb last year. One of his sons was on Webers team last year but injured after 3 catches. 10.6 100 yard speedster

Plough said he’s confident whoever rises to the top out of the QB room would be talented with guys behind him ready to go and ran through the offensive weapons the team has mentioning Williams by name, which i thought was an indication Williams is likely to be recovered.
In whole Plough continues to be relaxed about the QB.
I’m curious about the previously unseen freshmen. Big recruiting class and everyone now has five years of eligibility.

I watched it on espn+.
Its probably still going on, Davis was about 2 hr and 52 minutes into the show.
Its on demand.

Plough said today at the Big Sky kickoff that the QB position will be decided after two or three weeks of camp.

By all reports two players are competing for the qb position, Pinnick and a player who was on the team as a freshman last year. Their first game is Sept.6, so fall camp starts about a week later than ours.

I remember Plough making a similar comment but i think it may have been about the 2018 game.
In 2024, Davis gave up a touchdown and the lead after an exchange of punts gave Montana a possession in UCDs side of the field. Davis took the lead back near the end of the 3rd quarter. Davis dominated the 4th quarter.

Everyone has five years now. Used to be five years to play four, now its five years to play five. Lots of 19 year olds straight out of high school because parents start them in school late for athletic ambitions.

New eligibility rule applies to all athletes beginning school this fall.. Previously enrolled students are covered by whichever rule benefits them most.

Rutchena’s listing by the Sac Bee follows him being listed on the Spring roster during the winter, which was then repeated by FCS football central.
The roster published by Davis has too many errors. It is the authority for who is on the roster, and they don’t take it seriously.

bad teams usually have bad attendance

To avoid being bad at the Mountain West level Davis needs to have sources of funding to fund 50% more scholarships (from 63 to at least mid 90s), $2 million to $3 million budget for revenue sharing for football to match the average in the mountain west, some NIL arrangements to market players, whatever is required in increased coaches and salaries, plus the FBS conversion fees. Staying where they are and implementing the parts of that list that improve the quality of the team will enable them to win at the FCS level and build the fan base and grow revenue better than prematurely moving up to be a cellar dweller.

There are 105 scholarships allowed in the Mountain West, as there are in FCS unless limited by the conference. The NCAA has discarded the distinction between full and partial scholarships, now that they allow revenue sharing they just limit the roster size. Distinguishing between a scholarship and revenue sharing was a distinction without a difference. Scholarships can be full or partial.
When comparing tuition you might factor in that many of the schools recruit heavily out of state, more so than California schools, due to distribution of high school prospects.