At his press conference last week, Boise State coach Bryan Harsin was asked if any captain candidates were emerging during spring football. While Harsin did say it was too early to speculate on 2017 captains, he did rattle off a list of leadership guys.
Weaving some common threads
As big a stage as University of Phoenix Stadium was for Boise State football in its first Fiesta Bowl appearance in January of 2007, it still did not compare to what Gonzaga was looking at last night in the NCAA Tournament championship game.
Quarterback math for the future
There’s not much to make of Boise State’s second scrimmage of spring football Saturday. It was kind of a dress rehearsal for this Saturday’s Blue & Orange Game (full disclosure: I wasn’t there).
Time’s a-wastin’ at the wide receiver spot
The past few years, we always focused on who would make up Boise State’s “second wave” of wide receivers behind some combination of Matt Miller, Shane Williams-Rhodes, Thomas Sperbeck, Chaz Anderson and Cedrick Wilson.
How many Bronco names will be called?
Will Jeremy McNichols be the only Boise State player drafted a month from now? Does Tanner Vallejo have a chance to join him?
Rathen Ricedorff’s effect on Rypien, etc.
When Rathen Ricedorff committed to Boise State in December—and was named a first-team junior college All-America quarterback a few days later—we wondered what his role would be, really.
UNLV shouldn’t be poppin’ that bubbly
The natural spin at UNLV today is that the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas is the best thing that could have happened for the Rebels. The Mountain West program will get to play in a shiny new $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed stadium, probably in 2020.
The third prong in the backfield mix
As Boise State re-starts spring football today following spring break, let’s make one more stop in the running backs’ room.
Now that it’s over
Boise State followed two of its best road halves of the season (the second at Utah and the first at Illinois) with its absolute worst. And that’s the way the season ended Monday night in the loss to the Fighting Illini. But that doesn’t take away from an overachieving season.
What to make of the Broncos’ big men?
Boise State’s chances at Illinois in the second round of the NIT Monday night rest on Chandler Hutchison dealing with a lot of attention from Illini defenders—and how many inside guys the Broncos go to battle with.