Akey talks contract extension
Idaho coach Robb Akey said he and athletic director Rob Spear have begun discussions about a possible contract extension.
Akey, who is completing the third year of his five-year contract, led Idaho to its first bowl game since 1998 this season. The Vandals (7-5) will play Bowling Green (7-5) in the Dec. 30 Humanitarian Bowl.
"We're in the process of getting that worked out," Akey said. "I think we're working toward the same goal."
Akey is among the lowest paid head coaches in the country at $258,187 per year.
Poll results
USA Today has a pretty cool graphic of how coaches voted in the final football coaches' poll. The final ballot is the only one that is made public.
Click here to see the graphic.
Some highlights:
Highest votes: Idaho coach Robb Akey, Utah State coach Gary Andersen and Illinois Ron Zook voted the Broncos No. 3. Boise State coach Chris Petersen, New Mexico State coach DeWayne Walker, Colorado coach Dan Hawkins and Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer all voted Boise State No. 4.
Lowest votes: Missouri coach Gary Pinkel voted the Broncos No. 9, two spots below anyone else. Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, LSU coach Les Miles, UNLV coach Mike Sanford and Washington State coach Paul Wulff voted the Broncos No. 7.
Everyone else voted the Broncos either No. 5 or No. 6.
Petersen's ballot
Boise State coach Chris Petersen voted his Broncos No. 4. Here is his Top 10:
1. Alabama
2. Texas
3. TCU
4. Boise State
5. Cincinnati
6. Florida
7. Oregon
8. Ohio State
9. Iowa
10. Penn State
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Statistically Gary Pinkel Doesn't count for much.
In scientific terms, he is an outlier and would be excluded from a data set. That works for the top too, so bye bye Rob Akey.
Thanks Murph for posting this!
I love reading the list to see some of the clear bias for teams and/or conferences.
Actually Pinkel is well respected........
......within his profession, most think Pinkel to be a very good coach.
be that as it may
statistically, he doesn't count for much. The top and bottom votes are thrown out, regardless of who they are or what they think of them.
gary FINKEL
Isn't Missouri like #35. FINKEL can suck it........
OREGON > BSU
Nice to see that some voters still think that a 2 loss Oregon is better than the no loss BSU that beat them.
Jim Harbough (Stanford)
Les Miles (LSU) How was that game against La Tech Les?
Gary Pinkel (Missouri)
Mike Sanford (UNLV)
Paul Wolf (Washington State)
Wulff can't find his way to the locker room.....
.....let alone the stadium. By the way his team(s) at WSU played, I would worry too much about him knowing a thing about college football!
true
if you look at his ballot, his votes are all over the place. I've seen more accurate rankings on the espn fan poll.
I think he is still trying
I think he is still trying to find the win column isn't he?
BSU owned Oregon
Bsu owned Oregon....Plus BSU 0 losses Oregon 2 Losses. One of those from us - Need I say more....?....
oregon
first game of the year broncos are a mid major bowl team will play tcu for midmajor championship
And all you Broncos were so down on Akey....
he gave you more props than your own coach.....
He should give more props...
...he opened his mouth and got worked. Hes a dog with his tail between his legs.
At least he has something
At least he has something between his legs.
JLandon - you open your mouth (via the keyboard)...
every day, proving to everyone that you're a fool. Yet, you don't seem to learn a thing. Maybe you should tuck your tail between your legs and scamper off.
Oh vandal
Your just like your coach....all you do is talk and talk. Must be sweet backing into a bowl game huh? Especially one that you guys made fun of for the last decade.
blue turf bowl or boise bowl
ucla turned the bowl down
Weisburg
That is not true, the H-bowl wouldn't wait for the outcome of Army/Navy game. If Army loses, UCLA will play Temple in the Eagle Bank bowl. If Army win's, UCLA will have no bowl.
And you're different?
Seems all you do around here is flap your gums about how Vandals fans can't shut up.
Remember, this isn't a shut-up forum...though I've wished.
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Like a midair collision with a tugboat
Really?
So I presume you are a member of the football team or coaching staff? If you're not (or your not in you're lingo)...all you do is talk and talk as well. The Humanitarian Bowl is a joke. I will be attending this joke of a bowl and supporting the Vandals. I expect my eyes to burn for at least six hours after the game because of the gawd-awful blue turf, but I'll be there in black & gold cheering for the Vandals.
TCU was robbed...
Teke
You guys are such babies. You and vandal fans like you, are always drawing first blood and hate it when a Bronco puts you in YOUR place. You guys are not relevant anymore. The only time I talk trash to you sniveling whiners is when you guys say something stupid. Please continue to believe you guys matter.
LOL
Yes...because you matter...and how exactly did you put somebody in their "place"?
Actually if you pay attention I rarely draw first blood and I rarely, rarely post on Bronco stories/boards.
I can't speak for you, any of your ilk, or even any of my ilk for that matter, but I am quite relevant, thank you very much.
Man I hope Enderle is better by the 30th...
Teke
Cant read? I said a "Bronco" I didnt say myself. I just talk trash for fun. You dont represent the REAL vandals anyways. You live in la la land and see things in black and gold. I know you dont get it and thats the point.
Tekefandull
Stay home Teke if you’re that ashamed of the H-Bowl and can’t stand the ugly blue turf! In fact call Akey yourself and tell them to stay home dipstick.
My wife who is a vandal just read your post and referred to you as an $ss and a moron who doesn’t represent the True Vandals, I laughed because she got it right.
But if you do show up, take a look around and take notice of all the broncos wearing their BLUE and ORANGE CHAMPIONSHIP COLORS cheering for the Vandals because they belong to the WAC! Then come back in here and make up stories about how we booed you and threw beer on you in the parking lot because you have a preconceived notion that nobody likes you. Well, at least the last part is true.
GO BRONCOS!
GO VANDALS!
akey
let us get real akey is a public relations guy not a football coach name only
Akey has accomplish a great deal..........
........and proven he can coach. I think everyone recognized that he could coach when he was an assitant at WAZZU. But clearly he's turned around what was one of the very worst programs in the country.
Can you say bye, bye coach Akey?
Uhh... have you seen Akey's 3 year record at Idaho?
Akey's a long way from 'bye bye.' He's had one good season as a head coach. Now he needs to prove success year after year. I look forward to watching it happen!
Akey's $
It is about money. Idaho won't pay and Akey is so much better than what some programs have now. A wining series of seasons is better than just one, but bringing the Vandal's back from the dead to respectable mediocrity speaks volumes to other teams in the football wastelands.
One of the more
interesting ballots is Bowden's
Leave PITT completely off, but rank a pretty bad 7-5 Oklahoma team 24th
He also ranked USC and CAL and left Utah and Houston off
Maybe it is time......
poor guy
He is one jello shot away from pooping in a ziplock bag?
One of the strangest votes
Calhoun From Air Force is the only voter to vote Florida number 2
Note to Troy: If you're going to diss your own Conference for no apparent reason, be prepared for some really interesting conference games next year.
Look at Akey's other vote
Coach Akey voted Texas #1 ahead of Alabama. That's just nuts.
Coach Pete's votes were pretty sensible, I'd say. And after Florida's utter collapse on Saturday, putting them ahead of Cincy makes absolutely no sense, yet look at the votes!
Troy Calhoun is out to lunch!
Pete got it right.
Pete got it right.
Pete
If Petes nothing else, he is an honest no BS guy. Gotta like that.
F/H Bowls
Don't know about the rest of you guys but we'll be at both games. Gotta like what the Vandals have done and love where the Broncos are. Still don't agree with the matchup but we'll put our money in front of my mouth and support the State the way we think we should. Both teams.
It will be funny
When BG beats the vandals and then they go 1-10 or 0 for next year. I love it when there is that glimmer of hope that gets smashed for vandal fans, it is actually better than if they just sucked this year. This at least gives them reason to hope and then the inevitable crish is that much more fun to watch.
congrats vandals
This BSU fan here will be pulling for the Vandals Potato! Go stir a pot some where else! Congrats Vandals on getting a bowl game!
Pat
We need to talk about a certain tailgate party on the 30th if you are around.
Most true BSU
Fans didn't move here in the last decade and remember the vandals for what they are. A mean, elitist tacky drunk, idiotic bunch that like to remember the "good ole days" in fraternities where they learned the skills that helped them have failed marriages and be dead beat dads. Not to meantion the lawyers...... They get everything they deserve. A Vandal bowl win and couple of mediocre seasons IS NOT GOOD FOR BSU! What is good is the vandals to be financially resposible and go to the big sky, and for the WAC to bring in a school with a viable future that can recruit.
I'm ashamed that you wear blue and orange
Idaho took a HUGE step this year and hopefully they'll build upon their success next season and continue doing so until they become one of the WAC's better teams, and C'mon man.... you're so foolish and full of hatred that you don't realize that you're treating a Vandal fan in the same disrespectful manner that most of the country's BCS fans treat us, so please... transcend above all this petty BS, please?
I've cheered for all the WAC teams that have come here to play in the Humanitarian Bowl and this year, I'm positive that I'll be cheering a bit louder than usual because the Vandals are in it!
Go Vandals .....and bring on TCU!
We disagree on the value of the drain up north. But
That should not factor into our status as bronco fans. I think they are trash and you think they help. Period. But you would have to admit that getting rid of them and getting a Montana would do more for the conference than anything. Plus I know that their success cannot be maintained. From a recruiting standpoint and a financial one they are a drain. If you really understand the history and can buy the idea that "rivalry" is what happens in college football then you would know that it is paramount as a bronco that the vandals get beat and get sad. Same with New mexico, we should not root for them to be mediocre for one year and then use that as a "validation" to stay somewhere where they are a liability.
Keep in mind that we're talking about the WAC and not the Pac10
Everything you're saying about Idaho has been said about BSU and that same attitude is what has been keeping BSU from attaining a better foothold in the BCS.
To most of the nation, BSU is trash, and doesn't deserve to be among th ebig boys of the BCS and claim that we couln't hang in a conference outside the WAC, so you're no better than they are in your baseless attack on the Vandals.
BSU is a big fish in a very very very small pond, and Idaho deserving or not, is in the same pond, and why hate on the Vandals anymore than you hate on the Aggies or the Spartans?
Every conference has their elite teams and their bottom feeders and Idaho is simply trying to made the transition from being one of the bottom feeders, and you're right. Idaho's success will not have a huge impact on us, nor should it, but I do laught at the notion that you think that Montana would be competitive in the WAC. They might eventually, after a handful of seasons, but they wouldn't create much opposition right from the start, and that's where the Vandals are right now.
BSU simply needs to leave the WAC and that has nothing to do with how much hate you have for the Vandals
Lets look at MT in the WAC
Lets jusst say that Mt takes BSU's spot. this is what I think thier record would be in the conf. A win VS Utah st, NM state, Idaho, Hawaii. Losses to Fres nad Nev. Wiht a possible 2nd place finish. Year in and year out they could compete, just like BSU when they 1st came in dominant from the start. If you look at MT history they are consistently the best team in the Big sky not just by a little but by leaps and bounds. You talk the country treating us as I treat Idaho. MT is a better paralell than Idaho. A team that you litterally laughed at. that my friend is the parallel. You state that, to most of the nation we are nothing......... Does that explain our 2nd BCS bowl in 4 years, our # 6 ranking, The idea that although a long shot with a win over TCU, a high preseason ranking and wins over OSU and Va Tech we could be in the Championship. No my freind it isn't the same as the way I view Idaho. BSU is RAPIDLY moving up the CFB world probably faster than any team in history. Idaho is not nor wil it ever. They are not to be rooted for but rooted out.
It's pointless to compare MT and Idaho
Your MT comparison of coming into the WAC and dominating is just as silly as if I were to say that if BSU moved to the Big 12 that they would dominate. It's just silly because it takes a few years of recruitment in order to land the type of atheletes needed to make a jump like you're talking about.
Take BSU for instance, we've been in the WAC for several years now and have dominated the conference pretty much since our arrival, but we're just now able to attract the type of atheletes that we need in order to take the next step, and it took a BCS arun to make that happen, so no, Montana, nor Idaho, nor most of the teams in the WAC will be able to produce the results that BSU has been able to do over the years, and with our 2nd Fiesta Bowl on the horizon, we're looking at being able to take the next step, both financially as well as in recruitment.
My point about you treating the Vandals like the Broncos are treated around the nation was meant to illustrate not our ranking, but rather the attitude found in every football message board around the country that we don't belong and that we're overrated, and even most of the TV talking heads don't consider us as legit national title contenders, and the fact that we stayed at #6 for most of the season is an example of the disrespect. TCU is in the same boat in a way. Sure they enjoyed a higher rank than us, but in teh end they got jumped by Cincy and earned a date with us instead of with the Gators in the Sugar Bowl.
Basically, all I'm saying is that, given the amount of disrespect our program receives, I find it odd that you would trash our in state rival(if we can even call them a rival) and fellow WAC member, to the extent that you are, and especially so, when the root of it are issues that you have that date waaaay back.
We all know that the WAC sucks, therefore why feel the need to trash any of the teams that participate within the conference? It does nothing but point out the obvious. You may not have to respect the University of Idaho as a whole, but as a fan, you should at least respect our opponents. It's called good sportsmanship
Bronco kid
We essencially disagree but I wonder why it is such a big deal to you that I think UI is trash. Thier problems are far from history (see University place or kids falling out of windows.) See the attitude of the alum that supoprt that program, see thier "sportsmanship" that you supposedly hold in such high regard. Part of a "rival" is that you DISLIKE them. that is a huge part of college football otherwise it would just be kids playing for the right to go to school with no one but the students caring....... some think thats the way it should be. Maybe it is. But the monster that is football in this country is dependant on peole loving and hating. Ask a Packer fan, A Notre dame fan, a viking fan, a raider fan, a sooner fan. Heck look at baseball or any sport. Yankees don't root for the sox, Andy Roddick doesn't root for Federer, and Tiger wood's wife doesn't root for his girlfriends.... I sat in an empty bronco stadium with free tickets, and a green field and watched UI fans, alum and students beat the snot out of us. turnabout is fair play. Sportsmanship is not about lying and "respecting" a low quality opponent. It isn;t about everyone should get a chance to win. It IS about playing a game, playing it well and playing it fair, and the idea that UI belongs or should stay in the wac is not ":fair" "sportsmanship" or anything other than charity. they are a drain on the WAC, our state, BSU, and my time. As the great "rock" once put it..... KNOW YOUR ROLE! and they do not. What is sad to me is that many BSU newcomers don't realize how toxic they are and cheer for them like a little brother which is how we got in this situation of playing low quality opponents in the 1st place.
MT would do better from the start in the WAC than your UI team. Period. I have seen MT play for years. those are big boys. BSU could win the PAC 10 in the 1st or second year....... you may not believe these things but I do.
Why stop at Idaho? Why not hate all ncaa fbs schools?
It's plain to see that you lack the capacity for good sportsmanship and would rather hang on to your petty dislike of the UofI and that's your perogative to do so, however, it reflects poorly on the Bronco Nation, in that when you post things online, like it or not, you represent all of us as a whole.
I may be a johnny come lately bronco fan to you, but I'm a Bronco Fan nonetheless. Furthermore, I'm a fan of the game; I loved playing it, I love watching it, and I love talking about it, and yes, there are teams that I dislike, but I don't hate them, and I guess it's the sportsmanship in me, and is what makes me want to see the Vandals succeed on the field and provide us and other teams a challenege. I mean isn't that the point of competition?
We're being dogged for our SOS, and for a while there it looked like the Vandals would crack the Top 25, which would have been good for the WAC, in fact, if a WAC team does well, it makes BSU and the conference look better, and for a short while the Vandals were doing just that, but hey, they did make a bowl and I hope that they win, which helps the confernce's bowl record.
like it or not, Idaho is in the WAC, so in essence, we're all in this together. Their success, is our success, and success isn't typically associated with the WAC, so why hate on a team or teams that are simply trying to make do with the resources that they have who strive to become better?
Apparently
respect and 'sportsmanship" are not well understood by you. I do not respect the UI as a football, or acedemic institution. I have several reasons. You do. good for you but to insinuate that you are somehow a better representative of "bronco nation" or that you insinuate that I do not know what sportsmanship is is rude. It is in iself not "good sportsmanship" Play tennis with me, or golf, or a little 1 on 1 and you will find that a gentleman and a scholar are concepts not foreign to me and If you in turn are a fair, worthy and classy opponent then no matter what the outcome..... respect will be given. But if you prove to be all talk, rude, cheat, or just flat out can't play then there is no respect. respect is earned and not just given, and that is a problem in today's society. You sir can like UI or hate UI, it doesn't matter to me but to think you are better than someone who likes to rib a sports rival, well, just makes you as elitist as the Vandies. enjoy the season, have fun watching the Human bowl.... enjoy life..... but dont think you are better than everyone who does not share your misplaced compassion and concept of "sportsmanship"
A person either possess good sportsmanship ...or they don't
1) Good sportsmanship isn't extended on a case by case basis
2) I could care less if you like the U od I or not. that my friend, is your prerogative and yours alone. All I'm saying is that, like it or not, the things you post to the internet is for all to see, therefore, you represent the Bronco Nation.
You say that respect is earned, and that may be true, howeverm i was born and raised in the south and can't deny that southern hospitality is a trait that I possess. If you're not familiar with that term, Southern hospitality is a phrase used to describe the stereotype that residents of the South are particularly warm and welcoming to visitors to their homes, or to the South in general.
Now, I'll tie in southern hospitality and how it kind of relates to the Bronco Nation.
Consider the H-bowl and all the WAC and Big West teams that have come to Boise to play their bowl games, be it Utah State in 97, or LaTech in 91 or Fresno in 04 & 07, and last but not least, Nevada in 06 and 08, the Bronco fans came in to support their fellow WAC rivals. Did these teams earn or deserve our respect and support? Nope, not really, they simply came to play a bowl game, and we showed up to root them on, and that is what I call hospitality and good sportsmanship.
I'm sorry that you see things differently
I think we
disagree on the meaning of sportsmanship and respect. BUt lets just move on. No more belittling each other. fellow bronco. I understand that I am making it hard for you to be a souther =n gentleman. However misplaced I think your intentions are. Go Idaho State, next year, and GO Bowling Green!!!!!