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David Shaw Named Stanford Coach

January 13, 2011   Michelle Smith   No comments

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David ShawStanford has its new football coach. And he’s a familiar face.

Cardinal athletic director Bob Bowlsby went in-house, hiring David Shaw to replace Jim Harbaugh, who left the program last Friday to accept the head coaching job with the San Francisco 49ers.

Shaw has been on the Stanford staff since Harbaugh arrived in 2007. He served as offensive coordinator and running backs coach.

The search to replace Harbaugh reportedly included an overture to Boise State‘s Chris Petersen and interviews with in-house candidates Shaw, associate head coach Greg Roman and defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, as well as former Stanford player and current Yale coach Tom Williams.

Shaw, 38, was endorsed by several Stanford players, who want to continue the program’s momentum after a 12-1 season that culminated with an Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech. The Cardinal finished a best-ever No. 4 in the national rankings.

 

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Chris Petersen Announces He’s Staying at Boise State

January 10, 2011   Michelle Smith   No comments

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Chris PetersenStanford’s search for a new coach to replace Jim Harbaugh will not include Boise State‘s Chris Petersen.

Petersen announced Monday that he will remain with the Broncos.

Petersen, 46, was reportedly in contact with Stanford about its open coaching position. He has led Boise State to a 61-5 record and two BCS wins in five seasons. He did not address the Stanford job in his statement.

Brent Pease has been hired as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, returning to the Boise after leaving last month to take the job as the offensive coordinator at Indiana.

Petersen was the most prominent name to be tied thus far to the Stanford coaching search. It is also thought that Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby is looking in-house at assistant coach David Shaw and associate head coach Greg Roman.

Shaw has been endorsed by some of the Stanford players.

Former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti said Sunday that he would be willing to talk with Stanford if it called about the job opening that was created when Harbaugh left to coach the San Francisco 49ers.

 

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Non-AQ Report: Boise State Coach Chris Petersen on Stanford’s Radar

January 08, 2011   Graham Watson   No comments

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Could another name coach be plucked from the non-automatic qualifying schools?

No, we’re not talking San Diego State‘s Brady Hoke, who could be next in line at Michigan.

Boise State‘s Chris Petersen has reportedly been speaking with Stanford officials since last week.

Petersen has been linked to AQ jobs in the past, but none has been as appealing as replacing Jim Harbaugh, who rebuilt the Stanford program and led it to an Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech this season.

Neither Boise State nor Stanford has confirmed the meeting.

Petersen, who has been on the road recruiting in California and Hawaii, has not responded to the rumors, but in the past has been adamant about his love of Boise State and its fans. It’s the close-knit community that he likes and jobs such as Mississippi State, Miami, Washington State and Minnesota (other schools to which he’s been linked) didn’t really offer.

But Stanford could be that perfect combination and the timing couldn’t be better.

 

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Boise State Pounds Utah in MAACO Bowl Las Vegas

December 22, 2010   Jared Eborn   No comments

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Doug MartinLAS VEGAS — There was no fancy BCS trophy and no national championship on the line.

A single loss — the only one in the last 27 games — made sure of that for Boise State.

But Wednesday night’s dominating 26-3 win in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas over Pac-12-bound Utah sure felt good to the No. 10 Broncos.

“It is what it is,” BSU junior quarterback Kellen Moore said after winning game MVP honors with 319 yards and two touchdowns on 28-of-38 passing. “We still had a great season and, I feel, had a great team.”

There are few that will dispute that.

The 12-1 Broncos missed out on another BCS bowl game by just a few inches but leave the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West as arguably the top non-automatic qualifying team in the country.

And despite a lousy first quarter and numerous missed opportunities against the Utes, Boise State outclassed its 19th-ranked opponent in virtually every way. Piling up 523 yards of offense and limiting Utah to just 200, the Broncos turned an early close game into a game that might not have been as close as the 23-point final margin indicated.

“With the defense playing that well, I knew, I knew, that we’d hit a stride and get it going,” Boise State coach Chris Petersen said.

That stride came, for the most part, in one play.

 

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Five-Step Drop: Boise’s Costly Loss

December 22, 2010   Mark Hasty   No comments

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FanHouse’s college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day.

1. When Boise State lost to Nevada on Nov. 26, everyone knew the loss cost the Broncos and the WAC a large sum of money. The New York Times stopped to figure out how much: $8 million. “The Rose Bowl, like other Bowl Championship Series games, touts a per-team payout of $17 million,” Times reporter John Branch writes. “For teams like Boise State and others in one of the five conferences without an automatic bid, the payout is $12 million, Benson said. Boise State figured to gain $3 million, the other WAC teams would have split $5 million, and the four other second-tier conferences would have split $4 million.” Branch also notes that Boise State coach Chris Petersen would have earned a $125,000 bonus for making it to a BCS game. If you want to say kicker Kyle Brotzman lost the game for the Broncos, that’s your prerogative, but I’d suggest you read this book, which will change your mind like it did mine when I read it years ago. And if you’re too good to read a 22-year-old book, you deserve to think Brotzman lost the game for BSU.

2. Meanwhile Utah, Boise State’s opponent in the MAACO Bowl, is considering a new social media policy after one of its players turned to Twitter to taunt the Broncos. Utes receiver DeVonte Christopher tweeted, “I can’t wait to get out here wit these Boise State or should I say Girlse State they a bunch of cheerleaders…lol.” Coach Kyle Whittingham said he and Christopher had had “several conversations” about Christopher’s ill-considered tweet. “Girlse?” Seriously? Bet they’ve never heard that before.

 

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Utah, Boise State Set for Marquee Non-BCS Matchup in Las Vegas

December 21, 2010   Jared Eborn   No comments

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Boise State UtahLAS VEGAS — No Alabama. No Oklahoma. No national championship.

No interest?

No chance.

The 2010 version of the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas might not feature BCS automatic-qualifying conference teams, but it has plenty of BCS history — and likely a little BCS future.

Boise State and Utah have combined for just three losses this season and share four BCS Bowl victories in the past few years — the most of any bowl matchup this year. According to numerous college football experts, the Broncos and Utes are the best bowl game not featuring BCS-arranged teams.

Utah, the original BCS Busters, are off to the Pac-12 next year where a one-loss conference season will be good enough most years to qualify for the Rose Bowl. In the Mountain West, one loss means relative obscurity on a national scale.

Boise State, the next in line to crash the BCS old-boys-club party, is bolting the WAC for the Mountain West (where the Broncos thought they’d have Utah, BYU and TCU as partners in chasing BCS automatic-qualifying status). It finds itself right back where it has been for the past decade — the pesky team with the blue turf and explosive offense perpetually on the verge of causing trouble in BCS board meetings.

 

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Boise State Fan Bill Morgan Doesn’t Let Being Blind Hinder His Enjoyment

December 18, 2010   Jason R. Chatraw   No comments

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BOISE, Idaho – When Boise State takes on Utah in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas on Wednesday, Bill Morgan won’t be in the same room as his wife Lynda. But it’s not because they live in a house divided – it’s always like that on game day for one of the Broncos’ biggest fans.

In fact, Morgan is never even in his house. When you know what’s going to happen before everyone else, it stands to reason that you can become the most annoying person in the room.

However, Morgan’s ability to see in the future doesn’t come from some prophetic power.

He’s simply blind.

“We tried watching games together but she couldn’t do it with me,” said Morgan, who suffers from the genetic disease retinitis pigmentosa and has been blind for more than 50 years. “When I listen to the games, the radio is about three to four seconds ahead of television and I would ruin it for her. I would be hollering or making a comment – and she literally hadn’t seen it on the screen.”

 

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Under Leon Rice, Boise State Basketball Follows Football Out of the Blue

December 09, 2010   Jason R. Chatraw   No comments

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BOISE, Idaho — Boise State first-year head coach Leon Rice shrugs when asked about his team’s chief competition: the Boise State football team. He’s answered this one plenty of times.

It’s a valid question for Rice, especially considering he left Gonzaga as the associate head coach after 11 years for a program trying to find its footing in the shifting landscape of college athletics.

“(Gonzaga) had so much support in Spokane from the community to the administration to the board of trustees — all to build that program and give us the things that we needed to build it on a national level,” Rice said. “I know that’s how it works, and that’s one of the things that attracted me to Boise State. That blueprint has been laid with football.”

Rice is clear about one thing: he doesn’t mind playing second fiddle as long as it’s part of the same victorious symphony.

“I look at what Boise State has done in football as a positive for us,” Rice said. “You get to show recruits the enthusiasm and the excitement around this football program. When (ESPN’s) GameDay was here, we brought recruits in for that game with Oregon State and they were blown away by it.

“They understand that people want to get behind our basketball program that way too if we can keep growing it. I feel like that’s an advantage, and we’re using it as an advantage when we recruit.”

 

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Five-Step Drop: Boise Fires Back

December 08, 2010   Mark Hasty   No comments

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FanHouse’s college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day.

1. The BCS computer error we told you about Tuesday has Boise State president Dr. Bob Kustra so mad he’s sending his colleagues a sternly-worded email and quoting dead sociologists. In a message to several university presidents and athletic directors, Kustra wrote, “The BCS has corrected for (the error) and Bill Hancock has apologized, but it still leaves open the question of transparency.” Later he writes, “How many times have we heard calls for transparency on our campuses and how many times have we shared our governance and communicated with our faculties and other constituencies in a transparent fashion? Yet, in intercollegiate athletics, with the NCAA standing silently on the sidelines, we allow the BCS to work its magic with no idea of how accurate its rankings are on a week to week basis.” Kustra has a valid complaint which, like all valid complaints against the BCS, will be summarily ignored.

2. In a question-and-answer session with Bob Sansevere of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi admitted that new Gophers coach Jerry Kill wasn’t the “Tubby Smith-type hire” he had promised. Just how far down the list was Kill, though? Maturi wouldn’t name many names, but he freely admitted he offered the job to Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, who turned him down. Maturi also said Boise State’s Chris Petersen was “not a BCS-level coach,” which will come as a surprise to everyone not named Joel Maturi.

 

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Boise State Attempts to Finish Strong

December 02, 2010   Graham Watson   No comments

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Boise State coach Chris Petersen is usually a pretty even-keeled guy who doesn’t often share his emotions with the media.

But earlier this week, as he talked about last week’s loss to Nevada that ended the Broncos dreams of both a BCS bowl and a potential shot at the national title, Petersen didn’t pull any punches.

“Crushing,” Petersen said of the way he took the loss. “There’s no easy way around it. It’s crushing. The entire team, the community, everybody, it’s crushing. We had chances and couldn’t get it done, a lot was at stake, and there’s no easy way around it.”

Boise State must regroup for this weekend’s game against Utah State, which could extend the Broncos streak of WAC titles in their final year in the league. Boise State has won seven of the past eight WAC championships and has shared just one with Nevada in 2005. Hawaii, which lost to the Broncos earlier this year, currently leads the WAC with a 7-1 record, but will share the title with Boise State and Nevada if both win their games this weekend.

Boise State hasn’t been through much hardship during the past decade, especially in the past couple years. Other than a loss to Hawaii in 2007, which cost the Broncos their only title since 2002, the Broncos have skated through conference play unscathed. In the past two seasons, Boise State’s only loss has been a 17-16 decision to TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl.

 

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