Bryan Harsin wanted a change.
“The Mountain West Conference is clearly not the standard in college football,” the Boise State coach wrote to then-Broncos athletic director Curt Apsey and school president Marlene Tromp in a Sept. 11 email. BoiseDev and Idaho Press.
Harsin pushed administrators to seek a new conference for Boise State.
“Now is the time! The longer it lasts, the longer we stay in MW,” he wrote. which is better for this university. ”
Then he invoked the most famous piece in Broncos history – the one he named (as offensive coordinator) that captured the nation’s imagination. The Left Statue was the Statue of Liberty, the last football piece in the backyard that Boise State ran to beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta overtime …