Game Day for Week 4

No big trips for the D3football.com crew today — I’m at the D3football.com staff rivalry game. My alma mater is Catholic and Keith McMillan went to Randolph-Macon. I first heard Keith’s name while in this press box in 1996, when Keith picked off Catholic’s quarterback four times in a Randolph-Macon win.

Big games on video and audio all over the place. Alfred and Springfield already underway. Gordon Mann is giving D3football.com its first in-person look at Salisbury this season. But you guys are the eyes and ears of Division III football fandom today, as well.

Live from home

This is one of those weeks where I’ll be following basically any possible game from home.

The world of live video is still relatively new. I’m watching a game where the one camera missed the entire first touchdown, the broadcasters have given the starting quarterback two incorrect names in five seconds.

Waiting for the UW-Oshkosh/Huntingdon video to start at 1 p.m. Lots of games kicking off — feel free to keep us up to date on anything big you notice and we’ll do the same.

Those broadcasters just mentioned a punt rolling to the 55-yard line. Yikes. I know I wasn’t a great broadcaster in college but I knew when I wasn’t in Canada. 🙂

Live from Dover (and elsewhere)

Keith McMillan here in Dover, Del. getting a look at preseason USA South favorite N.C. Wesleyan visiting two-time semifinalist Wesley, which returns a large chunk of its past two top-10 teams.

The move to watch for them is the adjustment to new quarterback Jason Schatz, who played receiver last year while longtime QB Chris Warrick was running things. The Wolverines are wearing mismatched road whites, despite being at home, apparently because the new dark blue jerseys haven’t come in yet (file that in the Only In D3 files). N.C. Wesleyan’s got the Notre Dame look, and came out with a ritual I hadn’t seen before, with a player swinging a sledgehammer to the field turf as the team runs in from the end zone to their sideline.

I had previously thought I’d rather be at Rowan-Christopher Newport today, assuming that would be a better game, but seeing how jacked up both teams are here, I’m not regretting being here at all.

Feel free, dear readers, to kick in your thoughts from whatever action you’re watching or listening to today.