What Happened to Neutrality?

In listening to the post-game show on KBOI after the game, Paul J. also questioned the neutral field saying that VT promotionals were run during TV timeouts and that the stadium announcer was transplanted from Lane Stadium. Anyone able to verify that?

The redskins emblazoned billboards that adorn the sidelines were wrapped in Hokie purple/burgundy/cranberry/whatever. Their rallying cries and cheers were piped through the sound system. Plus the 70k + Hokie fans obviously made it a “close to home” environment.

Bringing the horse was a problem? Lucky they didn’t ask to paint the endzone Blue.

I would agree. I was also surprised that Tech taking the field was basically the exact same as in Blacksburg.

Watching from home it definitly looked like a Tech home game.

Mik – Tech’s colors are . . .chicago maroon and burnt orange, officially . . . . purple would be Clemson for an ACC team and LSU for an SEC team. . . just saying!

Since Tech was billed as the “home” team . . . simply because the game was “BSU v. VA Tech”, that may answer why Tech was allowed to play “Enter Sandman”.

operator sure was a Hokie Homer!

they showed the hokies taking the field, then broke away and when they came back to live coverage the broncos had already entered fedex and the ball was on the tee for the kickoff.

Well… was some of the extra cash that Tech received incentive to move the game to Week 1.

Playing this game on Week 1 hurt Tech pretty bad.

(The Tech powers-that-be should re-watch that first quarter and decide if it was worth the extra money)

For one thing the crowd was definitely majority VT, which is to be expected. But as soon as I sat down in the stands and started watching the jumbotron it became very clear that they weren’t going to make any effort to appeal to Bronco fans. EVERY shot was of Virginia Tech fans, the two or three of Boise State fans, were when they walked in front of Virginia Tech fans. Then Enter Sandman started playing, and my mind was blown. They did everything they could to accommodate the Hokie fans, and nothing for the Bronco fans. It was ridiculous. Granted I expected some homerism, and obviously the Fedex people are going to try to appeal to Hokie fans because many of them are also Redskins fans. I’m well aware of the Hokie/Redskin fan base, I live in Maryland. But they didn’t make any effort to make the game nuetral, they should have just held the game at Blacksburg, we would’ve gotten more credit for a W.

Boise won… why are you guys complaining about field nuetrality?

Heck, even if Tech held on for the win… isn’t the big Boise State rallying cry: “We’ll play anyone, anywhere!”

As far as crowd and all that… where were they supposed to play the game? In the middle of Kansas? Oklahoma? Who would have gone to that game? For attendance purposes, the game needs to be somewhere in the vicinity of at least one team’s fanbase.

Didn’t Oregeon State play TCU last weekend in Dallas? Why do you think most bowl games play in front of half empty crowds?

Playing in those conditions, with a heavy bias for Virginia Tech, actually helps Boise State. Many believe that had we played Oklahoma or any other big boy on their own field (with the exception of Oregon) that we would have lost and that we can only win on a neutral field against the big boys. We might as well look at this as if it were a victory in Blacksburg, which I hear is a very difficult place to play! GO BRONCOS!!

It woud be great if they decided to give the $2 M to the winner and the $1 M to the loser. Both AD’s would have gone into cardiac arrest!!