Idaho Vandals (offical thread)

[RB07OSU]

Surprised there already isn't a thread...anyways, I go to the University of Idaho for grad school now and I feel they deserve their own thread. D1 football has not been kind to the Vandals and not surprisingly so (you can't even pay kids to come live in Moscow for 4-5 years). However, the Vandal fan base remains faithful and still meanders to the Kibbie Dome after inducing themselves into a whiskey-driven coma at the tailgates. We always have a faint glimmer of hope that THIS is THE year that we will get back to a bowl game (who can forget the Humanitarian Bowl victory in '09 over Bowling Green?). Well, see the link below...apparently the communication majors aka the football team couldn't even put together a C average and cannot go to a bowl game. To be fair, our record during the season would have precluded us anyways. The team was already a joke, but now everyone can laugh.

Link

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

 

[Mike80]

The athletic department knew the penalties were a possibility, given the football team's declining APR scores under former coach Robb Akey, Spear said. The team had an APR of 971 (out of 1,000) in 2009, 291 in 2010, 881 in 2011 and 838 in 2012. The four-year average was 903, below the NCAA's requirements for postseason eligibility.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/...ndals-football.html?sp=/99/104/#storylink=cpy

291??! What the hell

 

[scarletmike]

I really hope that's a typo and should be 921, otherwise...

 

[Mike80]

I really hope that's a typo and should be 921, otherwise...

Yeah it's a typo.....if it were 291 then the 4 year average would be 745ish or so

 

[MaxBuck]

Idaho Vandals football.







wtf?

 

[DiamondBuck]

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[RB07OSU]

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Oh Schlereth is the man. He is always repping the Vandals and buying the town alcoholic tubs of beer at The Corner Club.

 

[RB07OSU]

And I just want them to be close to equivalent to my success with the Vandals on NCAA Football '14...is 5 straight national titles too much to ask?

 

[Woody1968]

Fun Fact: Idaho was a member of the Pacific Coast Conference, which eventually became the PAC 12.

 

[RB07OSU]

The might Idaho Vandals are undefeated after actually playing a game to start the season. It was Montana State but hey, they'll take it. You just can't go to the unfriendly confines of the Kibbie Dome and expect to come out with a win.

 

[brodybuck21]

Idaho Vandals open with (Big Sky) victory over Montana State

Idaho running back Aaron Duckworth breaks away from Montana State’s Tre’von Strong for a touchdown during their season opener at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow. Lewiston Tribune via Associated Press AP
Staff and wire reports

MOSCOW
Idaho junior quarterback Matt Linehan didn’t play as expected, and the Vandals failed to score in the second half of their opener against Montana State on Thursday night in the Kibbie Dome.

Didn’t matter.

Idaho is happy to be going to Washington on Sept. 10 with a 1-0 record.

Junior running back Aaron Duckworth ran for 108 yards and two touchdowns to help Idaho stave off a second-half charge from Montana State, winning 20-17 despite producing only a field goal after a 17-point first quarter.

The announced attendance for the season opener was 11,987.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/article99465647.html