BSU Hating

It will be the third time Game Day goes to a MWC game. BYU vs. TCU, Air Force vs. Army, TCU vs. Utah. It kinda looks like the 4 letter propaganda machine is trying to pimp out TCU. Still trying to figure out to why.

Iowa’s been living dangerously all year, LSU got lucky to win a couple of theirs, Alabama really had ot scramble to beat Tennessee. BSU has not looked as dominant as TCU has though, so TCU is this year’s media darling as long as they win. TCU is playing a decent Utah team, last year’s media darling. That game should get more notice than Boise State and its last four games: it’s a bigger game. It also is obvious that ESPN is pushing the MWC as a marketable commodity (it would be interesting to see what ESPN execs thought about moving say Houston and BSU into the MWC).

Your only big win was the first game, you guys need a big win later in the year. Also, Alabama Florida rematch is the biggest college ball news for selling advertisements so right now getting air time is tough for anyone. Really, the fact that you guys get as much attention as you do in your media market is a tribute to your program and fans.

Florida and Alabama have like 3-6 media events each year, BSU is lucky to get one. Even your Oregon game wasn’t as big a deal as a crappy Georgia-Florida game.

This is where strength of schedule really eats you guys up. They don’t care if you win out against Idaho, Utah State, Nevada, and NM State. There’s no story there. Now, had Idaho continued to win and made its own cinderella story, or Nevada come in undefeated (or just one loss), you guys would be getting much more late season attention and that would rock for y’all.

There’s a reason many teams schedule year end rivalry games against competitive teams: it sells and reminds voters of who you are. Getting stoked for NM State? I don’t see it. Schedule your Utah or BYU upcoming games at say, game 9? That makes sense.

Finding someone outside the WAC who is decent to play year’s end each year? That’s a dream gig, but who?

Last year, Utah started unranked and as they played through some weak teams no one cared about them either. Going into the Sugar bowl the story was “Look how Alabama has come back”. We’re in crappy media markets, that’s all.

Even though Idaho is vastly improved and Nevada is a decent team, no one outside the MWC and WAC area is going to care one bit. Had Nevada put up a fight against Notre Dame they’d have helped you guys immensely. But they are 1-3 outside their conference (against decent competition, to be sure!), beating only a crappy UNLV team which they already own. Colorado State has not helped you guys by continuing to lose and making Nevada look worse.

If you guys win out and make the BCS though, especially if TCU stumbles, you’ll be the media darlings again and all college ball fans will be cheering for you to make the playoff argument for them.

So, it is what it is, but you’ll get tons of love if you make the BCS, people will be freaking out for you guys to knock off a “big league tough guy” or dumping more hate on you, you’ll get both, but you will get massive exposure.

and whenever you are high profile, teams have you circled on their schedule and naysayers spend all their idle time bashing on you. Ultimately it will be good for the program. Until we are able to step up with a better schedule we are going to play second to the MWC when they produce an undefeated team (see this year and last year). Since that seems to be the trend the old schedule strategy of playing one BCS school per year is not going to work. What I can’t really understand is why we think that we need to go out and schedule and so called "elite" school. We are surprised when no one takes the bait? C’mon, take a look at TCU. Schedule a couple (maybe three) of decent BCS schools and then go out and beat them. It is almost a sure thing that you’ll be able to turn mediocre road wins into a quality of work season.

i took utah but tcu will win by two td’s and as the guy said above i think espn knows something the general public does not. the mwc is going to get automatic qualifying status. most likely with boise state in the conference. considering clemson has n.c. state and maryland next that would make them 8-3 and they would play in acc cg vs georgia tech. their last game is vs south carolina in columbia. that would be a nice win too but it’s not necessary. clemson would have had only one team beat them at home and that team was tcu. not sure who wins between georgia tech or clemson.