Boise Hawks

Harken back, if you will, to Sports Illustrated’s College Football Preview in August, which ranked Boise State eighth.  The profile of the Broncos focused on the wide receivers that would replace Austin Pettis and Titus Young, leaning heavily on Geraldo Boldewijn, which SI called “the most physically gifted of the group.”  Now, Boise State actually gets to use Boldewijn in a game, as he’s finally been cleared by the NCAA after questions about the Amsterdam native’s eligibility.  The school will release a statement later in the week detailing t

When the SEC voted unanimously to invite Texas A&M to the conference, the realignment pot officially started to boil again.  The coming months are going to be interesting—for better or worse, a lot more interesting than the turbulent summer of 2010.  You can speculate until you’re Bronco blue in the face.  Will the Big 12 make a desperate expansion move and bring aboard BYU, even with its “no play on Sunday” policy?  Is TCU kicking itself for pulling the trigger on the Big East?  Could the Big 12 pre-empt the Horned Frogs’ move?&

It was one thing for Boise State to make the cover of Sports Illustrated’s College Football Preview issue last year—it was entirely another for the Broncos to quickly earn another appearance after dispatching Oregon State on ABC last September.  Now you have one Bronco who, as much as he tries to deflect it, is the focus of this week’s SI cover.  Kellen Moore is on one of two regional covers that hit newsstands today (LSU is on the other).  Moore is shown head-to-toe about to uncork one of his 34 passing attempts in the 35-21 win over Georgia last Saturda

If Boise State fans had a sinking feeling after Friday’s announcement that Geraldo Boldewijn, Cedric Febis and Ricky Tjong-A-Tjoe weren’t on the trip at Atlanta, how did they feel when they saw fullback Dan Paul decked out in jersey and jeans in pregame warm-ups at the Georgia Dome?  You had to keep reminding yourself that Paul wasn’t out there as the Bronco running game struggled in the first half against Georgia.  Nor was Paul’s backup, Chandler Koch, who doubles as a fullback but was injured in the Broncos’ August 20 scrimmage.  Yet Doug Ma

SEC fans seem obsessed with the fact that Boise State has never beaten a team from their conference.  Let’s look at that factoid.  The Broncos have only played SEC opponents four times.  The first time was against Arkansas in 2000, a seven-point loss after a fourth-and-goal Bronco shot was stopped by the Razorbacks on the one-yard-line.  South Carolina won 32-13 in 2001 in Dan Hawkins’ debut as Boise State head coach.  Arkansas routed Boise State in 2002 the night Ryan Dinwiddie broke his ankle.

Let’s peruse old Scott Slants from this week in 2005 and see what the buzz was going into the infamous first Boise State-Georgia game.  Coach Dan Hawkins spent a lot of fall camp trying to create a hint of the atmosphere the Broncos would face in Athens by using the Bronco Stadium sound system.  He played with players’ psyches with cuts like “Dog Meat,” “Overrated,” and “Georgia On My Mind,” plus high-decibel crowd noise and various obnoxious rap songs. 

We thought Chris Petersen’s session with the media was over yesterday.  Cameras had shut off, and pens and pads were being put away.  Then Petersen said he had one more thing he wanted to mention.  And it became the story of the day.  Boise State running back Malcomb Johnson tore his ACL in practice Sunday night and is lost for the season.  “It was a kickoff drill and we weren’t even going against ourselves.” said Petersen.  “He just planted weird.  That’s a tough one to take.”  No doubt—especially fo

This is the one that’s asked a lot as the rather large 2011 Boise State opener looms five days away: Who’s going to start at wide receiver?  The answer from Chris Petersen usually carries the “it doesn’t matter” theme.  Because the Broncos are going to play about seven wideouts, and they’ll change with different formations.  The question that looms larger—and one that will be answered Saturday night in the Georgia Dome—is, “Who makes plays and who doesn’t make plays?”  Tyler Shoemaker has made plays in

They’ve been hidden away for about a year.  Despite rumors that they’d be busted out late last season—even for the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas—they were stashed behind closed doors.  But the white helmets are ready for prime time now, as Nike unveiled Boise State’s Pro Combat uniforms yesterday for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff in the Georgia Dome.  What Nike calls the “terminator horse” is on the left side of the helmet, like the one on the blue helmets worn in last year’s opener against Virginia Tech.  Everything else is white, too

It was fitting that Kellen Moore’s first completion of last Saturday night’s Boise State scrimmage was a 14-yarder to his brother, Kirby.  The Prosser duo is ready to connect again after Kirby spent last season as a redshirt.  The younger Moore’s true freshman year was productive but painful.  He had broken his foot in the summer and had a screw inserted in the foot.  The screw broke during the season, and doctors removed it and put a new one in.  Through it all, Kirby made 21 catches and scored two touchdowns, one of them a crucial fourth-quart