I think in the post game Plough admitted to getting greedy, he thought there was time for one more shot for 7 before trying for 3 and we ended up with 0. Not sure how the coaching dynamic works on making those tactical decisions.

I believe we were 1st down at the 23 with 7 seconds left, so would have been a ~40 yard attempt? His long this year is 46 yd so maybe “easy” was an overstatement, but still.

We saw Harper play last week and I don’t know that a different outcome would have resulted. QB might not have been 100%, but i think disasters on defense, special teams, and play calling may have been more definitive than the offense shortcomings. Not taking easy 3 at the end of Q2 turned out to be game point.

What a screw up, right from the first drive.

This is not an ESPN issue. They are online for other games. That blue screen of death was some piece of equipment in the stadium losing signal.

From a strategy point, why didn’t we try for 2 on one of the last two TDs? Being down by 2 (if not successful) is kind of the same as being down by 1 in a shootout.

absolutely agree. When the opportunity comes next September, we just gotta win and they can all cry into their flavorless taco salads and bottom-shelf dollar-itas at the Missoula Applebees on mountain sports tv.

there was a time when you’d need tens of thousands of dollars of equipment to produce quality pressers. These days with led lighting and Bluetooth mics, an iPhone and a few hundred dollars of accessories would be all you need to make these better. Agree the production quality is just one of those little things that would just be so cheap and easy to fix.

I believe because all games are carried on local/regional tv in Montana, that channel produces the broadcast and ESPN+ just gets a free feed. While ESPN2 tends to choose neutral talent, hard homers on the call are probably good for regional ratings in Montana. Cost savings aside, I’m not sure if the stadium and press box have infrastructure for 2 TV crews plus radio.

the ESPN+ era, while imperfect, is better than what we had before. There were some rough games on PlutoTV, or before that, webpage streams. I remember we went a whole year once where Scott Marsh didn’t realize his mic was hot during commercial breaks and we got him chewing out the production staff.

I think ESPN+ is fine as a platform. My gripe is that the stream doesn’t start until kickoff. I’d like a 10-minute pregame show. My understanding is that on ESPN+ the school owns the camera crew and production, with ESPN enforcing some minimum equipment standards. When a game is on a linear network like ESPN2, the network arranges the crew and talent.

on the Sac board, it has been discussed that Orr is in a weird spot because Marion fundamentally reports directly to Wood. I think Orr is a qualified AD, so I’d imagine he is looking for jobs at places with regular leadership. When the ship starts to really take on water, Wood isn’t going to let his own feet get wet; he’s going to find someone to blame and right now Orr has to know he’s sitting in the fall guy seat.

Agreed the hotels in Woodland are quick and functional, though not fancy in my memory. Maybe they are looking for a specific brand? Imagine if someone in the travel office is banking a whole team’s worth of Bonvoy points lol.

I’m not sure I understand the comment about needing to stay 45 minutes away and California traffic? I think visiting teams used to often stay at the Hallmark Inn or the Best Western in Dixon but maybe times change.

IMO, Orr was doing a good job and his biggest problem is Wood interjecting. I think history will ultimately remember Wood as Sac’s version of Katehi - an incompetent leader hired for the wrong reasons, who has demonstrated poor performance and judgement in a short period of time. Should the CSU trustees want any advice, my observation has been that providing a bad executive hire more time and a longer leash has a poor track record of achieving vindication.

Stetson is a small private college located in DeLand, FL, a kind of artsy town out in the swamps between Orlando and Daytona. Locally, they are better known for their law school in Tampa and graduate business school in Celebration (the wealthy Disney community). It’s easy to forget they have an undergraduate campus and athletics. They dropped football in the 1950s and rebooted in the 2010s.

my speculation is it could have something to do with the Lil Yachty fiasco across the causeway. Crowds are easier to manage when slotted in numbered seats and sections than a festival lawn. While there is a very very low likelihood among our clientele of a mosh pit being declared on the south berm, it may well be a reaction from risk managers. Probably no elevated risk for Idaho State game and historically Sac fans don’t travel well. But I could see elevated security measures needed for the Sac game since Wood has lowered the bar on classless degenerate behavior.

I think most people agree “covfefe” was probably a typo for “coverage” but it demonstrated how quickly a nonsense uttering could grow a life of its own with conspiracy, meme, and viral status. While that was accidental nonsense, brainrot is based on intentional nonsense going viral. So I guess you could say they are kind of related but not the same.

The words 6-7 appear repeatedly in the song “Doot Doot” by Skrilla (“song” is being generous, it’s more like the sound of brain cells degenerating). The song gained popularity on TikTok with edits of LaMelo Ball, who is 6’7”, doing tall people things. The phrase “6-7” doesn’t actually mean anything, BUT GenZ and now Gen Alpha types have discovered that yelling the phrase out irritates adults (particularly teachers) partly because it’s disruptive but also because us adults get hung up trying to make sense of it. It falls under “brainrot” - a type of humor among the age group that is intentionally meaningless but sounds catchy enough to become a viral meme. Part of what makes it funny to them is that adults try and fail to understand it when in fact there is just nothing to understand.

I bet they’ve been waiting for a score of 6-7 also.

I suppose the fundamental question is if polls are a reward of past performance or a prediction of future performance. In the first paradigm maybe it helps us. In the second, the poll rating might be influenced by a prediction of when QB1 returns healthy.