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Dec 8, 2006 11:35:04 GMT -5
Post by aggieman007 on Dec 8, 2006 11:35:04 GMT -5
Has anybody on the board spoke w coach Fobbs about the 2007 season and what is his plan next season?
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2007
Dec 8, 2006 12:30:29 GMT -5
Post by Aggie One on Dec 8, 2006 12:30:29 GMT -5
He's on the road recruiting. No one is in the office. Everyone is out making visits. Might be able to get with him during short lull during the Christmas-New Year's week off.
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Dec 11, 2006 13:25:55 GMT -5
Post by aggiejazz on Dec 11, 2006 13:25:55 GMT -5
maybe a little something for encouragement on how to be a successful football program when you are considered small time or not good enough.
Boise State coach, Chris Peterson - "It was that, coupled with my son's experience, that helped me figure out what's really important in life. It's not playing in the biggest stadium I can possibly play in or making as much money as the top coaches out there. It's being in the city that my family really enjoys living in. It's being with great coaches and players, good people. And the last thing is an administration that really wants to keep pushing the envelope and wants you to win."
All the same, Kustra and Boise athletics director Gene Bleymaier were to begin talking this week about reworking a contract that's paying Petersen a little more than $511,000 this year — not the most or even the second-most in the WAC and about one-seventh of the $3.45 million Oklahoma is paying Bob Stoops.
Oklahoma a tough assignment
Of course, any Boise State-to-Oklahoma comparison is difficult.
The Sooners are one of the sport's most storied programs, producing the seven national titles — the most recent in 2000 — four Heisman Trophy winners and 141 All-Americans. Last April, six Sooners went in the NFL draft.
Boise has had six players drafted in the past dozen years.
Consider: OU will spend a projected $13.8 million on football this year, according to the school, or four times more than the $3.4 million Bleymaier says Boise State has budgeted.
The Sooners (11-2) won their fourth Big 12 Conference title last weekend, manhandling Nebraska 21-7 as quarterback Paul Thompson threw for two touchdowns and a peaking defense piled up five turnovers and three quarterback sacks.
They figure to be even stronger in the Fiesta Bowl.
Adrian Peterson, the 2004 Heisman Trophy runner-up and consensus best running back in the nation until he suffered a broken collarbone in mid-October, is nearly healed and likely will be back.
"We just can't be afraid to go down there and fall on our face," says Korey Hall, Boise State's star senior linebacker and the WAC defensive player of the year.
"You've got a hundred years of football tradition vs. Boise State, which just lately kind of jumped in the spotlight. I think the more you start thinking about how big a game this is for our team and our state and all that, the more you start worrying about it. I know, personally, I just try to block all that out, treat it like it's another game. I'm going to prepare like I have all season."
Renown is the payoff
Only once before has a team from outside college football's six power conferences cracked the BCS lineup. That was two years ago, when Utah played in the Fiesta. Under fire and legal threat from Tulane President Scott Cowen and others, the BCS opened up access by lowering the qualifying bar and then expanding from four games to five.
Last year Boise State would have needed a No. 6 finish in the BCS' mathematical rankings to nail down a berth. This season the Broncos had only to finish No. 12 or better. They left no room for doubt, coming in at No. 8.
Forty-nine other schools in five mid- to lower-echelon leagues — Conference USA, the Mountain West, Mid-American and Sun Belt, in addition to the WAC — cheered with them. They had been assured of sharing approximately $9.3 million in BCS revenue. Boise's entry in the Fiesta doubled that. "The new system is doing exactly what we hoped it would," Cowen says, though he'd like still more.
"I think it's unlikely we'll ever get a full playoff of 16 teams," he says. "But even a modified playoff would leave a better feeling in my mind. And I think in most fans' minds out there that a Boise State might have a legitimate shot to work its way into the championship game as an undefeated team."
There's no such grass-is-greener talk at Boise State. Any place on college football's big stage is enough. The school is projecting to make $3 million to $3.5 million from its Fiesta Bowl appearance, most of which Bleymaier says will go toward an upgrade of facilities, but it's not the money that's the thing. It's the legitimacy. Petersen says he and his staff are getting into the living rooms of highly touted high school prospects that once were closed to the Broncos. In the president's office, Kustra points to an interview this week with a candidate for a school vice presidential position. "I know that part of his fascination and interest in us," he says, "is what we've been able to do here in football."
Contributions to the university from alumni and others have boomed with the Broncos' on-field performance, from $6.9 million for the 2003 fiscal year to $18.9 million in 2005 (in the wake of the 11-0 run to the Liberty Bowl) and $15.6 million in '06. Combined undergraduate and graduate student enrollment has grown by 25% since 1996, to a current 18,876. Over the radio, Kustra's confidence spills out.
"I think we have an opportunity to build a dynasty," he says. "And I think we have an opportunity to build a great university alongside the great football team and great football successes that we've had here."
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Dec 11, 2006 13:29:35 GMT -5
Post by aggiejazz on Dec 11, 2006 13:29:35 GMT -5
Could A&T be as successful as Boise State if A&T doubled its current football budget to match that of Boise State?
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Dec 11, 2006 14:14:46 GMT -5
Post by DOOMS on Dec 11, 2006 14:14:46 GMT -5
Naw man. But we could be as successful as Youngstown State.
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Dec 11, 2006 20:26:39 GMT -5
Post by truthseeker on Dec 11, 2006 20:26:39 GMT -5
That is a very good article JAZZ!!! It shows that a lot can be done with little if you have the right leadership!! Our leaders have to big of egos for us to be that successful---- it's absolutely beneath them to ask a coach his opinion especially one they don't like. When you have the superior than thou attitude it's impossible for something like whats taking place at Boise to happen here. How can something like that happen here when your leaders are too busy lableling coaches genetically inferior. Maybe Hitler could be a respected coach here!!
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Dec 12, 2006 5:07:10 GMT -5
Post by B on Dec 12, 2006 5:07:10 GMT -5
"genetically inferior" What are you talking about? Who said that?
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Dec 14, 2006 20:34:36 GMT -5
Post by truthseeker on Dec 14, 2006 20:34:36 GMT -5
Re: 2007 « Reply #6 on Dec 12, 2006, 5:07am »
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QUOTE: B "genetically inferior"
"What are you talking about? Who said that?"
If you go to the "Coaching Search At SFA" thread and checkout THRILLA'S response to AGGIEJAZZ you'll see where that came from.
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