Boise State and Big East is a marriage made in heaven

Boise State and the Big East Conference!

It's a match made in heaven. What are you waiting for. This is the perfect marriage!

Boise State's record over recent years and BCS ranking will save the Big East and allow it to hold onto its Automatic Qualifying status.

In return Boise State won't have to beat teams by 50 points and go undefeated to get into a BCS bowl and have virtually no chance for the BCS title game.

Why would either side turn this down. The Big East only needs Boise State as a football school. This is perfect unless there is something we don't know.

Are the Broncos afraid of playing West Virginia, Cincinnati, South Florida, Rutgers, Louisville and Connecticut every year. No offense to the Mountain West, but overall these are better teams than what the league has now.

Get this done. It's a no brainer. The only thing that would ruin this deal is if the BCS changed its qualification rules to be an AQ and that is unlikely. Lawsuits would be flying all over the country and those guys don't want that. They make too much money.

Even if Louisville bolts for another conference as reported there are enough BCS points among Boise State, West Virginia and Cincinnati for the Big East to remain ahead of the current non AQ conferences.

So get it done. Boise State-Big East. It's the perfect marriage!

Boise State could save Big East and USF football

It looks as if the presidents of the remaining Big East Conference football schools are improving their math skills.

The announcement today that the Big East would go after Boise State in its search for more football teams is sure to get the adrenalin going for the University of South Florida and the other five remaining football members.

Unless the BCS changes its evaluation rules, Boise State could just about guarantee the Big East would remain a BCS conference___And that's what everybody wants.

The Big East should go after Boise State with every carrot it can dangle. There are reports that Colorado based Air Force would be invited, which gives the Broncos at least one team in close proximity.

The Big East needs to make this deal and use its best selling point,which is a ticket to the BCS championship.

Boise State, the little engine that could, wants to be in a BCS conference and if the Broncos joined the Big East and the current football schools (minus Pittsburgh and Syracuse) remain this could happen.

Sources in the Big East say the conference is going hard after Boise State, Air Force and Navy along with UCF and Temple. If Louisville stays and one more is added it would give the conference 12 teams and a conference championship game, which means more money.

The Big East needs to make Boise State an offer it can't refuse and it's all there. There is the New York TV market provided by Rutgers, the Philadelphia market that Temple, which is also being considered, could bring___not to mention Florida. There is a Big East championship game.

If Louisville bolts to the Big 12 get another team; there are plenty of them around including East Carolina, undefeated Houston and up and coming SMU knocking on the door. If you get desperate there is always Villanova, already in Big East basketball juggernaut, but a woeful 1-5 FCS (I-AA) team this season.

Boise State is the key. Get the Broncos and the Big East should remain a BCS automatic qualifier. If the Broncos join the rest should be easy. Arguably the football conference will be stronger with Boise State, Air Force, Navy, Temple and UCF.

Big East officials need to be aggressive and go after what they want instead of sitting back and waiting for things to happen.

Boise State can make it happen. Heck pay their plane fare to come east and play if you have to. We are talking life or death.

Is Boise State the country's most over-rated team?

Now that the bowl season is over a clear picture is emerging on who might be the most over-rated team in the country.

Sorry to all those small school non automatic qualifiers, but Boise State, once a fan favorite, might have earned most over-rated tag among those ranked in the top 10 of the Coaches and AP polls.

Consider the facts: Boise State’s two biggest arguments that it should be a top tier team is that it defeated Virginia Tech and beat many of its Western Athletic Conference opponents by lopsided scores.

But those two arguments look soft now that the final results are in raising questions about the Broncos finishing seventh in the final USA Today Coaches Poll and ninth in the AP poll.

The criticism of voters is that they look too much at records and not enough at strength of schedule. If they had it seems unlikely Boise State would’ve finished in the top 10.

Stanford lambasted Virginia Tech 40-12 in the Orange Bowl exposing the Atlantic Coast Conference for being as weak as so many people have said.

Additionally, it turns out that some the better WAC teams (Hawaii and Fresno State) make good cannon fodder. And Boise State lost to Nevada, the conference’s only so called legit opponent.

Tulsa from Conference USA blasted Hawaii 62-35 while Northern Illinois from the much maligned Mid-American Conference had its way with Fresno State in a 40-17 victory.

Boise State had to come from behind to barely squeak by Virginia Tech 33-30 and lost to Nevada 34-31. In rolling up lopsided victories over Fresno State and Hawaii, the Broncos didn’t do anything different than Tulsa and Northern Illinois, which can’t even get a look from the pollsters.

And Boise State’s 26-3 bowl victory over Utah wasn’t much different than the 28-3 beating the Utes took from Notre Dame (28-3) not to mention their 47-7 thrashing by TCU.

So what was Boise’s biggest accomplishment this season? ____Its win over Virginia Tech?

Barely beating a Virginia Tech team that lost to I-AA James Madison and got trounced by Pac 10 Stanford should not get you a spot in the top 10 if there is nothing else on your resume.

Boise State interested in Jared Williams

One day after he was approved to participate in the FHSAA football playoffs, Jared Williams had one of the most important phone calls of his life.

The Southeast High running back had a conversation with the coaching staff at Boise State, which had been keeping an eye on him and liked what it saw.

After feeling satisfied that there was mutual interest, a member of the coaching staff told Williams they would work on trying to get him an official visit to the school.

For his part, Williams hopes that might be awhile. It’s not because of lack of interest in the Broncos. He just hopes Southeast can make a deep run into the playoffs.

Williams has a lot on his plate. He has also been offered by West Virginia, Iowa State and FIU and there figures to be more suitors if he does well in the playoffs.

Following his transfer to Southeast from Bradenton Prep, the senior didn’t receive approval to play until the ninth game of the regular season.

Williams said he was interested in Boise State and likes what he knows about the
Broncos, who are ranked fourth in the BCS standings and have a chance of going to the BCS championship game.