Nobody wants to put Boise State on their schedule.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-boise110709
RUSTON, La. – Is it cowardice or collusion?
Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier is all but begging for a major opponent – any major opponent – to play his Broncos, particularly in 2011. He can hardly get his calls returned. Not by the SEC. Not by the Big Ten. Not by anyone.
Bleymaier is making a nearly unheard of offer in college football scheduling – Boise will bring its popular, high-profile, top-10 team to any stadium in any town to play any big name team in America in 2011. And they don’t have to return the date in Idaho.
So far, no one has bit.
The school acknowledges it needs to play tougher teams. Yet how can they beat quality opponents if quality opponents won’t play them?
SEC Schedules are made 3 years in advance. That may explain the refusals. So if Boise wants to play them in 2014, maybe something can be worked out.
SEC Schedules are made 3 years in advance. That may explain the refusals. So if Boise wants to play them in 2014, maybe something can be worked out.
Boise can’t have it both ways. Bobby Bowden built FSU by playing “anyone, anywhere, anytime” but they won’t do it. They won’t accept 2 for 1s or one off games.
I would have to find the source, but I believe I heard the AD at one of the big SEC schools say they offered Boise a million for one game and they were turned down.
Boise cannot sit in their 30-40k stadium and expect 1 for 1 home and homes with big schools.
Boise is spinning....if you notice they ALWAYS have a lot of time before their “big games”...to get injuries healed and to have time to prepare.
If they had to play Alabama’s schedule, the attrition would get them by the second half of the schedule.
In a one off game, sure they could win, but they couldn’t play Penn St, Florida, Arkansas, S. Carolina, LSU, Tennessee, Miss St, Auburn etc week after week because they don’t have the depth to survive.
And they won’t take the games to prove that theory wrong.
Too bad Boise....too bad. Man up and play somebody.
http://www.tidesports.com/article/20100924/NEWS/100929812
Boise has not contacted Alabama as of Sept. 23rd.