Comments on: Cops Babysit Big Boise Broncos

By: Treva

Treva — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:16:05 +0000

The importance of Boise State football has, in my opinion, gotten way out of hand. I wonder if all this adulation, not just at Boise State, but at all the colleges in America, doesn’t make it hard for these players when they graduate and find they are no longer the hot shots that they were convinced they were. I hope the colleges have some “putting things into perspective” programs for these young men in their senior year. I would not have liked to think that the years from 18 to 22 or so were the most important ones of my whole life. However, if these young men still need to have babysitters,that would certainly say they have hardly grown up yet.

By: curious george

curious george — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:50:54 +0000

It pains me to write this, since I grew up in the land where football is king (in the biblebelt South), and I played organized football throughout my youth.

But…

Does it really surprise anyone that BSU football players require the extra scrutiny of a dedicated law enforcement officer?

Does it really surprise anyone that BSU athletics really only pays for itself? Or that the only funds that flow back into the academic side of the campus are the athletic scholarships granted to bronco athletes.

It used to be that collegiate ahtletics was the pinnacle of amatuer athletic excellence. And, it was the gamesmanship, decorum, and honor that these players displayed (on and off the field) that warranted their being held in high esteem.

Yet these athletes of the past were still young and impressionable men and women, and it was the high personal standards displayed by the coaches and administrators that imbued the players with the athletic and character skills necessary to become the people we admired.

And as to this final point, does it really surprise anyone that this athletic department (who was at center stage during the whole “Taco Ballerina” debacle), and this coaching staff (which will drop every pretext of committment when someone waves a larger paycheck in their face), sets the tone whereby we need to have armed security to protect us from our “grid-iron heros”?

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:20:31 +0000

Remember back right after 9/11? Gub’nor Dirk was ABSOLUTELY convinced that the Idaho State Capitol was #4 on the Al-Qaeda hit list, right behind the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and White House. (And why not? Is there anybody, anywhere, who does more to fight for truth, justice, and the American Way than Dirk Kempthorne?) There were Jersey barriers all around the capitol, Dirk traveled with Idaho Secret Service (willing to take a bullet for him, no doubt) – there were prolly anti-aircraft guns up by the big eagle. (Does Lame Duck Risch have bodyguards? Inquiring minds want to know.)

Why quibble over a few hundred thousand taxpayer dollars to protect our Icons of the American Way of Life, whether it be Hollywood Dirk or our Mighty Men in Blue?

GO BRONCOS!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:46:38 +0000

P.S.
I forgot — isn’t it Boise STATE university? So howcum they don’t get a state cop, huh?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:44:25 +0000

Wow! Football players need baby sitters so they don’t get into trouble.
Aren’t all of these guys over 18? I.E., adults by law (if not in fact)?
So, if they get in trouble, let ’em take their lumps like the rest of us.

Or maybe the next time The Guardian’s editors goes a’travellin’, BPD would send along a free body guard for him, too. Oh, yeah, and I want one, too, don’t you?

Geeze, sounds to me like Boise’s top cop needs a baby sitter to keep him from crazy schemes like this one.

EDITOR NOTE–Bodyguard Q was asked and that is where the “Greater dynamic than one individual” came in.

By: Not Dave

Not Dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:39:08 +0000

Albertson’s – the store.
Albertson – the college.

“Albertson College” not “Albertson’s College”

By: j

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:32:15 +0000

I like to watch a game or two. I’d like the game a whole lot more if I knew the educational side of the University systems was as important to folks as the game…

There are folks that don’t have rent money that would make fantastic Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Managers, Engineers, etc. …Many never do… What a true super-power nation we would be if we gave them as much money and support as the folks with the pigskin addiction… (But surely not as much fun to watch.)

As Example: Currently about 20-25% of those with prefect/near perfect test scores are allowed into the BSU Nursing program because of school money issues or some kinda BS like that… That’s total crappola folks.

So go ahead and tell me all about the money football brings in…but what have you done with it… soon (old age) many of you will wish you’d spent money on a different kind of program… about the same time medicare has major issues, you’ll also have a wait list for basic care.

What’s that you say…. it’s donation money… well very good then, give them tickets and ask them to give to where it’s needed most…

By: Jon Q Publique

Jon Q Publique — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:39:21 +0000

Seems like the SRO (School Resource Officer) Program has graduated to the college level.

Wonder if the officers assigned to this pilot program get to drive Mustangs and spiffy Ford Ranger pickups. Some orange and some blue?

JQP

By: Tam

Tam — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:15:59 +0000

Here’s the lyrics to the new BPD fight song:

(to the tune of the BSU fight song—or Notre Dame)

Fight for the fame of our BSU
We’ll go on the road and babysit too

We’ll have fun and cheer you on
No one will miss us while we’re gone

We’ll go to bars and check BAC
Do brawl intervention for a fee

We’ll wipe some noses and tie some shoes
And keep you out of the 10 o’clock news!

well–you get the drift!

By: Razzbar

Razzbar — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:01:12 +0000

Pathetic. These “kids” are supposed to be adults. But with all the agressive conditioning they’ve been given, and all the adoration they constantly recieve, these prima donnas just can’t be expected to behave like responsible adults on the road, so a cop is needed.

Par for the course.

… and just who pays for this?

Football. Guh.