The Vandals' 2010 football season is off to an excellent start, but how will the rest of the season progress? Here are some best-case scenarios — some reasonable and some ridiculous.
Reasonable best-case scenario:
— Bob Kustra is red in the face as the injury-thinned That Team
From Boise — missing integral cogs such as Kellen Moore and Jeron
Johnson — loses 45-42 to the Vandals in an epic shootout. The
entire state south of McCall literally implodes as the gameclock
hits 00:00.
Unrealistic best-case scenario:
— Bob Kustra attends the Idaho vs. That Team From Boise game in
Moscow but is removed from the stadium at halftime after security
guards discover he has three full flasks stuffed in his overcoat
pockets.
Oh yeah, and UI wins 48-34.
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Reasonable best-case scenario:
— Senior defensive linemen Aaron Lavarias and Jonah Sataraka
finally take some pressure off the long-maligned UI secondary,
leading a front seven that accumulates 25 sacks and
holds opposing defenses to fewer than 20 points per game.
Unrealistic best-case scenario:
— Senior defensive linemen Aaron Lavarias and Jonah Sataraka do
enough damage against Nebraska's offensive line to hold the
Cornhuskers to 10 points on Sept. 11, and an Armauni Johnson
kickoff return for touchdown and Shiloh Keo punt return for
touchdown spearhead a 14-10 victory.
Fans from the northwest celebrate afterward with a corn feed the
likes of which no one has ever seen.
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Reasonable best-case scenario:
— The continued development of UI's receivers offsets the
inexperience of the offensive line, allowing quarterback Nathan
Enderle to compile statistics similar to those from his 2009
campaign.
Unrealistic best-case scenario:
— Returning starter Matt Cleveland dominates, making Mike Iupati
look like Mike Myers, and the former's leadership ignites
impressive success amid the entire offensive line. Running backs
Princeton McCarty and Deonte' Jackson each rush for more than 800
yards.
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Reasonable best-case scenario:
— A 3-2 nonconference record — sorry, I'm not predicting a victory in Lincoln — and 5-3 conference record make the Vandals 8-5 and bowl-eligible for the second consecutive season.
Unrealistic best-case scenario:
— UI shocks the country with a 14-0 record and a third-place finish in the final AP poll. Yet some of the luster of the accomplishment fades when, at the 2011 "ESPY Awards" show, the presenter refers to them as "those guys who wore the pants with the huge 'I' on the butt." Drat.
Reasonable best-case scenario:
— The Western Athletic Conference is able to stay alive by drawing a couple very good Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA, to us sane people) program. The Vandals live to fight another day in big-boy football.
Unrealistic best-case scenario:
—The Mountain West Conference, in efforts to sustain to expand to 12 teams and keep a travel-friendly in-state rivalry together, invite UI and (insert name of another team here). Despite their embarrassingly small stadium — which they can't consistently fill — and less-than-ideal recruiting situation, the Vandals overcome all odds to win the MWC in their rookie season. Afterward Kustra searches for a Dumpster to hide in.
It's fun to dream. But the good news is that even some of the more attainable goals for the 2010 season would be pretty sweet.
Who's up for another bowl?
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