@ Utah Tech I managed to stay awake to the end of the game, but a pretty miserable viewing experience. Not sure if the problem was on ESPN or Utah Tech's side, but to have a feed that is pretty much unwatchable for a large part of half the game in 2025 is pretty crazy.
Obviously I'm happy that we were able to pull out the win, but unless Utah Tech goes on to have an amazing season this was still a fairly rough performance. The OL was doing Pinnick no favors with their protection (especially in the beginning of the game), but he also will need to learn when to learn when to appropriately get rid of the ball; too many negative yard plays overall either on misreads in play action or trying to get too fancy in the backfield. Awesome that Fisher broke 100 yards and his early TD was pretty impressive speed.
Defense played as well as you could have hoped given how often they were on the field. The Connors never disappoint and it was good to see some of the new guys with impact plays. Shoutout to Cofield on the outside getting a huge interception with a return as a true freshman. I'm also glad that Ridley finally got FG conversion, but concerns that we've had 2 FGs blocked through the Mercer and UT games.
I figured that there would be growing pains with a new QB, no Lan Larison, and a young WR corps, but they still have a whoooole lot to work out before conference play because Big Sky teams will chew us up if we play like we did in the first half tonight. At the end of the day, a win is a win and I'm glad the guys didn't give up. GO AGS!