Scouting Boise: season outlook

[SnoSki]

Link to Yahoo!

RECEIVERS: Young (71 catches, 1,215 yards, nine TDs) and Pettis (71-951-10) formed one of college football's most prolific receiving duos last season. Now both are gone. Boise State still has plenty of talented receivers, but they're mostly unproven. The exception is fifth-year senior Tyler Shoemaker (32-58-5), who moves from the slot to the outside this season. Shoemaker showed plenty of upside last season while totaling 11 catches for 241 yards and two touchdowns in back-to-back midseason victories over Louisiana Tech and Hawaii. He's the most experienced candidate in a crowded field of receivers.

Boise is going to have to replace 2166 receiving yards and 19 TDs with the loss of these two. Even at a school with blue chip recruits this would be tough.

Statistically vs the pass, the WAC (not including Boise's stats) averaged giving up 260 yards/game and 1.78 TDs in 2010. For comparison, the MWC in 2010 on average gave up 208 yards/game and 1.57 TDs.

Kellen Moore's gonna have moderately tougher defenses to face in the MWC and he won't have his 2 big receivers to go to either. Why this isn't addressed much in the media I don't know.


On the defensive side, they should still be quite solid, so that's another story. Basically I think that if we are undefeated heading into Boise, we could pull off the win on the smurf turf.