BSU no longer allowed to wear blue at home

[Riddickulous]

Boise State can't wear all blue uniforms at home for Mountain West games | Voices.IdahoStatesman.com

Huh.

 

[TerryTate]

Finally. It's F'ing camouflage

 

[military_irish]

Might as well ban fans from going to games also because it causes an advantage to the home team.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

What's next? Is Michigan State not going to be allowed to wear green at home?

 

[JayRock]

This is a Mountain West rule.

Colorodo State is not allowed to wear all green as well.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Well then it makes perfect f'in sense!

 

[k1ssme1m1r1sh]

Their field is blue. I tried watching them once on TV and I thought I was gonna puke. Seriously, it was weird, them in blue, blue astroturf....not good.

 

[BGIF]

BSU Agreed To It

BSU Agreed To It

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2011/07/26

There have been rumblings among opposing coaches for years that the Broncos had an advantage with their blue uniforms on the blue turf. Mountain West members expressed a concern about the uniforms when the league was considering Boise State’s membership bid in summer 2010 and the school agreed to the rule as a condition of its membership, commissioner Craig Thompson said.

— Petersen hasn’t figured out how he will reduce his scholarships by three over two years, beginning this fall. He declined comment on the NCAA violations until the NCAA delivers its ruling, likely later this summer.

"Everybody with a helmet has a scholarship this year. Smith you can keep that BSU cap as a souvenir. Oh, and Smith the finance office called. Something about you need to pay your tuition before classes start tomorrow."

 

[Whiskeyjack]

laff

 

[phork]

Stupid. If you can't beat'em, out rule them.

 

[IrishLax]

FINALLY... this is an incredibly large advantage on defense... more than most realize.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I am in complete applause about this. To my eye Boise's field has actually subtly changed in its intensity of "blueness" to match the uniforms as closely as possible. I tried to imagine the human eyes' color-receiving cells becoming saturated with the field color [which to a degree at least they MUST] and that phenomenon serving to dull-out the quarterback's "fast-read" ability as to where all the opponents are [side-vision motion as well as direct vision.]

This was a deliberate attempt to gain an advantage [like sewing fake footballs on everyones' jerseys] and should have been stopped long ago. As to Michigan State and green, we're stuck with grass being green, so the old decision to make team colors green and white was at the time "innocent". I also have not noticed MSU deliberately trying to color-match the field. But, yes, if it can be shown that the color-vision fatigue is real, then I'm not offended by telling them to wear their whites [or redesign uniforms with enough eye-relief to abort confusion].

I'm "old school" in that I don't believe in deliberate cheating on things which are incidental to the playing of the game. I also would like things like psychologically constructed motion-images behind the opponents' rim on foul shots be forbidden, just like bull-horns at the shot-delivery are. If I'm going to beat you, I want to do it "man up". And frankly, I can't see why any real athlete would be in support of things like that. Hey, everybody, I've got these great new shoes with supersprings in them!! And a bionic punching arm. And a giant holographic projector which makes the goalpost seem twenty feet to the left. Oh, and about the windmachine.....

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Boise should be forced to change their stupid field.

 

[GreatGolson]

BSU has (had) a play where during kick return, one returner would lie down and hide to wait for a pitch from the first returner.... tell me thats not unfair advantage. things like crowd noise shouldnt be penalized *cough cough MICHIGAN but when an advantage like BSU has its time to make a ruling

 

[Bogtrotter07]

In a game, play fair. I haven't seen green as coordinated as the BSU blue. That hue of blue (and one of green) are what they use for green screens in video. Blue is more deceptive in outdoor light.

Keeping an unfair advantage in combat however is okay. Stealth technology belongs in the air and water, not in a football stadium!

 

[BeauBenken]

Let's not call Boise State BSU. There's a far superior BSU in Muncie, Indiana.

But seriously, I saw this and was like, "What? We don't wear blue...OHHHHH."

 

[OCIrish]

I don't know why everybody is jumping on BSU....I mean, its BSU.....

 

[BeauBenken]

I don't know why everybody is jumping on BSU....I mean, its BSU.....

Are you poking fun at me? -_-

 

[GowerND11]

My guess is they will wear their orange alts at home. I don't have a problem with Boise wearing the blue jerseys. People are only complaining now that Boise is good and relevant. What about in the 80s and 90s? I just feel they should have made a rule, and grandfathered in Boise, banning colored turfs. Eastern Washington's field that is red is HORRIBLE!

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

I seem to remember wondering out loud on this site whether the Boise blue field and matching uniforms created an unfair advantage. I think I was pretty much shot down on the notion. I guess others think the same way as I do about it.

I remember the opening college game last year with Boise vs. VT being a huge pain to my eyes with all that glitzy bright colored uniforms. I do like the new Boise helmet design, but I can do without the rest of the glamour crap.

 

[no.1IrishFan]

I'm curious to hear from opposing players about the field. I doubt anyone would blame a loss on the blue field/jerseys, but I'd like to know if they felt like they were at a disadvantage.

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

I'm curious to hear from opposing players about the field. I doubt anyone would blame a loss on the blue field/jerseys, but I'd like to know if they felt like they were at a disadvantage.

I also doubt any athlete would make that excuse for fear of sounding like a sissy making excuses. The older folk and administrators obviously have their opinions though.

 

[NDbrbkny]

I wonder who is the genius that cried to the MWC and got this enacted?

 

[jfjkd01]

I wonder how Kellen Moore picks out his receivers on the Smurf Turf?

 

[kmoose]

I wonder who is the genius that cried to the MWC and got this enacted?

Probably that petera$$ Spurrier.

 

[irishfan]

I wonder how Kellen Moore picks out his receivers on the Smurf Turf?

Probably cause he knows what routes they are running.

 

[BGIF]

I wonder who is the genius that cried to the MWC and got this enacted?

BSU GOT it enacted. It was a condition of The Conference to join. That would tend to indicate at least 4 schools out of 7 were smart enough to recognize an unfair advantage.

BSU didn't have to agee. They could have stayed where they were.

 

[irishtrain]

I am in complete applause about this. To my eye Boise's field has actually subtly changed in its intensity of "blueness" to match the uniforms as closely as possible. I tried to imagine the human eyes' color-receiving cells becoming saturated with the field color [which to a degree at least they MUST] and that phenomenon serving to dull-out the quarterback's "fast-read" ability as to where all the opponents are [side-vision motion as well as direct vision.]

This was a deliberate attempt to gain an advantage [like sewing fake footballs on everyones' jerseys] and should have been stopped long ago. As to Michigan State and green, we're stuck with grass being green, so the old decision to make team colors green and white was at the time "innocent". I also have not noticed MSU deliberately trying to color-match the field. But, yes, if it can be shown that the color-vision fatigue is real, then I'm not offended by telling them to wear their whites [or redesign uniforms with enough eye-relief to abort confusion].

I'm "old school" in that I don't believe in deliberate cheating on things which are incidental to the playing of the game. I also would like things like psychologically constructed motion-images behind the opponents' rim on foul shots be forbidden, just like bull-horns at the shot-delivery are. If I'm going to beat you, I want to do it "man up". And frankly, I can't see why any real athlete would be in support of things like that. Hey, everybody, I've got these great new shoes with supersprings in them!! And a bionic punching arm. And a giant holographic projector which makes the goalpost seem twenty feet to the left. Oh, and about the windmachine.....

Laugh if you will but what Old Man Mike is saying is right on the $$$-it was bull $#@^ and they even changed the color to match the uni to near perfection. Green unis are not ever going to match green grass like this fiasco was allowed to do. Plus its annoying as hell. What if Oklahoma State came out on an orange field with those all orange unis and that offense-I'd say that was an unfair advantage. As Mike said man up and forget the smoking mirrors.

 

[bert2834]

Definitely an advantage. I watched there game and it was hard to tell if they were offsides or not.