I'm not a coach but I believe its based on film. I'm sure information is shared among friends. But not in person scouting.

The Rhody board posters are under the misapprehension that we have a D2 win. That likely refers to Utah Tech who completed their transition before last year. Utah Tech has a higher rating than three of the teams in their conference.

i think in person scouting is not permitted. That was part of the Michigan sign stealing infraction

No, but playing. His big stop on the last drive was where he came in on a wholesale d line substitution. They have been playing all the two deep guys.

Rhode Island gets some quality transfers and recruits. Similar to Idaho, in that they can get guys rated in the upper range of 3 stars particularly as transfers
They have QB who threw for over 3,000 yards, and a big running back who transferred from Temple gained 1000 yards. Their backup running back was a seldom used Stanford running back..
However Davis' defense is better than Beckton suggests, since they now have their entire starting lineup back except the Connors. Massey's ratings have Davis better than Rhode Island on both offense and defense.

Might be some Cal Poly guys disenchanted as well..

Good research. I remembered the case but didn’t have the detail.

They deal with integers for the number of games allowed and if .30 times 14 is 4.2 they would treat that as 5.

If i recall correctly Gage Gubrud got an additional year after playing in five games for Eastern Washington in 2018. Eastern played in 15 games that year, and i think but do not know that was the reason he was granted a sixth year.

Oddly enough in the Stats Perform preseason poll, Davis was #8, Rhode Island #9, exactly their seeding in the playoffs.

And Sagarin would have Davis at slightly more than a 2 point favorite on a neutral field. And a 5 to 6 point favorite at Davis, if the game was played this week.

Davis was # 10 when the committee released their poll three weeks ago, since then they beat Idaho and Sac and lost to Montana St.

Their QB threw for 332 yards against Montana.. Marion was a pass game coordinator at Texas It seems on their win streak they decided to just go to their strength and it worked until they met a team they couldn't just steamroll. Game was reminiscent of the old Rose Bowls with Woody Hayes

Sac with 20 sacks now trails Montana (21) in conference game sacks. Tied for third are Davis and Idaho State with 18.

#5 Tarleton going to overtime Austin Peay
They won

I think the interception and end last play defense was Ty Richardsson

Riddick was great, on Sacs last drive He has my vote for defensive player of game. Lots of competition for that.

The live stats show 63 out of 69 tackles were solo.

The argument that they need to attract out of state students because California students are going out of state, which seemed logical for the interviewer, suffers when one considers how many California students aren’t offered admission.

Most of those events you cite don’t involve a hard stop from the facility or pilots.
Davis Mercer was an hour and a half rain delay.
In 2023 Mercer played in the same stadium and had a 76 minute delay. Not an unforeseeable act of god.

At least you finish the game. Davis did fine against Tulsa