Compairable to playing Troy. A game we should win but if we didn’t….ouch! If we win, well thats to be expected. If we loose there goes the season. Theres just not enough glory for the win. On the other hand, props to any school willing to shut their trap.

….would be awesome, but I doubt it will happen. We already have our marquee game with Penn State that season.

like Ole Miss, whose coach used to be the head coach at Boise State. That would be interesting. And since it’s Ole Miss, nobody would think anything about it if they lose!

Southern Miss than those smurfs.

I’d rather play Southern Miss, Troy or anyone else other than Boise St. CNS is not afraid to play anyone, ie: Clemson & Virginia Tech, but why play someone that will not really be advantage in recruiting or the national picture. The only advantage is for Boise, so I think we’ll pass.

(and I won’t be sharing the title of that one)

Great for your CV, not so fabulous for mine.

Seriously, this only benefits BSU. If the Broncos played in a place that were a font of talent, say Texas or California, I think that phone would be ringing pretty quickly. But it’s not like we recruit against Wazzou or Oregon State.

there’s something wrong with tide fans if they think playing (and possibly beating) a top ten team doesn’t benefit their program. it seems to me it’s just another lame rationalization to keep playing out-of-conference creampuffs. it’s the typical bcs attitude of ’what’s in it for me’ that is stifling competition, limiting college football from achieving across-the-board parity and eliminating the good ole boy bowl system that keeps lining the pockets of the elite schools and the bottom tier schools in their conferences that are obviously teams that don’t compete on the level of tcu, bsu, utah, byu, fresno st or nevada.

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…to schedule what could be an awesome game? BSU would benefit if they were to win, and they might even benefit from exposure long-term in a loss. But who cares? Like many have commented, we don’t compete with Boise State for recruits or really anything. If Boise State benefits, it has no effect on us. Like with any other game, the only thing that would matter is whether we win or not. And this game would be exciting. Also, it would give Boise State an opportunity to prove themselves. This is a good thing in my view. It gives them a fairer shot at reaching a national championship, because they’d actually have to earn it. It wouldn’t help us as much as, say, Notre Dame, who are almost always overrated, but it would help us enough (beating a highly ranked opponent/getting credit for having the guts to schedule them), and I don’t believe it would cause any harm.

when Alabama and southern football in general were deemed inferior, and they wouldn’t allow us to play in the Rose Bowl. Finally, in the ‘20s, they did. We were ridiculed before the game by practically everybody, but what was the result? Our first of twelve national championships. The beginning of our great tradition. When Notre Dame played for the tie against Michigan State in ’66, and thus stole what should’ve been our third consecutive title, Bear Bryant offered to play Notre Dame and Michigan State after the season to settle the debate as to who was really the best. Nobody thought they would take him up on it, of course, and they didn’t. But what if they had? Notre Dame fans would’ve been proud of their team’s courage, and I personally would respect them infinitely today, regardless of the outcome. But it didn’t benefit them, so they didn’t do it. So my question is: Do we want to be like the establishment of the early 1900s who held us down, assuming us to be inferior? Do we want to be like Notre Dame? I understand we’re not obligated to do it, but scheduling Boise State would be like passing the torch. We’d give them a shot to prove themselves, which is not much to ask. When somebody challenges us, we should answer—maybe not in 2011 when the schedule is already difficult, but soon in the future. We have the opportunity to be champions of the underdog, which we once were until we finally got our shot. And finally, despite what anyone says, this would help recruiting. It’s a marquee game—as long as we win during primetime, we’ll win some recruits over.

crimsontsunami….You have some points, albeit philosophical in nature, I still agree with your points in principle….However, I believe everyone has to earn their stripes, so to speak. So why doesn’t Boise try to land some good mid-level teams? Cincy, So. Florida, TCU, etc. I like what Saban is doing—we’ll land FAR MORE recruits playing Penn St, Notre Dame, USC and others in prime time than ANY game with Boise. We played two highly ranked (at least at the time) ACC schools in the last two years, and have landed some big recruits from that area. Coach Bryant was the same….Play USC, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Penn St and others during the regular season. When you’re a powerhouse school, you should be playing a powerhouse schedule. However, if Saban wanted to make a really powerful statement, take the 2011 game and STILL play Penn St.

Boise State for us. We play in a tough conference. Winning the SEC is our first goal, so playing too many tough out of conference games only hurts this goal. Sorry, Boise State, but no coach in his right mind is going to put satisfying the fans ahead of doing what’s best for his team. Playing Virginia Tech in Atlanta benefits recruiting. Playing Penn State does the same. Even if we picked up Boise State as our top OOC game, what benefit would we see in recruiting? They take two and three star guys who are under the radar and they develop them. That’s a testament to their system and coaching staff.

The thing is, they play an extremely easy schedule. They basically have nine or ten easy games every year. They can put all of their energy and focus into preparing for one or two opponents (like Oregon or Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl). They beat Oklahoma, but they weren’t better than Oklahoma. If they want more respect they should join a better conference or schedule more games against teams like Utah and TCU. They should also schedule a game against a big time team, such as Oregon. We already have Penn State on the schedule, not to mention our SEC schedule. Boise State should join the Pac-10. If they do that, they’ll be lucky to win seven games a year because it’s not about getting up once or twice, it’s about surviving in a tougher conference as the chinks accumulate.

but what the hell. let’s play em @ the DeathStar in dallas to open up a season, i kinda like what crimson tsunami said. we did have to go through the same shit as bsu is going through now (but we played better teams then compared to who they’re playing now) i think if there’s one mid major team who deserves some credibility it’s bsu and utah really, they’re 3-0 in BCS games and bsu has the most wins this decade of any d1-a team. to be fair, the onus is on them to make noise and get it done when it comes to strengthening their regular season schedules, but it looks like that is what they are doing. now they just need a couple programs to man up and take their offer. i’d be kinda proud if it was us…. (i’d still be WAAAAYYYY more excited to see us schedule a game vs USC, ND, Michigan, Miami, or Tejas though)

Thanks for the talk, it’s great to see informed fans perspective and hear so many considerate and objective view points.

Y’all are great fans and a pure joy to associate with, thanks.