Bill Roth Gone HAM (5) via Bill Roth
Mr. Roth,
No one questions the quality of your fan base, only the quality of this selection. Boise State (remember them??) should be in the Sugar Bowl, not Virginia Tech. You can talk all you want about money and a Hall of Fame coach. You'd retire him in a minute if you could replace him with Chris Petersen. 'Fess up, the system IS broke and choosing Virginia Tech over BSU validates it. Eric Bouchard, Boise, Idaho.
Eric,
I think Tech fans can commiserate with you and other Bronco fans. They've been there before (Tech's 2000 BCS snub). I think Tech fans also respect Coach Petersen and the Broncos program. But bowl games are about putting fans in the seats and packing hotel rooms, and Virginia Tech has the advantage here. Bronco Stadium seats 33,400. Eric, Virginia Tech draws more than that for its spring game.
Furthermore, and I suggest this knowing in advance how you and other Bronco fans will react, there are several teams in the ACC, SEC, Big 12, Pac-12, and Big 10 that would have compiled a similar or better won-loss record than the Broncos over the past 10 years if they played the same schedule as Boise State. Yes, I'm quite aware of the result of the Tech-Boise game from last year, and the Georgia-Boise game from this year. And I really think the Boise-Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl was the greatest game I ever watched. But in a one-game deal, anything can happen.
Over the years in the WAC and Mountain West, Boise feasted on inferior teams. There has never been a cumulative effect of getting pounded on by future NFL linemen week after week. If you let Tech (or South Carolina or Arkansas or Michigan State or Wisconsin or Florida State or Penn State, etc.) play the exact same schedule as Boise State over the past 150-200 games, they'd have won 90 percent of them, too.
As for your final comment re: Coach Beamer, I'm being totally respectful again when I suggest that you'd have said the same thing about former Broncos coach Dan Hawkins back in 2005 before he left Boise for Colorado. We know how that turned out, right? It's great you love and respect your coach. But in fairness, I'll take ours'.
I don't always link to the Kroger Roth Report, but when I do, he's slapping the shit out of a Boise troll. Love it.
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Comments
Oh WOW #
This was awesome!
This made my day. #
I might frame it and put it next to my black pro combat helmet.
Seriously. I'm not joking.
Bring back the Pro Rev!
Wow #
Bill is usually so much more calm and respectful. I guess he, like me and many other VT fans, felt disrespected by all the negative comments on our bowl selection. He expressed our feelings on this issue very strongly. Well done sir!
PWNED #
Thats the word you kids use these days, right?
Also, only Bill Roth could make "fuck off fapfapfap" sound well-reasoned and classy. Teach me your ways, sir.
NO TWEEDY, IT'S WHIP!!!!!!!
Bill Roth = the man. #
I am convinced Eric emailed said "thank you" in the politest manner possible (wishing he had shook Bill's hand), then told all his friends about the man who graced him. Seriously, this was a bitch-slap backhand of biblical proportions conducted in the most polite and educated way possible.
I thought the best comment was the 33,400 Spring game and Bill addressing Eric by his first name just as you parents, mentor, or teacher does when they embarrassingly correct you but "lessen the blow" so to speak. That's right Eric- he compared your fanbase to a hungover spring game crowd. Now say thank you and get on with your life. Enjoy the relevance while it lasts.
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