Ty Detmer, E-Sports, 2nd American Revolution

The Making of a Football Game Guest: Caitlin King, Sports Producer, BYU Broadcasting  A behind-the-scenes look at the way most people watch football these days – on a high-definition TV at home. Ever wonder how the big game ends up on your big screen with replay shots from every angle so you don’t miss a thing? I peeked inside the process of a live football broadcast last fall when BYU played University of Connecticut at home. Dozens of BYU Broadcasting personnel had already been working for weeks by the time I showed up. On game day, about thirty of them crammed into tight rows of desks in a semi-trailer parked just outside the stadium. Giant coils of cables snake into the trailer. Small TV monitors line the walls. Flashing lights and buttons checker the desks. It’s a broadcast control room on wheels that could double as a space ship in a sci-fi movie. Ty Detmer Returns to BYU Guest: Ty Detmer, 1991 Heisman Trophy winner, BYU Football Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach  Back in 1990, Ty Detmer – the quarterback who led the Cougars to an incredible upset of the defending national champion Miami Hurricanes - was hands down the biggest celebrity in Provo. He went on to spend 14 years in the NFL and then coached a small private high school team in Texas to a miraculous turnaround.  And now, suddenly, he’s back in the heart of his fandom, as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach for the BYU Cougars.  E-Sports Guest: Claire Schaeperkoetter, doctoral student, The University of Kansas Last year, the University of California, Irvine built a state-of the art arena with high-end computers and the equipment to do live broadcasts of videogaming competitions – also known as e-Sports.  They offered 10 academic scholarships for students to join the team.  Now get this – there are five universities in the country who offer scholarships to gamers as athletes. Not academic scholarships like at UC Irvine.  But really, is playing a video game with your thumbs a sport? Can you actually call these people a