Anyone who uses the song “Knock a Hater Out” on their highlight video gets an automatic offer to play for Boise State in my book.

This guy is a huge “get” for the Broncos. Getting Ioane last year and then Tuumalo this year should open up a great pipeline of talent from the islands!

It will be good to see some Polamalu hair flying around on the blue.

I believe we have been getting this level of recruit because of all the ESPN exposure. What is going to happen when we go to the Mountain West next year and don’t get any ESPN coverage just like Utah, BYU and TCU?

But I just read that the new 3 star kicker we recuited out of Cali, Matt Goudis, backed out of his verbal and switched to Michigan. He is a great kicker and highly touted recruit and his loss has to be a blow to our recruiting efforts.

I’m sure there are still some very good kickers who haven’t committed whom BSU could go after, either as a scholly player or walk-on with the prospect of gaining a scholarship as did Brotzman. I don’t think any of the current Bronco placekickers can get the job done next year.

 I wonder if the nastiness which Brotzman endured after the Nevda game had anything to do with Goudis looking elsewhere. He probably wasn’t looking forward to getting death threats because of a missed field goal or two. Not that this doesn’t happen elsewhere, but unfortunately the Brotzman situation received an incredible amount of national publicity. Hell, Goudis’ parents may have nixed BSU after seeing what Brotzman endured. If he were my son, I’d certainly have second thoughts about him stepping into all that.

I know some don’t even consider it part of ‘real’ football, but this could easily bite us on the (bw). That kid going to Michigan was bad news. Brotzman’s treatment did play into it, no doubt. I will be looking at the PK, and the wideouts next spring. ‘Who cares about kickers?’ We sould ALL care about the kickers, seasons can be saved/ended by those guys. This is a big deal.