The Mikrino Poll: Man, I would hate to be Utah State right now.
by Mikrino on Dec 3, 2010 7:52 AM PST
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Welcome Bronco Nation, and all you haters out there, I see you too.
Haters Gonna Hate
Join me one last time this regular season for the Mikrino Poll. Of course we will have a Bowl Week Poll as well. And man will I feel sorry for the poor saps who get the Broncos in some worthless bowl, because they'll easily be going against the best team in the country outside of the BCS Title game. You heard me TCU, the Big East sucks.
Let us have a moment of prayer and supplication;
Dear God/Bronco Fan of the highest order,
Please let whichever BIG10 team that gets TCU in the Rose Bowl deliver a crushing defeat. I pray you send Wisconsin, who will drop 70 on the Horned Frogs and not think twice about it. May it be swift and furious. May the ginger kid lose a limb. May Gary Patterson lose his pants in more ways than one. Let all the Broncos chasing records reach their goals. Shine on them this week. May Your blue and orange will be done. Amen.
I am now going to go into how I think Utah State will get absolutely crushed this week. I really hope Coach Pete let's these guys have at it, and turns them loose. Utah State isn't good, and no amount of crazy defensive scheming by Gary Andersen will change that in three days. There have already been reports that the Broncos are practicing with a certain determination this week. Lookout. You thought they were motivated before, Diondre Borel, I don't want to be you.
Billy Winn has a prediction. It is PAIN. Lots of PAIN.
Losses are never fun. Losses are great teaching moments. I hope it teaches the Broncos that they never want to lose again. Ever. But realistically, it is part of the game. For every winner, there's a loser. Boise State took their biennial loss last week. Look at it this way, we got two or three more years of winning to look forward to! AWESOME! Anybody else excited? Can I get a show of hands?
Two hands? Kellen is really excited. Shouldn't you be too?
Here's the plain and simple truth. And probably a nice pick-me-up for those of you still wallowing in disbelief and morose grief. Don't be so sullen, Boise State is still one of the top teams in the nation. That didn't go away with a close OT loss to a ranked opponent with help from cheating goalposts, and inept referees. They have ONE loss. It was a toughie, I'll give you that. But it's time to Bronco Up as it were, and get on to the next game. Speaking of the next game, who's in for a shutout and less than 100 yards of offense allowed? I know I am. The only difference between Boise State's loss and any other one-loss team is there's came at season's end, with no time to make it back up with a win streak. So I say it's three games worth of yardage they put on Utah State to make up for it.
Is it just me, or does it look like there is no way that arm is going to make it? Helmet? What helmet?
Utah State has never had very good luck against the Broncos. They're 4-12 against the Broncos all-time, the last win coming in 1997. Since then, they've been consumed by a legacy of suck. The Aggies do hold two wins in Bronco Stadium (1975,1996). But that was before defending The Blue became commonplace. Since 2000 the average game score between these two squads is 53-20 in favor of the Broncos. In fact the lowest scoring game for the Broncos in that span is 45 points. Utah State is 0-3 this year against ranked opponents. Boise State is a ranked opponent. Utah State is something like 0-49 against ranked opponents on the road. This is a road game for the Aggies. I feel good about our chances.
This week's poll is the first one I've done following a loss. Imagine that. You'd think maybe I'd tone it down and be a little more humble. You'd be wrong.
Onto the poll.
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boise state 49, utah state 17.
Why do canadians stick together? The same reason why Chris Horodecki turned his body and face around in his first WEC fight.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Dec 1, 2010 12:23 PM PST reply actions
i pick a, b, c, d, but not e, no way e
think they’ll wear white and have a total white out in the snow, home team gets to pick, right?
STILL wouldn’t be able to “see” them on the field…hahahaha
oh well…still looking for healing humor
"… There are so many times in life that you’re just extremely disappointed and depressed and in the tank and you still have to perform and you still have to rally and you still have to move forward and that’s, to me, the lesson right now. That’s true toughness when you can perform at your best when you just don’t feel like it." Coach Petersen Nov, 2010
I am rooting for Auburn and Oregon this week...
I can’t stand TCU, even before the defection to the Big East, and I do not want them to get the opportunity that should have been Boise State’s. It’s bad enough that they get to go to the Rose Bowl. I hope they get crushed by Wisconsin.
I am the BSU Guru. I know everything and anything about BSU, just ask me. Although I may need a minute…and an internet connection.
Hate the dux fans/team/coaches.
I hope the Beavers flatten them. Do you guys REALLY want to listen to dux fans running their mouths about a NC? Think about that. They are (bw) talkers now, what do you think it will be like if they win it all?
"Boise State football is now a Fargo winter. You know what's coming, and that information does you no good whatsoever". Matt James / The Fresno Bee
they can talk all they want
Won’t change the fact that BSU owns them.
The first Bronco related thing I've read this week that put a real smile on my face.
And I’m so glad I’m not the only one who hates TCU right now.
"Whatever happened to just winning games."
I voted for “Billy Winn and Shea McCllelin hold an all-out death match with Diondre Borel. Poor poor Diondre.” only because Diondre and I have a mutual friend, and the friend keeps saying how Diondre is one of the best QB’s in the WAC, and is going to score 3 passing touchdowns and 2 rushing touchdowns.
the kid obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Agreed.
I voted for Billy Winn…etc too. This is going to get really ugly for Utah State.
"Boise State football is now a Fargo winter. You know what's coming, and that information does you no good whatsoever". Matt James / The Fresno Bee
Classic story: Bully finally takes on opponent that can fight back, loses, and then resorts to bullying smaller weaker opponents like usual. Enjoy this one, Georgia awaits.
“Yea it was the referee’s fault your players can’t play 4 quarters. It was the referee’s fault your kicker can make a FG within 30 yards, it was the goal post fault he missed a routine kick. It was the referee’s fault Nevada’s QB ran all over you (WTF do you think cam Newton would do). IT was the Referees fault your punt coverage team thought this was the XFL and lit up the punt returner to early. It was the Referees fault you can’t stop Nevada’s run game (you think you can stop Wisconsin’s?). It’s the Referee’s fault your offense was shut down the second half and in overtime by a team that lost to Hawaii. Yeaaaaaaaaaaa”
uhhhh....
Name me one classic story about a bully taking on an opponet that fights back, loses, then resorts to bullying weaker opponets like usual. I am posotive that there are no such stories…
"As soon as they're in the open field, nobody is going to catch them. Doug, even if somebody is right in front of him, he might run him over."
- Travis Stanaway
by TooMuchYoung on Dec 1, 2010 8:08 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
why are you here again?
I don’t come to this site to fall asleep trying to read your comments.
I happen to think the hit on the punt returner was fine but meh, BSU lost that game straight up.
You’re still pointing to a single game for all of your supporting facts. What would Cam Newton do to us? Don’t know, game hasn’t been played. Did Kaep actually even run all over us or is that you making another snapshot assumption? According to CNN/SI Kaep ran 10 times for 45 yards, hardly inspiring.
What would Wisky’s run attack do? Don’t know, game hasn’t been played. Nevada ran 52 times for 269, that’s damn good for a 5.2 yd. avg. Nevada’s attack is also very different than Wisky’s and Boise St. has been very solid against the run for sometime now. Boise has a trend of giving up a lot of rushing yds to Nevada. So did Cal’s defense and that defense is not bad. Boise St. also has an established trend of shutting all other opponents’ running game down and that has included some prolific rushing attacks in Oregon, TCU, and VT.
You’re trying to run an indictment in the vacuum of one performance that you aren’t even well acquainted with. That’s not a good way to build a case. You have come in, guns blazing, firing off a lot of shots from the hip. And you have been refuted on all counts. I know it’s not acceptable to you but that is b/c you are set in your position, not b/c you are right.
There is a controversy here, complaints on both sides, points and counterpoints. The games need to be played on the field.
Whether you like it or not, whether your belief that BSU is set in stone is unshakable or not, it won’t hold water. Boise St. has garnered enough credibility with enough of the right people, they have beaten enough quality teams when everyone counted them out, and they have continued to grow their program enough that they aren’t going to just up and disappear b/c you want them too.
Nope, if you want them gone, you need to rally your campus, sign a petition, and ask your AD to schedule them so you can put us in our place in the only place it can be done…the field. If you can do that and your team pulls through in dramatic fashion, then I will personally eat crow and admit we were outmanned, outclassed, and outgunned.
Until then, sit there and grit your teeth b/c this thing is gonna roll right past you as if you weren’t even there.
I Wall of Text like it's the in thing to do
"Classic story: Bully finally takes on opponent that can fight back, loses, and then resorts to bullying smaller weaker opponents like usual."
Sounds like the story of whatever SEC school you’ve bandwagoned on to this week.
Clippers // Chargers // Rays // Gators // Boise State
"We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly."
- Sam Cassell
Serious superstitious question...
Had you EVER had an all of the above option before the dreaded Nevada game???
I can’t remember another one…
"As soon as they're in the open field, nobody is going to catch them. Doug, even if somebody is right in front of him, he might run him over."
- Travis Stanaway
Yes and No. Hadn't really thought about it before you asked.
I did do an all of the above early on before I called it the Mikrino Poll. only once though. I decided I wanted people to choose between one of the many choices. People started to say they hated me for not having “all of the above” as an option. So in true Mikrino Style, I added hating me as an option. So when you want it to be all of the above, you choose to hate me instead, sounds fair right. But yes, last week was the first, and last time, I will actually put all of the above as a choice. I’d rather you choose or hate me.
And now that I realize it could’ve been me that spawned this loss, I look foward to all your hate mail and facebook pages belittling me. I can take it, I have broad shoulders.
Championships should be earned on the field, not in newspapers or computers.
I'm so glad that i'm not playing.
because after the loss, i’m still super depressed.
but getting better though.
12 years in a row. 22-17-1 overall record.
Suck it Vandals
Twitter: @damiensports
"[O]ne play can win a game but one play cannot lose a game." - Coach Petersen
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