Punt coverage never looked more like corralling a chicken. Boise State freshman Ty Benefield was gonna make his first collegiate highlight. He was going to bring slight reprieve on a day when promise turned south in a hurry. Benefield planted his cleats on the 1-yard line, knees bent, ready to down James Ferguson-Reynolds’ bouncing punt.…
SEATTLE – There might not be a better setting for college football on Saturday – or a better matchup – than Boise State against No. 10 Washington in front of 70,000 fans on what is expected to be a perfect afternoon for football at Husky Stadium. Taylen Green can’t think of anywhere he’d rather be…
TACOMA, Wash. – The framed jersey hangs on the back wall of Yaisa Criss-Greenwood’s office, along with a number of other posters of mementos in what is basically the shrine of her son, Boise State cornerback Jaylen Clark. There are locker name tags. Photos of him modeling uniforms. A Christmas card. His own trading card.…
Ben Hilgart can talk your ear off about plans. Plans create belief. Belief creates action. Action creates results. Hilgart, Boise State football’s first-year Director of Sports Performance, has been in this game awhile, so long that the job title evolved from just “strength coach” to a word that encompasses much more. He had stints at…
Boise State cornerback Kaonohi Kaniho has more than football on his mind these days. Kaniho, a native of Hawaii, has watched from a far as nearly 40 family members in and near Lahaina were displaced from their homes following the deadly wildfires in Maui. “My family actually lost their houses and cars and everything they…
It all sounds like this beautiful, inspiring college football story. Kid is a star at a small high school. Colleges are scared to recruit him. Kid walks on to a Division I football team. He plays sparingly his first year. Then a little more his second season. He earns a scholarship. Then he plays in…
