To the extent that Davis takes it as serious, it puts them at a disadvantage, Majority of schools will just let someone enroll. Does NCAA even require a degree objective? If they do it’s likely a second BA would do, something you could gain in a quarter or two.

Too many years of eligibility is detrimental to the college game. You get guys hopping around without the degree objective as a stabilizing influence, so then teams rent a roster.
It won’t be as bad after the COVID classes attrit.

Even Smalley didn’t play much his first year.. His stats this year are nearly double those from last year, which corresponds to how much he played.
In regards to playing younger players, they’ve always played young players, if they are that good. It depends on depth at the position. Jim Speck started as a freshmen in 1973 only a year after freshmen became eligible. in Hawkins era he has played Jaylin White, Devon King, Teddye Buchanan, Jake Parks, Chubba Maae etc as new arrivals. Other recent recruits like Rex Connors had to wait a bit, as did his whole recruiting class.
This years team was very deep. When you have guys who’ve been with the program, are veterans and have significant remaining eligibility, it’s tougher for transfers or new recruits , Depth on teams is going to revert to normal in a year or two.
Kraut I think might still show something, as he was essentially changing positions.

Idahos run defense entirely collapsed in the second half. I was just thinking to myself that they were doing a lot better against S.E Louisiana than the Davis game when suddenly they ran out of gas. If the game went to overtime I wouldn’t have liked their chances.

I don’t like the snow games. Lots of missed tackles due to the weather.

Porter has already played more than most players in his recruiting class. 9 games, 22 tackles, and an interceptions. Thirteenth on the team in tackles, I imagine they think the scholarship was earned.

Tranfers have been a key. O’Hara was a huge factor for them, Davis has some impactful transfers but not at that level.

They have fifteen in the headline and 14 in the text and then in the players mentioned, 12.

Gale is great, but the roster has a number of 6’2 to 6’4” receivers. Granfors (6’4”)was injured a lot but impactful when he played, same for Chaz Davis (6’3”). Cody Hawkins said before the season that the tight ends learn each receiver position, so they’ll have him running wide receiver routes sometimes even if still a tight end.
Kraft had a similar year as a Freshman in 2018 believe it or not! Poerio is also a class of 2018 recruit, as is Lance Babb. Any of those class of 18 guys might decide five years is enough unless they go to graduate school.

I’ve wanted to see that game since the 70s.

This gives them the chance to sell the name again. Could be a good thing, if they sold off any of the crypto. I hope they cashed out at least some of it.

We can say we missed out because of the schedule and that is true. However it’s also true that we could have won one more of the five games we lost. If we want to make the playoffs and do something while there we need to fix why we lost those games. We have to play Weber, Montana State, and Sac every year and we need to get a little better. We improved to the point most those games are close, but we’re not victims of luck in losing to three of four tough conference opponents.

in recent years with the extra year of eligibility and the liberal transfer rules have facilitated rapid turnarounds using ronin players.
We got some, but compared to Montana State, Idaho and Sac, they were less impactful.

New Hampshire is also a pretty weak selection.

Ivy’s and historically black colleges usually don’t play.

They lucked out on conference schedule and didn’t have to play two teams that finished above them in the standings, Weber and Davis, They lost against every strong conference team the played, So they don’t deserve to be in. We can complain about it if the choice was them or Davis. But was it?

To me seasons always come down to beating the teams that historically beat us. I’d rather have quality wins and miss the playoffs than sneak in without a win over a Montana, Montana State, Weber or Eastern Washington. Now you can add Sac to that list.
This year Davis lost the games that were on the schedule against historical nemeses. The only ranked team they beat was one they beat twice last year so that didn’t gain much respect,. Can’t complain about missing the playoffs because we conclusively proved we are unlikely to win a game against ranked competition, doing so once in five opportunities

I don’t follow why the big sky would get fewer bids if Montana is left out.

Montana punt team bad snap touchdown Montana State 21-7

I’m in. Thanks