Boise State to the Big East: Good, bad, or indifferent?

I’ve always wanted to live on the East Coast.

Living in Nashville, I’m looking forward to away games in Louisville and Cincinnati

I think the Mega-alliance between C-usa and MWC is a horrible idea that will be the laughed at for years to come, if it even happens. If Utah, BYU, and TCU would have stayed, or if even 2 of the 3 stayed it might be worth it, but now we need to look out for ourselves and no one will ever convince me that the MWC will be a more lucrative and viable option in the long run. I actually hope that Fresno, Nevada, and Hawaii bail on the MWC to stay in the Wac and then poach some of their schools, Craig T would love that!

I hate the fact that it has come to this… but we dont really have a choice. The MWC is now a turd and if the other teams that are being invited leave and that whole C-USA MWC merger takes affect, there will be NO ONE left. So our choice is to stay and fall off the face of the earth or go and keep our fingers crossed. The situation is a crapshoot.

Maybe this isn’t ideal, but the MWC ignored us until it needed us, chased off the teams we came to play, banned our blue, and has a terrible tv deal. So yeah, not “best,” but “good.”

for letting this bus pass us by. I think we’re all a little nervous about the unknowns, the “fear factor.” But you also make an astute observation:

the Broncos have to do something

Decisions in life are rarely clear-cut. Most of life is an uncertain gamble, and that’s why insurance companies are so wealthy. But President Kustra and his team of advisors, especially Coach Pete, has to act with the best possible information at hand at a specific time. It’s the headache that all commanders face (and it’s lonely at the top), but, when it’s obvious that inaction will do harm, one has to move with the plan that shows the most promise at that time.

For BSU football, the WAC is not an option. The MWC is already withering. The Big East may do so, too, but it seems to hold the seeds of a future for the Broncos. It may be a bad decision, but we won’t know that for a few years. By that time, the landscape will again have changed (that’s a guarantee!), and whomever our commander is will again make the best decision with the available intelligence at the time.

Regardless of whatever outcome, the sun will continue to rise over Tablerock.

Let our merits outside of the elitist club continue to upset the status quo. They can keep belittling us for being in a weak conference, and we’ll keep beating AQ teams brave enough to play us. I would rather stand as a symbol against not including deserving teams simply because of which conference we play in.

That’s just me, though.

Much like Nick, I am very stoked at the idea of actually getting to some live games now (last time I was at an actual BSU game was the 1990s). Note my signature.

Hell, we’ll just take a better offer (ala TCU) if it comes along between now and 2013. Hate to sound so jaded, but this type of outlook is a necessity, based on how conference-switching is playing out.

Yes because of the same old arguments which is exposure and money money money. But a No because of how basketball gets the short stick. Basketball is on their way up with Leon Rice (we went to WAC championship last year) The reported conferences would be big west ( 80% California schools) the WAC or the west coastal coference ( because of religious ties they already mentioned they are not interested) so our real options are a dwindling WAC or the big west who mentioned not wanting the travel to Boise Idaho. ……really going back to the WAC I hate to see Leon rice’s expression after hearing that….I feel bad for them.

More money, more recruiting options, and hopefully will be a springboard to a future PAC 16

Oh, and because the MWC blows

The money and the level of competion is much better than what a TCU less MWC can simply offer us. If that mythical Big 12 invite comes to us, we can do what TCU did (chip off the Big East 5$ million and say ‘thx but no thx’) and jump there. We have to be short sighted and try to get the most money and best opportunitites we can get at the moment and hope that something better opens up.

East
Rutgers
UConn
South Florida
Central Florida
Navy
Temple/Villinova

West
Cinncinati
Houston
SMU
Air Force
Loisville
Boise State

I can get into a conference like that.

It’s definitely a no-brainer to get in to a big 6 conference now while you can.

I don’t follow BSU football really so I don’t know who you guys have lined up next for QB, but I can easily see you guys running the table in the Big East for the foreseeable future.

Each year you’ll probably get at most 2 road games that you might be a little worried about. The other half of the road games you guys will be easily favored. Any games played at Boise I don’t see you guys ever being less than a 2-score favorite.

Obviously not the best-case scenario but it is definitely an improvement over MWC:

-Better TV $$$
-Better competition
-East coast exposure
-Better Bowls
-AQ bid (most likely)
-I also really think it will be good for your recruiting in Texas and Florida playing SMU, Houston, UCF, & USF.

Keep winning games, make improvements to your facilities and academics and BSU should continue to climb the ladder and look more desirable come the next wave of expansion.

Boise can’t leave that kind of money on the table end of story.

However, I don’t think Boise was ever in a situation that felt so temporary going into it.

Boise would be added for the 2013 season? As much as I think they’ll go undefeated in the Big East, I’m definitely anxious to see how it pans out. Maybe I’m too used to seeing them pound their conference opponents the past 6 or 7 years that I assume it’ll continue.

L’ville, UCONN, Rutgers, South Florida are very average football teams. Still, facing those teams 4 or 5 weekends in a row should be interesting.

This feels like greed to me. We’ve been successful with what we’ve been doing, so let’s keep at it. I don’t want Boise football to become manipulated by money and turn into some commercialized product. Boise football is about the underdog rattling the cage, representing the little guy, not about becoming part of the establishment. Blegh to everything about this.

It is more frustrating to win most of your games and still not make it to a decent bowl vs losing your games and not making it. This move will definetly give bsu more opportunities and lastly I live on the east coast so will get to see them live more.

Still,

it is silly to have a team from the NW playing in the ‘Big East’ conference.

Not that Boise State is silly. Far from it. Rather, the NCAA and the pig Presidents of the member universities who clearly get payoffs in order to keep this insane ‘Bowl Championship Series’ albatross alive, have created the necessity of a team from the NW playing in a conference like the Big East (the Beast!) in order to hopefully, someday, having a shot at playing in the so-called ‘National Championship’ game (when this year really, truly, should be Boise’s year to do so if the deal wasn’t rigged from the start).

The System is due to implode soon.

When it does, Boise State can give the middle finger to the Big East and return to playing teams from the Pacific and Mountain time zones.

But until that day comes, the only logical choice for y’all is to hold your noses and join that Atlantic Coast conference of basketball and (a few) football teams.

Sorry, folks, but let’s speak heresy here for a moment or two. According to Sagarin, the Big Least is one of the worst of the six AQ conferences. Over the next couple of years, their “best” teams are all bailing for much better AQ conferences. My opinion—ESPN and Fox will very likely NOT negotiate any kind of decent TV contract with the new "conference", the Big East is going to lose its AQ status by 2015, the other AQ conferences will NOT, in fact, extend an invitation to the Broncos, and we’ll still be seen as a pack of peasants who only play cupcake teams.

Hope I’m wrong, but I’m not as sanguine about this move as everyone else.