BOISE STATE FOOTBALL
Curious about someof the play calling
Dear offensive coordinator: After your running back runs into a brick wall time after time, I would think you might try running around it.
Just saying.
DAVE COMBS, Emmett
Cooking show wasmore entertaining
I wait week-to-week and year-to-year to watch Boise State football on TV. That changed Thursday night, Sept. 20.
With what was going on, by both teams, I let my wife change the channel. She went to a public TV channel and we watched one of her favorite cooking shows. I have to admit, it was much more exciting.
We did switch back and forth a little bit, and I must say I have never seen such a poorly coached, and played, football game in my life.
I do have to say, though, that I did learn some really neat new barbecue techniques.
GARY D. BUTLER, Boise
Don’t blame the QB,blame the coach
While a lot of Bronco Nation may be calling for an early end to the Joe Southwick era, I think we need to look at someone else.
The Boise State playbook might be one of the most imaginative and prolific in major college sports, and the best that (offensive coordinator) Robert Prince can come up with is run D.J. Harper up the middle 30-plus times a game?
Really?
Two out of three times is becoming more than a coincidence, it’s becoming a habit. Prince needs to find more than the run-up-the-middle page in the playbook or find the unemployment line.
GREG A. KELLER, Cascade
Here’s hoping Coach Pete can fix the offense
Where has all the offense gone?
Short time passing.
Where has all the offense gone?
Short time passing.
Gone to Detroit and other NFL teams.
A great defense is a great offense. With a great defense, Boise State has won a game by one point. How many more games can be won by one point with the great defense?
There appears to be a problem.
I hope Coach Pete can find and fix that very lackluster offense for the next game. Boise State Nation has faith that more points can be scored than have been in the first three games.
GERRY DIFFENDAFFER, Boise
One season later,missing No. 11
Darn you, Kellen Moore. For four years you spoiled us. It’s all your fault putting us through this pain.
P.S. Still love you.
DON WILLIAMS, Boise
GOLF
Kudos to high school girl for chasing a dream
The ultimate game of golf knows no gender and has no awareness of chromosomes.
I applaud Sierra Harr for hitting the links with the boys team at Castleford High. Those who oppose her right to play need to reassess their approach.
Talent should never be ignored. Talent should be lofted from the rough and given a clean shot at the green. In golf, the truth is found on the scorecard. All the rest is bad lies and illusionary handicaps.
Keep swinging, Sierra. The dream of golf greatness never dies.
BILL ENGLISH, Boise
YOUTH FOOTBALL
Roster ‘stacking’ is an unfair practice
I have had the pleasure of watching my two young sons play youth football for three years. I have also seen the unfortunate practice of “stacking teams.”
Stacking is a phenomenon in which players of equal skill, size and experience are not spread evenly across competing teams, and unfortunately it is very easy to do in youth football.
Families can make requests for kids to be on the same team because of siblings, carpooling, issues with the coach, other players or parents.
Sometimes it can be a legitimate request. More often than not the league will accommodate these requests. If these were the only reasons for team stacking, we would live in a perfect world. But team stacking isn’t an anomaly.
Because some adults are focused on selfish motives, instead of the long-term development of kids, teams get stacked in an unfair way.
Parents can tell when stacking takes place in favor of the team coached by the president of the board or a commissioner whose son plays for a particular team. What sense does this make?
Let’s remember youth sports are for the development of all the kids, not just a select few.
ERIC WHITE, Kuna
