Why the 2011 season may be Boise State's best chance at a BCS title for quite some time

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But your point is still valid. It’s a little scary.

It will be interesting to see what happens in 2012. Although it is scary, there is something riveting about the unknown. I think most fans tend to have realistic expectations and the 2012 goal will most likely be the MWC championship as an undefeated season will be unlikely.

Ignorance is bliss. I would prefer to stick my head in the sand and just assume Kellen will come back under an assumed name with a moustache maybe a goatee. Know would be the wiser he would throw right handed they would never figure it out.

The one aspect you haven’t mentioned which is still worth bearing in mind: coaching staff. Players necessarily come and go but a solid coaching staff that stays essentially intact cannot be overlooked.

At least that’s what I’ll be repeating to myself this time next year as I shed salty tears of angst on my pillow each night.

We have been thru transition periods before. What’s the worst case scenario? We finish 10-2 win the Mountain West and still go to a non-humanitarian bowl? Doesn’t sound too bad to me. The ‘07 Tharp season was still respectable by most people’s standards.

I’m a firm believer that the coaching staff is fully aware of the situation that you point out. I, as much as anyone, disliked weekly ritual of pulling starters in the 3rd quarter that happened last year. However, this year, I will be more understandable of the situation since we have to provide more experience to the future starters.

While I would really like KM to put up outstanding stats on his run to the Heisman, I feel it is for the better of the team to allow Southwick & Hedrick to get some reps with first string. As much as I would like to see DM destroy defensive lines, Harper & Co has to get their share of carries. And oh how much I would love to shut out so many teams this year, Bacon, T-A-T, and the crew need to gain experience from start to finish.

I’d like to be in a situation where many 2012 preseason voters say stuff like, “Although Boise State loses many senior starters, the players that will be replacing them have a ton of game experience to carry the torch”. If we end up in the Top 25, then the teams impressive play will carry us back into the Top 10 as voters become more comfortable with the fact that we have reloaded.

Let’s support and not criticize the coaching staff this year if/when we see starters come out of the game early. We’ll be thankful for it come 2012.

but I’m willing to take one season at a time. Many of the current unknowns will be well known by next January. Right now I I’m not hung up on making the NCS game, but making a BCS bowl game—yes! I really wanted to go to the Rose Bowl last season.

I imagine Sam Ukwuachu,Blake Renaud, Jeff Worthy, Matt Miller and even Marcus Rios if he sticks would disagree with your starters for 2012.

Good points Kevin- but Boise does reload quite well especially when you compare our recruits to our conference mates. It is just too difficult to predict how these kids will perform and improve as they become men. We all thought “Who is going to fill the shoes of Ian Johnson?” (l- I’ll take Doug Martin anyday). How do you replace Darren College or Ryan Clady? (Nate Potter has turned out pretty well). How do you replace Marty Tadman and Gerald Alexander. (Jeron and George are a pretty good pair.) Remember when we thought that we would have a nice rebuilding year, but good experience for our freshman quarterback Kellen Moore- we had never won an away game at a BCS opponent until Kellen set foot in Autzen. Now we are saying how do we replace Austin and Titus- well I am just going to trust that someone will step up and we haven’t left the cupboard bare- Kirby, Tyler, and the Burroughs may surprise us. After Kellen- is it possible we will be just as fantastic with a Grant, or Joe under center? It’s hard to imagine, but its possible because the leadership in the coaches office hasn’t changed through the changes on the field.

? I dk about this statement. I mean granted the Broncos have fielded an incredible team the past couple years. BUT and a BIG BUT @ that, is the fact of the Broncos awesome recruiting. It seems atleast to me the Broncos have stepped it up a notch in the recruiting field and are actually anymore getting 4star recruits which 10 years ago they weren’t even touching that kind of talent. I mean I have been a fan for only about 13 years now but in this time I have seen the Broncos mature from a everyday football team that you just barely find on espn scorebox to a football factory that you find everywhere now. I mean the Broncos are becoming a household name especially after the 2005-06 fiesta bowl win over the sooners. I am starting to see a pattern here with the more publicity the Broncos get the obvious occurs where recruits start paying more attention to not only the school but the coaching staff and the prior results that are shown on the field, and most of the time are a HUGE + when the Broncos are tearing it up every year. Thats just my 2 cents tho _

GO BRONCOS!

Boise State fans, a 10-2 one.

And after four or five years, we’re required to let them leave the nest.

I have been associated in many different ways with the BSU programs since 1960.
What I have found through having several ex-football players as close friends, although they are all from various places in the states, they don’t think of Boise as a “nest”. They end up living here and raising families and bringing other family members to the area. They feel Boise is their “home”.
And, damn it…I’m proud they feel that way!