FB: Northwest Conference

[bluenote]

cawcdad...that sounds pretty elaborate. I commend you on the effort with the students and school. I would think one camera just showing the action from about a midfield position about halfway up the stadium would be fine, it would be a lot better than nothing or just radio and wouldn't require that much hassle or planning. Maybe I could do some research, charge $7.50 per viewer...maybe if I had 5-10 viewers I could take my wife out for a nice dinner after the game or maybe buy pizza for the pep band. 

[D O.C.]

Halfway up the Dome Stadium, Bluenote? Who is it that mentions the poles in their sight line every season? (and I don't think it's you) That would be rinky dink to have those poles in, let's say, an OJ Gulley 100 yard return, don't you think?

[BoBo]

Well...that was interesting watching some of the Whitewater/SJU game on the internet today. Seems like that could be pretty common place in the near future. Anyone know what is involved in a broadcast like that?

Bluenote - This was the letter on the Daily Dose "Looking Ahead to Week 14."  It was from the man at UW-W who I believe is with the UW-W Communications program & directs the television operation.  It gives some insight regarding what is involved in their broadcast:

From UW-W:
Keith,

I was reading your comments on the daily dose about the Penn Atlantic video stream for this Saturday's game and wanted to update you on the quality of the broadcast. All of UWW's regular season games and all of the playoff games we host are telecast via UWWTV to 100,000 homes along the Charter Communications Channel 20 network (throughout Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois). This broadcast uses five cameras, instant replay, graphics, and two announcers in the booth plus we frequently have a third announcer on the sidelines. This production is directed by one staff member and manned by about fifteen undergraduate students. This is the broadcast that will be shown over Penn Atlantic. It is of exceptional quality for a division III game. Our students spend a great deal of time prepping for the game (taping interviews and preparing the in-game graphics). Needless to say a number of our students go on to professional careers in television and radio.

Since Penn Atlantic does not charge for the NCAA playoff games telecast over the web, be sure to urge your readers to connect in as they will get a chance to see our TV crew in action and they will be treated to a quality television broadcast via the web. One final note, UWW established this special partnership with Charter Communications several years ago and we televise live all of our home football games, as well as many of our home volleyball, basketball (women's as well as men's), and select other sports. All of these games are available via Penn Atlantic. Over the years, our students have telecast NCAA playoff games in basketball, baseball, volleyball and, of course, football. Needless to say, only at a Division III university would undergraduate students get the chance to televise a live NCAA playoff quarterfinal game. Like last year, we hope to be televising the semifinal game as well.

Dick Haven
Associate Dean

[bluenote]

BoBo...thanks for the info. I was pleasantly surprised when watching the webcast. It did lock up on me a couple times and I had to refresh the page but no big deal. That could have just been my computer also. I can definitely see that type of broadcast as being common place in the future with all types of events. I think it's great that they involve the students as it gives them some real world experience in a viable field. It's interesting how things have evolved. I remember a couple years back where here at Linfield they had some deal where you had to call some 900 number to listen to the radio broadcast of the game at so much per minute.... Maybe our video guru Wildcat11 has some ideas about broadcasting away/home games via the internet for people out of the area.

D.O.C......ok, maybe I'll have to perch myself higher up with the pigeons to avoid the pole issue. Hopefully the lens would stay clean. 

[Orca Jr.]

What is it about Rowan not showing up for late round playoff games??

Yes 509, Lucey has been the stud of the o-line but apparently some things changed this season.  Don't know if teams were just scheming him more and attacking with different fronts, but I'm not going to believe that politics played a role.  I guess it could have, but I don't see that as very feasible.  He has always gotten his props in the past.

[bluenote]

I was impressed with Rob McCullough on the O-line. Especially towards the end of the season. He seemed to have that kind of feisty fire you like to see in an O-lineman. 

It was curious to watch SJU yesterday, I thought it was interesting how their O-line just kind of walked/loafed up to the line after the huddle like they had all day, either that or they were tired or something. 

[D O.C.]

Do you suppose that has something to do with the casual practices?

As in 'practice casually:play casually'.

Recruit great athletes who come to you with fundementals and you might get away with it-every decade or so.

By the by, Raul Lara's Jackrabbits got beat in the Southern Section California Interscholastic Playoffs in the semi-finals.

[bluenote]

...maybe the goal was to run time off the clock...keep it away from Whitewater? I call it slacker like. Or just plain lazy. 

[(509)Rat]

I knw one problem with doing a video feed (Whitworth did one against UPS) is that the bandwith/server space it takes up limits how many people can view it.  When Whitworth did their video broadcast, they could only allow 40 feeds so the players/coaches were allowed to "invite" people to watch it.  Those people were given the link and or password and could watch the game over the internet.  That's really nice though that UW-W could open it to anyone for free, and it sounds like nobody had problems connecting.  As far as that being the new thing in d3 football I hope so.  Even when whitworth is the only game in Eastern washington they don't even put the game on the local public access channel, that's sad...hopefully the streaming video will make D3 football a little more mainstream.

[OzJohnnie]

Do you suppose that has something to do with the casual practices?

As in 'practice casually:play casually'.

Recruit great athletes who come to you with fundementals and you might get away with it-every decade or so.

...maybe the goal was to run time off the clock...keep it away from Whitewater? I call it slacker like. Or just plain lazy. 

Very slick.  Slag SJU and Gagliardi over here in NWC.  Come over to the MIAC PP and ask a couple folks if the method of going from the huddle to the line has any impact at all on the quality of the plays or the achievements of the team - outside of the solid one in ten years, of course.

[sfury]

Do you suppose that has something to do with the casual practices?

As in 'practice casually:play casually'.

Recruit great athletes who come to you with fundementals and you might get away with it-every decade or so.

By the by, Raul Lara's Jackrabbits got beat in the Southern Section California Interscholastic Playoffs in the semi-finals.

Just think what St. John's record would be against NWC teams if they weren't so casual coming out of the huddle

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ya...in modern times I think NWC is 1-3 vs SJU. But all the games could have gone either way... no one dominated. SJU just got lucky a few times...

Check out the video vs Whitewater...SJU's O-line doesn't impress me as being very excited about getting up to the line of scrimmage and running a play. Maybe they're  thinking about what they are going to eat for dinner. They seem kind of lazy to me. And you're QB is just average at best.

[sfury]

The linemen might not have been excited about getting up there to have to face Kleppe And if modern times goes back to the '98 playoffs, the Johnnies are 6-1 against NWC's finest (3-1 PLU, 2-0 Linfield, 1-0 Whit).

[bluenote]

sfury...sorry about that, my math was off.  Well...you still have ugly outfits.   

[sfury]

My memory of SJU's record the last two years in the playoffs against WIAC teams is a bit hazier