UD battles UNI... again

[chickenman]

I'm not sure.. but didn't Montana have a similar problem with UNI relative to game tapes a few years ago???



NCAA steps in to help UD prepare for SIU


NEWARK -- Sunday is videotape day for college football coaches beginning to analyze their team's next opponent.

Stuck in Iowa on Sunday, their charter aircraft covered with ice, University of Delaware coaches had an upcoming foe, Southern Illinois. But their videotape of the Salukis, which they'd received in a prearranged exchange, was back at their Carpenter Center offices.

They asked Northern Iowa, SIU's Gateway Conference rival, if they could borrow UNI's collection of Salukis videotape. UNI declined. "They said it was conference policy, 'We can't,' " Delaware coach K.C. Keeler said Monday, less than an hour after the Blue Hens finally arrived back at UD. "I said, 'You're giving us something we already have.' "

"I disagreed with that," Keeler said. "I might have said it a little stronger than that. We eventually got the NCAA involved."

"I'm a little disappointed we had to get the NCAA involved. The whole thing was ridiculous."



www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071204/SPORTS07/712040379/1002/SPORTS

 

[Bronco]

Yes

Here's what Tony Moss said about it:

MOST VENOMOUS COMMENTS. Those that I received from Northern Iowa fans after I suggested that UNI head coach Mark Farley might have been well served to comply with Montana's film exchange requests prior to the meeting between the two schools in the national semifinals. I got a rash of unsigned e-mails, was lit up on at least one radio call-in show, was accused of being a Montana apologist and a media pawn, and was for some reason quizzed by one reader on my knowledge of Northern Iowa players in the NFL. As many fans tend to do, UNI supporters opted to blame me instead of looking at the situation objectively. Northern Iowa should have done what every other playoff school did this season and exchanged tapes in advance. If there was a bona fide reason why UNI didn't feel that it should follow the protocol, Farley should have given it instead of hiding behind a university press release. The mutual exchange of films rarely offers either team any kind of decided advantage, and the refusal and the war of words that ensued only put the Panther players on the defensive and made a hostile atmosphere at Washington-Grizzly Stadium downright dangerous. Montana won 38-0, in a game that will be forever remembered for on-field fights, ejections, and battles between Griz fans and UNI players. Farley is a good coach who turned his team into one of the division's best in his first year, and Northern Iowa fans should be proud of both their coach and their team. But the "film flap" was needless, and could have easily been avoided. End of story.

 

[putter]

If anything CM, it made Griz Nation mad and the team went out and thumped UNI by 38 points!! :thumb:

 

[polsongrizz]

:finger: uni they are history... :loser:

 

[AllWeatherFan]

UNI: Perennial pretenders.

 

[moxrox]

This is from an insider out in Newark DE:

In today's digital age both practices and games are extensively digitally recorded on to "tape". Every play can be characterized by down and distance and type of play and they can be digitally searched to help determine what works and where problems are.

The data that is exchanged is the team's own tape of the game or games they have played without all the cataloguing. Sometimes teams exchange the most recent game and sometimes the whole season. It is largely a function of the size and resources of the staffs. UD might exchange a seasons worth of tape with Richmond but only the most recent game with div 2 Westchester who might have no ability to look at more than the most recent games.

In this case I think that UD was looking to exchange extensive libraries of SIU games for UD's games and that took place electronically with the games going into a computer at UD in Newark. NIU had a less extensive collection of SIU games because they played them earlier in the season. UD wanted access to those and got them very late. UD also had no ability at NIU to edit or process the tape since NIU did not offer UD the use of their tape facilities.

Keeler blasted that as unsportsman like. He said that in a similar situation in the interest of fairness he would have offered NIU the use of the complete UD facilities since UD no longer would have needed them and certainly not for the day after the game or the night of the game.

The NCAA agreed with Keeler and to help out not only ordered NIU to supply game film but also moved UD's game from Friday to Saturday to give them more time to prepare (SIU ends up with an extra day of physical practice and two days extra of film and strategy prep.

As a result Richmond and Appy State moved up to Friday giving them each equally one less day. The Richmond coach said he agreed completely with the NCAA move as the only way to try to make the games fair. I did not read anything about the APPY Coach of the SIU coach.

 

[poorgriz]

I think every team that makes the playoffs should be required to be prepared to send out tapes from all that season's games, including the most recent playoff game(s), upon request. In this digital age, it should really all be handled through FTP if it isn't already being done that way... unless the files are just too big which is a possibility.

 

[AG2]

Why is this in the Griz football section?

 

[MrTitleist]

I think every team that makes the playoffs should be required to be prepared to send out tapes from all that season's games, including the most recent playoff game(s), upon request. In this digital age, it should really all be handled through FTP if it isn't already being done that way... unless the files are just too big which is a possibility.

That's how high school coaches in Montana pass tapes now.