(02-25-2012 05:52 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 03:35 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 03:32 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 03:29 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 01:02 PM)Wedge Wrote:  ... But Boise's biggest issue IMO is their league for other sports. Just adding one more Western FB team to the BE does nothing to help Boise with that issue.

Boise had to know that they were in a position of power prior to signing on with the BE. They also had to know or should have been smart enough to know that the BE is at it's core an eastern, metro, basketball league and will make decisions accordingly. Boise leveraged getting SDSU in, and some out clauses if the landscaped changed or things didn't go according to plan, but if they wanted more they should have forced the issue before they signed.

The basketball schools agreed to UCF, Houston, SMU, and to Temple coming in and eating Villanova's lunch. I'm pretty sure that Boise could have negotiated for an all-sports invite. They didn't.

The Alliance could use a western non-football member to balance out Hawaii......

We could, but if you're talking about Boise I highly doubt they would be under any consideration for it. Denver would make a lot of sense, and I'm sure there are others although I'm not as familiar with that side of the country.

+1. There is zero chance of BSU being invited to the Alliance for non-football sports.

I mean I could understand the idea of considering keeping SDSU around for non-FB sports, because they are a top notch basketball program. Boise offers very little outside of football.