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Does anyone believe Boise state should be ranked #3?

There were EMPTY SEATS at the Boise game Tuesday night. I thought Boise was supposed to be a hardcore football empire with rabid fans. What the fuck else is there to do in Boise on a Tuesday Night. You have the #3 undefeated team on the National TV playing and there are empty seats?

PATHETIC!
 
Let's see...it's TUE night? So the tailgating hordes of fans can't exactly drive across state and attend on a TUESDAY night? I wouldn't get too torqued up on them about empty seats on a TUESDAY night 8)

More of a statement than empty seats would be their need to accept moving a game to TUESDAY night - a reflection of a) a program with very little funding (hence the 'play anyone' mentality, with the request for payouts for such matchups), and b ) a need to put their program's name in the national spotlight and gain voter visibility, rather than being lost in a sea of 'other' games on Saturday.



Personally, I've mostly been against either TCU or BSU (or UTAH for that matter) being in the BCS NC due to a lack of proving ones self. They simply don't have the strength of schedule to have earned it. That said, I do acknowledge they play the hand they are dealt (Big10+2 fans should recall the 'dont penalize us for our weak conference sisters' argument), and they typically DO get up for the one or two big games in the year, including the bowl games (which finally registered for me with tOSU going 0-9 against SEC teams....reflecting *not* getting up for one game?).

>disclaimer, the above was not actually intended as my usual jabbing at tOSU, honestly.

So, I sway from mostly wanting to keep BCS busters out, to saying 'fuggit, make BSU-TCU the NC game' to finally move to a playoff. But, I'm not thinking the bowl system will ever get moved to playoffs, regardless of how many busters squeak thru (and regardless of how they actually perform in those bowls).

At this point, I am willing to accept a buster getting in, but that hinges mostly on other 'pre-conceived (aka Big six conference champs) having lost enough to work themselves out of the position. It isn't so much BSU-TCU earning their way in, as it is other teams losing their way out and letting the busters get in there. And if that's how it shakes out, I'm okay with that. But on their own merit, I just can't be comfortable letting an undefeated buster get in past any team that gets thru undefeated in a BCS conference....just can't do it. Back to the strength of schedule, I guess - big six champs proved themselves. The end.
 
but when have you ever seen empty seats at the Swamp? the Shoe? he does have a point. if the Buckeyes played on a Monday night this place would be rocking
 
I gurantee if the Buckeyes had a game on Tuesday night, or any night, it would be sold out.

It shouldn't be too tough to fill up a 40,000 seat stadium when there is nothing else to do in Boise and your team is ranked #3.
 
Not so fast, my friend(s)....

- A regular season game has most/all seats sold to regular season ticket holders. You know, all those tailgators that travel in for the games on Saturday? My point stands that those who OWN the seats most likely would not travel in on a Tuesday night. That point made, I would concede that if the tickets were made available to non-boosters (as would be wise for a Tuesday night game), cities like Columbus would have no problems filling the stands.

- A city like Columbus would have no trouble filling the stands.....because it is Columbus. That is more a reflection on Buckeye fans than it is on Boise. You could go to a lot of places with a dense enough population to find people to fill the stands if tickets are made available. Like Gainesville, Norman, Lincoln, Blacksburg....places that have a dense population with plenty of 'fans' that don't have season tickets but love the team - no worries, stands are full. I'm still not sold that Boise has enough of that size of fan base 'in town'. As to "Boise was supposed to be a hardcore football empire with rabid fans" ... can anyone argue their success in recent years - recordwise or bowl wins? And I'm sure their fans are quite 'rabid' about the team, but not everyone in town is a fan, I'm willing to bet. I'm not even going to put places like Miami, LA, or other major metropolitan areas with a lot of 'other stuff to do' into this discussion.

- Lets back up to the statement and assess it for what it was:

There were EMPTY SEATS at the Boise game Tuesday night. I thought Boise was supposed to be a hardcore football empire with rabid fans. What the fuck else is there to do in Boise on a Tuesday Night. You have the #3 undefeated team on the National TV playing and there are empty seats?

PATHETIC!
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I misread that as an answer to the thread question of having them #3, or my inferred reading of it as 'should Boise even be in the BCS conversation?'. So, I'm getting a bit bent on the 'attendance' remarks due to my misinterpretation of what it addressed. The statement is only that it was 'Pathetic'. I can't argue that, I can only point to MIA and nod in agreement. However, as it relates to the thread topic, attendance is wholly unrelated to rankings - performance is. Which brings us back on topic, and off of census bureau research.
 
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I don't think Boise should be ahead of a 1-loss SEC/ Pac 10/ Big 10 team, either. I'm a Bama fan obviously, and if they were to win out and be left out of the NC in place of Boise, I'd be pretty upset.

I'm with everyone that has them ranked in the 5-10 spot...
 
I've been contemplating rooting for a BSU VS TCU National Championship. only because I think it would be a very low-rated BCS title game, therefore putting the playoffs idea not just a novelty and perhaps more of a reality
 
Oregon has no defense, Auburn would run all over them just like TP and Ohio State did last year

TP was even able to pass all over that porous Oregon defense - imagine that!

seeing Cam "Laptop" Newton, who plays like TP should next year, against the Ducks would be a blow-out
 
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