I was kidding about not knowing why some were nervous.
Even the play calling in the first quarter looked like the coaches didn’t have faith in Rodrigues

I don’t know why we were ever nervous, had it all the way

I don’t recall a drive like that on the ground in a close game

They are playing a number of freshmen, more than normal on first game of a season.
They are looking good on offense. The chop block thing is probably a difference of opinion between the ref and our o line coach, not sloppy.

Rodrigues has been good, needs to keep throwing downfield, like he started to do second quarter. Idaho is tough to run against.
On defense we need to rotate the big guy Cubba . I wonder if Suani is there.

Do the Davis announcers say anything noteable?

And we’ve learned about potatoes, their freshmen linemen but not ours.

I’m watching Pluto on TV.

We need to get the ball to multiple receivers. They are supposedly inexperienced in the secondary. Our strength against their weakness, if the QB can do it.

Chubba was really gassed, after playing almost every down. Until the last few. Substitution really helped.

That narrows it down some

Who is number 92 on defense?

I think Rodrigues starts due to most experience. He played a year at JC and has been with us for two years, played at Stanford game and got our touchdown, But I doubt he’s the top guy.
Then who knows? Could be Hastings, he was the first guy we got a commitment from one year, and we were recruiting him after we had the others.
The other two guys are the most interesting stories though; I want to see them play.

Hawkins says probably more than one
https://lmtribune.com/sports/idaho-uc-davis-each-have-potential-expectations-to-meet/article_d1d2645f-2220-5a3b-a347-708a38b58ed4.html

I knew you had higher hopes. I take tour point that the quarter back should just play a solid game and we’ll be good
It will be interesting. We have guys who’ve put up big numbers and seem to be really competitive, and they’ve had time to learn the system.

I expect the QB chosen to be more than serviceable, based on our history. Not only do we have a school history of good quarterbacks, but in Hawkin’s first year he took over late in recruiting season and aggressively sought out and added Maier. They could have talked a transfer into coming here with all the returning offensive talent. The fact that we haven’t brought in anyone implies they’re comfortable with the guys they have.

Correct me if I’m wrong. We return the entire starting offense except for tight end and Quarterback. And we get three guys who stared for us at wide receiver back from injury. One weakness we had was depth at running back and we’ve added depth there.

If they really are waiting until game day to decide who to start, that implies that they have equally prepared two or more quarterbacks to play with the first team. If so, might as well play them both.

I’m not sure how to find the game on Pluto, I watched the Idaho Eastern game on Pluto via a Big Sky link but never found it in the Pluto menu, teams no longer have their own Pluto channel in the listing. Therefor had to watch game on IPad instead of TV

i have an impression partly based on the low publicity approach to this season that they are viewing this as a developmental time, hence all the freshmen on the depth chart. I think they’ll pick whoever has the most potential.with an eye to the fall. Having played a couple of quarters won’t be a significant factor.

Employee head count, salaries, benefits, student amenities, all are higher than they were years ago, funded by loaning money to people who may not be able to repay it.
Private sector working middle class parents aren’t usually going to pay their kids graduate school debt, because they have to save to make up for the pensions they don’t get.