Wake up, Bronco Nation: Boise State football links and things, 1-11-12

few programs do, but Coach Choate was man enough to take the heat. He sure did a great job in everything else about special teams. It was great strength this year – punting, kickoffs and coverage, fakes and stopping fakes, etc. Well done Coach, and good luck with the Pirate.

Wasn’t he at Maryland as a Grad Asst.?

except for the paycheck.

And, we’ll need to see something more substantive from the likes of Harsin and Wilcox.

If Pease, H&W all perform well (i.e. get some rings), then pourfavor will be elevated to “prophetic” status.

But for me this is all still too early to say other than we are now officially getting our shot.

Ain’t never gonna happen. Not unless we move to the NFL… and even then…

Is ultimately a good thing and the sign of a strong program. Coaches want to coach at a program where they see that they can exceed and further their coaching careers and “climb the ladder.” In a perfect world you would only lose a coach to a promotion, ie GA to position coach, position coach to coordinator, coordinator to HC. Not sure what it says about the state of BSU that your coaches are leaving for the same positions at different schools, albeit elite programs such as UT and Floriday. Probably doesn’t say a lot about the overall place of BSU in the national landscape but it does show a tremendous amount of respect for Petersen and his coaching tree. As long as Petersen is there your ship is far from sinking.

Is such a thing available? I just wonder how much of a pay increase these guys are getting for moving laterally but to a bigger program. I agree with you that it sucks for the program to plug so many holes, but a lot of these guys have families and have to plan for the future, especially in an industry where not much is guaranteed. For example, if your program suddenly goes south and your HC gets fired, you’re most likely out on the street looking for a new job.

I’m not saying this has a snowball’s chance in hell of happening at BSU, but just saying I understand chasing bigger dollars to certain extent, just for stability and the well-being of your family.

That’s why I was asking about salary numbers. If someone is going from 75K at BSU to 150K at Florida then I understand and respect that decision, although it sucks for us. If they’re already making 150K here to move up to 300K somewhere else…then it starts to break down in my eyes, assuming that you should be able to comfortably provide for a family (especially in Boise) on 150K a year.

I have no idea what these assistants make, all I know is that it’s substantially less than Coach Pete, which is why I’m asking.

with Burfect gone, Osweiler ditto (not expected) and some major shake ups in everything from coaches to attitude and discipline, the fans probably are in no mood for remembrances of the disaster in Vegas.