Could Iowa State be the next Boise St.??

[ClimbIowa]

Personally, I hate BSU specifically for their turf, but no degree of personal hatred or talk of weak schedules changes the fact that Boise has legitimate football players that get drafted by NFL teams. They consistently have talent.

 

[JUKEBOX]

Agreed to an extent. Boise State was a cute story for awhile. They were the little guy that jumped up and took down some of the big boys but then ESPN ran so wild singing their praises all of the time that many people started to hate Boise State... myself included. If ISU can keep receiving pub from ESPN to a little lessor degree then what Boise State did then I would be all for it. I just don't want to see ISU's publicity get to the point where people can't stand ISU anymore.

I can't even watch a Boise State game anymore without rooting like hell for them to lose.

Boise State is the team version of Tim Tebow.

 

[cyclone83]

Boise can also recruit a lot of California kids who wouldn't qualify for Pac 12 schools. ISU doesn't have a large pool talent to recruit from like Boise does. Most of Boise's roster comes from places like Stockton or Compton.

 

[IowaSTATCyclone]

I'll put it this way:

Jim Criner won a national title at Boise State.

He put ISU on probation en route to a (short) career record of .409

See also Dan Hawkins.

That is all I'm going to say about that.

 

[BigLame]

I would rather be the next Virginia Tech.
Rhoads would be our Beamer.
Big XII > ACC, no doubt