Boise State president responds to Ohio State slam no schol will schedule boise state

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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...tpresident-bcs

Kustra said he it was hypocritical of Ohio State and all of the major BCS conferences to demean teams like Boise State. He said most of those conferences refuse to schedule his school.

“It’s easy for the presidents to talk, but ask the ADs when’s the last time that they seriously entertained taking requests or inviting Boise State to (play them),” Kustra said. “If you’re Boise State or TCU, they’re going to want to steer way clear of you.”

He said he had phone records that would prove that Boise State had tried to schedule home-and-home games with Top 25 teams from the BCS conferences, but that they would not play the Broncos anywhere but at their home stadium.

Gee, long a proponent of the BCS and the bowl system, said the current format to decide a national champion is superior to other options.

“If you put a gun to my head and said, ‘What are you going to do about a playoff system (if) the BCS system as it now exists goes away?’ I would vote immediately to go back to the bowl system,” he said.

Gee called a playoff system “a slippery slope to professionalism.”

Kustra said most teams from the power conferences follow a simple blueprint when scheduling these days.

“The formula these days for BCS teams is get seven or eight home games, play one non-conference game against a team from another BCS league, schedule three or four patsies and try not to leave the state if you can help it,” he said.

He also said that the SEC’s Florida Gators have not left the state to play a non-conference, regular-season opponent since 1991.

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Kustra is right......... the BCS and power conferences are money hungry sumonabiatches, and dont want to play anyone that could destroy their good ol boy system.

[ChumpDumper]

lol “slippery slope to professionalism”

College football is a professional sport -- it's just the schools that end up with the money instead of the players -- and only the big schools make any money.

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“It’s easy for the presidents to talk, but ask the ADs when’s the last time that they seriously entertained taking requests or inviting Boise State to (play them),” Kustra said. “If you’re Boise State or TCU, they’re going to want to steer way clear of you.”

I've never thought of it this way. He makes a great point.

[Girasuck]

He said he had phone records that would prove that Boise State had tried to schedule home-and-home games with Top 25 teams from the BCS conferences, but that they would not play the Broncos anywhere but at their home stadium.

Why would any good team want to travel to podunk Boise, ID and play on that blue turf, in a ridiculous stadium when they can schedule a bad team to come to their stadium and make a profit from that game? Boise State needs to shut the up about the home/home deals and start playing these teams in their stadiums.

[Jose Canseco]

He's right. But that's why schools like Boise State and TCU needed to find a way to get into one of the BCS conferences. Right now, that's the system. Only way to break the system is to get into the system.

[johngateswhiteley]

I've never thought of it this way. He makes a great point.

seriously? that's the simplest augment.

[Pelicans78]

If Alabama holds on this big lead and Boise wins tonight at Nevada, the top two teams in the BCS will be Oregon and Boise St.