FB: American Rivers Conference

[davedevine]

Just finished getting caught up for the week.

Coe offered the job to Seth Wallace? (the GA someone had mentioned a few days ago) if so, wow

Klop, I saw you went to U-dale?  did you play with Berlin?  that dude was a freak of an athlete.. 

walston, it doesn't appear the cheifs are going to re-sign Wiegmann for next year (wonder if he'll just retire now?)  I  just saw that  they did sign K Billy Cundiff from good ol' Drake

[Klopenhiemer]

Just finished getting caught up for the week.

Coe offered the job to Seth Wallace? (the GA someone had mentioned a few days ago) if so, wow

Klop, I saw you went to U-dale?  did you play with Berlin?  that dude was a freak of an athlete.. 

walston, it doesn't appear the cheifs are going to re-sign Wiegmann for next year (wonder if he'll just retire now?)  I  just saw that  they did sign K Billy Cundiff from good ol' Drake

I did not play with Berlin.  He was a few years older than me.  He was the guy that kids wanted to be.  I remember sitting in the gym before a basketball game, Eddie is out goofing around/warming up.  The guy took off running, flew through the air, and dunked the basketball.  He was 5'10".  He was guy every kid wanted to be like when you were growing up in Udale.  The last I heard he signed with the Bears and was vested into the NFL pension program.  If he took care of his money, he really should not have to worry about a whole lot. 

[footballdaddy]

Wow, what a great discussion! My take is that this will be an easy sell in every market but the biggest. Except for the Des moines area, the local cable systems would love to have this kind of programming. I know there would be a lot of interest in those areas. Des Moines, and Mediacom specifically, Would be a much harder sell. They but into the belief that there is little interst by the mainstream beyond UI and ISU. They have only recently discovered UNI, and they had to contend for a national championship to get any attention. I'm afarid that if they took any interest in the iowa Conference, that they would look at it as a profit center and add it to the premium sports tier like they want to with the BTN.

Another possibility is something similar to what WOI does on during high school football season. After the Friday Night Blitz score and highlight show, which is excellent, they have the Blitz Extra. This is a half hour highlight show of one of the last week's important games, with a lot of locker room, sideline, and other footage. I think WH could comment on this more since Dowling Catholic was featued once last year. My thinking is that a highlight show might be a first step into the realm with the idea of expanding into full game coverage as the demand arises, as I'm sure it will. Highlights coild be sent to one location for production, possibly to each scholl for the opportunity to produce a show. Maybe add two professionals for the on camera work and let student do the behind the scenes and on site reporting. This could be expanded to other sports as basketball, wrestling, and others.

Actually, if I win the Powerball tonght, I'll fund the whole thing myself. Wish me luck!

Another advantage to a tape delay brodcast is that doolittle won't have to figure out how to duct tape a big screen on to the lucky lawn mower!

[doolittledog]

With my engineering skills being less than rudimentary, we better get this tv thing up and running!!!  My wife has hidden all the duct tape from me as a precaution already. 

[Walston Hoover]

Actually, I think we made it on extra 3 times last year.
Vs Valley
Vs Ankeny
Vs SEP

I love watching that. They mic up the coaches so you can hear everything that is said. Obviously edited.

[warthog]

This whole TV thing would work on most cable systems around the state.  In Muscatine the local cable network delay telecasts all high school football, boys basketball, girls basketball and some wrestling meets, softball and baseball games.  With football and basketball they overlay the tapes with the local radio broadcast replay.   They have been doing football and basketball for years.  The football games are replayed Saturday night and just prior to Sunday night & Monday night NFL football.  As opposed to hurting Friday night attendence, I actually think it may help.  People make a connection with the team and want to see them in person.  Then they watch later to see what they missed while they were out getting a hotdog. The local stations are always looking for something to telecast.  If for instance Wartburg, Central and Simpson continue to have former Muskies on the team the local cable would probably love to show replays of the Knight, Dutch and Storm games. 

[Purple Heys]

The best way for this to be done is to have a group of students, possibly as an independent study, put together a proposal for how this would work. It would involve someone with a lot more time than any of us here have. Cheapest way to do it would be local cable access channels.
Oh, and you guys from SoCal, KWWL in Waterloo has, or at least had, many years ago the best HSDB show in the history of the world.
FRIDAY NIGHT HEROES. The open for that show was one of the coolest opens of any show I have ever  seen.

Coe's coaching search starts over.

Check this out...http://www.kusi.com/ppr

When you get folks LaDainian Tomlinson or Shawn Merriman or Arnold Schwartzenegger or Dan Patrick or Reggie Bush or Trevor Hoffman or Tommy Lasorda or just about any big celebrity that visits San Diego during football season to appear on your show they say, "On Friday Nights in San Diego I watch the PPR."  It's a pretty good production.

I am sure they do a great job on KWWL.  But you have to see the PPR to believe it...

[Purple Heys]

I'm thinking you start small...a weekly wrapup show with highlights and interviews.

"This Week in the Iowa Conference"

With YouTube video and a few MiniDV cameras at each location...this is a Sunday packaging job for someone with the wherewithal to do it.

It would take the local camera crew to record the game then to edit and upload and the central person to produce...adding commentary and graphics.

It would be primitive, but it would be online and easy to get whenever you want.  Then you have a sample product to show the local cable outlets.  Could even set up a website to access old shows with local advertising opportunity.  Then that could evolve to more professional presentation equipment.

Again...look at the PPR site for a good "how to"  http://www.kusi.com/ppr

[Klopenhiemer]

I'm thinking you start small...a weekly wrapup show with highlights and interviews.

"This Week in the Iowa Conference"

With YouTube video and a few MiniDV cameras at each location...this is a Sunday packaging job for someone with the wherewithal to do it.

It would take the local camera crew to record the game then to edit and upload and the central person to produce...adding commentary and graphics.

It would be primitive, but it would be online and easy to get whenever you want.  Then you have a sample product to show the local cable outlets.  Could even set up a website to access old shows with local advertising opportunity.  Then that could evolve to more professional presentation equipment.

Again...look at the PPR site for a good "how to"  http://www.kusi.com/ppr

The YouTube route might be the way to start.  I know SK and others are versed in using this technology.  If this is going to happen the biggest keys is finding legs for it.

If you had something tangible for people to see, I think it would help your cause.  As Heys stated, you could show this to cable channels as a sales pitch. 

This would also be a great opportunity for some college kids to get in on the ground floor of this.  Does anyone have any connections with students/profs to pitch this idea and get it organized. 

I think if one started it as a club, then you could work on it out of class, and use the college's resources.  You could set up some type of ftp site or .mac site to share the video files.  This would make sharing the files virtually seamless if you use the .mac software. 

Each school could be in charge of editing and interviewing their respective school and submitting it to one person/group of people to edit further and piece it together.  Then launch it on the web.  Wow this could be a really neat deal. 

[davedevine]

klop,
he's a year older than me and i know him pretty well from UNI.  It's pretty sick that he and Furrey played 2 years together there.

You are correct, he ended his career  with the bears after being with TN for 4 years. 
He's back in DSM doing the insurance thing for Farmers or State Farm. 

best story about him from college:  I ran into him on a Sat night(closing time late)  and he was not sober.  Next afternoon, he shows up and  wins the MVC high jump with something silly like 7'4". 
combine his 4.38 forty time and those are the kind of freaks that are in the NFL

side note: Greg Ortberg from UD ran almost identical times as Berlin and Furrey when we were there,
he did pretty well at UD after moving to RB from S.

it seems like they ran tecmo bowl plays with ortberg.  off tackle or toss sweep and just try to get him to the outside, if he got to the edge he was gone. by far one of the fastest IIAC football players of all time

doo dog, you know who i'm talking about i hope?

[doolittledog]

Ortberg was kind of like the original Walner Belleus in that they used him everywhere.  Safety, running back, wide reciever.  UD had Matt Plummer catching balls back then so luckily defenses couldn't just key on Ortberg.  I know he had right around 1,000 yds one year and I want to say he had a few 200 yard games.  I would love to have seen what he could have done on a decent team.  The o-line UD had last year would have let him run all over the place.  That was also in the era where we might hit 1 game per year and I would look up the UD scores in the paper on sunday but other than that I didn't follow them too closely so don't know too much about him.  2005 and the introduction of steaming the games online is what got me following more closely again. 

In 2001 I appraised the house Berlin was renting while at UNI...it looked like they had quite a good time while living there.  I didn't see anybody passed out on the floor named Devine though!!!  Although I could tell you some stories of the days when I was appraising a lot of the rental properties around the UNI campus...suffice to say I learned not to schedule those appointments on fridays or anytime before noon!!!

[Walston Hoover]

By 2001 Devine would have been passed out on the floor of the Manors or 2nd floor of Clinton with the freshmen girls.

[5 Words or Less]

Looking forward to Coe's announcement

Simpson's search =21 days, 11/16 through 12/7
Luther's search =35 days, 11/12 through 12/17
Coe's search =30 days and counting, 2/1 through ...

[Walston Hoover]

Coe has a coach.
All interviewees were sent an email today that a coach was hired. No idea who it was though.

[davedevine]

Well, since Walston broke the news, it's only fair that I'm the first one to report it now.

I got the Coe Job... I will be installing the wishbone on offense and the Buddy Ryan "46" on defense

Coe  will now be known as blitzburg U-


Also Walston, there's no validity to your previous statements, I'm offended by such comments