Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Scorehead wrote:
When I say no one I mean the top programs, not the low end BCS programs like Miss & Oregon State.
Since the quote was "no one" I will assume that you include Virginia Tech in that group. Therefore, your complaint seems to be that no top five teams would play Boise State.
Your statement should have been "Boise State was unable to schedule a top five team because most of them already had a full schedule or were working with a verbal agreement with another school about a meeting and that those teams didn't feel like breaking contracts to play Boise State". Unfortunately, the fact that a few teams couldn't play them for any number of reasons doesn't really fit into the "Boise State story" that everyone(any by everyone, I mean 5 teams) hates them and is afraid of them.
The funniest part of this thread is that you are complaining about nobody wanting to schedule Boise State and now you are downplaying the 4 nationally ranked teams that would play them last year, this year, and next year. Maybe the NCAA should pass a Scorehead rule stating that whoever wins the national title this year is required to play Boise State next year. Boise State even gets an extra game because you know, the whole problem they have that they filled their schedule with cupcakes besides that one game so they could complain.
Ok. 1 real BCS team out of 12 or so agreed to play Boise State. No one agreed to play them in the future though. The point is that many schools intentionally schedule cupcakes. The Broncos are trying to schedule the top 10 programs, but have no takers. So they will have to be content with continuing to beat the ranked teams that they do play & blowing out the rest of their schedule & then watch the NCAA & BCS clowns try to figure out what to do with them. The Broncos success flies in the face of conventional wisdom that says in order to be successful in the NCAA, a school needs top recruits.
The Broncos have signed zero top 100 recruits, zero 5 star recruits, 3 4 star recruits, & 33 3 star recruits in the last 5 years. They simply do not get top recruits.
Here is Boise States recruiting class rank for the last 5 years per Scout.com;
2011 #60
2010 #97
2009 #60
2008 #64
2007 #57
What they are doing with this level of talent is nothing short of remarkable.
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