I was stunned. The majority of the Bronco stadium crowd was too. A crowd that moments before was perhaps louder than any other crowd I had ever heard was now eerily silenced. I could not believe it. How was I going to deal with this?
Denial
This doesn’t make sense. Boise State does not lose on The Blue. Maybe six years ago, but not this team. This team is a BCS contender, even a National Championship contender. They learned from last year, right? Maybe the field goal was actually good and they will review it. It had to be good. Is there a flag on the field? Seriously we did not just lose this game, not when we were running out the clock. Why are the TCU players celebrating on our field? How on earth will Boise State ever recover from this?
It is being reported this morning that Joe Pa will retire at the end of the season. Most likely this would have been the case anyway. This is coaching icon, a legend and a career in College Football that dates back decades. He began his coaching stint at Penn State in 1966. I was four years old when his career at Penn State got underway, a young boy. What we are talking abut the past few days is the end of an era. What we should be talking about are the victims, the numbers could be in the double digits.
This weekend Boise State will be honoring its Distinguished Alumni and Alumni Service award winners for 2011. In addition to being recognized at the annual Presidential Gala Friday night, they will also be recognized on the Blue at halftime of the Homecoming game against Air Force. One of the Distinguished Alumni is Steve Decker, who recently retired from teaching fifth grade at Highlands Elementary in Boise. Prior to retiring Steve earned the Red Apple Award from the Boise School District for outstanding teaching, and also earned KTVB’s Seven’s Heroes award for his work with the Interfaith Sanctuary in Boise. Steve earned a Master of Arts in Elementary Education -Curriculum and Instruction in 1981, and a Master of Arts in Elementary Education –Reading in 1987. We were fortunate enough here at Blue Turf Nation to be able to ask some questions of one our newest Distinguished Alumni.
The only thing positive about the recent conference landscape changes and the non-stop banter and speculation? Well, if you expected another revelation or concrete thesis then you’ve come to the wrong place. The driving force behind all of this change and speculation is greed or Texas, I’m not sure. It’s probably a little of both. Texas has a network of it’s own and that in and of itself drove A&M to head Southeast and the land grabbers went to work.
Will aka Blue Elvis from 
