Culver-Stockton College’s Wildcat Network has integrated a new broadcasting innovation for Wildcat football games called “Game Day on The Hill”. Remington Yates, a former Culver-Stockton graduate who helps out with Wildcat Network, had an integral role in fostering the idea and making it happen “work to provide the best broadcasting programs in the Heart of America Conference and the NAIA being a student led program”.
The Heart of America Athletic Conference partnered with Urban Edge to host a pregame show called the “Clash of The Week”. During the 2025 football season there were talks between the Athletic Department and the Wildcat Network concerning the “Clash of the Week” being hosted at Culver-Stockton. The school was unsure if it was possible so Yates stated, “We don’t know, but let’s try it ourselves to see if we can do it”.
Thus, the idea was brought up on Monday, September 21st before Culver-Stockton’s game against William Penn University on Saturday, September 27th. All of the students in the Wildcat Network agreed they could make it happen. From there the planning started from scratch as to where the pregame show will take place and what they could talk about before the game.
On Wednesday, September 24th before the game, the Wildcat Network began the search at the press box at Ellison Poulton Stadium to find a spot where “Game Day on The Hill” could be hosted. At first the idea was that it should be held by Himsl Field in order to have an internet source. After much brainstorming, Kai Maurice, a junior apart of the Wildcat Network, came up with the idea of hosting it on the patio of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, who were glad to let them use the patio. After the location was found, Connor Gillock, Maurice, and Ashton Ertz were named hosts of the show. Their next step was to gather equipment to make a mobile broadcasting setup from equipment in the Media room and the Charles Field House.
The main format and segments that Gillock, Maurice, and Ertz used for their games was an interview with the Head Coach for Wildcat Football, Coach Sallay; a special guest, senior Delaney Straus after her participation in the World Women’s Decathlon Championship; and the pick ’ems for other football games going on in the Heart of America Conference.
After the first show, Yates expressed his thoughts, “It looked so good that we could probably just do this for the rest of the home games, and we just kept doing it after that”
Currently the pregame show is exclusive to football games, but there are discussions as to how they can transition it to work for both men’s and women’s basketball with Yates saying “We would do everything within our power to get it done”.
