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Boise St football has grown with the city and surrounds since WW2. As Jim wrote, all oars have been rowing on the same stroke.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Someone explain Boise State's success in today's college football. Location is rural and remote, can't be a ton of in-state talent, and how can it compete on NIL with the big boys? Yet, despite all that it's a perennial Top 20 program and was in the CFB playoffs last year.
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Boise is a great destination, and they treat their FB'ers really well. No academic pressure, local heroes, usually great coaching, blue Turf was awesome(do they still have it?). Urban enough to be fun, physical geography is breathtaking. Tough to get there, but worth the trip.
 
UConnJim said:
Boise is not small as there are about 240k in Boise and about 450k in the metro area and growing. Boise is focused on winning and everyone is aligned to make that happen.
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Boise is a young and vibrant city. Awesome place. Not a large city by any stretch of the imagination.
 
Windham4th said:
Boise is a young and vibrant city. Awesome place. Not a large city by any stretch of the imagination.
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Not that it matters in anyway but I would be very surprised if the defined "metro area" for Boise was smaller than the entire size of CT
 
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AllHusky said:
Boise is a great destination, and they treat their FB'ers really well. No academic pressure, local heroes, usually great coaching, blue Turf was awesome(do they still have it?). Urban enough to be fun, physical geography is breathtaking. Tough to get there, but worth the trip.
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They have exclusive rights to use blue turf.
 
UCTitleTown said:
They have exclusive rights to use blue turf.
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University of New Haven who is upgrading from D2 > FCS has had a blue turf field for years…

Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium - Facilities - University of New Haven Athletics

The official facilities page for the University of New Haven Chargers
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UCTitleTown said:
They have exclusive rights to use blue turf.
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That's just false. Any school may use any color they want.

Besides New Haven, University of New England in Maine and Luther College in Iowa also have blue turf.
 
CCSUblue said:
That's just false. Any school may use any color they want.

Besides New Haven, University of New England in Maine and Luther College in Iowa also have blue turf.
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It's in between what each of you said. Just Google it. SUNY Morrisville dared them to sue with a black field and Boise didn't
 
jostar1 said:
College football's dynasty era is over, and the sport is better because of it
Dan Wolken
Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 1:40 PM EDT

Welcome to the new era of college football. We’ve known it and we’ve seen it, but as we reach the second half of the 2025 season, the impact of movement through the transfer portal, player compensation and an expanded playoff field have changed the sport in previously inconceivable ways.

Outside of Ohio State and maybe Alabama (at least until the next loss), every one of the sport’s traditional blue bloods wakes up today in some stage of an existential crisis. Meanwhile, Indiana is the nation’s No. 2 team, Georgia Tech is looking increasingly like a favorite to make the CFP and ESPN’s "College GameDay" is rightfully headed to Missouri at Vanderbilt next weekend.

sports.yahoo.com

College football's dynasty era is over, and the sport is better because of it

Parity reigns in college football, as evidenced by ASU's high-wire win over Texas Tech. This is now a year-to-year, week-to-week enterprise and nothing in American sports is delivering more drama for a wider array of teams and fan bases.
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Sounds like good news for a scrappy, up and coming Independent program that has a chip on its shoulder.
 
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UConnJim said:
The portal has been very positive for UConn football.
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Definitely been a net positive for us. I said when it first started that we'd lose some good players, but we could easily reload with players that either graduated or want more playing time. Mora has shown he knows how to keep the team competetive in today's game.
 
I'm wondering if schools will rethink the timing of coach firings after what is happening at Penn State. The recruiting class has been blown up for this year and next year. For 2027, Penn St. had the #1 RB, #8 OT, #14 WR, and the #11 CB and all have decommited. And, they have had 10 decommits from the 2026 class. If they waited until the end of the year and hired a coach quickly, they may have saved the classes. Now, there is too much time for the recruits to commit elsewhere.
 
UConnJim said:
I'm wondering if schools will rethink the timing of coach firings after what is happening at Penn State. The recruiting class has been blown up for this year and next year. For 2027, Penn St. had the #1 RB, #8 OT, #14 WR, and the #11 CB and all have decommited. And, they have had 10 decommits from the 2026 class. If they waited until the end of the year and hired a coach quickly, they may have saved the classes. Now, there is too much time for the recruits to commit elsewhere.
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Yeah, they screwed up. I didn't love Franklin, but he's better than most of the potential candidates mentioned for the Penn State job. Firing Franklin in-season likely resulted in a worse record, higher buyout and loss of a top recruiting class. I know Franklin never won the big one, but the timing and consequences of his firing wasn't well thought out.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Yeah, they screwed up. I didn't love Franklin, but he's better than most of the potential candidates mentioned for the Penn State job. Firing Franklin in-season likely resulted in a worse record, higher buyout and loss of a top recruiting class. I know Franklin never won the big one, but the timing and consequences of his firing wasn't well thought out.
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Firing a coach mid-season only makes sense if there is a favored candidate who does not currently have a job. Otherwise, you might as well wait IMO.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Yeah, they screwed up. I didn't love Franklin, but he's better than most of the potential candidates mentioned for the Penn State job. Firing Franklin in-season likely resulted in a worse record, higher buyout and loss of a top recruiting class. I know Franklin never won the big one, but the timing and consequences of his firing wasn't well thought out.
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I don't know all the timing regs but the new coach will likely bring some of his own players and recruits, won't he? You lose some, you win some. Here's an interesting take by a Penn State site. Clark Lea is a Vandy almnus but I'm not sure Vandy could compete regularly in the SEC. Extremely costly for Penn State no matter which route they go

victorybellrings.com

This head coach possibility is an interesting case of déjà vu for the Nittany Lions

The hunt for a Penn State football head coach is on. Names across the country are being thrown into the pool of potential candidates. Of those possibilities is
victorybellrings.com victorybellrings.com
 
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Penn State is such a big job i would think they want someone with proven P4 success. To get rid of someone who had the success of Franklin to replace him who was in the FCS a couple of years ago I don’t know. I get that Franklin in big games came up short often, but look at what has happened to Wisconsin since firing Paul Chryst. They may be getting ready to dump Fickell already. Chryst like Franklin won 13 games 1 year there. That isn't easy to replicate.
 
psilotic said:
TBH after saturday I thought O'Brien was going the way of Charlie Weis
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I think he gets at least one more year. He's a good coach, but BC has been bad for long and it's going to take some time to build up that foundation. I mean look at UConn, it took us years to bounce back from bad HC hires.
 
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DoctorWho85 said:
I think he gets at least one more year. He's a good coach, but BC has been bad for long and it's going to take some time to build up that foundation. I mean look at UConn, it took us years to bounce back from bad HC hires.
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There are no excuses in the transfer portal era. And look at what Cig is doing at Indiana. Mora literally took us from 1-11 to 6-7. Two years later we're 9-4...
 
businesslawyer said:
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It did? Mora made us immediately better in year one playing without a real QB.
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true…but year 2, Mora’s team regressed. He came back in year 3. This is year 2 for BOB.

But…he does seem to struggle with QB play. He seems to have a quick trigger. Last year he benched Castellanos…who then transferred to FSU. This year he benched Alabama transfer Lonergan..who I thought looked decent.

Actually..I wonder if Lonergan transfers again….could be a UConn option.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
true…but year 2, Mora’s team regressed. He came back in year 3. This is year 2 for BOB.

But…he does seem to struggle with QB play. He seems to have a quick trigger. Last year he benched Castellanos…who then transferred to FSU. This year he benched Alabama transfer Lonergan..who I thought looked decent.

Actually..I wonder if Lonergan transfers again….could be a UConn option.
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If UConn were in the ACC or another P4 Jim Mora would have done even better. bcu has all the financial and competitive advantages of ACC membership.
 
businesslawyer said:
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It did? Mora made us immediately better in year one playing without a real QB.
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Yes we got worse after PP because we compounded it with another bad hire then after BD we doubled down with RE 2.0. Let's not lump all 3 crappy hires into one. 13 years (or however long it was) after RE 1.0 is nowhere close to immediately better
 
Windham4th said:
Yes we got worse after PP because we compounded it with another bad hire then after BD we doubled down with RE 2.0. Let's not lump all 3 crappy hires into one. 13 years (or however long it was) after RE 1.0 is nowhere close to immediately better
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So your theory is that it would have been easier, not harder, for Mora to turn us around if there had only been one bad hire before him? That’s a truly odd theory.

A good coach can turn a team around very quickly. There is plenty of evidence of that. It doesn’t mean that a good coach can quickly create great teams from a horrible program, but absolutely their right hire can make a team materially better very quickly.
 
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