Presented by BACON. Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Here are some takeaways from Boise State coach Bryan Harsin’s press conference Tuesday. Harsin is profoundly disappointed by the Mountain West decision to postpone football (it didn’t take much to read between those lines), but he and the Broncos have no choice but to roll with it. “At…… MORE
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SCOTT SLANT: And the hits just keep on comin’
Presented by KILLGORE ADVENTURES. Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Every roundhouse right we’ve absorbed this year in the college football world has kind of prepared us for the next one. Slowly but surely it’s sinking in, but there will be no Boise State football in 2020. This came four whole days after the Mountain West unveiled…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: FIPB missing a piece
Presented by CLEARVIEW CLEANING. Monday, August 10, 2020. Who’d a thunk that the MAC would be the first domino in what could be a wholesale shift in the landscape of the college football season the next couple of days? At the very least, the decision by the conference to forego football in the fall and…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Players are feeling empowered
Presented by CLEARVIEW CLEANING. Friday, August 7, 2020. I asked this question just two days ago: “Will it be players who bring down the 2020 season?” The theory is not implausible. A group of Mountain West players has formed #MWUnited. Unlike the the #WeAreUnited group in the Pac-12, the Mountain West faction’s grievances deal exclusively…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The countdown resets now
Presented by SUPERIOR POOLS OF IDAHO. Thursday, August 6, 2020. The Mountain West took a long time to hammer this out yesterday, but the league finally opted for the “8 + 2” model for the 2020 football season, as anticipated. That means eight conference games and two nonconference matchups. Not quite as expected was a…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: One month from today…?
Presented by CLEARVIEW CLEANING. Wednesday, August 5, 2020. The Mountain West will probably announce its plan for the 2020 football season today. My bet is the “8+2” plan, allowing for the usual number of conference games plus two nonconference matchups. That would enable Air Force to keep its games against Army and Navy—and Boise State…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Pitching the tents for camp
Presented by SUPERIOR POOLS OF IDAHO. Tuesday, August 4, 2020. First things first before the NCAA Board of Governors meets today to decide some logistics on the college football season: Boise State fall camp is scheduled to start this Friday. Brad Larrondo, the Broncos’ football “Chief of Staff,” said yesterday on Idaho SportsTalk that fall…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The week that will be
Presented by CLEARVIEW CLEANING. Monday, August 3, 2020. Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said back in April that early July was crunch time for deciding whether the 2020 football season would start on time. We’re about a month beyond that right now. This is crunch week. The NCAA Board of Governors is going to meet…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Broncos-Vandals a decade later?
Presented by SUPERIOR POOLS OF IDAHO. Friday, July 31, 2020. This is purely water cooler talk at this point. But it has been duly noted that both Boise State and Idaho have openings on their football schedules on September 19 now that the Broncos have seen their game against Florida State squashed and the Vandals…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The Florida State shoe drops
Presented by FRANZ WITTE NURSERY. Thursday, July 30, 2020. The Florida State game on September 19 was to be the biggest home matchup in Boise State history. But a cloud has been hanging over it for months. And Wednesday it burst, thanks to the ACC. Teams in that league will be playing only one nonconference…… MORE
