ORANGE JACKET GUY: THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS YOU JUST DON’T DO

Greetings, Bronco Nation, from The Office of Orange Jacket Guy; it is again a distinct honor to write to you. I am deeply sorry for my long absence. A lot of recent things have happened and I’m ready to hand out some righteous indignation.

So what finally set me off and made me angry enough to write was the deplorable situation with the promising new recruit Antoine Turner. You all know what it is, and a good portion of you know roughly how we got there. However, just to recap, it’s worth mentioning that the NCAA not only has very restrictive rules but has been up Boise State’s Football program’s backside FOR YEARS. They even were contentious enough to hand out punishments over a guy sleeping on a couch and a one-time lunch purchase. The reason why that got started was (as a lot of us remember) was a disgruntled Assistant Coach in the Tennis program named Tiffany Coll who very clearly sought to do damage to BSU. She got her wish and somehow got out of some rather suspicious things around her. The end result being NCAA scrutinizing all of BSU athletics, and since recent years have been good for the Football program, all kinds of pain have been brought, and the SLIGHTEST of infractions, including bending a couple of rules so that a kid doesn’t live on the street, will be penalized. How could you, NCAA, allow things to get to this point. You just don’t do that!

All this because an assistant coach got butthurt. That woman should be ashamed of herself. Incidentally, all of Alabama’s recruits and most of LSU’s have all been declared “homeless and in dire need”.

Another issue that contributed to my anger was the big Collegiate joke called the University of Idaho. The very last argument or piece of ire that they had against anyone else in the region just went out the window (pun intended) very recently. Apparently people forgot what I was saying for years: the academic argument in favor of dUI is a false and very inaccurate one. Not only has the NCAA agreed with me for some time now, but doubled-down on it when the last appeal of dUI’s punishments was struck down. Just like that, for a few days up there in Moscow, ID, the term “APR” became the most googled. These kinds of things just simply DON’T happen to any University trying to claim the title of “Flagship.” And really, with everything involved in this tied their severe alcohol culture, did they expect anything else to happen? I mean, come on, if we easily had multiple Vandals defend the image right there as the legitimate way to spell “University”, what business did they have calling anyone a rival? I’ve said it before about dUI and I’ll say it again: the need to feel superior shows a lack of intelligence anyways; the football will continue to be in decline, the school will continue to suck, and the academics are little more than self-serving superiority complexes.

On a related note, I am not the only Bronco fan to have noticed the anonymous awesome dude with a Russian word for a name trolling dUI’s online paper The Argonaut. Whoever you are, if you are even one of us, if you are reading this, please stop. Believe me dude, you’re funny, you’re right, you’re awesome, and they deserve any grief you throw their way. But we’re Broncos and we’re better than that. Please just stop and let them wallow in their own self-pity.

Here comes the part that I’ve been dreading since before the Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl. A man that I idolized for a long time not only left us but did damage on the way out. I have serious misgivings about him now. Chris Petersen won his way into our favor and our hearts with the happy years forged by his hands. That is what makes the whole situation shocking and demoralizing. I get that he had a career. I get that he wasn’t going to be with Boise State forever. I get that there might have been a better job somewhere along the way. However I completely reject the notion that he was a good and honest man in the way that he left. And believe me, the way that he left had more buildup than just a creepy and clandestine meeting in an airport motel. Take a look at the post-Moore games. It’s clear he was letting things happen. Bad things. Pretty much every incompetent thing Robert Prince did on the field was allowed and with the purpose of an exit. A good man does not actively gut his former team like Chris Petersen did. A good man does not leave in the dead of night and barely say a word to his fans like he did. You just don’t do that. He even had the gall to steal the recruits that he got with Boise State time and resources. He is little more than an opportunistic Judas that sought to hurt what he created. I would pity him, but he deserves every last burn and char he gets when UW chucks him to the side of the road.

On to the next bit, and given that Star Wars day was recently here and gone, I believe that I said that the last season was more of an Episode V than Episode III. I was wrong. It very well may be that we have a situation comparable to several years of dark side before a new hope comes. Help us Bryan Harsin, you’re our only hope.

If we are to keep our traditions and our culture and our presence in college football, then we must rally around Coach Bryan Harsin. We must do as the words he gave us tell us to do: Attack The Future!

And with that, as I now painfully contemplate how much the previous coach was a part of my writings. Until next time, Bronco Nation, Attack The Future.