This Tale of Tape Remains a Sad Story at Northridge

Cal State Northridge’s football program is trying to catch up with the millennium.

Offensive coordinator Rob Phenicie said the Matadors are looking to purchase more sophisticated video equipment.

“We have to meet [Big Sky] conference standards by next season,” Phenicie said. “It’s real primitive here now.”

Each Big Sky team is required to send its next opponent video of its previous game, showing a sideline view and an end-zone view of each play spliced back to back.

Northridge doesn’t have the equipment to edit tapes, instead sending its opponents one tape with the end-zone view and one with the sideline view.

No tape of the always scintillating Matador halftime show is required.

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Aaron Flowers, Cal State Northridge assistant and former record-setting quarterback, is back on the recruiting trail . . . minus the arm cast.

Flowers broke his left arm in December while snowboarding. The injury came 15 months after Flowers broke a leg in a game with the Matadors, sidelining him for three games.

“He has weak bones,” Phenicie said.

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And here’s the bell for the final round.

The Northridge football stadium site committee meets for the last time tonight at 6:30 in the Grand Salon of the school’s student union.

A public discussion is scheduled for the first half-hour, with the committee later expected to vote to recommend the stadium be built on North Campus, just south of the current stadium.

Some neighbors oppose the proposed 8,000- to 10,000-seat facility, citing potential noise and crowd pollution.

More to come, no doubt, on Court TV.