Pre game analysis Game 1 @ the Air Force

[Newsbreaker]

I've been vocal that I like the hire. He's got a bunch of experience and the bits and pieces I've heard are very good. He fits right in with what young broadcasters today sound like. This isn't hiring a 25 year old from the OVC who has never run a marketing department as your lead marketer.

It's hard to compare. Sports media is so different now than it was 30 years ago and UNIs media contracts are so much different and a million times more complex. KOEL got to make the hire at that point and Rima was their sports director so they used it to market themselves. It worked way better than it had any right to and it was all to our benefit.

If we were repeating the hiring of Rima, every single person would have every reason to doubt the hire, because he was the very definition of a nobody. KOEL was still in Oelwein at the time. He'd really only done small school HS football.

This guy has 500x's the resume Rima had, and Rima was terrific for a very long time.

No chance we keep this guy for decades, but it's a really good hire, on paper.

[Leatherhelmet]

https://goairforcefalcons.com/publications/air-force-football-digital-program-1

Digital Program for the game.

[BrockLesnar]

Air Force returns 8 starters on offense and 6 on defense plus the punter and kicker, elevation of 5,994 feet, a loud crowd, and have 22 more scholarships. We have three good levels of defense. Have decent experience on special teams. We're going to have to learn to win road games to be worth a damn. What will the offense do? If the spread offense fails what next?

[clenz]

we've been running a spread offense for over a decade at this point.

[achrist70]

Spread is such a generic term to describe an offense. All it talks about is alignment, there are so many different systems that fit into the "spread" offense it's not even funny.

[clenz]

Which is why I said we've been running "a" spread offense.

Hell, longer than that. We ran a spread offense with Grace and I'd even call what Sanders ran a spread.

Honestly, Farley might have run a form of spread offense exclusively since he took over.

[BCPanther]

Which is why I said we've been running "a" spread offense.

Hell, longer than that. We ran a spread offense with Grace and I'd even call what Sanders ran a spread.

Honestly, Farley might have run a form of spread offense exclusively since he took over.

He has other than year one where he put a power running game together with tin foil and dental floss and got to a semi-final.

[sevelev711]

Okay, so obviously, not big deal if any one doesn't want to do the following, I just figured I'd ask since I know there's a lot of passionate people here. Does anyone have a write up of every position and how we're looking before the game? I remember seeing a lot of stuff, but my memory is horrible so I have no idea if what I saw is actually what I saw. I think I saw that we were having a battle for starter in the QB room? Is that because Day is worse than we'd hope or because someone new is really good? For running back, shouldn't we be pretty good, don't we have like four guys who could all rotate in and out as RB 1 or 2? On defense, I know we won't be bad, but will we be "Our D will keep us in a lot of games" good or "If we score more than 17, we win" good?

Again, I ain't asking anyone to do this, I'm just saying, if someone wants to write up a sentence or two at each position, I'd certainly give it a look.

[BrockLesnar]

Okay, so obviously, not big deal if any one doesn't want to do the following, I just figured I'd ask since I know there's a lot of passionate people here. Does anyone have a write up of every position and how we're looking before the game? I remember seeing a lot of stuff, but my memory is horrible so I have no idea if what I saw is actually what I saw. I think I saw that we were having a battle for starter in the QB room? Is that because Day is worse than we'd hope or because someone new is really good? For running back, shouldn't we be pretty good, don't we have like four guys who could all rotate in and out as RB 1 or 2? On defense, I know we won't be bad, but will we be "Our D will keep us in a lot of games" good or "If we score more than 17, we win" good?

Again, I ain't asking anyone to do this, I'm just saying, if someone wants to write up a sentence or two at each position, I'd certainly give it a look.

A lot of coach speak with the QB. Farley decided it weeks ago. I'd say the defense will keep us in every game. Air Force though gets about 28 on us. We're good at special teams. I would think our RBs are better and believe we can play at least 3. Can play 4, though. The score? Maybe, 28-17. I think the digital post from Air Force has the two deeps. Air Force Analysis post 32. From Leather helmet.

[not a drake fan]

How does one stream the mountain west network?

Is this game going to be on ESPN+?

[BCPanther]

How does one stream the mountain west network?

Is this game going to be on ESPN+?

Search 'Mountain West Conference TV' (that phrase exactly) on FireTV, AppleTV, Roku, Google Play or Apple App Store.

Game is not available on ESPN+.

[UNIAlum95]

How does one stream the mountain west network?

Is this game going to be on ESPN+?

Yeah good luck finding any streaming services that carry the network. In theory FireTV and Apple TV carry the network. I cannot find it on my Firestick (I don't have the FireTV cube) nor on the Apple TV app. My plan today is to stream it from my computer and patch that into my TV. You can find the link here to stream the game:

https://themw.com/watch/?id=6311624760112

[BCPanther]

Yeah good luck finding any streaming services that carry the network. In theory FireTV and Apple TV carry the network. I cannot find it on my Firestick (I don't have the FireTV cube) nor on the Apple TV app. My plan today is to stream it from my computer and patch that into my TV. You can find the link here to stream the game:

https://themw.com/watch/?id=6311624760112

Search 'Mountain West Conference TV' (Exactly that phrase) and it's on Fire. Downloaded it last night. Doesn't matter what hardware you're using to access the FireTV ecosystem.

[UNIAlum95]

Search 'Mountain West Conference TV' (Exactly that phrase) and it's on Fire. Downloaded it last night. Doesn't matter what hardware you're using to access the FireTV ecosystem.

I'm guessing this is a hardware version issue for me. My firestick is a second generation device and I know they are at least at a 4th generation with the 4K version. I'm guessing the app isn't supported on older generation devices. I know Apple TV wasn't supported on first generation devices so it's likely something similar.

[not a drake fan]

I'm guessing this is a hardware version issue for me. My firestick is a second generation device and I know they are at least at a 4th generation with the 4K version. I'm guessing the app isn't supported on older generation devices. I know Apple TV wasn't supported on first generation devices so it's likely something similar.

Looks like there is a mobile app. The Android version has terrible recent reviews, sounds like it barely works if at all.