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MOSCOW, Idaho – For nine players on Idaho’s team, this is personal.

Lot of ways a story about Jason Eck can go. Most of them unpredictable. How’d the son of a long-time college basketball coach get caught up in this football racket? Why’d he pull an about-face on his mother’s wishes that he go to law school in favor of getting into coaching? And what can a person learn from the nomadic existence of a coach, having served under 12 head coaches in his 22 years as an assistant?

Roster space is crunched because the pressure to succeed leads FCS teams to accept transfers from FBS schools at higher rates than they used to. Eastern Washington, as just one example, has 27 transfers on its current roster. In 2020, it had four.

MOSCOW, Idaho – The Ol’ Walden Pond ball coach, Henry David Thoreau, predated the spread offense and the nickel defense. But he pointed the way to generations of successors who have puzzled over how to get their players to embrace the opportunities of the moment.

It is an infinitesimal chance.

WSU and OSU signed a one-year scheduling deal with the MW that includes an option for 2025.

Perhaps he was a bit less than a force. But certainly, he projected an aura. Mark Schlereth, roaming the sidelines in jeans, a black T shirt and a ball cap, hovering over the offensive line gatherings and conducting hands on tutorials with offensive linemen during the University of Idaho’s scrimmage Saturday, provided a sense of serious endeavor to what many football fans can only appreciate as big people shoving each other.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Beginning last spring after the graduation of its leading pass catchers Hayden Hatten and Jermaine Jackson to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints, respectively, a young Idaho offense has banged its head against a talented and experienced defense without great success.

Six Big Sky teams will open the football championship subdivision season in the Stats Perform Top 25 poll, which was released Monday.

John Stiegelmeier, “Coach Stig,” went out on top and retired after leading South Dakota State University to its first Football Championship Subdivision championship in 2022.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Two impressive completions – on a third-and-18 and on a 40-yard connection on a deep post – should give University of Idaho fans some early confidence that the successors to former quarterback Gevani McCoy, now at Oregon State, and Hayden Hatten, now with the Seattle Seahawks, are ready to take star turns for the Vandals this season.