Boise State might be having second thoughts

No. That's just not right.

How much of the article was about football? You know why it was about the financial position of universities without dwelling on athletics? Because in almost no instances does greater athletic revenue filter down and provide a profit that is used by the rest of the university. When athletic departments make more, they raise salaries and otherwise spend more, so that they can make more, so that ....

I am not saying strong athletic programs have no effect on a university. They do. But, to use the most recent example, FSU getting $3M a year in additional revenue will simply lead to increased athletic department spending. It will not allow one class to be maintained or one tuition increase to be deferred.

To back your post up, look what Florida did with their computer science department just a few weeks ago

Second

Do you realize what a tiny fraction of the budget these things are? Schools lose money on athletics, not make money. Only 14 schools turned a profit last year.

Boise State has with the exception of 80's has been playing good football since they were a JC right after WWII. They have won at every level. What they are now is a result of decades of football being their signature sport.

I don't agree. The first coach that got the ball rolling was Dan Hawkins and he flopped when left for Colorado. BSU's one advantage over other schools seems to be that they can admit athletes who maybe wouldn't be able to get into other schools. To their credit they have exploited that advantage and have put out quality squad after quality squad. They play an exciting, wide open style of football that people like to see. They're also able to go to a school like Georgia, an eventual SEC title game participant, and lay a whooping on them. That PROGRAM is for real. They're new money, so fans of the traditional power house programs snicker at them, but they have found a niche what they have built without any major scandals is nothing short of amazing considering how quickly they have built it. Blue Mountain State baby.

Um, no

From an SI article a few years back .....

The Boise State story usually begins in the mid-1990s. Since 1999, they're 122-20, under three separate coaches (Koetter, Hawkins and Petersen). They've regularly beaten BCS-league opponents, and won those two Fiesta Bowls, which is why they're in position now for what even Petersen concedes would be a fabulous thing: "great for the university, and good for college football to have a team like us discussed, because it's just so different." Kind of like everything at Boise State these days.

"over the last 10 years or so..."

petersen has been there for 7
koetter was late 90's i think and hawkins was there with koetter then took over after he left for a couple.

Yes, this is correct.

To whoever put "Duke Sucks" in the advertising window on this website front page up there in the corner in fine print.

Bravo.

I'm not a big BSU fan, but Koetter left in 12/00.

Just read an article that stated sdsu is trying to help Boise find a home for their other sports. This ain't over yet

Boise St will end up in the Big West along with SDSU. BE will bring in 14th member and it looks like Fresno State might make the most sense. Fresno can place their Olympic sports in the Big West as well to make it a 12 team league. Fresno also brings decent basketball so it will help prop that league up. BE really should just go to 16 and add Air Force and BYU as well. This set up makes most sense:

East: UCONN/RU/UCF/USF/Cincy/UL/Temple/Navy
West: SDSU/Boise/Fresno St/BYU/Air Force/Houston/SMU/Memphis

Memphis is the only one slightly out of the region. This is a pretty good league and should get a very nice TV deal.

What a disaster. This whole conference raiding and reconfiguring is terrible. I hope that Congress or the NCAA or ESPN & other networks step in and bring some order to college football. How could UConn's hopes & aspirations circa the early years of this century (Miami, Virginia Tech, Boston College, etc) have disintegrate into this Geographical Comical triage. Conference of the Misfit Toys.

I pretty much agree with the 16 teams, but we are going to have a hard time getting BYU. The tv thing that held it up last time will likely not change, unless BYU finds out that the Big12 isn't a viable option for them anymore. Regardless of what some might think, that is a solid conference right there, and I'd be happy to play in it.

Boise State has been playing football for just over 85 years, they have 2 NC's, 1 as a JC(1958) and 1 in D2(1980) to go along with their 2 Fiesta Bowl wins.

in their history they have a winning % of over .725 which puts them 2nd all time just behind Michigan, they have now been playing D1 for 16 years and have a winning % during that time of .782 which is #1 during that stretch ahead of Ohio State at .772

Boise State does NOT take partial qualifiers, this is a canard made up to explain how Boise State could be better then other teams who have been around a lot longer.

in the past decade Boise State won more games then any team has in over 100 years, you have to go back to the 1880's when Yale was playing 16 games a year against mostly club teams to find a team that won more in a decade.

Welcome to the Big EAst. Can't wait to see the orange and blue at Rentschler. I'm still not sure how I feel about the whole blue turf field thing though, we'll see when we get out there, I'm glad we'll be in white so we can see our guys.....

I agree. Not a bad conference and having an eastern and western division is something no other conference has and can have us come out of this smelling like a rose.