IDAHO POTATO FIGHT! BOISE STATE FAILS PIMP CLASS
by Spencer Hall on Jul 27, 2010 5:32 PM EDT
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Manalive, threre's nothing funnier than stumbling into a rivalry five hundred times more bitter than you thought it was, especially when all that bitterness is getting a thorough public airing. Boise State and Idaho were talking about whether to play their rivalry game. They were going to get barbecue, too, but then someone had to mention how their kid was ahead in their reading class, and then a disparaging remark was made about the cole slaw, and suddenly there was blood, and an ambulance, and holy shit this quaint family get-together got way out of hand.
(Funeral is on Wednesday. Pardon us: funerals. Aunt Merlene died of her injuries in the hospital. One never thought a corn holder could do such damage, but reality has proved us wrong again.)
Chris Petersen, as mentioned in the Index this morning, opened up festivities with some remarks, but it's Boise State's President Bob Kustra who soberly extinguished the flames HAHAHAH WE KID HE THREW A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL ON THE BUFFET TRAY AND BURNED THE WEDDING RECEPTION DOWN:
"This is a great example of why my wife and I no longer travel to Moscow games,'' Kustra said. "It's a culture that is nasty, inebriated and civilly doesn't give our fans the respect that any fan should expect when visiting an away team. ...
We thought we liked Idaho for some reason. Nasty and inebriated is generally how we like our sports fans, our pets, and our bush pilots. (<----not a euphemism, but should be.)
I don't think at Boise State you're going to find that, so for me personally, when I read what Pete said I knew, I knew. "For me, this is not about football. For me, this is a cultural issue.
They are called the Vandals, no? And have a coach with a homicidal game warden's mustache and sons named Jack and Daniel? And live in Moscow, Idaho, where we children wrestle grizzly bears not because they are so uncivilized that they allow them to wander into town, but rather because they don't have many people, and thus need to employ them as gym teachers in public schools? (And damn fine ones, says the Teachers' Union of Idaho.)
It's about fans having to learn how to treat other fans and universities. What bothers me more than anything else, is that the fans are not about denigrating our athletic program. ... What bothers me personally is the denigration of our academic programming.
"But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored in yet." Neeeeeeeext.
That's what I simply can't tolerate. "I've seen rivalries all over America, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Texas-Texas A&M, Kansas-Kansas State, but you can go inside those rivalries and you'll find all kinds of slams and digs and whatever, but I've never seen the nastiness aimed at the quality of our academic program that I find here in Idaho from the University of Idaho Vandals and as long as that goes on, why would I want to encourage a game where people don't know how to act like grownups?''
Pimpin' is a theme of late, and should be invoked here to say that an icy mack would have said, "We're going to play in the Mountain West Conference" and then immediately mentioned everything enviable and shiny about Boise State football. Instead, you get someone giving free oxygen to their rival by complaining about their lack of civility, most likely while daintily emphasizing points while tapping his teacup with the correct sugar spoon while minding his lacy sleeve lest he dip into the blouse-staining tea.
That's idaho: you save your diss tracks for TCU and Utah now. Until you do, your pimp quotient equals zero, Bob Kustra. Even Jim Delany talks better trash than that, and he's horrible at it.
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TEAM AKEY.
[arms folded]
[stern look west]
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Jul 27, 2010 5:33 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
if you join team akey
you will also be joining such illustrious figures as:
-Steve McQueen
-Schnellenstache
-Wolfdragonbearshark
-The dude from Men’s Wearhouse Commercials
Boise, meanwhile, has this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMzN78hrBEE
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE?!
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by THETexasStateUniversity on Jul 28, 2010 2:32 AM EDT up reply actions
All that he suceeded in doing
is making me really, really want to go to a game at the Kibbie Dome.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 27, 2010 5:37 PM EDT reply actions
Absolutely
That entire diatribe should have had a BITCH MENTALITY watermark.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Jul 27, 2010 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions
If he thinks Moscow is bad
What would he say if he ever went to the Swamp? Neyland at night? Jerdin Hahr?
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 27, 2010 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions
are you referencing the drunkenness?
or the tin-can “stadium”?
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
Yeah...
but the SEC fans tend to be absurdly nice to OOC opponents(while secretly making fun of them later). That guy would really need to take in an SEC rivalry game while wearing the road team’s colors to get the full experience.
been there
done that. It actually wasn’t too bad. A few random people said stuff, but overall I think the fact that Tennessee lost by 24 helped. Most of the “fans” were gone by halftime. I’ve done it several times. I always cheer for the opposing team when I am at Neyland. Also. if the team you are cheering for wins, at least in my experience, the fans of the opposing team are a lot less douchier than if you lose.
by Ihavenofriendzz on Jul 28, 2010 5:57 AM EDT up reply actions
BYU on the road
in Tuscaloosa afternoon/evening game for the reopening of BDS 1999. Not a very good day to be Mormon.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 28, 2010 8:47 AM EDT up reply actions
You wont catch me
anywhere near Death Valley. Colors be damned.
by SEC Supremacist on Jul 28, 2010 9:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Chicken
Worst you’ll get is a pot of frying oil, I swear
Managing Editor/Chief Lackey-And The Valley Shook
I've been to both Neyland and the Kibbie Dome
Idaho fans are by far much more infantile and crass. The drunkeness I can deal with, but the absolute morons you run into are annoying, like a swarm of flies; they are harmless but you really want to slap the shit out of them.
Boise State - The best in all the land (The "land" being Idaho, and large parts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.) Now also including Fort Worth, TX and coming soon this fall, Washington D.C.!
is making me really, really want to go to a game at the Kibbie Dome.
Make sure your tetanus shots are up-to-date.
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Summing up . . .
Moscow is “nasty, inebriated and civilly doesn’t give our fans the respect . . . .”
Vladimir Putin approves and would like to renew the sister-city contract.
by DevilGrad on Jul 27, 2010 5:40 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
BTW, following the “methinks the lady doth protest too much” model, now I’m curious: Is Boise State just a glorified high school?
Perhaps this should explain it
For High School graduates under 21 (emphasis supplied), the admissions office states
For instance, if your GPA is 3.0 and your highest ACT composite score is 22, you are an excellent candidate for admission.
For those HS grads over 21?
If you graduated from high school in 1989 or later and earned at least a 2.0 cumulative high school grade point average (GPA), you will be considered for general admission. In addition, you must have completed all courses in the Idaho College Admission Core. If you did not complete all core classes, you will be considered for provisional admission.
Lastly, for the (very large) homeschooled Idaho population or unaccredited high schoolers
If you graduated from an unaccredited high school or home school program and did not complete a GED, you will be considered for provisional admission with an ACT composite score of at least 17 or SAT combined Math and Critical Reading score of at least 830 and the following minimum scores on the full COMPASS exam – 46 on Algebra, 68 on Writing and 85 on Reading. If you are over 21 years of age, you do not need to submit ACT/SAT scores.
Fuck it. I’m depressed now…
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 27, 2010 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Idaho's not much more rigorous
http://www.uidaho.edu/futurestudents/admissions/admissionrequirements/gpaandtestscores
Looks like we have a nerd-smack cripple fight on our hands here.
What exactly are the Vandals lording over the Broncos?
graduate with a 2.99 and a 15 on the ACT gets you in?
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 27, 2010 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions
It's Boise's history as a juco
Idaho alums love bringing that up. My father’s a Boise alum and he always got that crap. Idaho alums also think that their degrees mean everything in the state of Idaho, even more than harvard. Of course, when I bring up the fact that their degrees are worth shit outside of the state, they stop talking…
You don't knoow what the hell you're talking about.
Where are you getting this “more than a Harvard degree” thing? That’s just stupid. I’m an Idaho Vandal and I don’t know a single Idaho alum who thinks that their degree is anything more than a nice degree evidencing a solid eduction. It’s no better than a degree from Washington, Wazzu, Utah, Nevada, etc.
The true reason that the rivalry is so venomous is all football, and it has always been about football. BSU just happens to have a truck driving program (seriously) and the lowest graduation rate of all FBS schools (26%) – so don’t get your labia panties in a wad when we use the ammo you give us.
Update:
Boise had a truck driving program. Boise was finally gifted a Junior College program just 1-2 years ago (CWI) and was finally able to pawn the program off. Said reason of not having a JUCO program in the capitol for such a lengthy time (which is thanked mainly by the Vandal lead Board of Educaiton) also contributed to the low GPA and graduation rates.
But hey, it’s not an excuse, it is what it is. But you shouldn’t be pointing fingers without providing/knowing all the facts.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Besides
If we’re going to be talking about highways, something Boise truck drivers grads and football fans everywhere already know:
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Oh yeah?
Let’s have a look at your fans. I don’t know which is funnier, the fat guy eating a hot dog who thinks he’s too hot for buttons or guy who painted up like Nacho Libre.
Let our fans choose their wardrobe...
…and we’ll continue letting your athlete’s choose theirs.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
by Loque on Jul 27, 2010 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm concerned
about your use of apostrophes, college boy.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Jul 28, 2010 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions
It’s apostrophe’s, duh.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
by Loque on Jul 28, 2010 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well, I say
let Harvard Boise State have its football and academics. Yale Idaho will always be first in gentlemanly club life.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
it's the other way around.
but, eh, it’s all good i suppose.
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
That's tongue-in-cheek, by the way
It’s sad I still feel like I have to explain that sometimes on the internet
course, let's keep this in the realm of football
Akey just can’t keep those scholarships the NCAA allows them to have. Doesn’t that look fantastic without any context?
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
My father is a Worldwide Project Manager for Disney....
and he graduated from Idaho. I’d call that “value outside of the state.”
I’d also call it one helluva’ paycheck.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 27, 2010 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I see nothing wrong with the description of Moscow – sounds like an awesome gameday atmosphere.
The “classy fan” argument has always rung hollow with me – I find it to be a crutch of once proud but now crumbling programs. Here in Texas, TAMU proudly proclaims itself the classiest fans and I think about sums up the state of their program.
Yeah
As a TCU student, Moscow and Fort Worth sound like they could go hand-in-hand. Except, since we’re good Christians, we’ll smile as we accost you.
Also, every account I’ve heard of the Fiesta Bowl is that Boise’s fans were complete assholes before, during, and after the game.
by Truffle Shuffle on Jul 27, 2010 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
One only has to go to the Boise State
SBNation site to see that assertion reproven each day.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Weird.
I know fans who that traveled to the game found TCU fans were very respectful and the same was said vice versa. When mentioned creating a new rivalry vs. TCU in the new conference, it was mostly determined it wouldn’t work because we admire each others teams too much.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Oh,
I can assure you we have are own assholes, but what the hell is this “admire” shit. No TCU fan “admires” Boise, everyone here hates Boise, not because it’s Boise but because no matter what we do ESPN is just gonna shove Boise shit down everyone’s throats 24/7.
For the record, TCU fans who traveled to Clemson returned saying that Clemson fans were not only the nicest fans they had ever met, but the nicest people in general.
by Truffle Shuffle on Jul 28, 2010 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Thats because they are (re: Clemson fans)
It also makes beating them oh so much fun.
GT-Clemson game is the game I want to win the most every year (and twice sometimes). GT-uga, on the other hand, is the one I least want to lose.
If everyone had fans like Clemson, the college football world would be a much better place – they are rabid, deranged, and the nicest folk you will ever meet.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Then you haven't been to spitblood
Also, if ESPN is going to shove Boise State down your throats, it’s because we took it away from you last season. You were the ESPN puppy dogs last year… 3 ESPN GameDay visits to the MWC and no games televised on ESPN. One of those in Fort Worth. You had all the love last season, leaping over us and having national title talk… and now you’re angry that we’re finally getting it, too?
I think TCU is an admirable team and we’ll have some enjoyable matchups in the next coming seasons. I wish nothing but the best for TCU, and hope you’ll one day have the upper hand against Baylor who stole your BCS invitation via political means and via the playing field.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
I think the gameday visits were the result of the league being competitive, and ESPN, being unable to broadcast any of the games, tried to latch on the only way it could.
Yeah, Boise is finally getting the love it deserves. This is the shit that pisses me off.
by Truffle Shuffle on Jul 28, 2010 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions
I traveled from Dallas to Clempson last year on Shania Twain's old tour bus
A group of 12 went on a college football jihad. Left Dallas on Thursday morning and stopped in Tuscaloosa for the night. Got completely hammered at a frat house at U. of Alabama and then took our group of outlaws to Galettes. Everyone blacked out only to wake up the next morning to our bus pulling behind Turner Field in ATL. Apparently we got back to the bus and demanded we go to the PGA Tour Championship in ATL at East Lake CC. Watched Tiger play a few holes way too hungover to give a shit. Got back on the bus and got to Clempson that night. Hit a couple bars and the Esso Club.
Our overall experience at Clempson was great. Besides them putting all the campers on the other side of the lake the people we very friendly. Lots of playful shit talking back and forth. We were excited to get the chance to play a legitimate OOC game (looking at you Florida). Overall the gameday experience was great. Loud crowd, full house, lots of pageantry, TCU victory, etc.
Stay hard Clempson!
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson
by Sexual Chili on Jul 28, 2010 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Ask someone who actually went...
I was there, and I can tell you that my family tailgated with TCU fans and enjoyed ourselves immensely, we congratulated TCU fans on their first BCS bowl game, we commiserated on this joke that is the BCS. OK, well my husband refused to talk to any Frogs because he had his game face on, but I’m friendly enough to make up for his lack. My Dad’s tickets were in a mostly TCU section and he is still talking today about what a wonderful time he had jousting back and forth with the fans. One fan even called up a District Judge from Texas to have him talk smack with my Dad. It was a great game, it was a great atmosphere and unless you were there to experience it, saying “everyone I know said BSU fans are @ssholes” doesn’t quite cut it.
From a different perspective, I saw this from a TCU fan on YouTube the other day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qNiOH4IxkM&feature=related
What stuck me the most was his comment:
@dirtjump132 Thanks man. The two schools have a lot of respect for each other. For example, in the parking lot after the game, my dad and I found ourselves in a crowd of Boise State fans and not one of them jumped on me or talked any trash. They all told me what a great game it was. Both have very classy football programs and classy fans.
andyb1314 3 months ago
OBNUG Resident Mom and Bronco Nation Podcast Field Reporter.
As someone that went to the Oregon @ Boise State while wearing an Oregon Duck #9 jersey, I can say the worst fan I’ve ever encountered was a Boise State fan that was standing behind us. He was about the classless and annoying person I’ve ever encountered; however, the people I talked with and had encountered with after the game, post falcon punch, were actually nice and polite people.
The student section didn’t look to be very classy. So aside from that, the asshole behind me, and the video board operator… I thought they were plenty nice. Especially for a guy that was wearing a Blount jersey in downtown Boise, ID.
it’s spelled "S-H-U-F-R-E-A-K-I-N-H-E-R-O-U-T-M-A-N"
Every village has an idiot
But anyone with any amount of intelligence and class treats other fans with respect. Smack talking is sport on game day and we all like to participate in it, but I’m sorry that you encountered a jerk.
PS – I sit in the student section (with my 38 year old second time student of a hubs) and I’ll mourn the day that he graduates again. The student section is passionate, on their feet, cheering through all 4 quarters. I love it. I don’t hesitate at all to take any of my children and I’m uber-conservative. You don’t hear expletives, you don’t encounter drunks and they’re the best seats in the house in my opinion.
OBNUG Resident Mom and Bronco Nation Podcast Field Reporter.
It's all about your personal experience
I went to U of I, and I’ve found just about every game I attended at Bronco Stadium to be pretty enjoyable. A buddy of mine and I went to the ‘07 game with the season ticket seats we got from his pops (old BSU alum). Snuck in a little whiskey to mix with our fountain soda. Not getting too wild, mind you, just celebrating first downs, cracking the occasional joke at either team’s expense. The older gentlemen in front of us would occasionally look over their shoulder at us and chuckle a bit. They ended up offering us some of the food they had (not poisoned, at it turned out) and inviting us to come tailgate afterward. Their wives, on the other hand, hated our guts and did more of the in-your-face hollering and “HOW DO YA LIKE THAT”-ing that I’m used to from most student sections.
In sum, it was a great time.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
meh...
I find it to generally just be programs with a large long time following and enough success in the past to not be terribly nasty. When Nebraska was at the top of their reign in the mid 1990s, they were considered some of the classiest fans around… and they stayed that way even when they stunk it up recently. It could be equally causative that the programs are good enough for you to consider them “once proud”.
I think what you run into with some very successful programs are a lot of hangers on who pull for a team mostly for the ability to feel good about winning and take it way too far by shoving their success down everyone else’s throats and taking losses WAAAAY too personally.
Moscow, ID has just worked it's way onto my CF bucketlist with that one quote.
by five point stance on Jul 27, 2010 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
and yet they produced mellow singer-songwriter extraordinaire Josh Ritter
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Ah, the big brother/little brother rivalry.
You try to ignore them, you try to pretend they don’t exist, but they just piss you off so much.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jul 27, 2010 5:41 PM EDT reply actions
Especially
when they’ve won 6 of the past 7.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Jul 27, 2010 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Boston College football makes me feel
like Corch after the SEC Championship Game last year.
I swear, the 2007 game was over ten hours long. And after actually keeping it pretty close for most of the game, Notre Dame’s offense pooped out on…a holding penalty.
At least I got to hear 80,000 people mocking the ref’s southern accent in unison.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jul 27, 2010 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Denigrating academic programming?
If this was considered off-limits, how would Big 10 respond to SEC taunts?
Meant "Big 10 fans"
You’ll excuse me, of course; I attended a SEC institution.
by Jack Fact on Jul 27, 2010 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Sure, it's easy for your to mock the Big 10
in your comfortable SEC weather*, but have you tried arguing on the Internet when its 6 degrees inside your house? Get some weather, son, then you talk online.
*Don’t lie and say its 102 with 80% humidity. We both know that the Earth never gets above 84 degrees.
Ken Womack and ENSBSN: Leaving insight and originality to the other guys since Q2 2010.
This guy's been everywhere
“I’ve seen rivalries all over America, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Texas-Texas A&M, Kansas-Kansas State”.
This guys the freakin Ernest Shackelton of the NCAA!
by Mark Mandingo on Jul 27, 2010 5:50 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain..
Passing? Who needs passing?
by RamblinWreck007 on Jul 27, 2010 7:18 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
That was my thought too..
if you’re going to make a statement like that, try to follow up with better examples than those. The only rivalry worth its salt on that list is the UT / aTm matchup. True OU fans would never consider Aggy Lite their rival.
Quite generous of him...
to refer to bedlam as a rivalry, considering OU owns our sorry asses to the tune of 80-15-7.
They shall know me by the tang of my bitter and untenable jadedness.
Until A Bronco Fan Starts Ripping Off Vandal Alumni Testicles
Sooner and Longhorns fans are not impressed and would rather you did not include yourself in the mention of “rivalries”
BSU? They're just cranky
…because they don’t have a set of testicles to rip off.
Also, for the record, this rivalry has nothing on Sooners/Longhorns. Not even in the same galaxy. EABOD – go shaggy.
I think what is needed here is some historical perspective...
This ain’t about admission standards. It’s about the University of Idaho trying to obstruct Boise State’s progress from day one. Once Boise State outgrew them, they turned into whiny little tagalongs. For their buffoon of a coach to state that the governor should get involved to force a home-and-home series continues after Boise State jumps conferences in 2011, should be laughable to anyone old enough to remember Boise State’s well-loved president John Keiser being forced out by the Vandal Alum SBOE when he dared to try to move up from Division 1-AA. Hell, the Vandals fought tooth and nail to not have to "lower themselves’ and play the upstar, newly minted, ex-JuCo to their south in 1971.
Kustra was right. This isn’t about athletics. It’s a cultural feud. The ex-haves are now the have-nots and they want some of the candy that they taunted Boise State with for years.
What’s in it for Boise State to travel to a humid 16,000 seat stadium every other year whilst their buses get keyed and they have to step over little puddles of vomit everywhere?
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 9:03 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Victim mentality
Seriously, you guys have an inferiority complex that defies explanation. Even your school’s president can’t keep his shit together.
We don’t have some sort of vast conspiracy against you, that’s absurd. You’re just making crap up now.
by IdahoPride on Jul 27, 2010 9:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
IP
You pretty much had no idea what has happened in the past between these school and are trying to defend your fan base/school. That’s fine and all, but stop trying to call someone out when the evidence is all there, and has been there for over a decade. Nobody, including Vandal Alumni with knowledge of the situation, is going to dispute this. In fact, it was touted as a matter of your so called “Vandal Pride” that led to the firing of the previous Boise State President and his aspirations to expanding Boise State’s academic credibility.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Are you high?
As person born and bred in Idaho, having growing up with both BSU and Idaho posters on my wall, with a father who worked for BSU in order to pay my way through Idaho, and having attended BSU for a short time in addition to getting my degree from Idaho, I think I can claim more knowledge about the BSU/Idaho rivalry than you can.
Now that we have established my credentials, it’s not like Vandals out there trying to keep BSU down, that’s just crap. BSU’s fans just have a massive, cosmic and perhaps supernatural wad in their panties. Your inferiority complex is just . . . wow.
Almost...
Almost as bad as when they claimed a share of the national title last season.
When did we ever do that? I’ll wait…
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Last year
Your main fan website had a featured story about BSU being co-champions with Alabama. You can probably dig it up on scout. That was when I decided BSU jumped the shark.
Here it is
http://louisianatech.scout.com/2/935829.html
/grabs popcorn
//misses the Bama-Barn threadjacks
/// likes the Potato Smack Threadjack
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Jul 27, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Seemed like the author might've been trying to make a point or something...
’course what do I know? I only have a truck driving degree from Boise Junior College.
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Right
Because no SEC institutions EVER claim dubious national championships when the opportunity presents itself.
Ah!
Nice to know that an fan can claim a national title, and that means they (Boise State) have claimed to be national champs. However, Coach Petersen himself said Alabama is the rightful champions.
Although, we do know where you can buy blue and orange “14-0” national champion T-shirts.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Since when
Has BSU’s coach ever been empowered to approve a national champion?
That's Chris Myers job...
He just wants someone to back him up on it.
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Since the..
USA Today coaches poll was included in the BCS formula to crown a national champion…….. So yeah, Petersen did vote for ’Bama. Take your retard cap off for a moment.
If that was the case
Bama would have 32513654654351adf35135131321351306543546656698798651684320.21384320.3 National Championships.
by SEC Supremacist on Jul 28, 2010 9:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Almost as bad as when they claimed a share of the national title last season.
Or when Vandal fans claimed their 1-point victory over Bowling Green would be remembered as fondly as the 2007 Fiesta Bowl?
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions
More fiction...
I’ve never heard or read of a Vandal who ever made that assertion. You guys have more conspiracy theories and fictional anecdotes than any other group of fans on the planet.
Drew
It must be easy being an UI fan. If you’re fan base is accused of something, just say “No we didn’t!” But if your fan base accuses something, it’s fact, because they said so.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
It must be easy being an UI fan.
No. No it is not.
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
College rivals putting down the other school's academics?
Indeed sir, how preposterous! Why, in the genial rivalry between the fair University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology, neither of us have ever deigned to the base level of disparaging the other school’s degree programs! Neither did we long ago at esteemed Mr. Franklin’s school ever stoop to denigrating the fine academic programs of Mr. Ezra Cornell’s school, even the Hotel Administration school.
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 27, 2010 9:57 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
This is the part where I throw out the "cow college" bit, right?
Just trying to keep things straight.
Passing? Who needs passing?
by RamblinWreck007 on Jul 27, 2010 11:44 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Indeed!
No fellow Georgian, no matter how recently deposited on her fair shores from The Orient to matriculate at the North Avenue School of Mechanics and Artisans, would stoop to disparaging the scholarly programs of The University, be they administering recreation to children, or administering semen to turkeys.
by Golden Hand on Jul 28, 2010 7:16 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I don't think Vanderbilt's coach went to UGA
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 8:49 AM EDT up reply actions
Nope, Furman
UGA was his safety school, though.
Hey, where do you think delicious Chik-Fil-A comes from?
I admit not actually being an alumnus, I won’t defend UGA’s academics to the death, but really I try to hold off even on the Auburn cow college stuff (since to be super serious agricultural studies is still a big deal, if not as glamorous as designing giant reactors and rockets [also important, not denigrating that]).
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah, Auburn may be a cow college
but i bet they have more astronauts than GT and UGA combined…
Nope, you couldn't be more wrong about that.
GT has more astronauts that UGA and Auburn combined. Or UGA plus anyone else, other than the service academies. The majority of astronauts are former Navy pilots, and GT has a HUGE Navy ROTC program. Not that that has much to do with academics.
Wiki sez:
GT: 14
Auburn: 7
UGA: 0
Oh, and Jeezus, don’t get defensive about UGA’s academics. It’s a perfectly fine school, but it’s what we make fun of about you. Come up with something original on the Poindexter/urban crime front and sling it back.
by Golden Hand on Jul 28, 2010 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah after i submitted that i realized i might be wrong...
but while i was at auburn for undergrad i thought they had mentioned something like that… or more hours/missions than any other school in space (something along those lines)…
Like I said, I don't really circle the wagons and get intense on this point
Unfortunately I can’t really use the NERDDSSSS insult since I would be a little hypocritical. But here’s another one: Tech’s campus is unattractive, to say the least.
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions
There are uglier things at Tech than the campus
and I feel like their presence is more than enough to win you any Tech-UGA argument.
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Oh, SIR!
You did not just insinuate that our womenfolk are less than paragons of pulchritude! That is an insulting remark; do you have a friend?
Screw all y’all haterz; I like Tech girls. There’s a lower percentage of hotties, but hardly any stupid ones at all. Stupid girls do nothing for me, no matter what they look like.
Oh, and Tech’s campus is definitely not Harvard. It’s a billion times better looking now than when I started there in 1980, though. It was GRIM back then. UGA’s is somewhat overrated, if you ask me; other than the little bit that proceeds along the walk once you go through the arch, it’s a bunch of standard government buildings with boring landscaping, just like Tech.
Princeton is the one with the really good Gothic academic buildings
But yeah, UGA does have too many of those late 60s/early 70s brutalist concrete turds. I couldn’t figure out why every government building has to look like a souless Soviet bureau.
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
To pimp a school most of y'all have never heard of....
Kenyon College(my alma mater) has some extraordinarily pretty buildings….it is supposedly the first(or most complete or something-est) representation of “Collegiate Gothic” architecture in the US.
"I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get the bacon flavoring into the pencils?"
Been there
Y’alls campus is stunning. It really is amazingly beautiful.
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Thanks much...
We do what we can, in the Middle of Nowhere, OH.
"I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get the bacon flavoring into the pencils?"
Like all good things in Georgia, it comes from Atlanta
OK, first store was in Hapeville. But Truett Cathy’s from Atlanta. And he didn’t need no fancy college book learnin’.
by Golden Hand on Jul 28, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Zaxby's is from Statesboro
And Locos is from Athens. But other than that, pretty much yeah.
by commodore_dude on Jul 28, 2010 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Bravo, Spencer...that was classic Spurrier thrown in there.
“But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn’t been colored in yet.”
Possibly one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard a rival say about Auburn. I still laugh at that, 15 years later.
I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experiments.
by boddagettaflyer on Jul 27, 2010 10:29 PM EDT reply actions
That was already an old joke then
I heard it in elementary school, though it was directed at Clemson.
by GwinnettGamecock on Jul 28, 2010 1:24 AM EDT up reply actions
That's a UGA joke
I’m sure of it; heard it 30 years ago that way.
As relayed to me by a Pitt fan in 1971
it was the WVU library that caught fire, there were only two books, and one wasn’t colored in yet.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jul 28, 2010 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm sure Oxford scholars were telling it about Cambridge in 1210 AD
by Golden Hand on Jul 28, 2010 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions
probably University of Bath
clearly a cow college
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
I guess it just took longer for the joke to get to Auburn
That makes sense. I can’t remember the last time I saw a joke book in coloring book form.
by GwinnettGamecock on Jul 28, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
BSU can win ____ games consecutively, blah blah blah
Idaho still holds the upper hand in this rivalry. Mix 1 part beloved coach diagnosed with cancer. Add a courageous return to coach the team for the final 2 games, including the very last game against bitter rival (and perennial brutalizer) Idaho. Stir gently with a 64-19 blowout victory on the Broncos’ home field. Let simmer with the coach’s death 3 weeks later.
I mean, you can poo-poo if you like. But yeah; Idaho blew out a cancer-ridden coach on his own field 3 weeks before he died.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
Classy
Bragging about beating a coach who soon after died of cancer would be like Boise bragging about beating UI’s mentally retarded coach. I mean yeah we beat him, but we don’t brag about it.
Stay classy.
by 4EverBleedBlue on Jul 28, 2010 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Didn't Nebraska fans make fun of that Colorado player who died of cancer?
I remember seeing something about that on ESPN
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Good night, I hope not.
I certainly didn’t, but we all know the douchebag contingent in every fanbase practically guarantees some fuckwad had the temerity to mock a Sal Aunese’s death. The Colorado douchebag contingent was likely mocking Nebraska’s Kenny Walker, who was deaf, that same year.
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
There was a deaf player from Oklahoma State a few years ago, wasn't there?
I think he was a cornerback or a safety, but I don’t remember anyone really suing that to mock.
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions
After I incredulously related the Pokey Allen story to a friend's dad...
… he told me about the whole Steve Kerr thing. The crowd chanting “PLO” after your dad just got murdered by militants? Nasty.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
Wow, that is literally the lowest thing I have ever heard of in sports
I mean, the boasting about humiliating a coach right before he died of cancer is bad. The “Sal is Dead, Go Big Red” graffiti (sorry Rev, but I found the documentation for this) is even more classless. But good grief, the Steve Kerr deal is just unimaginable. I feel like if I were an Arizona State alum I’d throw away my diploma after that incident, rather than associate myself with such an asshole-ly crowd.
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, like I said,
there’s a douchebag contingent in every fanbase. Like my favorite seminary professor said, “The last thing any pastor should be is surprised.”
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Wasn't bragging
Just pointing out that it happened. Mostly in response to the idea that there’s no indicia of a bitter rivalry, here.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
Aye.
So far, we haven’t brought up the near-yearly UI campus epidemic of students falling out of frat houses. Why? Because people get hurt. The last female victim can no longer walk or speak.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
As an inebriated Bronco fan and alumni...
…I’m not opposed to holding crippled/dead adults accountable for their actions. I mean as much research as the dUI does, SOMEONE has to test the laws of gravity once a year. It’s just the thinning of the herd in my opinion.
/Sucks for their families though…
Perhaps
it is just his ‘unique’ sense of humor.
Maybe you should make a poll to see if you would ‘Unlike most everyone else appreciate [Joey C.’s] Just friendly sarcasm’
But way to ‘not bring students falling out of frat houses up’ while bringing it up.
Great Job.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 28, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions
You liked that!
(ps. God hates Iowa)
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
yeah...
wasn’t that like the last time UI beat bBoise State? No wonder the Vandals take an annual point deficit of say, 30pts when playing the Broncos. Its just Karma.
Karma and
they’re the Vandals. That has a lot to do with it too.
by 4EverBleedBlue on Jul 28, 2010 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions
What do Idaho and bsu fans have in common?
Neither one of them would have considered going to boise state.
This is the absolute truth. As I sit in that horrible stadium trying my best not to vomit on that disgusting field, I make a point to ask those people around me wearing their hunter orange and smurph blue, what year they graduated from bsu…and maybe 10% of the time, I’ll find someone who actually attended bsu.
Must be hard
Knowing your own fan base comes only from your Alumni, while your rival is getting a fan base nationwide because of their accomplishments.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
by Loque on Jul 27, 2010 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
and where did you matriculate?
Idaho won over fans nationwide after its display at the Humanitarian Bowl 09
Idaho won over fans nationwide after its display at the Humanitarian Bowl 09
/spit take
by Drew Roberts on Jul 27, 2010 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions
That is cool.
No, it really is. Not being sarcastic. Ok, maybe a little. SVP specifically said they support Idaho and Wyoming because fans sent him their stuff.
But regardless, it would be nice to see Idaho keep and exceed their new found expectations, else I’m not sure SVP is going to keep Idaho on his desk around for long.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Actually
Mr. Van Pelt made Idaho his official team after Akey’s “stick around, you’re gonna love it” comment as he pointed to the camera / game winning call…also Robb calls into the show on occasion and Van Pelt loves his voice.
psst. Yesterday during WAC media days, coach Akey admitted he calls into the show because he likes the publicity.
But, I’m glad Akey is with Idaho. That team really needed something else the school was probably going to go back to Div 1-AA. Robb Akey has done wonders with the program and I love his moxy. Sometimes I wish Coach Pete had it, but in the end, Petersen will always stay humble and high class.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
I love Skip Hall
I knew it wouldn’t take long before your deep rooted Silver and Gold loyalties would surface. Petersen is far from humble, but plays the part well with his clean cut look. Akey is the true what-you-see-is-what-you-get dude, one you’d love to drink a beer with.
Yes, you are right, once Erickson left (douche), Akey cleaned house and retained quality kids. Players like Nate, Greenwood, Keo and recruits like Maxx Forde and many others that have turned the culture around.
/shun
/unshun
Anyone who doesn’t think Petersen is far from humble doesn’t deserve this comment. Open your eyes, just a little, for once.
/shun
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
by Loque on Jul 28, 2010 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
no really, I love Skip Hall
Petersen walks around with a smug look on his face and if I’m not mistaken he is a member of the rat family from the looks of his front teeth.
That's so embarrassing
Vandal: We’re Scott Van Pelt’s official team.
Bronco: Wow, really? Is it because he thinks you’re going to win the NCG?
Vandal: No
Bronco: Oh because he think’s you’re going to a BCS Bowl?
Vandal: No
Bronco: Oh it must be because he thinks you guys will have a winning record this year and will make it to a bowl game and win.
Vandal: No
Bronco: Bowl Game and lose?
Vandal: No, no bowl game.
Bronco: Then why?
Vandal: Because our coach called his show uninvited and Scott liked his voice.
Bronco: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
by 4EverBleedBlue on Jul 28, 2010 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It wasn’t the win. It was the blue turf.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
by Loque on Jul 27, 2010 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
/deep breath
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, wait, you were serious? That was a great game to watch, but no, a last-second TD to beat Bowling Fucking Green is not going to get you much attention.
by SpartanDan on Jul 28, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
coming from a guy who could probably care less what these schools do.
i like it. i like it a lot. you’re getting a star (and i’m not being sarcastic at all).
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
I forgot.
Did either team play defense in that game?
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
You can't be serious?
Idaho surprises themselves and goes off to have a once-in-a-decade winning season, gets outscored by their opponents en route to a 7-5 finish in which they stumble through the last 5 (4 losses, three in a row to end the season), and trips and falls into a bowl game (in Boise) only because it was vacated by Boise State going BCS’ing and they’ve now gained nationwide fans off of a one point win over a team that Boise State beat on the road by 35 points??
Pardon me. /steps away /rolls eyes while snickering/returns
Face it, Idaho is a career sub-standard team with an all-time winning percentage of .446. They moved to DIA to keep up with Boise State when they had no business doing so, and the last 14 years (11 losing seasons) are proof. Once again Boise State is poised to move up and here we are watching UI grasp at the coat tails once again in an effort to maintain some sort of relevance. You know it’s bad when possibly the most reserved, humble, and politically correct coach (Chris Petersen) publicly says he has no interest in visiting Moscow, ever.
I would say its the University of Idaho that has an inferiority complex, almost the same size as their alumnus’ egos.
Personally, I don’t mind if they they do keep the rivalry intact. Every hammer needs a nail.
Boise State - The best in all the land (The "land" being Idaho, and large parts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.) Now also including Fort Worth, TX and coming soon this fall, Washington D.C.!
I know nothing about Idaho
But I do know that my first fake ID was an Idaho ID that listed me as from Moscow, ID. Oh Gary, IN Flea Market, is there anything you can’t provide?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Breathable air?
BTW South Bend’s violent crime rate is now higher that Gary. But a hockey player’s 21st birthday party requires an all cars request
Welcome to Georgetown, circa 1995
DC has the highest murder rate in the country? I know what will stop this epic crime wave, we’ll bust underage drinkers at house parties in Georgetown!
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
True story:
A friend of mine was mugged in South Bend by having a brick thrown into his head. He was on the way back to campus from Club 23.
/club 23 is not what you think it is
//not even close
///$3 buckets of Long Islands
////wooo deflation is an enabler of alcoholism
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jul 28, 2010 3:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Club 23 is no Boat Club
Where a 5×7 card written in crayon and a picture you cut out of the Observer was an acceptable form of identification. When they finally got raided they were cited for having over 200 underage drinkers in the bar. In Indiana, IIRC the bar can be levied a $5,000 fine for each underager. I’m not sure whatever came of it, [as it wasn’t resolved by the time I left school] but I think the bar tried to sue the underage students to pay the fine, cited a precedent in Massachusetts.
/misses college
//decides to find the old beer pong table in the basement and take it up to the lake this weekend.
Who knew...
That Idaho could represent like this? While the shit-talk leaves a great deal to be desired, the animus is truly present. Keep it up Gem Staters…we still have 40 days til kickoff.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 27, 2010 11:45 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
40 long days sadly enough.
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
Not a lot of shit-talking ability in Idaho
Mostly just throwing of fists as soon as we get mentally stumped. So, y’know, right away.
Seriously. The downtown bar scene in Boise is a felony farm.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
Agreed
I woke up this morning to see 95 new comments in this thread. I thought, “GOD i hope this turned into a Boise/Idaho shit-talk fest last night.” I was pleased.
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Let me state for the record that I had no idea we had this many BSU/Idaho fans reading this site.
It strikes me as awesome somehow.
Passing? Who needs passing?
by RamblinWreck007 on Jul 27, 2010 11:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
correction
bsu fans / Idaho Alumni
by slakeunion on Jul 27, 2010 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
OUCH!
I didn’t know that dUI Alumni weren’t fans of their own school…
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
it's called
campus life.
The pathetic commuter school near the boise river doesn’t have one.
Oh, I know
Lived in Boise, matriculated in Moscow. I seen it.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
you get a rec
I have no idea whether it’s true or not; but it is funny as shit.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 28, 2010 8:38 AM EDT up reply actions
reading edsbs?
really? though SEC-centric, i’d say many fans of many schools, etc, read it.
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
Is it time
to show out hatred towards U of I with pictures? A picture says a 1000 words, u know.
Old enough to know better, too young to care.
No like this
I bet they cleaned out all the baby oil at K-mart. Nice to know they have some old traditions up there in Moscow…
…if you know what I mean.
Boise State - The best in all the land (The "land" being Idaho, and large parts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.) Now also including Fort Worth, TX and coming soon this fall, Washington D.C.!
Hey, if I was an Idaho fan
I’d be insulted the Big Ten never called, too.
Reporter: "What would it take to get you to spend three or four days outside, on concrete?"
Joe Paterno: "Depends what she looks like."
There is no debate over the fact that Boise is one of the biggest jokes academically in the nation
Boise fans here can debate it all they want, but its truth.
Also, if BSU’s president wants to bitch and moan about how badly UI treats opposing fans, his whiny ass can drop down to D-3. Oregon fans were treated like shit last year. Its called Divison 1 football. If you want to play with the big boys, deal with it.
--Dave
Addicted to Quack, your friendly, neighborhood Oregon Ducks blog
when he was at bsu he was a winner.
colorado just drove him insane.
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
I think one of the issues is that Boise State, as far as I can tell, does not do nearly as much research as most other I-A (and really I-AA) schools
Obviously there is a place for a strong liberal arts college, and major research programs are not the be-all end-all of a university, but that’s a pretty strong blow.
by Cantabrigian_UGA_Fan on Jul 28, 2010 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions
apparently there was more of a "teaching" emphasis.
getting better. but oh well.
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
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Marty Tadman thinks so
From the USA today:
Idaho = big boys?
No argument about how Boise treats the visiting fans—- Just like every other team in the nation. But to have to put up with it from your little sister because mother makes you… Annoying.
Old enough to know better, too young to care.
Although I love
BSU and OBNUG, I have to say, the OBNUG editorship/readership tilts fairly heavily mormon, and the site itself will ban you for, you know, swearing. So maybe this explains some things.
There are Mormons.
But the leadership isn’t so much, and probably a fair % or readership. Boise is just a more family oriented town… one of the reasons why Coach Pete stays there and a big reason why Moscow is seen with very different eyes.
Sure, there are other rivalries like this, and worse…. but I think the percentages worst against UIdaho’s favor. Every team has idiots that do plenty of stupid stuff, but Moscow is small and so is their attendance due to the size of their stadium. You get a higher percentage of people vandalizing and ruining the gameday experience for others who are there for what it’s mostly about .. supporting their team.
But it also comes from Boise’s success. Idaho hasn’t had much to cling on, until recently, with their new found success. And even with that, Boise still is the dominant athletic program. So, as a UI fan, you may be there for the game wishing and hoping for a win, but the attendees there are mostly out for something else… a little hazing. This same thing happens in Boise, but the incidents are small and much fewer than in Moscow. Even when I attended the game last year in Boise, most of the Vandal fans I saw outside the stadium were antagonizing the home teams fans.. while most of the Boise fans just ignored them.
So.. what does this all mean? Not much. Boise is still a growing fan base and is new to the national hype, but hearing Vandal supremacy chants are just now becoming rather boring and tiresome. I used to enjoy @fauxrobbakey on twitter - quite the funny spin on his character- but now he sounds like normal @JoeVandal, spewing out 8th grade material that we’ve all heard before.
So.. what does this all mean? Not much. Boise is still a growing fan base and is new to the national hype, but hearing Vandal supremacy chants are just now becoming rather boring and tiresome. I used to enjoy @fauxrobbakey on twitter - quite the funny spin on his character- but now he sounds like normal @JoeVandal, spewing out 8th grade material that we’ve all heard before.I think what separates these rivalries … Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Texas-Texas A&M, Kansas-Kansas State … from BSU-Idaho is the separation for the football programs, the dominant sport in national media. With the other rivalries, there might be a chance the other wins.. just not so much anymore with the different caliber Idaho teams we have now. Does that mean the rivalry should go away? I don’t think so.. one day Boise might be mediocre, and Idaho might climb. But for now, travelling to Moscow is not a gameday experience you want to have unless you’re looking to get plastered and have great vehicle insurance.
So.. what does this all mean? Not much. Boise is still a growing fan base and is new to the national hype, but hearing Vandal supremacy chants are just now becoming rather boring and tiresome. I used to enjoy @fauxrobbakey on twitter - quite the funny spin on his character- but now he sounds like normal @JoeVandal, spewing out 8th grade material that we’ve all heard before.I think what separates these rivalries … Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Texas-Texas A&M, Kansas-Kansas State … from BSU-Idaho is the separation for the football programs, the dominant sport in national media. With the other rivalries, there might be a chance the other wins.. just not so much anymore with the different caliber Idaho teams we have now. Does that mean the rivalry should go away? I don’t think so.. one day Boise might be mediocre, and Idaho might climb. But for now, travelling to Moscow is not a gameday experience you want to have unless you’re looking to get plastered and have great vehicle insurance.And that’s simply what Coach Petersen and Bob Kustra were saying. The rivalry would be fine, it if weren’t for the hostility the students of Moscow, Idaho have for Boise State and their visitors.
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Whoa.
Don’t know what happened there….
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
by Loque on Jul 28, 2010 2:49 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
heh
…hate…sbnation…for…messing me up … :)
oh ya
This was a drunken post with a reply fail. I was trying to reply to the guy (way) above who mentioned that, you know, most college football rivalries are kinda drizzunken as the normal way things are. I do kinda think that some BSU fans are a little sensitive re: Idaho, but whatever.
I don't get a big Mormon vibe-
I mean, I know there are lots of Mormons in the area, so I’m sure some of them are Bronco fans and OBNUG’ers, but I thought the swearing ban was just to make the site kid friendly…if I ever got on overtly religious vibe I’d hang somewhere else.
by Cougarflounder on Jul 28, 2010 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Thats true
I was pretty much talking out of my ass on that one. Still, though, it fucking sucks that I have to self-censor myself on OBNUG. I don’t give a shit, really, if the the site is acceptable for 9 year olds or whatever, and particularly during the game open threads, it sucks. If something bad happens, I’m pissed! Also, the “bad words” thing is infantile and stupid.
Nobody...
…loves swearing more than a 9-year-old anyway.
by witless chum on Jul 29, 2010 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions
true
but you try regularly reading a site that forbids you from swearing, even on gametime open threads.
Most LDS are BYU fans
Regardless of where they are in school. Unless they attended Utah or Utah State . . .
by MeanBobMean on Jul 29, 2010 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Or Boise State
or, you know, any other school.
It goes both ways...
…but how about when the bsu players slam a hammer on the school logo on the field? You can’t hold your head high Bob. When persons loyal to their school have a passion for their school it is normal at any school no matter where you look. How about the bsu student section at the basketball game in 2009 in Boise, when the very small section of Vandals were given the ‘bird’ for cheering louder than the home crowd? What about the numerous broken windows of vehicles sporting Vandal plates or stickers in the Treasure Valley? If one article gets under your skin enough to publicly state your ‘dislike,’ or maybe its ‘HATE,’ for the in state rival maybe your just a loyal fan as well. Don’t be a hypocrite.
by VandalsAreIdaho on Jul 28, 2010 4:38 AM EDT reply actions
You want to end this slapfight in one, Boise?
All ya gotta do is point out that Sarah Palin graduated from Idaho. BOOM, motherfucker!
by Golden Hand on Jul 28, 2010 7:12 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
is it UI's fault?
she got 3/4’s of her “learnin’” at Northern Idaho, Matanuska-Susitna College, and Hawaii Pacific. I don’t think 2-3 semesters in residence can be laid at the Vandals’ feet.
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak" Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Stuck in the Plains on Jul 28, 2010 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions
But I thought
UI spent most of her VP campaign bragging to have had her….don’t tell me they’ve changed their minds?
by Cougarflounder on Jul 28, 2010 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
And Larry Craig.
Boise State - The best in all the land (The "land" being Idaho, and large parts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.) Now also including Fort Worth, TX and coming soon this fall, Washington D.C.!
The only bigger potato rivalry
is between the Irish and Scottish
by SEC Supremacist on Jul 28, 2010 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions
Of course
They all died or emigrated to America. So, any day now, we should expect either mass casualties up there or a whole bunch of former Californians turning the SUVs back around while muttering “what the FUCK were we thinking?”
I hear
they already have the alcoholism rates to compete.
by SEC Supremacist on Jul 28, 2010 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions
If it is the latter,
I am willing to argue about potatos, Boise State academics, disdain for Rotel, or anything else for several hours in the town square to test the portability of that solution. Who’s with me?
by GwinnettGamecock on Jul 28, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Ah, the sweet taste of hate
Usually hate threads don’t get this long unless it’s a Bammer/Barner thread. Glad to see that the yankees to the northwest know how to throw down as well. Well played all around. Now just start shooting your own kin over the game and you’ll be in contention for best rivalry
by SEC Supremacist on Jul 28, 2010 9:25 AM EDT reply actions
"...why would I want to encourage a game where people don't know how to act like grownups?''
That’s just precious. He needs to take a trip a round the SEC to see how irrational, primal hate is supposed to be done. Tires slashed in Baton Rouge, car keyed in Athens, divorces over the Iron Bowl, whikey bottle concussions in Knoxville. Dude has not the faintest idea.
If a fan is continually hyping the alleged "academic superiority" of his conference, it's for one obvious reason: they're getting get their ass whipped on the field.
Acutally.
That is exactly what happens in Moscow, ID. Except it’s a biennial occurrence.
Question for UI fans who live in Moscow, do the white supremacists aka skinheads still live in Moscow?
"Everyone counted us out. I don't know why they keep doing that." -- Kyle Wilson
Boise resident, only lived in Moscow to go to college
The Aryan nation folks in Hayden Lake were sent packing by the courts in 1999. The compound was turned over to a philanthropist, who donated it to North Idaho College.
Either way, I’m not sure southern Idahoans really want to be the ones to champion their attitudes toward race.
"I've made a huge little mistake." - G.O.B.
Its not a real rivalry
until you hand out raisins to 5 year olds based on their choice of halloween costume.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Just tell me where Rex Kwon Do lines up on this issue
and I’m with him.
At Rex Kwan Do, we use the buddy system. No more flying solo. You need somebody watching your back at all times. Second off, you’re gonna learn to discipline your image. You think I got where I am today because I dressed like Peter Pan over here?
Take a look at what I’m wearing, people. You think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I’m wearing these bad boys? Forget about it. Last off, my students will learn about self respect. You think anybody thinks I’m a failure because I go home to Starla at night? Forget about it!
This was penned prior to last year's game...
Twas the night before football and all thru the frat house
A kegger was brewing, in beer they were doused.
The games of beer pong, they were so grand
As well were the songs of the local indie-alt-rock band.
Back up in Moscow, there arose such a clatter
They were all too drunk to check out the matter.
Down the street came sirens and flashing lights,
Followed quickly by a visit from Life Flight.
The inebriated girl fell three stories they say
After being roofied by a pledge trying to prove he’s not gay.
Nobody cared on that dark, cold night,
For all they could talk about was Shiloh Keo’s fight.
Down in the airport men’s room, where the Vandals meet and congrue
Passed a majestic plane covered in bright orange and bright blue.
The alumni, they sneered at the aircraft and offerings of ‘stocks’
Also thought of passed out guys, and foreheads covered with Sharpie-drawn cocks.
A call to all Vandals was made on Facebook and Myspace
To meet at a convenient Vandal-owned place.
The meetings were held at ol’ Mac & Charlie’s
In hopes that ‘The Moustache’ would ready his army.
They all chanted "BJC" and "Donkey State"
and several times yelled "Who do we hate?"
They longed for the days of Nussmeier and Friesz
Knowing their 12-year streak would be passed in a breeze.
They make jokes about the Broncos bandwagon fanbase
And bucktooth St. Kellen’s horselike face.
But St. Kellen was at home, snug in his bed
While visions of touchdowns danced in his head.
The dreams were as vivid as that turf of bright blue.
TD’s by Efaw, and Titus, and Avery too
And with a wink of an eye and flailing of hands about
Pettis caught one on an audibled fade route.
The game would play out as St. Kellen envisioned
His passes were completed with superior precision.
Akey’s army was blown out like a bunch of birthday candles,
With that I bid you good night, and BEAT THE VANDALS!!
by jlog88 on Jul 28, 2010 12:02 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, OK. Accurate
But that guy is not biased or anything, right?
by Boise State of Mind on Jul 28, 2010 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions
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by Cougarflounder on Jul 28, 2010 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Dang....
Maybe someone can help me…..I can’t get my stuff together…..it’s the one of the lonely Vandal kid at class picture day.
by Cougarflounder on Jul 28, 2010 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Anything directed towards BSU academics
I just graduated from BSU this past Spring. I can say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Kustra’s whiny comments about U of I students mocking academics are (aside from mostly being true) completely deserved!
During his speech at commencement, he mentioned the football team and Fiesta Bowl four different times. He made ABSOLUTELY ZERO mention of any other athletic team or student organization. For him to whine about other schools making fun of our academics is absurd, considering he has demonstrated that he doesn’t care about them in the slightest.
Maybe BSU would be taken more seriously if we had an administration who gave a damn about people other than Kellen Moore…
Of course, my opinion doesn’t matter to them, since I’m just a 24 year old graduate, and not one of the either football players or Mormon housewives who has finally been allowed to get a degree now that my kids are in college here as well.
Kustra . . .
Displays why his team is enlightened by acting like a baby?
Boise fans are thin sknned at times, it comes form their being dismissed too often. They don’t have ot prove anyhting on the field anymore, they’re great and their fans love them.
But I am disappointed in Coach Pete and Kustra both for this reason: They stupidly made the argument against anyone traveling, ever, to Boise again.
like has been said before:
teams don’t travel to boise anyway. so it’s a moot point. but at least:
bsu stadium is twice the size of the kibble dome
bsu is a perennially top 25 team. idaho, not so much.
Dr. William Block: You gotta lose the arm, Joe.
Joe: Lose the arm? What do you mean, lose the arm? My arm?
Follow me for BSU football game chants @BSUChants.
TEAM AKEY
You know, it’s a good thing Boise State doesn’t play both Idaho AND the University of Montana, because ol’ Bobby Kustra’s heart would just die if he went to both places in one year.
I really hope Robb Akey and the Vandals break BSU’s hearts. Just to bring them back to reality.
"Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood!."--Otto von Bismarck
Yeah . . .
Wait till they play in Laramie!!!!
Woot, you never seen nasty drunk fans in your entire life till you been there, I mean they take the cake.
by MeanBobMean on Jul 30, 2010 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I remember when Boise was in the Big Sky Conference
I remember going to a Montana State game and the fans got pissed and threw snowballs at their own players, it was funny…especially when a player flipped off the fans then got hit with a snowball in the facemask, all you could see was helment and snow..
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