I wouldn’t mind playing them every year, but ONLY in Boise. The vandal fans have flat out proven they are a group of bottom-feeders. Why should we go up to the shed? Is akey going to cover the cost of repairs to my car? Why should we have to rent a car to go to an away game, we don’t have to do that at any other place. This garbage has been going on in moscow for years, and they haven’t done a damn thing to address it yet.

To kill an OOC game by playing in a 16K seat arena and losing money on the venture.

I’d love to continue the “rivalry”, but until the Vandals quit playing in a meat locker, they’ll have to settle for one and done scraps for a while.

Discloure: I attended the 1990 game with my in-laws, all Vandals. I swore I’d never attend another, and haven’t, won’t. So it’s academic to me. I’m neutral as to whether we play. As for Moscow, the last 2 times we’ve played up there i have been stunned by the comments I’ve heard for Bronco fans as to how they are treated up there. And I agree with Kustra’s comment; there are other rivalries that dwarf this one but the fans in general (it aint Cracker Jack w/o a few nuts) there is respect for the academic qualities of the institution. Not this one; it is unhealthy, not fun.This rivalry has devolved into something nasty, brutish and (it is to be hoped) short.

… for now. I’d say schedule 4 more games( 2 home, 2 away) after we leave the WAC. And then reevaluate traveling to Moscow. But I really don’t want to be become the school that thinks it is too good to travel some places.

But I won’t go to Moscow even though I was born there.They have a real distaste for Southern Idaho for some reason. You can’t even wear a Bronco hat around up there without some drunk inbread retard saying something like " We U of I gaduate’s is smarter them you all Boyzee fans." Now I must disclose that both my parents gratuated from both Bsu and Uof I and they assure me that when they went to school there that the rivalry was still fun and the fan base didn’t act like a bunch of drunk soccer hooligans trying to burn down the K-dome.

Oh and just for fun I went and looked at the school news paper for U of I and big shocker, some kid died recently of alcohol poisoning on his 21st birthday. But don’t worry they don’t party at all up in Moscow. It’s all study study stud for those book worms.

Mainly for personal reasons. The only bad day I have in the year with the wife is the Boise State v Idaho game. (she’s a Vandal). Were that game to go away and never come back, I would be 100% ok with that.

As far as the Vandal fans go, I think probably 95% of the problems come from the students. I have a bunch of friends who were in frats/sororities up there and the stories I hear from them just cement two facts for me. 1.) they are every bit as alcohol fueled and nasty as you can imagine (but they find it all hilarious) and 2.) I could have NEVER been in a frat. (I spent my college years working full time).

I think the U of I administration has let too much go over the years. For example, I vividly remember in the late 80’s seeing a sign hanging in the Dome during a Boise State game up there. Mind you this was on TV. This was a HUGE banner hanging behind the goal posts that read “Buck the Froncos”. Pure class.

Have I mentioned that I’m really glad the wife is pregnant this year and we will NOT be making the trip to Moscow? Well, I am. Big time. If you think you’ve seen ugly up there before, just wait for this game. I wouldn’t put it past some of the frats up there to REALLY ratchet up the venom and hate on any poor Broncos unwise enough to make that journey.

Maybe the AD’s need to agree to make it a 2 for 1 series every decade or so.

Frankly, I’m a bit disappointed by the sanctimonious comments by Kustra and surprised at Coach Pete’s take. Even if true, if a Bronco player had said those comments they probably would have been rapped for it. They both should have taken the high road as they usually do or kept their mouths shut.

Instead we’re now practically accused of being supercilious on a national level and the rivaly is scoffed at by snobbish Big Sixer bloggers.

I wish we could take a mulligan on this one.

It may be bad publicity for Boise State, but hopefully the nation might recognize this rivalry from this publicity. It’s not the way it should have gone, but let’s use it for what it is. Boise State haters are going to become Vandal fans, and perhaps that additional support from beyond just their fanbase will make this rivalry actually competitive.

But if not, I voted no.

I’m with mkingery. We need to play this at least through 13 consecutive wins. I have already heard Vandals I work with make excuses that if the series takes a year or two off that the “broncos streak” (Said with much scarcasm) is not as good as the UI streak in the 80’s- 90’s because it’s not consecutive. Reaching for straws I know but I would rather not have any chinks in the armor or have to defend anything that has happened in since 1999.

After the streak is set, say goodbye. BSU has clearly outgrown the need for this rivalry and will soon have new rivals. I would rather establish a game with Fresno State as this is a little more competive and they have much more national respect (Mark May).

What Kustra said I believe is what we all think. Should he have said it…….probably not. But I won’t fault him for being passionate about BSU athetics and academics. I don’t feel short changed because I have a BSU degree.

Half the college educated population of Boise went to the U of I. Sure they are all closet Bronco season ticket holders but the game is fun especially for families like mine where half of us went to BSU and half to U of I.
I love the passion coming from our administration, but Kustra was out of line. It is one thing to say we will play the Vandals when the game is competitive, who knows when that will be. But when you say that our fans hate going to Moscow because you play in a barn like a bunch of drunk hillbillies, although true, is insulting to those fans that are just passionate about their college team and definitely not the kind of attitude I want my school to take.

Most the Vandals I know state it as a point of pride.

I don’t like the idea of playing the Vandals every year. Sorry, but it’s not a rivalry and it won’t be for a very long time, if ever. The two programs are headed in two different directions.

I wouldn’t mind playing Idaho every every few years. And we shouldn’t have to go to Moscow. There’s no benefit to it.

I am glad he said it, just maybe, i would have waited till after we beat them. Like MKingery said

The Idaho game is now my trap game of the year.

at least until they start winning and becoming decent people. And quit riding like children on BSU’s coat tails.

Let’s assume that this coming game is the last BSU-IU game for a while. Whether or not it’s the last one, let’s also assume that these games become infrequent enough that it’s no longer a viable rivalry.

If so, how likely is it that IU falls below the attendance threshold for 1-A membership? If I remember right, you have to average 15k per home game. Miss that one season, and you’re on probation. Miss two, and you’re relegated. (Feel free to correct if I’m wrong; it’s been a while and I don’t have time to look up the facts on this.)

I ask this because I’m a Wyoming alum, and Wyo was close to that during their really bad years earlier this century. It was the rivalry games that kept Wyoming afloat; between BYU, CSU, Utah, and Air Force, there were always two games with attendance over 35k, meaning the rest of the games only needed to average about 5k.

If Idaho loses Boise, who else brings a big enough fan base to augment their seats? And how much interest will there be in Idaho football? Enough for the Vandal fans to make numbers on their own?

Setting feelings aside, I wonder if it’s a concern; I have never been to a game in Moscow and I have no feel for their attendance, but the things you have been saying lead me to believe that they’re constantly on the edge of 15k as it is.

Rather than scheduling FCS teams to pound on the opening week, just bring Idaho to Bronco Stadium to get our early pancake game and work out the kinks. Rivalry continues, domination of Gem State continues, and there aren’t any more FCS teams on the schedule. Done.

I agree my initial reaction was towards the second thing you listed. If you can’t stand being made fun of why should you be taken seriously? You could copy and paste that assesment of Idaho fans and drinking with Iowa, Wisconsin, LSU, Texas Tech, and a few other schools as well. I guess when I first read that I scoffed because I imagined drinking with Badger fans in Madison last year and taking their BS before and after the game. My intial reaction was “who is this prude to attack fans who choose to imbibe in order to enhance their game day experience?” I am not nor have ever been one to get smashed on gameday, but I know plenty of people who do and they seem to have a fine time.

However, I don’t think it is fair to stereotype a situation which you do not have a decent understanding of. I have never been to a Boise State or Idaho game so I can’t pretend to understand the dynamics at work behind that statement.

So getting to the point, I want to ask Bronco fans, aside from the fact that they are a natural rival, what do you hate about Idaho fans? Give me your best/worst stories and impressions, I want to know why this statement makes sense to you but not to the rest of us.

I was at the ‘06 game waiting just outside the Kibbie Dome with some other BSU fans/friends before kickoff. An 8 to 10 year old kid came by with his parents, who were covered in black and gold Vandal gear. The kid was wearing his Lewiston (30 miles S of Moscow) Pop Warner jersey. The jersey was blue, but he was wearing a black Vandal hat proudly. Some Vandal frat guys walked by, heckled him for wearing his blue Pop Warner jersey and threw his Vandal hat to the ground, saying he doesn’t deserve to wear the Vandal hat…calling him a traitor as they staggered away. The kid cried, “But I’m a Vandal fan,” and went crying to who his Vandal dad who comforted him by saying, “I told you not to wear that stupid jersey!”

That is why I hate U of I. Is that kinda what you were looking for?

Vandals should rejoice that the streak will finally end….win or lose this year. Good Riddance.
Found some fb clinic notes from Coach Pete concerning his pyramid of success and he lists " Beat Nevada" in this pyramid and not Idaho. The new streak has silenced the rivalry between the schools U of I and BSU. Fresno State is a bigger rival currently.

my wife searched for a story about Idaho fans tossing urine bombs on the Bronco faithful….but, I just hate ‘em because of a certain “friend” i have who swears by the superior U of I education she has. She can’t use the words your and you’re correctly. How superior is that?

I’m at a Christman party several years ago at my best friend’s place in Eagle. I know a lot of the people present but certainly not all. I’m standing in the kitchen, hovering over the snacks, and this woman walks over to do the same. Total stranger. She intoduces herself as a neighbor and we chat pleasantly enough about several topics when she asks where I went to school. I reply: BSU. Her next (and last ) question was, “So, which McDonalds do you work at?”

She, to this day, still doesn’t appreciate how much of a gentleman I was. Moral of the story? A******* Vandals come in both genders.

I would understand bad interactions with fans creating a personal grudge between fans, but the fact that a University official went out of the way to rip into them still seems whiny. I mean, ripping on academics happens to almost everybody, not just BSU.

Michigan fans have plenty of jokes the students at Ohio State. Northwestern students have plenty of cheers about how their opponents will be pumping their gas or what not in the future. I once ran into an Iowa State fan in Kansas who said she didn’t recognize me as an Iowa fan because I wasn’t delivering a pizza.

I get it on a personal level, the stories show why individual fans should, and do, hate Idaho. However how mature is it to come out as a University President and bash them for making fun of you? I mean, as a university President shouldn’t this be a case where you either realize the perception surrounding the school and choose to either imrpove it, try to inform the public, or ignore the idiots.

I understand fans and Kustra beingupset with the jerks who are rude, but how does doing this help your University at all? Ok Idaho fans are jerks, but throwing a public hissy fit only makes you look bad and gives Vandals fans something else to make fun of you for.

has always been the SOS argument.

We now have the opportunity to not schedule what may be the WORST team over the last decade in all of CFB. Now compound that with their barbaric fan base and there’s absolutely ZERO reason to keep them on the schedule.

If they stop acting like a bunch of savages, I say we should entertain the idea of holding the game in Boise every year. Don’t like that idea, Vandals? Tough. Boise St doesn’t need the Vandals. We can sell out the stadium with another team.

Most voted no?

I never thought I’d live to see the Bropncos become the “man” and duck out of a game by whining the same way all the prima donna jerk off schools did about Boise.

How does it feel to become what you hated?