Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know OS now has an official Discord that you can join right now. We’ve kicked around Discords for individual games in the past, but it felt like the right time to make it more of an official thing.
Steve and I have wanted to get this going for a bit because we obviously still hear from y’all who are unhappy with some stuff on the forums, plus when there are forum outages we still want to have a place for everyone to hang. My overarching goal for the longer term is to have both Discord and the forums ultimately work together. There are some logistical issues with the vBulletin forums that don’t allow things to sync right with Discord so there will be a little maneuvering as we try to get mods and forum members any proper roles/tags they need on the Discord, but we can work through that stuff easily enough as people join.
Our general goal is to give people more options to interact with OS community members, whether that’s Discord, the forums, this newsletter, or improved apps. If people want to stick more to the forums, that’s cool. If people want to stick more to the Discord, that’s also cool. In my perfect world, we do a lot of BSing and day-to-day chatting on the Discord about games and sports, and then more of the “in-depth” discussions or hefty things like long slider breakdowns or analysis of gameplay end up on the forums so that can act as a sort of “best of” area for anything OS community related. That said, you all will ultimately shape how the ecosystem shakes out, I just want to give you spaces you like so you can have a good time with other folks in the community.
The same general rules will apply on the Discord as they do on the forums, and we’ve brought most of the forum categories to the Discord as well so there should not be too much confusion as you navigate around.
With the Operation Sports and Discord announcement now out there, it’s also worth mentioning our OS premium newsletter, which quietly launched a couple of weeks ago. Built off the Not Just Another Roster Update newsletter, it offers a mix of retrospectives, guides, interviews and deeper dives into the sports gaming world—covering both current and classic titles.
LARAMIE, Wyo. -- It seemed as though a bit of good fortune in recent weeks had the Wyoming Cowboys downright aching for some fresh adversity. They turned the ball over via the interception on their opening two possessions. Later, Wyoming survived a sequence of consecutive plays that included a drop, an "auto-overthrow," and a tipped, shoestring interception--it was quarterback Nick Smith's third INT of the contest. "Cue ball," as he's known around the locker room, was responsible for four turnovers and has had trouble hanging onto the ball. Finally, the Pokes survived a pair of failed UNLV Hail Mary attempts.
SAN MARCOS, Texas -- Sooner or later their luck was going to run out. Already having eeked out one-point wins against Idaho and UNLV, the Pokes were on the wrong end of a last second comeback this time around. Consider this one karmic retribution.
The reason that Wyoming was frantically in comeback mode was because they had an absolutely disastrous two minute stretch in the 3rd quarter. It started with a missed assignment by a USER-controlled player on a kickoff coverage. Texas State return man T.V. Williams (these guys love their initialed Williamses) broke away untouched for a 98-yard TD return. The very next drive saw another USER mistake where the wrong button was pressed in the passing game, leading to an interception by safety Stephan Johnson. After a Bobcat 50-yard field goal (!), quarterback Nick Smith's very next attempt also mistakenly went to Johnson with this time being a poor read rather than a physical mistake. Even though Texas State didn't score off of the second interception, this two-minute stretch of mistakesville ceded ten points to Wyoming's opponent and cost them a decent shot at scoring on two of their own drives. Of course, all in a game decided by three points.
It certainly wasn't all bad for the Cowboys though. They were a play away from winning. The Cowboy pass rush was ferocious up until the final drive. L.G. Williams was sacked a remarkable eight times, with about half of those coming on ill-advised, premature scramble attempts. Leading the rush was USER-controlled defensive tackle Sidney Malauulu with 3.5 sacks. As the game progressed, Malauulu got wise to Williams always scrambling to his dominant hand side and got sacks or disengaged to help his teammates get sacks as he moved to close lanes down.
LARAMIE, Wyo. -- The Cowboys had a nice time with visiting FCS program Wofford. A five-touchdown win type of nice. It's not a conference win and it's certainly not a quality win against a lowly 63-OVR team. But, it does inch Wyoming closer to bowl eligible.
Wyoming's defense knocked Wofford's starting quarterback out with a concussion in the 2nd quarter and picked the backup off three times. Linebacker/safety-hybrid Chavez Pownell Jr. brought an interception he found back 59 yards to the house while cornerbacks John Okwoli and Anthony Makransky contributed their own interceptions. SDE Carl Granderson contributed three sacks. Aside from a good opening TD drive and three random long passes of 59, 46, and 42 yards, Wofford did absolutely nothing on offense. And that was fine by Coach Bohl.
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