(05-19-2014 03:40 PM)StillJonesing Wrote: (05-19-2014 03:27 PM)EDLUVAR Wrote: (05-19-2014 03:24 PM)StillJonesing Wrote: (05-19-2014 03:16 PM)EDLUVAR Wrote: Man ECU is all grown up now....talking about who should and should not be added to confrences LOL
The problem is Boise never grew. They won all those games and still plays in front of 30 something thousand in a stadium with a track around it. Your coach saw the writting on the wall he had ridden that horse into the ground and dropped it. Serious question what happens now when you win 7 or 8 games and the 33k you were getting stop coming?
We certainly took a different approach and actually played many BCS schools, but I can't imagine if we had been scheduling our way to top 25's our facilites and support would still look more like that.
Boise's facilities have been getting rave reviews from the recruits. I wonder why BSU only plays in front of 37k.......how come they never get any more to home games? I also wonder how BSU and ECU compare in TV eyeballs. Heading back to the Chick fil A game again this year in Atlanta.....will the AAC ever play in that game?
I don't really get the Chick Fil A game reference. We've played in the Peach Bowl before, we've played NC State, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, South Carolina in Charlotte on national TV plenty of times in a neutral setting as well as in our OWN stadium.
Dude, your success very likely went to the PAC 12. The rest of your brick and mortor/fanbase basically look exactly like you did 15 years ago or even before that. You never really turned any of it into something that actually looks like a P5 school.
At least we have drawn 50k in a season and sold it completely out a season and have more expansion on our stadium in the way to 60k. You could visit us on a game day and actually confuse us for a mid level P5 school, you couldn't Boise.
I wouldn't trade programs at this point. We are better right now under our current coach who's an alum that isn't leaving, always draw more, hell we averaged 33k like you did last year when we were 1-12 over a decade ago. We have nicer/larger facilities, have better schedules, and a better conference at this point. Hell we even beat you in a bowl the only time we played. I don't even think there was really a massive gap in our actual teams or talent most of those years you were scheduling your way to top 20's.
There has been plenty of work done the past 10 years on Bronco Stadium
Current/future expansion[edit]
Caven-Williams Sports Complex
Stueckle Sky Club (2008) in October 2009
South end zone expansion in 2009As the Boise State football program rose to national prominence in the early 2000s, Bronco Stadium became increasingly insufficient. The school completed a 3-story complex on the stadium's west side called the Stueckle Sky Club (pronounced Stickle). Construction began on it on February 11, 2007, and it officially opened on August 27, 2008 with a gala for ticket holders prior to the first game on August 30.[32] It features levels for a new press box, luxury suites, loge boxes, and club seating and increased seating capacity to 32,000.
The practice facility, named the Caven-Williams Sports Complex, officially opened in February 2006, and it is located immediately northwest of Bronco Stadium.[33] Additional temporary seating of 1,500 was added prior to the 2009 season. The removable bleachers increased capacity to 33,500. Permanent bleachers were also added to the north and south end zones prior to the 2012 season, raising Bronco Stadium's capacity to a total of 37,000.
In late August 2010, new expansion plans were revealed for Bronco Stadium. The first stages were to include adding a new facility to the north endzone to house the football offices, weight room, training room, equipment room and locker room. Plans also included a 13,200 seat grandstand. The later stages of the expansion plan included removal of the track, lowering of the field, and adding 3,300 seats in front of the first deck of the stadium, completion of the south endzone horseshoe, building of an east side skybox, and renovation of the east side concourse. The total cost for all planned expansions was around $100 million. The total seating capacity for a fully expanded Bronco Stadium was estimated to be around 53,000.[34] The Boise State athletic director aims to have the north endzone complex open in time for the 2013 season and does not resemble the 2010 plans
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Can BYU potentially change the landscape for the non P5?
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