Feista Bowl

[H-towngreen]

That has to go down as one of the greatest games ever played!!

Props to the Boise coach for having balls the size of Idaho. You gotta love it!

[gksmith]

Who is calling these plays for Boisie?

Hook and Latter to tie the game in regulation.

Statue of Liberty for the 2 point extra point to win!

OU has to feel foolish to fall for those OLD PLAYS (neither of which I have ever seen work like they just did).

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

--Two great plays.... way to go SMURFS.

[UNTflyer]

The sideline reporter says to the BSU player, "OK, you're going to propose to your girlfriend..."

Way to spoil the surprise pal.

[gangrene]

Wow! Great game...BSU beat OU and the pro-BCS refs from the Big 10. Props to the Broncos.

[UNTflyer]

--Two great plays.... way to go SMURFS.

THREE great plays... don't forget the WR lining up at QB to throw the touchdown.

[H-towngreen]

The sideline reporter says to the BSU player, "OK, you're going to propose to your girlfriend..."

Way to spoil the surprise pal.

Right!?! WTF!

That was still awesome to see.

[UNTflyer]

Yes, and she's a cutie.

[Danish42]

I give all of you alot of credit for seeing the reminder of the game. I left as soon as regular time expired. It was just to much excitment for me and I would of felt like crap if BS would have lost. My loss after seeing the score this morning. I'd hope to see NT follow in BS foot steps.

Edited January 2, 2007 by Danish42

[JayDub]

I give all of you alot of credit for seeing the reminder of the game. I left as soon as regular time expired. It was just to much excitment for me and I would of felt like crap if BS would have lost. My loss after seeing the score this morning. I'd hope to see NT follow in BS foot steps.

Ahh, the only benefit of living in the Mountain Time Zone.

What a game...I was jumping up and down freaking out.

[shutter]

This game was all that and more best coached game I have ever seen. My wife even got hooked on the excitement and the outcome was great. I hope that NT can head to Norman with hope next season. Oh man what a game.

shut

[rcade]

I need to find all of my friends from when I was eight years old, and tell them "see -- I told you the statue of liberty play works!"

That game is the reason you watch 1,000 games to the bitter end, because occasionally real magic happens. The proposal at the end was the icing on the cake.

Big West, baby! A mid-major just became the first college football team to go 13-0!

[PlummMeanGreen]

With all apologies to the great Texas sports columnist Blackie Sherrod I will use a word he made famous with his Sunday column in the Dallas Morning News back of years gone by:

SCATTERSHOOTIN'

Wasn't last night with many of our Mean Green Nation watching the Tostito Fiesta Bowl just simply a great television sporting event and one college football game none of us will soon forget?

Did this BCS Championship Series win by the Boise State U Broncos over a Big 12 champion just make non-BCS recruiting a tad easier and more legitimate to those recruits we may not have gotten return letters of interest in past years or into their living rooms as well? Could UNT's hiring of Coach Todd Dodge have been timed any better?

Yes, it will still be non-BCS versus the more established and higher budgetted programs out there in the recruiting wars, but BSU showed the world last night what can happen when you set your goals high. Obviously, BSU had to set their goal much higher than WAC football championships and WAC bowl appearances for their non-BCS football program to reach the pinnacle they reached last evening. It will be interesting to see if they can continue this momentum with their 5'th head football coach in 9 years. BTW, Coach Peterson, another non-BCS coach who said in USA Today a few weeks ago that he does not get "goo-goo" eyed with the prospects of getting a Big Time U job. He said he and his family love it where they live and work now and he wants to continue to help BSU Bronco football grow.

BACK TO RECRUITING: Yes, we all know the same ol' group who are going to keep getting the same ol' majority of the 4 and 5 star recruits as well as Texas state Top 100 recruits (which has anyone else noticed has turned very BCS program-oriented the last few years with less non-BCS schools even being listed besides the names on our state lists); but (still) its like one of the Fiesta Bowl broadcast team said last evening and I very liberally paraphrase: "You get some of these 2 or 3 star recruits, they get well-coached and you can see what happen with the Boise State Broncos proving such tonight."

It's been the opinion of several on this board the last few years that UNT would really need to go well beyond SBC championships and NO's Bowl appearances in order for this program to grow, especially grow into a Top 25 type of football program that would help our fan base grow well beyond where we seem to have been land-locked the last several years with our average home attendance. Yet winning the SBC football championship and impressive NO's Bowl wins is the first part of what could be our own journey to a BCS Championship Series bowl berth and I think most of us would agree with that. I think we all know of one particular coach who would have received some BCS job interviews and possible job offers if our goals had only been higher and reached (yet like that old rock and roll song's lyrics say: "...but that was yesterday and yesterday's gone."

NT80 keeps posting that UNT needs to "strike while the iron's hot" with our hiring of Todd Dodge and I think we are all on board with that. GrayEagleOne has posted that MG fans are coming back by the droves with the hiring of Todd Dodge and that was a (necessary and much needed) big start with our Mean Green iron that is getting warmer and warmer as the days go by. In a sense, that iron got even warmer last night with a non-BCS win over the OU Sooners.

One can no longer drive around Denton anymore without being blown away with all the new faces that are living in all those new housing additions up there that used to be farm and ranch land. That area off 380 East (heading toward McKinney) completely astounds and amazes me because how many of us remember when all that multi-miles of land was mostly just pastures after pastures where horses and cows grazed?

We all know what potential is and what the University of Texas former coach and Lone Star State icon Darrell K. Royal once said about it and we all know what our "the sky is the limit" potential is at UNT; but do many of you also feel the beginnings of a groundswell of support toward a UNT football program by every era/every age group that will take us to places that the Hayden Fry era mostly just gave us a glimpse and made it to where many of us who got a taste of all that back in the day have just merely wanted our school and its newer alums and MG fans, in fact, our entire Mean Green Nation to go well beyond the Fry era tasting stage?

God Bless Betty Ford & Family &................

God Bless America...

Edited January 2, 2007 by PlummMeanGreen

[Smitty]

Some of you are making me feel positively ancient wth all this talk of "I've never seen the hook and ladder work" or "never seen the Statue of Liberty work." I've seen both of those work (the best one I remember was the hook and ladder by the Dolphins against San Diego in the playoffs in the early 1980s), but I've rarely seen either executed as well as Boise State did. Especially the lateral, because that requires pin-point timing and its always dangerous when you lateral between players going in opposite directions. Just spectacular.

How paranoid did those OU defenders look at the end? They had absolutely no idea where the attack was coming from next.

And all through that fourth quarter and OT, I couldn't help thinking, "That could be North Texas someday."

Edited January 2, 2007 by Smitty

[Smitty]

I give all of you alot of credit for seeing the reminder of the game. I left as soon as regular time expired. It was just to much excitment for me and I would of felt like crap if BS would have lost. My loss after seeing the score this morning. I'd hope to see NT follow in BS foot steps.

I really tried to turn it off, but I just couldn't do it. I had to watch.

[kj86]

That has to go down as one of the greatest games ever played!!

That's what I've been telling everyone at work today.

Has anyone gone to the Boise board to congratulate them? Anyone have a link?

[mad dog]

That's what I've been telling everyone at work today.

Has anyone gone to the Boise board to congratulate them? Anyone have a link?

The board I found was

http://mb14.scout.com/fboisestatefrm7

and

http://mb14.scout.com/fboisestatefrm7.show...cID=29541.topic

is the thread I put up referencing our game blog. Due to high traffic, it is already on the second page, but it is there. If you wanted to run over there to post, it might be nice to consolidate our posts to one thread.

[UNTStill]

During that unbelievable game, I found myself playing a sort of mental game -- most of the times when the announcers would say "Boise State" I would substitute "North Texas," and you know what, it didn't seem all that far-fetched . . . I'm not saying for right now, but in a few short years??

[Green Mean]

During that unbelievable game, I found myself playing a sort of mental game -- most of the times when the announcers would say "Boise State" I would substitute "North Texas," and you know what, it didn't seem all that far-fetched . . . I'm not saying for right now, but in a few short years??

That would be nice but realistically we have a long long way to go. Tho the WAC is not anything special but they are definitely more of an elite conference than the Sunbelt. Plus BSU has been winning and have beaten teams with credibility even before the Fiesta Bowl. No doubt this gives Mean Green fans hope but lets not get ahead of ourselves here. As Much as i loved the hiring of TD, he has not coached the collegiate level in a LONG LONG time....sure he did in 92-93 but heck that was not even division 1a. He has not recruited anybody yet and we dont have a full coaching staff yet. Lets all tap the brakes here and think from our heads and not our arse. Before we even think BCS bowls or EVEN top 25 rankings lets first consistently beat mid major teams a little higher than the sunbelt totem pole and lets atleast try to compete with the UT's and OU's of the world.

[mrsgreengoblin]

Man, that was definitely one of the best games I have ever seen. I couldn't tear my eyes away from the T.V. for one second.

My husband was actually telling ME to keep it down as I kept jumping off the couch screaming. LOL

[LongJim]

Boy, that's as good of a bowl game as you'll ever see. Up there in the top 3 for me, for sure. What a terrific game for both teams.

Congrats to Boise State.