Boise State moves to Mountain West!

[El Supremo]

:bounce: :bounce:

On Edit: The headline should read "National Champion Boise State"

The MWC is sure to be an automatic BCS conference now.

Boise State has given the Mountain West Conference a 10th program.

Boise State is leaving the Western Athletic Conference, a league the Broncos have dominated for a decade in football, the MWC confirmed with a statement Friday.

"We are pleased and excited to welcome Boise State University to the Mountain West Conference," commissioner Craig Thompson said in the news release. "Since our inception just 11 short years ago, the Mountain West has experienced tremendous success, and the addition of Boise State will further enhance that strength. The MWC continues to strategize regarding potential membership scenarios and bringing Boise State into the Conference is an important part of that evolution."

Boise State becomes the second institution to join the Mountain West in the past six years, after TCU was added in 2005. The conference was founded in 1998 with eight members....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5276064

[fishwax]

1. Out of curiosity, why did you illustrate this story with a picture of Georgia's Stadium?

[El Supremo]

2. Whoa! There is more than one blue field?

Fixed.

[GaYellowDawg]

4. No, there's not.

Boise State fans photoshopped their blue turf into pictures of Sanford Stadium before our game in 2005. All the talk stopped after we bitch-slapped them 48-13 and made them like it.

[El Supremo]

5. Hah!

And it still shows up in Google searches! Who had the last laugh?

[GaYellowDawg]

6. We did.

By "we", I mean the Dawgs. Every time I look at that photoshopped picture, I laugh, because it reminds me of how much they ran their mouths before the game and how humbled they were afterward. Actually, the Boise State fans I met at that game were nice - they were highly complimentary of our stadium and campus.

[RT Atlanta]

3. that's cool

I like their brand of football and hope to see them become more high profile with the move.

[madinmaryland]

7. That blue is really fucking sickening. Football is meant to be played on REAL GRASS!!

:puke:

[KamaAina]

8. And it's difficult to see their blue unies against it

Belichick probably wishes he'd thought of that!

[madinmaryland]

9. He's had plenty of time to video tape it and ...

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