A mini-firestorm erupted on the Boise State campus and in the local papers yesterday when Boise State legend Marty Tadman made a claim in USA Today that student-athletes might choose majors for reasons other than their education value. Start bunching your shorts, Gene Bleymaier.
“I think we all take offense to it,” Bleymaier said. “The implication [...]

The OBNUG Marty Tadman shrine completion date changed to TBD.

Inquiring minds want to know

Yesterday, we joked about including Marty Tadman in the discussion for preseason WAC defensive player of the year. The New Mexico State media? Not joking.
The preseason picks for offensive and defensive players of the year should be announced later today. We voted for Chase Holbrook for offensive player of the year and Boise State’s Marty [...]

Story of the day:

Statue Left not in Steelers playbook [Press-Tribune]

The Pittsburgh Steelers cut former BSU quarterback Jared Zabransky on Wednesday, just five months after picking him up as a free agent. The Steelers’ drafting of former Oregon QB Dennis Dixon spelled Zabransky’s doom. Dixon is a one-of-a-kind clipboard holder.
Now the question is where will “Z” [...]

Congratulations to Marty Tadman on the induction of his Fiesta Bowl performance into the OBNUG Hall of Fame. On a similar note, thanks for nothing, whoever messed with our poll the first time.
The first inductee in the 2008 Hall of Fame class certainly had to earn his way in. After a narrow loss on his [...]

Conspiracy theorists are buzzing…at least those conspiracy theorists who care about Boise State blogs.
Was Marty Tadman’s Hall of Fame vote tampered with? Did a rogue Tadman-hater stuff the ballot box? Did we horribly underestimate Vandal alumni?
When we checked the results on Monday, we were surprised to see that Tadman’s Fiesta Bowl performance had been denied [...]

The people have spoken, and they do not feel the same way we do about Marty Tadman.
Tadman’s Fiesta Bowl performance was the first nominee for the OBNUG Hall of Fame, a shoo-in as far as we were concerned, but he failed to earn the required 70 percent of the vote for induction, falling two percent [...]

Story of the day:

Get rid of the redshirt [ESPN.com]
Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe has proposed a plan to give all college football players five years of eligibility by getting rid of the redshirt. Too little, too late for Marty Tadman, we’re afraid.

Beebe said that college football differs than other sports because of [...]

We are taking this Hall of Fame business pretty seriously. How seriously? Podcast serious!
Behold the first ever OBNUG podcast! Nick and I sat down to dish on Marty Tadman, Fiesta Bowl rankings, and listening to Idaho Sports Talk in hell. We presented the case for the induction of Tadman’s Fiesta Bowl performance (click here for [...]