In the waiting game for the 2017 football season to start, we’re definitely in the the Dog Days. To bide the time, ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach and Mark McGee have “100 reasons we can’t wait for college football to come back.”
Starting to thumb through the magazines
The college football magazines are already starting to trickle out. The venerable Street & Smith’s, faded but not forgotten, has its Mountain West picks assembled.
A positive microscope for Mason Hampton
“Watch list season” is upon us, and Boise State’s Mason Hampton is included out of the gate on the spring watch list for the Rimington Trophy that goes to the nation’s top center.
It’s not just dollars the Group of 5 lacks
Everybody talks about the growing money gap between Power 5 and Group of 5 conferences. And that’s a very real concern moving forward. But there’s another issue that goes hand-in-hand: an exposure gap.
Can one player foster a rivalry?
There were two powerhouse games on Boise State’s home schedule last year, Washington State and BYU, both resulting in close Bronco victories. Some have bemoaned the lack of a marquee opponent on this year’s blue turf slate.
Paris Austin and the proliferance of transfers
The major professional sports have their free agent market. In the past few years, college basketball has caught the fever big-time with its own free agent pool: transfers.
Bobby Dye hits the big 8-0
I did not want this to go by unnoticed. Former Boise State men’s basketball coach Bobby Dye, happily retired in Carlsbad, CA, for more than 15 years—and reportedly healthy—turns 80 years old today.
Bad hoops news—then good hoops news
(TOM SCOTT’S COLUMN WILL RETURN TUESDAY.) First, the good out of the Boise State men’s basketball team: Chandler Hutchison has decided to return to the Broncos for his senior season. Hutchison officially withdrew his name from the NBA Draft pool yesterday, a positive on the heels of some news that came earlier in the day.
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl catches a break
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl gets an afternoon kickoff this year—on a Friday—set for December 22 at 2 p.m. at Albertsons Stadium. That should be a relatively easy afternoon to take off from work, heading into Christmas weekend as it is.
Climbing the rungs with reckless abandon
Gregg Rosenthal, editor of “Around The NFL” at NFL.com, has compiled a re-rank of the running backs taken in the 2015 NFL Draft, based on performance the past two seasons.