Boise State QB Moore deserves a better ending
By: Jeffrey Tomik | 12/06/11 8:05 PM
Examiner Staff Writer
It’s sad that the illustrious career of Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore will come to an end on Thursday, Dec. 22, in the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas against 6-6 Arizona State.
On top of getting snubbed the opportunity of playing in a BCS bowl game, Moore was left off the list of five finalists for the Heisman Trophy.
The winningest starting quarterback in college football history deserves better.
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Fans & History are biggest losers in Boise State’s BCS Bowl snub
by Darril Fosty
Editor-in-Chief
Boxscore
December 5, 2011
despite being white-washed by Clemson in the ACC Championship game, Virginia Tech still finished #11 in the BCS rankings – four positions higher than the Clemson team that just defeated them Saturday. Such lofty ranking is a testimony to the respect for Coach Beamer’s legacy at Virginia Tech but, unfortunately, not to integrity of the BCS polling system. This is a team that defeated 5-7 East Carolina 17-10 and 3-9 Duke 14-10. It makes one wonder if those two results had been on Boise State’s resume just what kind of effect would it ultimately have on the Broncos’ national perception and rankings?
A look at their schedule this season it is almost impossible to determine if Virginia Tech is actually a Top 20 team let alone BCS worthy one.
IF VT loses to Michigan, can anyone who is not an absolute “homer” declare with any certainty that an 11-3 Hokie team is better than a potential 10-3 BYU team who is currently playing their best football in two years since quarterback Riley Nelson took over the reins? Yes, I guess one can if your underwear is Maroon and Burnt Orange. Mind you, if you are like me, your underwear is already red and brown after pissing blood and crapping yourself after watching the BCS selection show.
Whereas Boise does not have resume like that of LSU, they certainly have a resume worthy of BCS inclusion. This is a team that played eight bowl teams (this compared to VT’s five – six if one counts Clemson twice). Defeating SEC East Champion Georgia, MAC West co-champion Toledo (who lost an unbelievably close 63-60 game with eventual MAC champion Northern Illinois, was cheated out of a victory over Syracuse, and who was 18 yards away from knocking off Ohio State in the Horseshoe), 8-4 Tulsa (whose only losses were to ranked opponents #3 Oklahoma State, #7 Boise, #14 Oklahoma, and #19 Houston), along with bowl bound Nevada, Air Force, San Diego State, Wyoming , and were only a 39 yard missed field goal to #17 TCU from being undefeated. Well, only one conclusion can be made – Boise got screwed.
Of course, unless one subscribes to the Craig James philosophy of college football and you see BSU as the 23rd best team in the country. I could only subscribe to Mr. James’ 23rd place ranking of BSU if, for some reason, I had an axe to grind against the Broncos. Maybe something like, where I felt, the Boise football program was responsible for putting my kid alone into a dark closet for several hours. Short of that, I would just judge them solely based on merit – maybe the Craig James’ of the college world should do the same
Boise’s Kellen Moore is three missed field goals away from being 52-0 as a starter. 52-0. A 38 yard miss against TCU in Boise’s 17-16 Poinsettia Bowl loss in 2008, a 26 yarder against Nevada in 2010, and a 39 yard miss this season against TCU. The record for most consecutive wins is 47 held by Oklahoma’s Bud Wilkinson teams between 1953 and 1957. The best since then is Miami’s 34 game streak between 2000-2003. During each of these steaks OU won two National Championships and Miami played in two (winning one and controversially losing another). As for Boise, no such opportunity has been granted, Moore may not even be called to New York as a Heisman finalist and, to add insult to injury, Boise gets to finish their historic run playing a 6-6 Arizona State team.
Darril Fosty is an award winning documentary filmmaker and co-author of the books: Splendid Is The Sun: The 5,000 Year History of Hockey, Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes 1895-1925, Footie’s Black Book: A Guide To International Association Football (World Cup Soccer 2010 Edition) and author of Apocalypse 2012 Cookbook: An End of the World Survival Guide for the Man, Woman and Family On The Run.
There is much more to this story read all of it here.
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Bowl analysis: TCU, Boise State dealt a lousy hand
By Kevin Lyttle
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Uninspired, pre-arranged matchups create dull postseason.
BCS beast needs to be starved
You want Michigan to get a BCS bowl, but not the team that pounded it on the way to the Big Ten title game (Michigan State). You want a microchip to decide, a month ahead of time, who’s going to play for the national title. You want to therefore turn the bowl season into a series of exhibition games with no weight or relevance whatsoever.
Remember the time Muhammad Ali fought the Japanese wrestler? That’s the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange Bowls now. And you want it that way
I’m talking the power conferences, of course, who decided some years back they needed a way to keep the lion’s share of the bowl money to themselves, and hit on this neat-o/keen-o idea. They don’t care whether you like it or not. They don’t care whether it renders meaningless the very bowls it sees as personal ATMs. They just care that the ATMs keep pumping out greenery.
Along the way, of course, they’ve destroyed what used to be the highlight of the college football season – New Year’s Day. New Year’s Day is pointless now, and would be even if half its bowl games weren’t scattered from here to Jan. 4. It’s all pointless except for the Microchip National Championship game, which features No. 1 LSU vs. barely-No. 2 Alabama, who’ll be reprising their November showdown.
It’s not the most egregious matchup the BCS has shoved down our throats, even if LSU-Oklahoma State would have been more intriguing, and even if Alabama got there by exploiting a schedule thick with .500 SEC schools and the occasional North Texas. And as far as the rematch business goes … well, the NFL has rematches all the time, and I don’t recall anyone squawking about it.
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The BCS stayed true to form |
You have a vote and you determine which team is No. 2 in the BCS standings and will play clear No. 1 LSU in the BCS title game. You have to choose between Team A and Team B.
Team A has the tenth toughest schedule of all FBS team. Team B has the 38th toughest schedule. Throughout the season, Team A defeated five teams who were ranked in the top 25. Team B defeated three such teams.
Team A beat six teams with winning records to Team B’s three.
If you voted for team A, good for you. You got it right. Unfortunately the BCS went with team B.
Once again BCS goes against ‘every game matters’ slogan
SAN ANGELO, Texas — One more year has passed, and one more season provides us with the BCS deciding college football’s championship fate. Another year, and once again the masses will be told we’re all wrong and that the computers and voters for the system are somehow right. It’s gotten so old that I’m not even sure it’s a question of right or wrong anymore. No, this has become a question on the credibility of the sport.
Payouts lacking for Big 12
By Kevin Haskin
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
■ Big 12 schools could have really put that extra coin to good use had Kansas State been invited to the BCS.
■ Not so sure that was much of a factor to K-State officials the way they reacted to the snub.
■ Don’t worry, be happy over the Cotton Bowl bid, advised athletic director John Currie.
■ Of all Big 12 members, Kansas might have been stung the worst from K-State receiving no Sugar.
■ The extra boost could have helped KU with all the money being spent on terminated services.
■ Again, the salary Kansas is willing to pay its next football coach will be an interesting, and telling, dynamic.
No one can argue KSU wasn’t deserving a BCS Bowl, they were. The point the story makes goes more to how the effect of KSU not going hurt all of the schools in the big 12 not just KSU.
Eric Crawford | BCS has the stink of greed
magine this scene. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee meeting room. Everybody has laptops open. The whiteboards are full of teams and “resumes.” The S-curves and “nitty gritty” reports have been examined.
The field is nearly seeded. Then, this suggestion:
“Now look, we all know our numbers say Kansas State and Boise State are ranked in the top 10. Kansas State plays in the top-rated conference, and Boise State beat a Georgia team that played in the SEC championship game by two touchdowns. And I’ll admit that our own ratings don’t even have Michigan and Virginia Tech in the top 10. But listen, the Wolverines and Hokies will sell more tickets and bring more TV ratings, so let’s give them No. 1 seeds instead.”
Ridiculous, right?
College football’s BCS has gone too far
CHICAGO, December 6, 2011 ― Last Sunday night, college football released the schedule for its Bowl Championship Series. The only real game out of all of them was the one whose competitors were pre-determined; four of the ten teams that were invited to college’s big dance have two or three losses. The BCS is in big trouble with anyone north of Louisiana after presenting this line-up of completely senseless garbage.
Colin Cowherd is a no talent hack and should be shunned by college sports fans everywhere.
There are many similar stories across the country; no doubt the Sugar bowl and the BCS really screwed the pooch like on this one. I’m an angry person by nature, well at least I’m coming to that self-opinion anyways, however my professional training always tells me to find the win in every situation and after yesterday and this morning the win I’m finding is the lap dogs no talent hacks that take marching orders are exposing themselves. A couple months ago I started watching colin cowherd aptly named cow herd! My oldest son protested much to me doing so, well after colins rants yesterday and today I very much see he’s a espn lapdog or should I saw attack dog. Not surprising that colin rips on Coach Petersen and Boise State just mere minutes after inking a new 5 year deal, these guys telegraph their every move people they have no shame. So the shame of the BCS has for me any way brought clarity to my future fandom of college football and media persons worth listening to and to summarize, The Hockie fans and program is what I thought they were honorable and honest, Michigan fans are what I had always knew they were smug and dishonest not worthy of anyone’s attention the B1G is no longer an organization I can look to as being honorable but just the opposite they are conniving elitist scum, worthy of being belittled and trash upon. Quite fitting the fat obese Brady Hoke has yet to say a word in just how criminal his match up with V-Tech is a poxy will forever be on him. O there then Herby would cannot be taken seriously because he flip flops more than a presidential candidate during an election year for me seeing those who site quietly is just as powerful as seeing the likes of colin cowherd yap like toy dogs.
Fear not Bronco Nation “Vengeance is mine says the Lord of Host!”
Black Sunday brought us pain, but in the long run those that looked down at us will be the ones that suffer the most. Come February the Utah state Attorney General starts his anti-trust lawsuit.
“I think more will get involved,” Shurtleff says, “as they have a chance to look at what we’re talking about — that this isn’t about bragging rights, it isn’t some kind of frivolous deal, there are serious antitrust violations that are harming taxpayer-funded institutions to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. And the right thing to do, regardless of whether teams in your state benefit, is to go after the antitrust violations … all the way from the Sherman Act through price fixing.”
What u of cowards and the b1g fear most of all is loss of their Rose Bow tie-in’s there mistake was to believe the BCS was their best chance at holding on to these privileges. This latest act of greed and self-ag’grandizingby Michigan and the b1g just may cost them that privilege.
Usatoday article on law suit
Always be careful what you ask for ….
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