Boise blooms into a football power
OU football: No small potatoes
BOISE , Idaho — The phrase — " Rose Bowl 2000” — was something they whispered only to each other.
Less a dream than an inside joke, really. But there was no doubt John Keiser , Boise State 's president, and Gene Bleymaier , the school's athletic director, were aiming high when, some 15 years ago, they made a push to elevate the football program to NCAA Division I-A .
Aiming too high, apparently. At...
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