On The Herd one day he was saying that major conferences won't take Boise St. because they don't meet the minimum academic requirements for acceptance into the conference and/or they're not a research institute. I can't remember exactly how it was said, but it was something along those lines, and if that's true, it leads me to believe that Boise St. will be forever trapped in second-tier conference purgatory.

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Posted by BCLA

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Posted on 11/25/10 at 10:04 am to tad1015

Its actually Baylor that keeps blocking out TCU. They don't want another private Christian school to compete with, which is whatever anti-christian term you'd want to use. Hence the TCU to Big East talk.

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Posted by trackfan

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Posted on 11/25/10 at 10:10 am to tad1015

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On The Herd one day he was saying that major conferences won't take Boise St. because they don't meet the minimum academic requirements for acceptance into the conference and/or they're not a research institute.

You're exactly right. Boise State was a junior college until 1965, and they still don't have a graduate school. Idaho is the flagship school in that state, not Boise Stae. I also think that Boise State's lower academic standards are what allows Chris Petersen to go into California and recruit would-be PAC 10 athletes that don't meet the academic requirements of the PAC 10 schools. These athletes are choosing Boise State rather than go the junior college route in order to qualify for schools like USC and Oregon.

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