Boise State coach advises player on uniform and color change!!!

[Bucs90]

From the Bronco Today newsletter, August 24th, 2007:

Boise- It's a hot day in Boise, Idaho, and the Boise State Broncos are in the midst of football camp, just finishing up their second day of practice. The Broncos looks great today, defense was fast and physical, offense precise and fluid. The Broncos seem to have taken all their momentum from beating powerhouse Oklahoma in their 2006 BCS run and translated it directly into momentum for 2007. A Broncos WR walks off the field, and stops to ask his offensive coordinator a question....

WR: Hey Coach, we are sure looking good, huh? So, I know we shouldn't look ahead, but we can't help it because we feel great about this season. We want the BCS National Championship trophy and the ring. I'm a senior, and we want to go out with that ring and be National Champs!! Think we got a chance?"

OC: Well, we just have to take it one game at a time, really hammer our OOC BCS opponent, and make sure we win every game, especially the televised ones. Then we'll see where we stand.

WR: But Coach, we did all that last year, and couldn't win the ring.

OC: Right. Well, we have to win all our games, I mean EXTRA-win them.

WR: Coach, we scored over 35 points in all but 2 of our games. How EXTRA-undefeated do we have to be to win a National Championship ring? I mean the Fiesta Bowl rings are cool, but I want to be a National Champ.

OC: Look son, I don't want you telling anyone else about this. But this year we aren't wearing Blue and Orange. We are going to come out in Maroon uniforms.

WR: Uh, what? Why?

OC: Well son, it seems if you wear maroon helmets and uniforms one of two things happens in this BCS system. Either you choke on a late season game or two, and still get a chance to win a National Championship, like Oklahoma, or you choke on a late season game or two and after the season everyone says you should have been National Champ anyway, like USC.

WR: Oh. I guess I understand....

OC: Well, we tried it the old fashioned way in 2006, you know, by beating the crap out of teams every week, and by winning every game on our schedule, and by beating a powerhouse in a BCS game. Heck, we smashed Oregon State, and they beat the team everyone says should've been Champs, USC.

WR: Yeah coach, I remember all that.

OC: So, we sat down as a coaching staff in February of this year and said, 'Hey, these guys deserve a chance at winning a National Championship ring, and by God we're gonna give them that chance.

WR: Yeah, right, thats all we want..."

OC: Ok, so, we had two choices. We could drop back down to 1-AA, and win a ring by, well, you know, beating everyone like Appalachian State has done for the last two years......

WR: Yeah, but, then we lose scholarships....so what's the other choice?

OC: Change our colors. Oh, and tell the guys, we aren't the Broncos anymore. We're gonna have a team vote. The Boise State Trojans or Sooners. And tell them to pick up their maroon helmets and jerseys at 4 o'clock.

WR: Wow. OK coach, whatever it takes to get a ring I guess. Oh, by the way, I was in the equipment room the other day, and I saw a huge box of solid gold helmets, green jerseys, navy jerseys, and some grey facemasks. Whats that all about?

OC: Well son, if the maroon doesn't work, then we'll need a higher than reasonable preseason ranking despite lack of overwhelming talent in 2008. You ever been to a Catholic church?

[Blue Hen]

that's cute....thanks for sharing.

[Bucs90]

It's not a real article, I made it up. But, maybe they should do that!!! It seems the BCS is quick to make an excuse for a BCS team's slip ups and still give them a shot, but hold the non-BCS teams to almost unattainable standards, and even with a perfect record, still can't give them a chance. I know it's just computers, but the BCS folks design the formula and prevent the playoff, so I can blame 'em!

Thank God for 1-AA, and I'm boycotting the phrase Football Championship Subdivision. It's 1-AA. Join me in the boycott, Hen?

[Blue Hen]

I like FBS & FCS.....actually, I call them the Champ division and the Exhibition division.

That's pretty creative and clever, B90 !....your little BSU story.

[Bucs90]

I guess my boycott of FCS is an instinctive reaction to ANYTHING the BCS or NCAA change about college football OTHER than giving us a 1-A playoff. They find the time to come up with FBS, FCS, banning text messaging for coaches, etc, but they don't think players or coaches have the extra time to fit one more game in at the end of the year? Sorry man, but my boycott of FBS and FCS stands. Until we get a playoff, I boycott every change in 1-A football made by the NCAA or BCS. Call it my college football progress hunger strike.

[Blue Hen]

OK. You might be boycotting the rest of you life. FBS will always be an 'exhibition' sport, imo.

[Bucs90]

Well, if it's the rest of my life, then thats what I'll have to do Hen. Fight for the cause. I will accept no change in 1-A football until they change the post-season format!!! Even if they change to 500,000 seat stadiums and require free admission to all games and they have one day where every SEC team faces off againts the top 12 non-SEC teams in the country, I will refuse to attend to stay true to the boycott!!!! Much like progress in Southern public schools was suspended sometime in the 60's, progress of 1-A college football is suspened in my mind from this day forward!!! Until we get a playoff in 1-A, the status of all rules and guidelines in 1-A football will remain as they were on August 24th, 2007 in my mind!!!

[Blue Hen]

jeez, you're wired tonight, B90 :-)

[Bucs90]

It's that time of year, man. I've gone through 6.75 months of baseball highlights on ESPN- "Diving catch...home run...diving catch...home run...diving catch...home run...diving catch...Barry Bonds huge head...diving catch...home run..." and a anticlimatic NBA Finals. Not to mention a dirty NBA ref, a dog killing pro QB, a needle-sticking roid head breaking the HR record, countless hours of Fox News telling me what every political 08 candidate thinks but doesnt really think but sometimes does but doesn't say it but could mean it but if we only vote for him/her the country may or may not suck more or less.......

JESUS FREAKIN' H CHRIST!!! I can barely take it anymore!!!!

Is there anything greater than....

The Citadel vs Charleston Southern....Cadets vs Christians with cannons and kegs by the Ashley River

The old Atlantic 10 and The Colonial Athletic Association football- where some teams probably could've made the jump to 1-A but had the smarts to say where it's pure, and the autumn days in the Northeast when James Madison, Delaware, William and Mary all play with the cool breeze

Appalachian State trying for a true 3-peat, in the mountains with some snow, with players that could care no less about preseason rankings or computers

Or Wofford vs Furman, 20 miles apart, with more frat boys in khaki's and a tie and sorority ladies in their sunday dress on a saturday, fighting it out in a game that matters nowhere outside the Upstate of South Carolina, and all the fans going to The Beacon afterward for a Chili-Cheese-a-Plenty

Or any 1-AA team in the nation, next Saturday, on gameday, when you can probably actually park near the stadium, and you can probably walk right up to the gate and just buy a ticket, and a drink and pizza for less than $10, and you can probably stand beside the locker room as the players walk out, and watch a game that will be as hard fought as any NFL or BCS game, and probably mean more to the players than an NFL or BCS game, and actually go onto the field afterwards and probably pat the linebacker on the back and say "nice game", and you'll see some players who could probably play for a 1-A team, and probably get out of the parking lot within a decent hour. And then, theres a good chance you can go to the closest Applebees or local diner and find some of the players eating dinner with parents and girlfriends.

Well, thats my rant for saying 1-AA football is by far the greatest version of the greatest sport in the world. I'll take James Madison vs Appalachian State on a cool day in Boone, NC in front of 15,000 people anyday over a $250 trip to see LSU vs Florida in front of 90,000 with binoculars to see what color the jerseys are and a 3 hour wait in traffic.

[CJHawkeyes]

Bucs90,

I dislike the new names too, but I think I-AA wanted them more than I-A because they felt the I-AA label created a stigma of inferiority. Don't know who they are kidding with these name changes though.

[Coach 3]

..thats jsut a hialrious, rich ramble busc 90--its good to see others getting the juices flowing for the season..i have my local bunch of degenerates here in b-more ready to pick games weekly in our local contest and set up their 2 and 3 tv saturday hookups...i have my md-wvu and kentucky- florida tix ready for live games and wherever your facvroite venue is, well thats a sacerded palce..., i too have struggled through the desert wasteland that is summertime sports in americas...the nba playoffs were deadly dull- few things more broing than the robot tim duncan...basebore is a cesspool of enhancment drugs still, the florida basketball team are the posterboyz for obnoxious and then the grim sequence of dead wrestlers, cheatign refs, cruelty to animals and thank gawd CF kicks off in 5 days!!!!

[buckeyejim]

For what it's worth, USC doesn't wear maroon uniforms, they wear cardinal and gold.

[Blue Hen]

Bravo, B90 !!! You are a true afficionado of CF.....'real' championship CF. ( that $10 ticket perception is a little outdated, however)

[EvilVodka]

It's that time of year, man. I've gone through 6.75 months of baseball highlights on ESPN- "Diving catch...home run...diving catch...home run...diving catch...home run...diving catch...Barry Bonds huge head...diving catch...home run..." and a anticlimatic NBA Finals. Not to mention a dirty NBA ref, a dog killing pro QB, a needle-sticking roid head breaking the HR record, countless hours of Fox News telling me what every political 08 candidate thinks but doesnt really think but sometimes does but doesn't say it but could mean it but if we only vote for him/her the country may or may not suck more or less.......

JESUS FREAKIN' H CHRIST!!! I can barely take it anymore!!!!

Is there anything greater than....

The Citadel vs Charleston Southern....Cadets vs Christians with cannons and kegs by the Ashley River

The old Atlantic 10 and The Colonial Athletic Association football- where some teams probably could've made the jump to 1-A but had the smarts to say where it's pure, and the autumn days in the Northeast when James Madison, Delaware, William and Mary all play with the cool breeze

Appalachian State trying for a true 3-peat, in the mountains with some snow, with players that could care no less about preseason rankings or computers

Or Wofford vs Furman, 20 miles apart, with more frat boys in khaki's and a tie and sorority ladies in their sunday dress on a saturday, fighting it out in a game that matters nowhere outside the Upstate of South Carolina, and all the fans going to The Beacon afterward for a Chili-Cheese-a-Plenty

Or any 1-AA team in the nation, next Saturday, on gameday, when you can probably actually park near the stadium, and you can probably walk right up to the gate and just buy a ticket, and a drink and pizza for less than $10, and you can probably stand beside the locker room as the players walk out, and watch a game that will be as hard fought as any NFL or BCS game, and probably mean more to the players than an NFL or BCS game, and actually go onto the field afterwards and probably pat the linebacker on the back and say "nice game", and you'll see some players who could probably play for a 1-A team, and probably get out of the parking lot within a decent hour. And then, theres a good chance you can go to the closest Applebees or local diner and find some of the players eating dinner with parents and girlfriends.

Well, thats my rant for saying 1-AA football is by far the greatest version of the greatest sport in the world. I'll take James Madison vs Appalachian State on a cool day in Boone, NC in front of 15,000 people anyday over a $250 trip to see LSU vs Florida in front of 90,000 with binoculars to see what color the jerseys are and a 3 hour wait in traffic.

wow, nice read...maybe I'll check out some Texas State Bobcat games this year, you've inspired me!