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Big Sky Conference football: A new ESPN deal, FCS playoff changes, and the ramifications of the House v. NCAA settlement

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Idaho football coach Jason Eck’s contract extended through 2028 season
Inside the 1889 Collective – University of Idaho’s new NIL booster fund
Young Idaho offense appears ready to keep Vandals in Big Sky contention
Idaho linebacker Zach Johnson has standout spring camp
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Big Sky Conference football: A new ESPN deal, FCS playoff changes, and the ramifications of the House v. NCAA settlement

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

The Big Sky Conference extended its broadcasting deal with ESPN through 2030, league commissioner Tom Wistrcill announced Monday.

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Meet the potato: Idaho, ready to get back to business, introduces new rivalry trophy at Big Sky media day

UPDATED: Mon., July 22, 2024

Nineteen-and-a-half-pounds of lacquered Douglas fir shaped like a giant spud and resting atop a wood base dominated the University of Idaho’s table at the Big Sky Conference Football Kickoff media day.

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Idaho football coach Jason Eck’s contract extended through 2028 season

UPDATED: Wed., June 12, 2024

The University of Idaho has secured the services of football coach Jason Eck through the 2028 season after the Idaho State Board of Education approved a two-year contract extension Wednesday.

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Inside the 1889 Collective – University of Idaho’s new NIL booster fund

UPDATED: Thu., May 23, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho – With the ink barely dry on the papers establishing a corporation to accept financial donations and distribute money to University of Idaho athletes, several longtime Vandals supporters expect to have an idea by midsummer whether their goal to create a name, image and likeness collective to pay college athletes is succeeding.

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Idaho linebacker Zach Johnson has standout spring camp

UPDATED: Mon., May 6, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho – Nobody raised their stock this spring like Idaho redshirt freshman linebacker Zach Johnson.

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Idaho’s Hayden Hatten among three Vandals to sign NFL contracts

UPDATED: Mon., April 29, 2024

Hayden Hatten won’t be traveling far to begin his professional football career.

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Young Idaho offense appears ready to keep Vandals in Big Sky contention

UPDATED: Sat., April 27, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho — Coming out of spring football, Idaho head coach Jason Eck is no doubt pleased his starters look to be worthy successors to the team that reached the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs last year.

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Idaho’s first team dominates reserves in spring game

UPDATED: Fri., April 26, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho – In its spring game Friday, Idaho’s first team, in black, rolled up 35 points, including a third-quarter interception returned for a touchdown by linebacker Jaxton Eck, coach Jason Eck’s son, and it held the second and third teams in white to a single score.

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Idaho working to replace offensive standouts, defense remains solid ahead of spring game

UPDATED: Thu., April 25, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho – Spring football is always an imperfect evaluator.

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Now at Oregon State, ex-Idaho QB Gevani McCoy aims to prove he’s the latest FCS quarterback with FBS ability

UPDATED: Mon., April 22, 2024

It’s not as if Gevani McCoy’s thought was ridiculous. It’s been successfully done before. Still, playing quarterback at Idaho versus the same position at an FBS school takes a leap of faith and confidence.

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‘We’re the old hands’: Defensive backs Tommy McCormick, Kyrin Beachem anchor young Idaho roster

UPDATED: Sat., April 20, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho – Only one position group for the exceptionally young Idaho Vandals enjoys the security of senior starters, coach Jason Eck points out.

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Idaho sifting through talented but inexperienced quarterback group during spring practice

UPDATED: Sun., April 14, 2024

MOSCOW, Idaho – Ah, the good old days of 2023, when Idaho romped to a 9-4 record and the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

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