I am now seeing tweets that say that Boise State is complaining that Utah State. Boise state fans are complaining, that is. Perhaps they are still in denial.
First, two shanked field goals cost them a chance at a BCS bowl game. Then TCU dissents from the Mountain West. And the worst thing that can happen is that they end up in the same conference as Utah State in 2012?
How about a slight dose of reality for Boise State football. Utah State is in basketball what Boise State is in football. Boise state is in basketball what Utah State is in football. The programs are complimentary. Sure, all of the talk in on football, but the conference that hangs its had on storied programs like New Mexico, UNLV, Utah and Wyoming is about to lose two of the more storied of these programs, BYU and Utah. Boise State, Nevada and Fresno State just do not compare. The MWC is about to go from being a 3-4 NCAA bid conference to a 2-3 bid conference...and on the verge of being replaced as the best non-BCS basketball conference by the WCC. Can Bronco basketball do for the MWC what Cougar basketball and Ute basketball has done? I will leave you to answer that yourselves.
There is one program in the west that measures up and also has a football team. That is right, Boise State fans, it is the Utah State Aggies. If you want to know what college basketball should be and can be, spend a Saturday night at the Spectrum in Logan. You will not find a better atmosphere for basketball. It even makes places like Albuquerque and Las Vegas look tame. Now do you understand why the MWC wants to talk to Utah State?
There is more to college athletics than football!
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