Friday, May 2, 2008

WIR: Clady gets drafted, Tadman gets ignored

After the exciting NFL draft, Week in Review (WIR) is realizing the long summer that lays before us. Surely we can all get through this together.

Meanwhile, a wrapup of a busy week:

Have a great, albeit boring weekend Bronco fans!

Hello, cruel summer


Depression. Emptiness. Longing. Welcome to the summer of a BSU fan.

For the past several months, we have been able to fill our insatiable football appetites with signing day, spring football, and the NFL Draft. And times have been good. We've made Utah State jokes, we've cried together about Jeremy Childs' education, and we've offered an unpaid internship to Tad Miller. They were the best of times.

Now come the worst of times. Instead of Bronco football, we face a summer of the Boise Hawks, the Snake River Stampede, and sweating. Just thinking about it makes us want to put on our sleeveless Fiesta Bowl Champion T-shirt and listen to Dashboard Confessional in the dark. How will Bronco Nation deal with an incorrigible offseason? Best Buy shopping sprees, probably. Then debt.

OBNUG feels it, too. What are we supposed to do for the next three months? Make up stories? That’s what we did in February! We’ll have to actually follow leads and think outside the box. And we love our box!

All this would be so much easier if there were two college football seasons. Or time travel. Either way, Bronco fans wouldn't have to deal with a famine of football news from May through July. Three months of no Kellen Moore, no Coach Pete, and no Idaho Powerball mascot is almost too much to bear.

As such, we at OBNUG feel that summer is the perfect time to hibernate until the season resumes. Of course, by hibernate, we mean two or three posts a day rather than the usual four or five. So we guess it is more like summer narcolepsy, really.

By no means are we packing it in. There are still some big surprises ahead for the site, and we will be hard at work making OBNUG the best site it can be (with minimal effort). In particular, we have a giant summer feature that we are very excited about, and you should be, too. We don't want to give anything away, but let's just say that Blizzards might be involved.

Stay tuned. And stay sane.

"Touchdown" Tommy Brandstater?


Apparently, Fresno State gunslinger/human turnover Tommy Brandstater has a new nickname.

The sun was shining. No one got hurt. And Touchdown Tommy Brandstater looked really freaking good for one series.
"Touchdown" Tommy Brandstater? Seriously? We and the official WAC statistics would like to disagree:
Brennan (Hawaii) 28 TDs38 TDs
Tharp (BSU) 30 TDs
Holbrook (NMSU) 26 TDs
Kaepernick (Nevada) 19 TDs
Tafralis (San Jose State) 18 TDs
Brandstater (Fresno State) 15 TDs
Champion (LaTech) 13 TDs
Enderle (Idaho) 10 TDs
Jackson (Utah State) 9 TDs
Someone with the nickname of "Touchdown" should maybe be among the conference leaders in the category.

Fortunately, there are plenty of other good nicknames for the Fresno QB. Here are some we just came up with off the top of our heads: "Turnover" Tommy Brandstater, "Tackling Dummy" Tommy Brandstater, Tommy "I thought he was wearing red" Brandstater, Tommy "remember the good old days of Paul Pinegar" Brandstater, and our personal favorite Tommy Brandstinker.

I went to a game and a circus broke out [Merced Sun-Star]

Shields Out, Career Over



Boise State has issued a press release that linebacker David Shield's shoulder injury will keep him out for this year, effectively ending his career at Boise State:

Shields will use a medical hardship and remain on scholarship. He will stay
with the team in an undetermined role through December when he expects to
graduate. He won't count towards the Broncos' limit of 85 scholarships.

This is disappointing news for Shields who had promising sophomore and junior years. Luckily, this year seems to be a strong year for the Broncos at linebacker.

David Shields to sit out senior season [BroncoSports.com]