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SCOTT SLANT: New heights, again

Presented by the ASHLEY INN OF CASCADE. Thursday, January 14, 2021. Another game without Emmanuel Akot, another rout for Boise State. The Broncos just stayed the course, completing the sweep of Wyoming Wednesday night with a 90-70 win in Laramie to become the first team in school history to start a conference season 8-0. They…MORE

MIKE MOROSKI ON TIM PLOUGH

Prater and Mallory talk to College of Idaho football coach Mike Moroski – a former UC Davis quarterback – who shares his thoughts on new Boise State offensive coordinator Tim Plough. He’s also a former UC Davis QB and has spent the past three seasons as the OC and associate head coach for Dan Hawkins at Davis.MORE

SCOTT SLANT: Up to expectations so far

Presented by RIB SHACK BARBECUE & CATERING. Wednesday, January 13, 2021. Jeff Linder’s assessment of Boise State men’s basketball carries some weight, because the new Wyoming coach was a Broncos assistant the last time the team was this good (in 2015). Linder knows the inner workings of the Boise State program and head coach Leon…MORE

QUINTIN MIKELL ON NEW BSU COACH ANDY AVALOS

Prater and Mallory talk to former Boise State and NFL player Quintin Mikell about his first impressions of new head football coach Andy Avalos 20 years ago – then a young player on the Broncos’ defense. Mikell also touches on the upcoming NFL playoff weekend.MORE

SCOTT SLANT: High-altitude accomplishment

Presented by the ASHLEY INN OF CASCADE. Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Boise State is in rarified air, and we’re not talking Laramie’s elevation. The Broncos set a new school record Monday night by winning their 11th game in a row in an 83-60 victory at Wyoming. They also have a 7-0 Mountain West record, equaling…MORE

DAN HAWKINS ON ANDY AVALOS

DAN HAWKINS ON ANDY AVALOS

Prater and Mallory talk to UC Davis head football coach Dan Hawkins – a former Boise State coach – on new BSU coach Andy Avalos. Hawkins helped recruit Avalos to Boise as a player, and once hired Avalos for his staff at Colorado.MORE

SCOTT SLANT: A home run day

Presented by RIB SHACK BARBECUE & CATERING. Monday, January 11, 2021. There are so many takeaways from Andy Avalos’ introductory press conference Sunday. To me, the first is how genuinely glad he is to be back in Boise. How did he react when he heard Bryan Harsin was off to Auburn? “I had to take…MORE

BLUE TURF SPORTS REPORT WITH B.J. RAINS

Prater and Mallory talk to Boise State reporter B.J. Rains (Idaho Press and BlueTurfSports.com), who broke the story that former Broncos’ star Andy Avalos has been hired to coach the BSU football program. Avalos, pending an official announcement from the university, has been the defensive coordinator at Oregon.MORE

SCOTT SLANT: Connecting the flight dots

Presented by the ASHLEY INN OF CASCADE. Friday, January 8, 2021. It’s only a slightly more exact science than NORAD tracking Santa on Christmas Eve, but flight plans tell us that new Boise State athletic director Jeramiah Dickey visited both Jeff Choate in Bozeman and Andy Avalos in Eugene on Thursday. Oh to be a…MORE

REPORTER MEETS WITH JERAMIAH DICKEY IN BOZEMAN

REPORTER MEETS WITH JERAMIAH DICKEY IN BOZEMAN

Prater and Mallory talk to Bozeman Chronicle sports editor and Montana State football reporter Colton Pool, who met with new Boise State athletic director Jeramiah Dickey in the Bozeman airport Thursday. Dickey was there to interview MSU coach Jeff Choate, followed by a same-day interview with Andy Avalos in Eugene.MORE