It was a very cool 50th anniversary celebration for KBOI’s Paul J. Schneider yesterday.
Lead story: a small picture and big picture
We continue to bide our time until college football rolls around. ESPN.com included. The lead story yesterday on its NCAA Football homepage was, “Who is the biggest opposing headache for each Top 25 team?”
Is Demarcus Boise State’s top NFL defender?
Boise State has a lot of players in the NFL these days. While Jay Ajayi and Doug Martin stand out among guys on offense, there’s not a clear leader among former Broncos on NFL defenses.
September 2? Afternoon? We’ll take it
Boise State hasn’t played an afternoon game on the blue turf since September 7, 2013. Just about four years later, there will be another. It may be Labor Day weekend, it may be 90 degrees, but it’s at 1:45 p.m.
It might be a “remember me” year for Rypien
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.”
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.
Two individual ex-Broncos move on
It was almost 15 months ago that Dereck Boles and Chanceller James got into a fight at a house party—the result being James losing part of his ear and Boles being booted from the Boise State squad and charged with felony mayhem (he was found not guilty last month).
Cowboys fans wait…and some of ‘em worry
NFL writers—and bloggers on fan sites—bide their time in May and June with breakdowns of their teams’ post-draft 53-man rosters. We know what the Dallas depth chart looks like at quarterback: Dak Prescott and Kellen Moore. Period.
Montell Cozart—a bigger Rathen Ricedorff
Jake Constantine may very well be the answer as Brett Rypien’s backup quarterback for Boise State this year, but that position demands depth. With Rathen Ricedorff gone, enter Montell Cozart, a graduate transfer from the University of Kansas.