They’ll be better because they lost theit starting QB the game before they played us last fall.

it was shown last year several times and got stopped once if I recall right..

Edit I missed Rex’s name, he did start after all.. His brother Porter started in Buchanan’s place, but they rotated a lot of linebackers. They had four linebackers start: Eaton, Smalley Connors, and Trimble.

It may count against a limit, but their league doesn’t count it as being an athletic scholarship, so the school is still non-scholarship. So San Diego, hypothetically, could give out 60 financial or scholastic scholarships and not exceed an FCS limit. Not saying they do.
Then there is income based tuition. If Princeton pays 100% of attendance costs for middle income families, that’s not a scholarship but certainly an incentive for an athlete offered admission.

NAU is looking like the better team against North Dakota, despite missing 2 field goals, they’re leading 14-13. They will be a tough game. The audio on the broadcast has been missing for virtually the whole half.

When Davis non scholarship I remember coaches of opponents saying the same.
The Ivys are non scholarship, they just pay the costs of attendance for some other reason.

Re Still not stretching the field
It seems to me we are playing a lot of possession type receivers, often with two tight ends and have a very short passing game. It’s crowded in the depth we’re trying to pass into, and we don’t have enough of a run game to keep defenders near the line of scrimmage. Even receivers who are big play threats like Tompkins aren’t real speed guys. No replacement yet for Harrell. I think Babb might be our fastest (not sure about that), but he hasn’t caught a pass this year. Davis has had success but he’s only got decent speed.

Four Missouri Valley vs BigSky games.
Sac at Northern Iowa will be interesting and North Dakota at Northern Arizona also.

Interesting that San Diego’s passing coordinator for the last two seasons is now our tight end coach.
From his profile:
“ Taylor Chapatte enters his first season in 2022 as the Aggies tight ends coach. Chapatte comes to Davis from the University of San Diego, where he spent four seasons as an assistant coach.
Chapatte was the pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach for two seasons with the Toreros and was the wide receivers coach the previous two seasons. ”

Throws more interceptions than TDS?
Let’s see. 3 TDs 1 interception.
Total lack of a run game and he passed for 273 yards. If we had some semblance of a balanced offense he would have looked better with those stats.

Our running backs are too good to not gain 3 yards a carry. What accounts for it?
Davis traditionally can’t run the ball against the better teams.
Reminds me of the Biggs era, when he had to bring in another coach to help Plough because the Davis blocking was so geared to moving laterally like for screens and sweeps that they didn’t develop the skills to block vertically. We always look like we’re a scrappy D2 team playing above our weight class.

Not really. We never had a running game against this level of competition

I recall that the game notes used to have the travel roster, not the entire roster. Maybe not.

We had another young DB with a pass breakup and two tackles, True freshman Blake Cotton. I think we have good personnel in the secondary, coaches have to get results with it. The transfer from Boise played some. I hope Budgett is ok.

Expectations are set by history, and I don’t think we have ever beat a ranked FCS team on the road, and in this case it’s a team that blew us out in the game before last. Not saying it’s impossible but it’s not something observers wouldn’t expect. It will be sweet if it happens,
* Idaho was ranked and on the road in 2020, but I think 19th, so just barely.

An interception in the end zone? Do you mean the pick six? That interception was at the Davis 39.
Or the pass that would have been a UCD touchdown except for an outstanding athletic play by the safety? The second wasn’t throwing into coverage, the safety saw the corner get beat and made a big time play to get there and land in bounds, Hawkins said it could have been thrown a bit earlier. I don’t know what happened on the pick 6.

Maae (who played a little), Ambagtsheer, Suani and Toki. And no one asked their status.

We had a few surprise starters on defense. Noa Masui, Evan Bearden, Rex Connors. Either the first game or close to it for those guys. Also I wouldn’t have predicted Smalley to start; I think that was his first start. Connors had an impressive number of tackles. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of those guys not starting this game.

You guys think we’ve improved that much or that they’ve declined?

I’m sure there are a variety of reasons. I listed them as an indication that we have experienced depth that didn’t play, for one reason or another,