boise-state Stories - Mountain West Connection
Penn State Won't Give Up on Pursuit of Chris Petersen
As the Penn State search for a replacement for Joe Paterno stretches into perhaps January, Idaho continues to be a stop on the quest. Reports continue to point to Boise State coach Chris Petersen as #1 on the Nittany Lion wish list. Supposedly a Penn State search committee member has made two trips...
Butler Boise St: Why Can't We Play Like That?
Here's my weekly opining at the SB Nation.com mothership. I explored some of these themes a while back, but after Stevens made another championship game run and Petersen's record now stands at 61-5, it's even more relevant today. The logic - promulgated by a media beguiled by the Great Man...
BCS Update Week 4 -- Licking the Wounds
In the year of our lord two thousand and seven, I was presented with a dilemma. For the 2004, 2005 and 2006 seasons, I had been diligently preparing BCS updates on Longhorn boards (2004 was by far the most interesting, for obvious reasons). But on September 29, 2007, I stood in the stands of DKR,...
BYU Goes Independent in Football
After watching its bitter in-state rival hit the BCS lottery with an invitation to the Pac-10, BYU wasted little time in making a dramatic move of their own. The Cougars are leaving the Mountain West and going independent football-only in the fall of 2011. The Western Athletic Conference has...
Mountain West Lurking Quietly, Like A Ninja In Slippers
The Mountain West is adding Boise State - which doesn't have anything to do with the Big 12 shakeout, but will have a lot to do with it once the BCS is urged to reassess its at large and automatic qualifiers in 2011 by the bowl games and playa conferences (and there will be only three: the Pac...
Barking Bowl Bets...TCU -3 vs. Boise State
Not the intricate write up you've grown accustomed to during our 2-0 win streak. But still, this is our favorite play of the bowl season. So put two units on it. Some reasons for betting on the Horned Frogs. Style points anyone? Defensively... TCU has shut down every rushing attack on their...
Football at TCU
Here's an all-too-brief look at TCU's remarkable 100-plus years of football in Fort Worth. [Note: this summary (minus several photos, and more recent material) of TCU's football history was originally posted at The Thwarth's Wimple on September 20, 2006. It was substantially updated a year...
The Mountain West/WAC and the BCS.
This line of thought is getting pretty damn ridiculous. It comes up every few months. Some blowhard spouts out off abut how the Mountain West is more deserving of a BCS bid than the Big East and/or the ACC. Usually that person has a novel approach to the issue, they don't just regurgitate...
The Coming Era of the Superconference and Why It Works for the BCS
Just as a matter clarification when I talk about the BCS I am speaking about the current set up. ie no playoff format at all, just an independent adjudicator picking the two best teams from the sea of contenders and setting them up to play the final game of the year. This is an idea that I have...
Boise State Responds to "Lack of Institutional Control" Charge
This may be of some interest to our pending case with the NCAA. Flying under the radar for the past month has been an NCAA investigation into the Boise State athletics program for violations across multiple sports, including allegations of improper benefits for recruits. The Idaho Statesman...
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