Presented by FRANZ WITTE NURSERY. Tuesday, July 28, 2020. We are 10 days away from fall camp and less than 40 days away from the scheduled start of Boise State’s football season. I know what I have planned September 5, and it doesn’t involve being at Albertsons Stadium. I could still cancel, and I hope…… MORE
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SCOTT SLANT: Redemption and extension
Presented by SUPERIOR POOLS OF IDAHO. Monday, July 27, 2020. Two Boise State players with diametrically-opposed finishes to the 2019 season made the watch list Friday for the Maxwell Award that goes to the college player of the year. Hank Bachmeier’s nightmare in the Las Vegas Bowl loss to Washington is seen as an aberration,…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Albertsons Stadium 50th anniversary, Part XVII
Presented by FRANZ WITTE NURSERY. Friday, July 24, 2020. Friday brings me back to my early-bird celebration of Albertsons Stadium’s 50th anniversary—this is my 17th edition. In 2012, the first of the current 12-game series between Boise State and BYU was played on the blue turf, and there’s never been anything quite like it. In…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: 8 All-Mountain Westers
Presented by BBSI. Thursday, July 23, 2020. There are 28 spots on the preseason All-Mountain West teams. Boise State nabbed eight of them. That’s pretty good in a 12-team conference. The league was quarterback-heavy last year, but this season new guys can rise to the top, and the Broncos’ Hank Bachmeier was honored at quarterback.…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The predictable preseason perch
Presented by FRANZ WITTE NURSERY. Wednesday, July 22, 2020. The Mountain Division of the Mountain West is not a surprise. The West Division is six of one—half-dozen of the other. The conference’s preseason poll was released Tuesday, and Boise State received 20 of 21 first-place votes in the Mountain. You could call this habit, as…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The TV monopoly theory
Presented by BBSI. Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Bruce Feldman’s column at The Athletic Saturday sure got me thinkin’. Should the Group of 5 just unilaterally move its season to the spring and take over the football-starved TV airwaves? “It’s becoming more apparent that the gap between the ‘haves’ (Power 5) and the ‘have-nots’ (everyone else…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The Hammond factor
Presented by FRANZ WITTE NURSERY. Monday, July 20, 2020. Air Force is scheduled to play Boise State in Week 2 of the 2020 season in Colorado Springs. The Broncos hope that game is played. The Falcons are looking at life without their star quarterback, as the academy released a statement Saturday that said, “Donald Hammond…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Albertsons Stadium 50th anniversary, Caves edition
Presented by BBSI BOISE. Friday, July 17, 2020. In my Friday early-bird celebration of Albertsons Stadium’s 50th anniversary, I go a different direction on this, Jeff Caves’ final day on Idaho SportsTalk. It was October of 1983, during a 42-0 blanking of Montana State on what was then the green turf. Earlier in the game,…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Anxious for Holani’s encore
Presented by SUPERIOR POOLS OF IDAHO. Thursday, July 16, 2020. One year ago right now, George Holani was going through Boise State summer conditioning and player-run practices as a newly-arrived high school graduate from St. John Bosco in Bellflower, CA. Now, Holani is on the preseason watch list for the Doak Walker Award that goes…… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Boosted expectations for Bachmeier
Presented by BBSI. Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Hank Bachmeier’s to-do list at Boise State is well-documented, beginning with “don’t hang onto the ball too long” and “slide once in a while.” The Davey O’Brien Award Foundation thinks the sophomore quarterback will get it done, as he’s been named to the preseason watch list for that…… MORE
