Sorry Smurf Turf yous ain't the bomb

Boise State University won the fiesta bowl the other night... YEA! (I guess). But all the talk about the PAC10 expanding and taking Boise St. is nuts. Here's why: They suck! That's right I said it. they have a little tiny stadium (seats 32,000), it has blue turf, the have lower academic entry standards then ASU (if thats possible) and they haven't had a conf. championship in another sport besides football in forever...! They don't even have a baseball team, they don't have a womens sport to hang their hat on and they don't have a natural rival to travel with (this is very important to the PAC 10...). Now that's just whats wrong with the school. Here is why it won't happen even if all of the above reasons don't make sense: SMALL MARKET. Why would the PAC10 want to expand? Only for more $$$$ right? Well the biggest money maker is TV money. Do you think that Boise and Idaho really are going to drive change for $$? NOPE. The population of Boise is 205,000. doh! Phoenix has 3 or 4 suburbs bigger then that. The State of Idaho only has 1.2 million in the whole state! not like it's really a booming TV market. The school only has 18,000 students. ASU and 54,000+ students! There is no way that Boise St. will ever be in the PAC10. This talk is just non-sense. What they should do is join the MWC and increase the MWC's football since that is their one sport. But that wouldn't help the MWC in other sports at all. In fact in Basketball and women's sports it would hurt the MWC. I think that Boise is a fine football team. Chris Peterson is the man and is like Mark Few from Gonzaga Basketball. They are both in great situations winning is expected. But if they were to ever leave their current schools, so would the success of that school's program! Just like Brian Kelly and Cincy's football team, Calapari and UMASS and Rick Patino at Seton Hall (until recent years). If the PAC 10 ever does expand it should take BYU and Utah. Much better in all areas than Boise St and anyone! The repeated excellence in many sports, the natural rivalry, travel partner they bring, excellence in many women's sports and the size of Utah (more then double the size of Idaho) and the two schools (BYU 34,000+, Utah 28,000 + students) is a much better sell then Boise State.

A few posts ago I explained why it doesn't matter if PAC 10 expands or not. So all of this is moot. However some ignorant "fans" still think that only football matters, which sometimes is true, but not to screw up our PAC10.