Fiesta Bowl

[MajorDad]

"You think you can win on talent alone. Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone!" Herb Brooks to the 1980 US Hockey Team

[dogeatdogworld]

That is right, and if the big guys don't learn the lesson soon, they will continue to loose games like this. I think Stoops was outcoached last night, but I think it was because he wasn't prepared for what he faced because he never had to until last night. He coached better his first few years when he didn't have the talent to coach without originality.

I hope this turns the world of the BCS monopoly upside down.

The running back also stated that Oklahoma did not respect Boise on the field or off. I think this includes coaches as well. I can't help but to think that Boise shocked the daylights out of Stoops with their physical abilities as well as their discipline and execution.

[Soonerdawg]

The running back also stated that Oklahoma did not respect Boise on the field or off. I think this includes coaches as well. I can't help but to think that Boise shocked the daylights out of Stoops with their physical abilities as well as their discipline and execution.

This is the kind of thing I will abstain from talking about.

[sportdawg]

If there is an article in the Shreveport paper, it sure is not a big article, because I just tried to find it and couldn't.

Are we SURE that this actually happened?

It was on page 2 bottom right-hand. Pretty good article, AP feed.

[NathanDarby]

Boise St. last night was BY FAR the most well-prepared, well-coached team I have ever seen play the game of football. Their execution of an imaginative, complex offense was a sight to see. They played fundamentally sound on defense, and they won the battle of the HITTING. They brought the game TO Oklahoma. They played HARD and with immense heart. Stoops was outclassed from start to finish by Boise State's coaching staff. I loved it when I heard Ian Johnson talk about how OU showed them no respect all week, like they were OU's "kid brothers". I am a huge Bronco fan right now!

And Chris Peterson had balls the size of county fair prize-winning pumpkins.

[DocMarvin362]

You DO have TIVO I hope. If not, well.........poor thing!

I did get a Tivo like card for my computer, and am currently setting it up.

I thought that the clock stayed on 1:26 while OU got four plays to tie take the lead. Is that true?

The clock doesn't run on an extra point.

[TECH88]

Boise St. last night was BY FAR the most well-prepared, well-coached team I have ever seen play the game of football. Their execution of an imaginative, complex offense was a sight to see. They played fundamentally sound on defense, and they won the battle of the HITTING. They brought the game TO Oklahoma. They played HARD and with immense heart. Stoops was outclassed from start to finish by Boise State's coaching staff. I loved it when I heard Ian Johnson talk about how OU showed them no respect all week, like they were OU's "kid brothers". I am a huge Bronco fan right now!

And Chris Peterson had balls the size of county fair prize-winning pumpkins.

I completely agree... yet the so-called experts like ESPN's Mark May and Robert Smith still think Boise is a fluke. They went on to say even if we had a playoff that Boise would not have the depth and that Boise wasn't physical enough to make it past one game, so why bother having one? Don't know about you, but it sounds like somebody's scared to play a WAC team.

[Brian96]

Congrats to the Broncos....

Bigger congrats to Ian Johnson and his cheerleader...scores the winning 2 points and then proposes....can't top that.

Ian Johnson proposing to his girlfriend on the field, on national TV afterwards just puts it over the top. We'll talk about this one 50 years from now.

It was like a freakin' movie. Unbelievable game, and great credibility boost for the WAC.

I'm really impressed with how well Johnson managed two very stressful situations at once: playing in the biggest game of BSU's history and knowing he was about to propose to his girlfriend. Good stuff.

[JAB]

I completely agree... yet the so-called experts like ESPN's Mark May and Robert Smith still think Boise is a fluke. They went on to say even if we had a playoff that Boise would not have the depth and that Boise wasn't physical enough to make it past one game, so why bother having one? Don't know about you, but it sounds like somebody's scared to play a WAC team.

That whole excuse is really getting old. It's not like they would play a game at noon and turn around and play at 6. There would be a week in between. And Boise St. did it for how many weeks in a row?
But I still like the arguement that says out of the 66 BCS schools only ONE of them could win 3 weeks in a row. So what's the difference if Boise St. was in there.

[hookdown]

The BCS schools should welcome a 16 team (11 conf champs, 5 best remaining) playoff then. Those that got a non BCS school in the first round would have the equivalent of a bye since everyone knows that the non-BCS schools don't even belong on the same field as the big boys.


As in most things, it is all about the money. The BCS schools simply want as much as they can get plus a little more, and the heck with everyone else.

[markay714]

That whole excuse is really getting old. It's not like they would play a game at noon and turn around and play at 6. There would be a week in between. And Boise St. did it for how many weeks in a row?
But I still like the arguement that says out of the 66 BCS schools only ONE of them could win 3 weeks in a row. So what's the difference if Boise St. was in there.

Its called arrogance. Mark May and pal are supremely that - and supremely wrong. Boise State has proven that at every opportunity!

[johnnylightnin]

Didn't mark may predict that Pitt would be playing in the NC last season? Why does anybody pay any attention to him? He's worse than Trev Alberts...AND THAT'S BAD!

[dogeatdogworld]

Didn't mark may predict that Pitt would be playing in the NC last season? Why does anybody pay any attention to him? He's worse than Trev Alberts...AND THAT'S BAD!

It will be one helluva long time before Pitt is ever a Big East challenger.

[JuBru]

Does ANYONE have a recording in ANY format of the game at all??? I really would like a copy and not end up paying $50 for it, a commerative t-shirt, plaque, subsciptions to magazines I don't read, etc...


Also, saw this and like the read so I figured I would share in case others haven't seen it yet

Behind the Scenes with Boise