I've thought about this for the last month, but honest to goodness, I think they should have on-campus tryouts. Right now. I bet there's a kid or 3 that was booting 45-yarders regularly in high school, 50 in practice...living in a dorm or apartment in Normal tonight. No, it's not 55 yards and not under FCS lights...but it IS going to kill us and will help cost Spack his job.And lack of a FG kicker is gonna kill us.
Wasn't much better in person...It’s a painful watch in all aspects. Graphics, camera work, announcers, etc and so on.
Doesn’t help that we are letting an inferior opponent hang around far too long.
Other than Coach Berry, Coach Spack has done more for ISU Football than imaginable. It's a basketball school and he took an under-budgeted team to multiple playoffs and a title game. Troll away and give me a better answer for a replacement.Old Spack needs to be wearing a non-ISU shirt, period. Time to move on, IMO.....program is stale and going in wrong direction. Rough start to this season. PLease, we don't need another long bus ride to complete irrelevancy in another sport aka what Muller did with the bball program. Our new AD has his guy as the bball coach now let him get his guy as football coach. A coaching change can put some energy back into t
Old Spack needs to be wearing a non-ISU shirt, period. Time to move on, IMO.....program is stale and going in wrong direction. Rough start to this season. PLease, we don't need another long bus ride to complete irrelevancy in another sport aka what Muller did with the bball program. Our new AD has his guy as the bball coach now let him get his guy as football coach. A coaching change can put some energy back into the program.
I did not know it was an issue in the stadium but the stadium sound system was so loud that it was almost impossible to hear the broadcast announcer on TV. The stadium sound system drowned him out it was so loud. Maybe that was not a bad thing I guess.Wasn't much better in person...
Clock operator needs to be much better, I've never seen so many instances of officials making clock adjustments.
Sound system operator needs to turn down the volume overall, and then needs to learn to turn it down when the officials are describing calls/replays.
We looked detached the whole game. Valpo had a bounce in their step.
Too many penalties (8 for each team) and delays for replay viewing. It killed any flow.
Shout out though to the students in attendance. Good showing from them. Hope the play on the field didn't scare them away from returning.
+1. They've been told and yet it continues. Evidently the high-volume energy plays well with younger audience members. As long as the students show up I'll tolerate it.Sound system operator needs to turn down the volume overall, and then needs to learn to turn it down when the officials are describing calls/replays.
This. I was tweeting about this during the game. The production was the only thing uglier than the game itself.What kind of Mickey Mouse outfit is running the broadcast? Awful. Graphics? 1970? Camera work? Whew.
I subscribe to the NFHS channel. I like High School football and enjoy watching a few games from my old High School back in Illinois and some of the very good HS teams in the Tidewater area of Virginia. The broadcast is very poor, which you have to expect with a High School channel. There is no narration just the PA announcer. The camera people are constantly looking at the game and not through the camera viewfinder. I used to film games for one of the local teams here and that is a basic mistake. You can always tell when the camera person is looking at the game instead of the viewfinder. The picture starts to wave all over the place and misses the action. Sadly, while the production is much better for the FCS games the camera work is really bad. If you want to be a camera person...look through the viewfinder and don't look up to watch the game! I assume the crew is mostly students? Does anyone know? Is there some professional personnel involved in the broadcast or mostly students learning? I seem to recall when ESPN started broadcasting FCS there were some informational clips of student involvement as part of the hands-on learning process. I can cut some slack if this is a learning opportunity for ISU students. For me, there is no option to attend in person so I will take what I can get. My wife and I tune into the Redbirds every game during the season. Last night was rather frustrating though!This. I was tweeting about this during the game. The production was the only thing uglier than the game itself.
Truthfully, ALL our games look like shit. The direction is bad, the production is awful with those Windows98 graphics in the score bug, the sound is never right and the cameras look low-res. I mean, I understand it's "only" FCS football and an ISU/Valpo broadcast isn't gonna blow anyone's skirt up but come on. I don't know if this is on Marquee or the university, but our football telecasts always look like HS sophomore game film...from 1996.