You may get to be IN Boise- But you don't get to BE Boise- And you shouldn't want to be.. Academically BSU as an institution is a complete joke -On top it, They'll throw anything away- Including all Oly sports for a good football program. Football aside, They are a joke and LOTS of westerners hate them, They're burnig bridges left and right in a pathetic attempt to become a BCS football team.

  Funny stuff and a great turn of phrase.  BTW, were you describing Marshall (sorry CD)?????

I thought he might be describing OSU.

One thing about Boise that is completely different than Marshall is Boise State football is the dominant athletic product for the entire state and not exclusively the pride and joy of one community like Marshall in Huntington. Boise almost always from the start of their program had a highly successful program. There was a ton of winning at the FCS level before they decided to move up. There is a ton of winning in the WAC. I don't think Boise is going to necessarily continue to roll off top 10 teams but much like WVU will stay at least a 8 to 10 win program that can contend for conference titles in a Mountain West or Big East level conference. Marshall by comparison is an FCS school on steroids with a record of 34-50 in seven years of CUSA play. It required a fully loaded Marshall program coasting in the MAC East and a championship games at home to run up the record as a MAC school. Boise State football i think is more like Louisville in basketball they've built up a major brand there. Institutionally the analogy also rings true as Boise is rapidly building up its research capacity like Louisville has.

We should strive to be this best. Now this may sound like a cliche, but I remember all to well in the 80s the mindset that said; "what's wrong if the MAC becomes 1 AA?" Anyone in that era remembers that push to get students and anyone else to the game to get close to selling out then 20,000 strong Peden Stadium. It had to be done otherwise the NCAA we relegate us to 1 AA and we would become Appalachian State, Dayton or James Madison. I am sure there were the naysayers in Boise who who said, "We live in Idaho, big time college football is only on the coast or at Colorado." We have made a lot of progress, though when we do make mistakes as in the debacle of last Friday, they sure sting and they sure set us back.

However, let's move forward and move beyond the Marshall's and Toledo's of the world to become our own Boise.We will never get the powerhouse publicity of Ohio State but we could become Ohio's version of Wake Forest. While they play in the shadow of North Carolina and North Carolina State, the shadow cast isn't big enough to keep them out of being in the ACC. Former Bobcat Coach Grobe does an excellent job at a university whose undergrad and grad population doesn't equal 10,000 combined. Something to think about and ponder.

we can start by painting our turf to match our school colors, it could be our "thing".

Honestly I think Ohio is already there if you are considering having a program with a national identity. We've got Coach Solich and his pistol offense brand. The formula has been in place at least since 2007. Five appearances on ESPN/ESPN2 in November-December of this year. A 19-7 conference record over the last 3 years. For a small market team out of a mid major conference the example we set building a stable program is starting to get noticed here. It was easy to dismiss the building process after going 6-6 in 2007 and 4-8 in 2008 but you can't dismiss it now after 3 straight 8+ win seasons. That may be all the more that is sustainable, an 8-10 win team built on regularly easy non-conference schedules.